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A massive rainstorm on Sunday has devastated properties including a nurses’ bungalow at communities in two neighbouring districts in the Northernr region – the Nanumba South and Kpandai – forcing many residents to evacuate from their homes. Communities hard hit include Pudiya in the south where over 200 people were thought to have been affected by the disaster. Nearly 30 ...

Bank of Ghana (BoG) has dragged the directors of 30 microfinance companies to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) for investigations and prosecution for alleged embezzlement and fraud. The names of the companies are being withheld for security reasons. Among other things, the anti-graft agency will investigate how more than GH¢90 million belonging to depositors was utilised by the ...

The Second Lady, Mrs. Samira Bawumia, has lauded the global movement for women empowerment, but has kicked against fighting men to attain such goal. She said men must be seen as partners instead of competitors “in the struggle” to give women an equal opportunity. Speaking at the Global Women’s Empowerment event in Philadelphia, US on Saturday, March 10, 2018, Mrs. ...

Four workers at Goldfields mines in Tarkwah in the Western region have been left injured amid firing of gun shots after allegations of military and police brutality on the mine workers. The workers, according to Starr News intend to boycott work until the company reverses its decision lay off some workers of the company. Starr News’ Western regional correspondent, Emmanuel ...

Ghana’s population is now estimated at 29.6 million up from the 24.5 million recorded during the 2010 population and Housing Census, a Chief Statistician with the Ghana Statistical Service, David Kombat has disclosed to the Ghanaian Times. He said the country’s population growth rate is at an estimated 2.5 annually, adding that an estimated 38.8 percent of the population is ...

Controversial politician and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Mr. Kennedy Agyapong has expressed his readiness to spend time in jail for murder. He said he will go all out to take the life of the contracted assassin who was paid to kill him but for the timely intervention of a good Samaritan who divulged the ...

Some organisers of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are making a special request to the echelon of the party to allow Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin to go unopposed in the party’s approaching flagbearership race. “So many people in the party feel Hon. Bagbin is the best person to lead us into 2020 and the reasons are pretty clear: ...

A Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has called for a national discussion on the accepted cutoff grades for enrollments into tertiary institutions in Ghana. Prof. Yankah, who has a long held view that persons with grades D7 and E8 should be accepted to Ghanaian universities insist that such grades do not connote failure. “We ...

A Senior lecturer at the University of Ghana Professor Ransford Gyampo has described as needless the ongoing eviction of traders around the Nima residence of President Akufo-Addo. The national security has given the traders around the area until Thursday March 15 to vacate the premises or be forcibly moved. However, the affected traders say the compensation package being given to ...

The Parent Teacher Association of Adisadel College has expressed worry about how some parents are hiding under the Free SHS system to shirk their responsibility towards the development of the school. According to the outgoing PTA chairman of the school, Daniel Owusu Nyampong, many parents have resorted to running to the Ministry of Education and the GES to make one ...