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The deportation of the 2016 National Campaign Manager of the governing New Patriotic Party, Peter Mac-Manu from Kenya seems to have created some form anxiety in that country. Mac Manu who was leading a team of election observers was prevented from entering Kenya which has its election scheduled for Tuesday, August 8, 2017. Earlier reports suggest that Mac Manu was ...

On Monday July 31, 2017, I joined a group of persons with diverse backgrounds – marketers, communicators, policy makers, players within the tourism industry and activists of sustainable development to begin a week long fact-finding tour of Germany under the theme “Environmental protection and green tourism in Germany”. The day started with a short tour of the famous Scandic hotel ...

Illegal small-scale miners have denied claims by the Operation Vanguard anti-galamsey taskforce that they (miners) opened fire on Vanguard personnel prompting the firing of reprisal shots by the force that led to the killing of one miner at Wawase on Sunday. One of the miners, Adamu Alhassan told Accra100.5FM on Monday that the Vanguards rather fired the first shot at ...

The Head of the Ahmadiyya Mission in Ghana, Maulvi Mohammed Bin Salih has charged President Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo to bring all on board if he really wants Ghanaians to be citizens and not spectators. According to him, if the person charging you to be a participant or citizen does not extend to you a hand of invitation, how do you ...

The Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) branch of the Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) has registered its displeasure with delay in the formation of the school’s Council. The students in a three-page petition to Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema said their graduation has been withheld for the past eight months because the government has failed to set up the ...

The Chief Executive Officer for the Food and Drugs Authority Delese Mimi Darko has revealed the authority is shifting from clearance permit to Import permit for drugs that are coming into the country. Answering questions at the Public Accounts Committee on Monday August 7 2017, Mrs. Mimi Darko said “with the new system that is coming up, we expect to ...

Former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Martin ABK Amidu, appears to be elated over the recent police administration’s invitation to former National Security capo, Yaw Donkor, to answer some questions. Drama unfolded when the immediate-past National Security Coordinator who was head of the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) for many years until his elevation, protested the circumstances under which ...

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo has hinted of possible job cuts in the public sector after admitting the sector is full. “The public sector is full,” the senior minister told an IEA forum, adding, government may “even have to lay some off.” According to the former Finance minister, the country requires more technically oriented graduates in order to develop in ...

The European Union Ambassador to Ghana, William Hanna, paid a working visit to Golden Exotic Limited (GEL) last week. The visit was to inspect the progress of the construction of Housing and Social Infrastructure project, in Kasunya, near Asutsuare in the Shai-Osudoku district of the Greater Accra Region. The € 5.9 million project is funded by the European Union and ...

The national organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Adams has said Martin Amidu’s endless viciousness against the party was due to its decision to replace him as its running mate in the 2004 and 2008 elections. Mr. Adams disclosed this Monday August 7, 2017 on Morning Starr in his reaction to a recent write-up by the former Attorney ...