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The Founder and leader of Ghana Freedom Party(GFP), Madam Akua Donkor who is under police investigation for defrauding one trader, Ama Yeboah of GH¢10,500 has accused journalists of being behind her arrest. “Journalists from Otec FM in Kumasi and Dormaa Ahenkro in Brong Ahafo Region and I suspect some will come from Nhyira Fm are behind my arrest”, she alleged ...

A board member of the Ghana Hajj Board popularly known as Heavy Dee lost his cool during the Holy pilgrimage and slapped a female pilgrim in Saudi Arabia. Details of disturbing developments during the Holy voyage are emerging as Starrfmonline.com digs into the operations of the IC Quaye-led Hajj Board. After exposing acts of visa fraud which are being investigated ...

The Communications Ministry is in discussions with the Education Ministry to fashion out strategies about how senior high school students could have access to all school curricula on mobile phones in a regulated manner. Minister of Communication, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful said at the National Dialogue on Digital Transformation that: “We are currently having discussions with the Ministry of Education on the ...

Government is making strong moves to protect Ghana’s cyber eco-system from unforeseen attacks and also build its capacity against any future cyber attacks. National Cyber Security Center and re-registration of SIM cards were prominent issues at the ongoing National Cyber Security Week. The event has seen experts in Ghana’s cybersecurity converging to brainstorm over how to keep Ghana’s cyberspace safe. ...

The controversy surrounding the installation of a substantive Ga Mantse reached another crescendo on Monday when the Ga Traditional Council (GTC) installed Kelvin Nii Tackie as the ruler of the Ga State. Under the stool name Nii Taki Teiko Tsuru, he becomes the fifth Ga Mantse to be installed since the death of Nii Amugi II about 13 years ago. ...

Medical doctors and dentists in the country will from next year have security stamps to differentiate them from quack ones. The move follows the arrest of some nineteen people who were practising as doctors without licenses. Some of the quack doctors were arrested after prescribing wrong medications to patients. The Registrar of the Council, Dr Eli Atikpui told a news ...

The Roads and Highways Minister has ordered four traffic islands on Kumasi-Ejisu stretch of the main Kumasi-Accra Road be removed for the free flow of traffic. Akwasi Amoako Atta wants traffic lights to be installed to replace the rounds-about he describes as problematic. He gave the directive on the first leg of a three-day working visit to the Ashanti Region. ...

The 2016 flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has decided to bow out of the 2020 presidential contest. His decision aims at giving the ‘younger generation’ of the party frontline roles, which he believes will give the political grouping a better chance of securing a parliamentary seat and eventually occupying the Flagstaff Staff House ...

Matron of the Buipe Senior High School in the Central Gonja District of the Northern Region, Madam Alidu Rahinatu has been handed over to police after she was intercepted carting away a large quantity of food stuff belonging to the school. Madam Rahinatu was arrested last night through a combined effort of two assembly members of the area who have ...

Government has offered to pay the medical bills of all persons injured in Monday’s train derailment at Tesano in Accra that left some passengers injured, the Ministry of Railways Development has announced. A three-member committee has meanwhile been set up to look into what caused the Accra-bound train from Tema to derail as well as make recommendations on how to ...