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The 2015 Auditor General’s Report has indicted the National Youth Authority (NYA) over the misapplication of GHS215, 100.00. According to the report, after the 2014 World Cup an amount of GHS450, 000.00 was released to the NYA secretariat as feeding grant for the Authority’s 11 Youth Leadership Skills Training Institutes across the country for the 1st term of 2014 academic ...

A thirty- two-year-old farmer has been shot dead at Warabeba , a suburb of Ayensudo in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipality of the Central region . The father of two, Atta Panin, was allegedly shot dead by his friend Kofi Benya, who is a hunter when the farmer went to his house to demand a gun he had given him hunting for ...

The Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah has descended on critics of the NPP government’s Free Senior High School Education programme describing them as ”selfish and greedy” people who want to deliberately kill the programme so as to advance their political carriers. According to the Regional Minister, all those who are doing advocacy against the Free SHS programme know very well ...

The Inspector General of Police David Asante-Apeatu has dispatched a special police investigative team to Kwabeng to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of four persons in a mining pit. The four were found dead in a river at Kwabeng in the Atiwa District of the Eastern region over the weekend. Some residents alleged the four were brutalised to death ...

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) says it is ready to partake in the special examination before being granted the license to teach. The National Teachers Council (NTC) of the Ministry of Education announced that teachers will now have to pass a special examination before being granted the license to teach. The move, according to the NTC, is to ...

A group calling itself Integrity Against Corruption (I.A.C) which professes association to the National Democratic Congress has condemned recent attacks on former President Jerry Rawlings. Many party people have taken Rawlings to the cleaners and questioned his motives for constantly charging the party and officials of corruption, a move often met with denials by party officials. About a fortnight ago ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has served notice henceforth all teacher trainee graduates will take a licensing exams. “Before we recognize you as a professional teacher, you will need to be licensed,” Rev. Jonathan Betteh, the GES Public Relations Officer told Morning Starr host Francis Abban Tuesday. According to him, the move is part of the sector’s professional development and ...

A group calling itself, Integrity Against Corruption (IAC) within opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta region has strongly chastised some members of the party for taking a swipe at the party’s founder J.J Rawlings. The former president last week incurred the wrath of a former deputy chief of staff under the erstwhile Mills/Mahama led NDC government, Dr. Valerie ...

The Bank of Ghana has announced that three more Banks have been licensed to begin operations in the country soon. The banks will take the number of licensed banks in the country to 34 after two banks – UT Bank and Capital Bank – collapsed on Monday. The governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr. Ernest Addison addressing a press ...

Charles Nana Frimpong, a businessman, who allegedly shot a 33 year- old driver and a mechanic at Alajo Railway Crossing over an argument has been charged with murder. This follows the death of Yaw Boadi, the victim at the Ridge Hospital in Accra Last Wednesday. Appearing before the Abeka District Magistrate Court on Monday amidst heavy Police presence, the Police ...