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The government of Ghana has cancelled Emergency Visa or Arrival Visa for Chinese nationals as part of the fight against illegal Mining. Emergency Visa Policy was introduced by the Ghana Immigration Service to cater for visitors/business people who travel at short notice from countries where Ghana has no mission or consulate. The policy authorizes visas to be granted on arrival ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has ‘mocked’ some media houses that are serializing some sections of the Prof. Kwesi Botchwey committee report to the public. According to the former President, since the media has decided to blame the report for every happening in the country, they should not forget to use quotes from it in times of crisis. The Kwesi ...

Spokesperson for the Minority on Finance Isaac Adongo has warned investors to be cautious about the 2.5 billion dollar bond floated by the government to offset the Energy Sector debt. According to him, the process adopted by the government for the bond portends a high risk for investors. “I want investors to know that this is a political risk. The ...

The presidency of Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo currently has one of the largest number of cabinet ministers ever in the history of Ghana’s 4th republic. But Nana Addo has justified the decision to bring on board the expertise of over 100 ministers as he has argued that the economic woes of the country demands a stronger team of technocrats who ...

A Deputy National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mardi Jibril, has reiterated that any document circulating on social media and some media platforms, as the Kwesi Botchwey is fake. He said, the report which contained what led to the defeat of the NDC in 2016, is a document of the party and cannot be leaked into the ...

Government has established a trust fund in the name of the late Major Adam Mahama. The fund which will be called ‘Major Mahama Trust Fund’ will cater for his wife and children. Additionally, the government has also secured employment for his wife, Babara Mahama. Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, told Starr News’ Parliamentary Correspondent, Ibrahim Alhassan in an interview that the ...

A Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Lawson has called on the public to ignore stories about the party which are being attributed to the Kwesi Botchwey committee. The 13-member Kwesi Botchwey Committee constituted and mandated to investigate the causes of the party’s defeat in the 2016 elections presented its report to the leadership of the ...

A member of the legal team of the National Democratic Congress, Abaraham Amaliba, wants government to merge the Ministry of Railways Development with the Ministry of Roads and Highways, arguing the establishment of the former is unjustifiable. Mr Amaliba said he did not see the justification in the establishment of the Railways Development Ministry by the Akufo-Addo-government especially so when ...

President Akufo-Addo left the country yesterday for Niger to meet colleague heads of state in the West African sub-region over the issue of a common currency, which has remained in the files of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for some time now. He was seen off at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra, by Vice President Dr Mahamudu ...

Fifteen suspected criminals, including four persons, said to be armed robbers, have been rounded up by the Police in the Central Region in the latest effort by the Police to rid the region off criminal activities. They were arrested from their various hideouts during what the Police termed ‘strategic swoop’ in the Cape Coast metropolis and Kasoa among other places ...