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President Akufo-Addo was today joined by officials of Sankofa-Gye Nyame Oil and Gas field to turn valves for formal commercial production on the field in the Western region. According to Starr News’ Wilberforce Asare, the President is also expected to address a gathering after the commissioning of the Oil rig to outdoor his vision in the oil sector and how ...

Police in Aboaba Akorem in the Ashanti Region capital, Kumasi, have killed a suspected armed robbery gang member during a shoot-out on Monday. The suspect, identified only as Basat Obodo, popularly known as Outlaw, was on the police wanted list. He was killed by the Ashanti Region Anti-Robbery Taskforce following a tip-off. The taskforce mounted a search in the area ...

A man in his late 60s whose name has been given as Mr Afful has been arrested by the Oforikrom Police station in the Ashanti regional capital Kumasi for forcing an 8- year old girl to give him a blow job. The man who owns a drinking spot at Bomso at Mango Down Bar, a suburb of Kumasi is a ...

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) is investigating three officials of the Electoral Commission over Gh¢480,000 allegedly missing from the Commission’s Endowment Fund. The officials under investigation are the Deputy Commissioner, Georgina Opoku Amankwaah, Chief Accountant Kwaku OwusuAgyei-Larbi and Finance Officer, Joseph Kwaku Asamoah. They have been ordered to proceed on leave over the case, the Head of Public ...

Thirteen suspects who were allegedly involved in the gruesome murder of Major Maxwell Mahama have been discharged by an Accra Magistrate court. The 13 were part of the initial 32 suspects charged with murder during a hearing two weeks ago. The remaining 19 including a woman, are still facing charges of murder. According to the Police, they went back to ...

The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) yesterday raised a litany of issues in Parliament on the alleged corrupt deals which have taken place under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo who has promised zero tolerance for corruption. The Minority raised issues ranging from the $2.25 billion bond recently issued by the government, intention of government to raise another 15-year bond to ...

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) is on the heels of Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko, the immediate-past Managing Director (MD) of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited, over some alleged payments and withdrawals from the government’s account. The account in question is the Chief of Staff’s ‘Sundry Account’ which the BOST boss regularly lodged money into and ...

The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has expressed worry over the Minority’s insistence that there was insider-trading and conflict of interest in the issuance of the $2.25 billion bond by government in April. The IFS is warning the Minority’s multiplicity of petitions to foreign Securities and Exchange Commissions over the bond could spell doom for the country’s economy. The Minority ...

Attempts by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to equalize the alleged rot at Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) Company Limited, indicate their Members of Parliament (MPs) slept on their jobs while in opposition to keep National Democratic Congress (NDC) government at the time on it toes. “Claiming the worse thing happening today at BOST happened in the previous administration ...

Contrary to claims the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won the 2016 polls through dubious means, former Member of Parliament (MP) for Bantama Constituency, Henry Kwabena Kokofu has attributed the victory to the Lord. “We did not win the elections with our might……our victory came from the Almighty God who makes everything possible when we said the battle was the Lord’s”, ...