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The 13 members of the pro-government vigilante group, Delta Force have had charged against them dropped by the Police based on the advice of the Attorney General. The 13 were earlier charged with conspiracy to commit crime, assault on public officer and causing unlawful damage. The 13 were arrested and charged after they stormed and chased out the Ashanti regional ...

The Eastern Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Bismark Taiwan Boateng has endorsed former President John Dramani Mahama to lead the party again in 2020 general elections as their flag bearer despite the abysmal performance at the 2016 polls. According to him, the visions and policies that the former president laid down during his tenure as ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong says the Net 2 cameraman who died during last Saturday’s gas explosion at atomic junction was destined to die. He believes it was the late Mohammed Ashley Yakubu’s destiny to die because they were cautioned to tread cautiously. According to him, when news of the explosion trickled in, ...

The restored monthly allowances of nurse-trainees will cost the government Gh¢232 million this academic year, according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Restoring the allowance was an integral campaign message of Akufo-Addo going into the 2016 polls after the Mahama administration cancelled it in 2014. Speaking during the launch of the restored allowance Tuesday, President Akufo-Addo said about 58, 000 ...

Two school-children, aged between two and five, on Saturday afternoon met their untimely deaths when they were electrocuted by a metal television pole at Agona Duakwa Zongo in the Central Region. They were Bright Kwesi Nyanful, a Nursery Two kid and Kelvin Boakye, in Kindergarten Two, of Agona Duakwa Islamic Primary School. The kids were playing together at the back ...

Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, has disclosed that government has given the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) the clearance to hire 200 auditors to make sure that safety standards are complied with at all gas stations across the country. Speaking after the inauguration of the governing board of the Ghana Gas on Monday, Mr. Agyarko stated that incidents of gas explosions are ...

The operation of the Boankra Inland Port project meant to boost transit trade – serve importers in the Northern sector of Ghana and landlocked countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – will not to start anytime soon. The fate of the port, the building of which began in year 2008, has now been tied to the reconstruction of the ...

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has dismissed claims that Saturday’s gas explosion at the Atomic junction on the Madina road in Accra was triggered by a Khebab seller. The Public Relations Officer of the GNFS, Billy Anaglatey in an interview on Starr Midday News said preliminary investigations have revealed that the khebab seller was yet to even set up ...

The Production Manager of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited (GCMC), Ezekiel Mensah, has expressed regret over the handling of gas cylinders by gas station attendants and supervisors across the country. He was speaking Tuesday on Morning Starr in the aftermath of a gas explosion at Atomic junction in Accra which claimed seven lives, according to the Ministry of Information. ...

A joint security operation aimed at forcing out dwellers of a 138.64-hectare forest reserve in the Tamale metropolis has led to the arrest of six people. The operation forms part of a widespread exercise by the Tamale Mayor, Musah Superior to clean up the city. The Mayor issued nearly a 5-week ultimatum to the occupants transacting illicit activities in the ...