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The Daily Guide newspaper has said it owes no apology to a group called Kumasi Youth Association for publishing a story that suggested their monarch Otumfuo Osei Tutu II was involved in a £350,000 money laundering scandal in the UK. Some members of the youth group on Wednesday, 18 October 2017 locked up the Kumasi office of the newspaper in ...

The much publicized national digital property address system will be launched today. The location-based system will provide an effective means of addressing every location to facilitate the implementation of key government policies. Vokacom, a Ghanaian Information Technology firm, designed the system at the cost of 2.5 million dollars. The digital address system will be a precursor to the National Identification ...

The outgoing Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Commissioner of Police (COP), Mr Bright Oduro has broken his silence on the directive for him to proceed on leave prior to retirement on January 3, 2018, and says he has unfairly been pushed out of the Police Service. Mr Bright Oduro was appointed as CID boss in January 2017 ...

The Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament will today hold a crucial meeting over the $510 million AMERI Power deal. The meeting will discuss the motion of rescission filed by Adansi Asokwa Member of Parliament, K.T Hammond in August. He’d argued that the House rescinds its decision taken in March 2015 to pass the agreement between government and AMERI, citing ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it will conduct fresh registration exercise of its members after a frustrating experience with the biometric method caused disaffection. At a press conference Tuesday, the party’s National Chairman, Kofi Portuphy, said the biometric roll “did not meet the standards required to make it qualified to be a biometric register”. A June 2015 exercise ...

The outgoing Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Commissioner of Police (COP), Mr. Bright Oduro says he has been treated unfairly by the Police Service. According to him, after 29 years of diligent service to the state security, he expected to be treated with dignity and not to be pushed out of the service unfairly. Mr. Oduro who ...

Traders of the Abinchi market were on Tuesday thrown into a state of shock when they discovered the lifeless body of a fresh baby girl wrapped in a polythene bag. Scrap dealers picking up metals washed into the Subin drains chanced on a bizarre object and dragged it to shore in curiosity. The content which drew crowds to the place ...

The offices of the Daily Guide newspaper in Kumasi in the Ashanti region has reportedly been invaded by some people believed to be members of the Kumasi Youth Association, Starr News has learnt. The youth group is attacking the media house over its report on the recent banking case in the UK which mentioned the Otumfuo Osei Tutu – a ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central has alleged the fired CID boss was fueling languard activities in the Greater Accra Region. According to Kennedy Agyapong, the news of his removal from office does not come to him as a shock because he is certain of his alleged connection with land guards. “Bright Oduro has not been fired, but has been ...

A presidential hopeful of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Ekow Spio-Garbrah, has charged the national executives of the party to ensure that they devise mechanisms to safeguard the integrity of the party’s register. His comments come on the back of a unanimous decision taken by the National Executive Council (NEC) to scrap the biometric register and return to ...