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Wife of the late Major Maxwell Mahama has celebrated her husband on his birthday. In a post on Facebook celebrating her hero, Maxwell Mahama she indicated that she has prepared his usual breakfast for his birthday adding that she intends to give to the needy because that is what he would have done on his birthday. She said her children ...

It has emerged that the General Overseer of International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr. Mensa Otabil in 2008 voted for the late Professor Evans Atta Mills when the country went to the polls to elect a new President. According to the Former Minister of Power, Dr Kwabena Donkor, the Man of God has been shuttling between the two main political ...

The embattled Ghanaian High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, has said he still stands by his pledge to prioritize members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its tertiary education wing, Tertiary Students’ Confederacy Network (TESCON) in his dealings with Ghanaians as a High Commissioner. In justifying his comment, he gave the analogy of how a husband ...

A medical doctor who was “wrongfully dismissed” from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and his salary arrears withheld since 2012 has told Starr News he now lives as a single-room squatter who begs for table scraps to survive. Described by many as Ghana’s Ben Carson for his rare pair of ‘healing hands’, Dr. Francis Ibrahim Betonsi was reportedly handed indefinite ...

Past leaders of the governing New Patriotic Party’s tertiary wing TESCON have come out through a statement to praise Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa George Ayisi-Boateng saying they are “proud” of him for saying NPP members are more Ghanaian than others, thus, he would make them his topmost priority before any other Ghanaians. “We wish to state emphatically that ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has predicted that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) risk losing elections 2020 if it fails to deal with the widespread lawlessness caused by pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante groups. According to him, he supports President Akufo-Addo’s call on the police to crack the whip on political party vigilante groups affiliated to ...

The Acting Executive Director of the National Service Secretariat (NSS), Mustapha Ussif, has disclosed that 57 persons who posed as National Service personnel have been arrested in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital, and are currently under police investigation. According to him, payment was delayed due to some technical hitches and inconsistencies in the process of authentication and validation of all ...

George Nyakpo, Secretary of the Association of Western Togoland Youth (ASWETOY), has said a new region cannot be created out of the Volta Region because that territory is not part of Ghana’s territorial area. In a letter to Justice Brobbey, Chairman of the committee in charge of creation of new regions, Mr Nyakpo said: “Inasmuch as your task is clearly ...

Labour High Court presided over Justice Lorrenda Owusu has dismissed an interlocutory injunction application by employees of ECG seeking to halt the Compact between Ghana and the Millennium Challenge Corporation over their redundancy packages. The presiding Judge held that there may be a case or question to be trialed in the substantive matter before her, however, she cannot establish that ...

The government will soon scrap the 25 per cent corporate tax imposed on private universities, the Vice-President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said. The removal of the tax, he explained, was part of the government’s effort to strengthen private tertiary institutions to enable them to play their roles in national development. Dr Bawumia made this known in a speech read ...