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Scores of students of Oti Boateng Senior High School in Koforidua in the Eastern Region have had their hairs barbered on campus on orders of School authorities. The students, mostly boarders, reported at the school from vacation with bushy hairs contrary to school regulations hence the compulsory barbering. Some of the day students with bushy hair were also asked to ...

Former president John Mahama is making a case for Ghanaians to pay TV licenses in the wake of widespread public uproar against the policy. The Chief Justice has set up 11 special courts across Ghana to prosecute TV license fee defaulters. The development has incurred the wrath of Ghanaians in general who have resolved never to pay TV license fee. ...

The Paramount Chief of Klikor Traditional Area in the Ketu South District of the Volta Region, Togbui Addo, has advised residents in Letakor not to take advantage of a new Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound situated in the community ‘to give birth unnecessarily’. According to him, women in the area take delight in giving birth even as they ...

Outspoken Ghanaian Lawyer, Maurice Ampaw, has described Human rights activists pushing for gay rights as mad. Lawyer, Maurice Ampaw made this comment in relation to a report released by Human Rights Watch which suggested that Ghanaians treat Gays as Second Class citizens. In the report, Human Right Watch noted that Ghanaians who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) suffer ...

Son of the late Managing Editor of the Al-Hajj newspaper, Alhaji Bature; Mubarak Bature, has taken a swipe at Rev. Owusu Bempah over claims that the latter predicted the death of his father. Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah who is the Founder of Glorious Word Ministry, on 31st December 2017, during a Watch Night service predicted that a popular journalist in ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has stated that he has learnt to act accordingly with senior NDC colleague Jerry John Rawlings based on his mood as he affirmed that he has “absolutely” nothing against him. His utterance was in response to a trending video clip in circulation on social media which appeared that all was not well with Ghana’s former ...

A former Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS) Dr Michael Kpessa Whyte has dismissed government’s assertion that Senior High School education is actually free. The Akufo-Addo government launched its flagship Free SHS education programme in September 2017, scrapping fees at the second cycle level. The programme is to ensure that every student eligible to enter second cycle institution ...

A total of 114 Ghanaians who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) have narrated widespread discrimination and abuses meted out to them both in public and in family settings. Human Rights Watch said it interviewed the 114 LGBT people in Accra, Tamale, Kumasi, and Cape Coast in December 2016 and February 2017. The 72-page report, titled “‘No Choice but ...

Security Analyst Dr. Kwasi Aning has charged the Akufo-Addo government to take steps to ensure that the brazen impunity displayed by some of its supporters in its first year in office is not repeated in 2018. Speaking Monday January 8, 2018 to Starr News on the back of the first anniversary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, Dr. Aning ...

But for the intervention of his spiritual son, outspoken prophet, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah would have been disgraced by many women. Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi who is the General Overseer of Glorious Wave Church revealed in an exclusive interview on Kofi TV said he intervened in many of such incidents just to ensure his spiritual father is not disgraced. He ...