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A Deputy Minister for Finance Kwaku Kwarteng has described the International Monetary Fund as unreasonable following the Bretton Woods institution’s concerns over the undersubscribed Energy bond floated by the government. The attack was made on GHOne television hours after the deputy minister had told Morning Starr host Francis Abban that ‘IMF are not gods’ on Morning Starr. The IMF, according ...

Police in Tamale acting on a report by the Member of Tamale Central constituency, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has seized a vehicle belonging to an executive of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party in the Northern region as divisions continue to deepen to dangerous levels months after the John Mahama Unity Walk. Alhaji Mohammed Amin Adam, the Regional Youth Organizer of ...

The suspended General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party Kwabena Agyepong has sued the Ashanti regional chairman of the party Bernard Antwi Boasiako over some “defamatory” comments he made about him. In a writ sighted by StarrFMonline.com, Mr. Agyepong is asking the court to issue “an order compelling the first defendant to immediately cause to be retracted the defamatory statement ...

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) is probing former Executive Director of Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Dr George Crentsil, and other officials cited in an alleged 1.2 million dollar kickback scandal. A Joy News exposé earlier this year shed light on possible underhand dealings between a construction firm and Dr Crentsil, a deal that was aided by some officials ...

A former Upper East Regional Minister and senior lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has advised outspoken lawmaker for Assin Central to stop peddling falsehood about institutions he has little or no knowledge about. According to him, facts about current furore of the UEW bandied around by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand are nothing but untruths advising ...

Some senior high school students who were earmarked for a three-year scholarship under a policy introduced by the previous government are now paying fees. Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh told the media Tuesday the John Mahama administration was not committed to the programme. He said funds were not released in the second year of the Progressively Free SHS policy ...

The Akyem Maase Methodist Junior High School in the East Akyem Municipality of the Eastern region has been shut down indefinitely following a machete attack on one of the teachers on Tuesday. The teacher, Patrick Brako, was attacked in the staff common room by his assailant identified as Kwasi John who inflicted the cutlass wound on the forehead of the ...

Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh says not a single dime was paid for 100,000 students enrolled under President John Dramami Mahama’s progressively free Senior High School policy for the 2015/2016 academic year. Although he did not mention the quantum of money involved during that academic year, he said such was the situation President Nana Addo Dankwwa Akufo-Addo inherited. Dr. ...

The President of the National House of Chiefs Togbe Afede has urged President Akufo-Addo to be firm in order to effect his desired changes in the country. He is also counseling the President to be bold enough to reject excuses that do not advance his change agenda. “We are happy about your agriculture, industry, and infrastructure driven economic growth agenda. ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has started revaluating all properties in the capital city as part of efforts to mobilise enough resources for the development of the city. The exercise, which would be conducted by the Land Valuation Division of the Lands Commission will enable the Assembly revise its property rates and take inventory of all properties in the city. ...