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The Institute of Human Resources Management Practitioners, Ghana, (IHRMP) have sworn-in Dr Edward Kwapong as the new President of the Institute. Mr Kwapong took over from Mr John Wilson, the out-going President of IHRMP. Other members who were sworn-in to form the new 8-member National Governing Council at their Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday, 10th November, 2017 at the ...

Gunshots rang continuously at three villages in the Yunyoo constituency of the Northern region, police sources and residents have confirmed to Starr News. Unknown armed men last Wednesday fired sporadically at Nawango and Yunyoo while the villagers were still asleep. No casualties have so far been recorded. Sources say police are patrolling the communities. It is still unclear what triggered ...

Parliament has passed the Special Prosecutor Bill making it an Act of Parliament. The bill was passed today, Thursday, November 14, after going through the various stages of the House. The Office of the Special Prosecutor is aimed at helping the government handle corruption-related issues among state officials in a nonpartisan manner. Per the Act, an independent prosecutor will head ...

The Koforidua Technical University (KTU) has held a ceremony to officially admit 3,476 fresh students with a call for a more aggressive push towards the promotion of science and technology. Professor Rexford Assasie, Dean of the International Programmes Office, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), said this was vital to avoid being left behind by globalization. Five hundred ...

The Education Minister, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has descended heavily on his predecessor Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang describing her as an “embarrassment” and one who didn’t understand education. “Her four-year tenure under John Mahama was an embarrassment,” Dr. Opoku Prempeh told Kwadwo Asare-Baffuor Acheampong popularly known as KABA on Asempa FM on Tuesday, 14 November. According to the Manhyia South ...

Finance Minister Mr. Ken Ofori Atta will today [Wednesday], November 15, 2017, present the 2018 budget to lawmakers. The budget will be second the for the Akufo-Addo administration since it took over the administration of the country in January 2016. The budget is expected to focus on about 10 key areas including infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, job creation, agriculture, entrepreneurship, business ...

Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang was an “embarrassment” and a “disgrace” as Minister of Education in the John Mahama administration, her successor Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh has said. “Her four-year tenure under John Mahama was an embarrassment,” Dr Opoku Prempeh told Kwadwo Asare-Baffuor Acheampong (KABA) on Asempa FM’s Ekosi Sen political talk show on Tuesday, 14 November. Adducing evidence to back ...

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has described single mums who have sex with married men to get money to send their children to “very expensive schools”, as “sick” and “shegelele”. The founder of Action Chapel International (ACI) made the comment on Sunday, 12 November when he preached to his congregation about the need to go through “process” in life, so as to ...

A 19-year-old man, Sakib Hardi, has been abandoned by his Lebanese boss after a plastic recycling machine at the factory he was working with, chopped off his hand. According to him, the machine had broken down and he and some colleagues were fixing the fault when the tragedy happened on September 16. Speaking to Joy News’ Maxwell Agbagba, Sakib Hardi said since ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has threatened to expose NDC spokesperson on Finance and former Deputy Finance Minister, Casiel Ato Forson. According to him, his involvement in alleged shady deals at the energy sector nearly collapsed the sector. “I have a problem with NDC especially the deputy Finance Minister whose dubious deeds at the energy sector ...