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Ghana’s leading mobile telecommunication network MTN has acknowledged the contribution customers are making to keep the company in business. The company believes the millions of customers connected to its network remain the backbone of their operations. The acknowledgement was made based on decades of customer loyalty and cordial relationship that has been existing between them which the company considered crucial to ...

The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has announced that Meralco Consortium has been selected to manage the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). “The Meralco Consortium was determined to have the highest combined technical and financial score and has therefore been designated as the Preferred Bidder,” MiDA said in a statement. Meralco Consortium, which is led by the Manila Electricity Company (Meralco), ...

A six-year-old boy has shot dead his four-year-old brother in the head at Somanya in the Eastern Region Thursday. Confirming the incident to Starr News, police commander ASP Isaac Otsin, said the two siblings were playing with a gun belonging to their 70-year-old grandfather, which triggered into the head of the deceased and died on the spot. The tenants in ...

Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has rebuffed claims from the Minority that the recent investigation launched into the alleged payment of double salaries to some officials of the Mahama administration is an act of political witch hunt. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID), over the past week, has lined up some members of the minority to assist ...

The Director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo has cast doubts on government’s willingness to ensure the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives “MMDCEs). Speaking at a roundtable discussion on the election of MMDCEs in Accra, Professor Gyampo maintained the office of the MMDCEs are used to reward party loyalists ...

MPs alleged to have received double salaries while serving as Ministers in the Mahama administration will not go scot-free, Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has said. Some of those MPs include Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, Second Deputy Speaker Alban Bagbin, who nurses a presidential ambition, as well as Wa Central MP and ex-minister of Public-Private Partnerships, Dr Rashid Pelpuo; Inusah Fuseini, ...

The National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values has vowed to oppose any attempt at legalizing homosexuality in Ghana following pressure on the West African country by Western governments. The UK Prime Minister Theresa May told President Akufo-Addo and other African leaders attending the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in London Tuesday that it is wrong for ...

Some GH¢99 million out of the GH¢400 million realized from the plastic waste levy from 2014 cannot be traced, Sanitation Minister, Kofi Adda has said. The Minister suggests that the money disappeared during the erstwhile John Mahama government. “As of September 2016, about GH¢99 million was taken but we cannot account for it, we don’t know where it is. Our ...

Incumbent national chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr. Freddie Blay will retain his position when the governing party goes to the polls in June to elect new executives, a survey has revealed. About 3,709 respondents from 246 constituencies in the 10 regions were interviewed for the exercise. Mr. Blay polled 1,420 as against his closest rival Stephen Ntim ...

A woman has died after she was bitten by a snake at Dambai in the Krachi East District of the Volta Region, according to a report by Accra-based Kasapa FM. Eyii Akuvi, 44, was returning from the farm with her husband, Aziagome Akuvi, when the unfortunate incident occurred. Eyii had gone into the bush to ease herself when the snake ...