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Small scale miners in the Ashanti region are hitting the streets today, September 12, to demonstrate against the ban on their operations. In April this year, the Lands and Natural Resources Minister John Peter Amewu imposed a six- month ban on small scale mining in a bid to fight illegal mining. But the small scale miners in the Ashanti Region ...

The Deputy Sports Minister Enam Pius Hadzedi has exclusively told Starr FM Sports that officials of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) will be probed over the 84, 000 Dollar budget for this year’s IAAF championships. The sports ministry through the national sports authority gave out 84,000 dollars to the Ghana Athletics Association to cater for their participation which included accommodation, ...

A 28-year-old Ghanaian ‘scholar’ and former student of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) who was last week in the news for achieving academic laurels from the University of Amsterdam, has been exposed as it turned out that all the 5 awards he claimed to have won were all fake. Sebastian Roy Osumanu claimed to have been the most successful ...

The Pope John Senior High School (POJOSS) in Koforidua has rejected wooden Chop box brought to the school by some beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School on Monday. The school says it will only allow trunks – Metallic boxes meant for the storage of food and cloths by students. The school authorities explained that the decision is part of ...

JOYNEWS investigation has revealed that Municipal and District Assemblies across the country are struggling with a heavy burden of debt after they were “forced” to sign a waste landfills management contract with one of the of the subsidiaries of the Jospong Group, Waste Landfills Limited. The 210 municipal and district assemblies do not have engineered landfills sites but the contract ...

Deputy Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has dispelled rumours suggesting that students entering senior high schools with low grades will pay fees. He said the rumour which is causing some panic among parents and students, especially in Northern Ghana, is not true and that the free SHS policy is all-encompassing. “There is no fee paying component based on academic ...

The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is only implementing free ”first-year” Senior High School and not a full free SHS programme. Speaking to Ekourba Gyasi on Atinka AM Drive, Kwesi Pratt Jnr explained that as various Senior High Schools across the country reopen today 11th September it is obvious ...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has cautioned members of Operation Vanguard (the anti-galamsey taskforce) against the taking of gifts (bribes) that people might try to offer to induce them in the course of their operations. He stated that Operation Vanguard had started its task of stopping illegal mining also known as galamsey, remarkably so far. Otumfuo said the good ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumawu in the Ashanti Region says he has spent a staggering GH¢160,000 to pay school fees since 2012. Philip Basoa said he used his share of the MPs’ Common Fund to support some students in his Constituency. “Since 2012, I have spent a whopping GH¢160,000 of my Common Fund to pay the school fees ...

A former Deputy Minister for Education is predicting a high rate of school dropout as the government begins the implementation of the flagship Free Senior High School (SHS) policy. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa explained that, majority of the students especially in second and third years from poor homes will dropout if their parents are not able to fund their education. Rather, ...