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A local governance expert, Issaka Amon Kotei, has kicked against the creation of new administrative regions in Ghana. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has established the Regional Reorganisation and Development Ministry to carve out new regions within the next four years. About six regions are likely to be created out of the Western, Volta, Northern and Brong Ahafo regions. ...

The deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has challenged Victor Smith to be bold and file a petition against former President JJ Rawlings. The former Ghana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom said in a recent interview that it would be unfair for the leadership of the NDC to discipline former Attorney General Martin Amidu ...

The writing was on the wall for the collapsed Capital Bank as far back as at least 2014, according to memo sighted and published by the Insight Newspaper in January 2015, which went under the radar at the time. The Insight Newspaper obtained information indicating that the Capital Bank, then First Capital Plus Bank, was on the verge of collapse ...

An emerging youth movement of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region christened, Integrity Against Corruption (I.A.C) has condemned recent attacks on the party founder, Former President, Jerry John Rawlings for speaking about the state of the party. The former President at the recent Ada Asafotsufiame was said to have criticized the perceived corruption that has engulfed ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said no government can operate without borrowing, promising that the current administration will responsibly use of loans contracted. The Vice President’s comments seems a defence of criticisms that the Nana Akufo-Addo led government was piling debt up at an alarming rate, especially when they had spoken against same prior to winning the race to ...

The Director for the Youth Employment Agency in Banda Ahenkro in the Brong Ahafo region has been hospitalized after he was attacked by some irate men. Sampson Densu was attacked in his office and beaten to pulp by the unknown men. Information gathered by Starr News indicate that Mr. Densu’s attackers were opposing his continuous stay in office. Narrating his ...

Overlord of the Ashanti Kingdom, Otumfour Osei Tutu II has sent a word of notice to all sub-chiefs of the kingdom to keep their distance from the newly crowned Oheneyere of Daban, especially when it comes to issues of lands. ?Oheneyere Afua Amaado was successful inaugurated during a colorful ceremony over the weekend the Daily Heritage newspaper reported. The Asantehene ...

The GHC51 million judgement debt which was paid to the businessman, Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome, is missing from the accounts of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD), the 2016 Auditor-General’s Report has revealed. According to the report, the MoF and the CAGD failed to capture the amount in their accounts in 2016. The omission ...

Managers of the Student Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) say they have only been tasked with the disbursement of teacher trainee allowances, rebutting reports that the allowance has been converted into a loan facility. “For the avoidance of doubt we would like to state that, in line with Government policy to restore the allowance effective 2017/2018 academic year, the Ministry of ...

Tweet The Ashanti regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners is demanding the ban on legal and illegal small scale mining to be lifted after the six months suspension elapsed. They also said that if the ban remains in force, government must announce new ways by which they can carry out their operations. Early this year, ...