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The President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Roland Affail Monney has said the Association has not received a pesewa from the GH¢1million Media Development Fund set up by the erstwhile Mahama administration. According to him, the Association only received 110 laptops which it distributed to various media houses across the country. For years, questions were raised by media organizations ...

The management of the University of Ghana says it has initiated its own investigations into circumstances that led to a near violent clash between some students of Commonwealth Hall and their counterparts from the KNUST’s University Hall also known as Katanga on Monday. Some members of both halls clashed at the University of Ghana where they were expected to participate ...

Lawyer Abraham Amaliba has alleged that former Director-General of Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ernest Thompson, was not contacted in the audit that has cited him for causing financial loss to the state. The audit report was presented at a press conference Wednesday, addressed by the current Board Chair, Dr. Kwame Addo Kufuor and some management staff of ...

The embattled Metro Mass Transit (MMT) Managing Director, Bennet Aboagye, has been asked to step aside. The decision was taken by the board of directors to allow investigations into several allegations made against him. A copy of a letter addressed to him on Tuesday, 17th April, 2017, signed by Ahmed Arthur, Board Chairman, and copied to the Minister for Transport, ...

Ghana’s waste management challenge has been attributed to Government’s inability to pay huge debts owed sector players to enable them to deliver their mandate in ensuring that waste is collected and managed effectively. The President of the Environmental Service Providers Association (ESPA), Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong who made this revelation at an annual general meeting of the association held in ...

The Member of Parliament for Ajumako Enyan Essiam district and also Minority Ranking Member in Parliament Hon.Casseal Ato Baah Forson during a Public Lecture at the University of Education Ajumako Campus on the *theme: NPP’s AGENDA FOR JOB,AN ALLUSION OR A REALITY* has said that, the NPP’s government should come out and tell Ghanaian the number of Jobs they have ...

The Kpando Magistrate Court has remanded to prison custody a 32-year-old man in Liati-Odumasi, for allegedly murdering his father. Residents of Liati in the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region were thrown into a state of shock and mourning when they woke up to see the lifeless body of 74 years old, Alfred Kwame Siayor in his room. The ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has announced his participation in the 7th TANA High-Level Forum on Security in Africa to be hosted in Ethiopia from 21 – 22 April 2018. “In Ethiopia for the 7th TANA High-Level Forum on Security in Africa, a unique and neutral platform where academics, policymakers, eminent personalities and media engage freely with Governments,” Mr Mahama ...

Anti-corruption campaigner Vitus Azeem has criticized as unfortunate the justification by the Public Procurement Authority that there is nothing wrong in awarding government contracts to cronies of the ruling government. The Chief Executive Officer of the Authority Dr. Agyenim Boateng-Agyei parried off claims of wrongdoing and procurement breaches in the award of contract to the wife of NPP firebrand Kennedy ...

An audit into the tenure of the previous administration of the State Housing Company (SHS) has uncovered several rot leading to the loss of millions of Ghana Cedis to the State. The 300-page audit report in the possession of Starrfmonline.com uncovered that an estimated amount of Gh¢10 million was lost in revenue “as a result of valuations not based on ...