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At least two people have been confirmed dead, with 11 others trapped after a mining pit collapsed at Petransa in the Asante-Akyem Central District of the Ashanti Region. The deceased have been identified as one Abubakar 35, and Alhassan 25, all residents of the community. Two others have been rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The tragic incident reportedly happened ...

Ghana will soon launch a second satellite into space to monitor illegal mining activities and deforestation in the country. The satellite which will be christened Ghanasat 2 will have a high resolution camera to take better and clearer photos than the Ghanasat 1 which was launched in June this year. The Ghanasat-1 is the country’s first satellite in space and ...

President John Mahama’s 2016 running mate Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur has revealed he could be in the race for National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential primaries for the 2020 general elections. “I am not considering it. But people have come to me and I am thinking about it”, Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur told Joy News’ Beatrice Adu at a ceremony to ...

A former Chief Director at the Electoral Commission, Mr. Damoah Agyeman has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to probe the chairperson for the Electoral Commission Mrs. Charlotte Osei over allegations leveled against her by some unidentified staff. According to him, probing the EC will allow certain misconceptions to be cleared and restore confidence in the country’s electoral ...

An aggrieved deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Georgina Opoku-Amankwa, has put up a strong defense against the twenty-five (25) points of allegations leveled against her by the Chairperson of the electoral management body, Mrs. Charlotte Osei. In her response to those allegations, Madam Opoku-Amankwa noted that the Chairperson of the EC allegedly rejected the official office that was used ...

The Northern Regional Director of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Sule Salifu, is convinced, party faithful deserve preferential treatment when it comes to government jobs. “I am going to ensure that only NPP people will get job first before any other person”, Mr. Salifu said at the annual delegates’ conference of the Tamale Central Constituency in the Northern Region. Explaining ...

Upper West Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Abdul Rahman Abubakar has revealed that the NPP needs to be in power for at least 20 years to develop Ghana to the fullest. Addressing supporters of the party at the Upper West Regional delegates’ conference, Alhaji Abubakar was emphatic stating that 8 years is too short for any ...

The National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC) Bernard Mornah has described as unlawful the suspension of the General Secretary of the party Atik Mohammed. “There is travesty of justice and I think that our constitution was turned on its head and as National Chairman I can’t supervise over such blatant abuse of our constitution,” he decried in an ...

The Center for Democratic Development (CDD) has called on the Council of State to immediately intervene in the impasse at the Electoral Commission (EC). “The Electoral Commission (EC) is the bedrock of democracy,” the Center’s Programs Officer Paul Aborampa said in an interview with Starr News’ Ibrahim Alhassan and that if care is not taken the chaos there will throw ...

Sam Kofi Mills, son of late President John Evans Atta Mills, has disclosed that five years after the death of his father he is yet to know what killed him. “I still don’t know [the cause of his death], the hospital never gave the family any autopsy report to show that this and this was the cause of why he ...