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General Secretary of the Textile, Garment and Leather Employees’ Union (TEGLU), Abraham Koomson has said President Akufo-Addo’s nicely sewn African prints shirts are made from fake textiles. President Akufo-Addo, who is known for his sharp suits, has in the past few months developed a new love for African prints and is making waves with his new shirts, much to the ...

Female residents of Kokobeng Electoral Area, a suburb of the Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region have vowed not to share a common public place of convenience with their male counterparts. The women have gone wild over sharing of a toilet facility together with men which they described as “dangerous” for their safety. According to the women, they risk ...

The founder and leader of Royal House Chapel International,Sam Korankye Ankrah has said the people of Denkyira-Boase have been cursed by God and as a result cannot produce any leader for killing Major Maxwell Mahama in cold blood. Major Maxwell Mahama was murdered in cold blood after he was mistaken for an armed robber by some youth in Denkyira-Boase some ...

Some children from slum communities in Accra and some West and Central African countries have invaded the streets of Accra, begging for alms to feed themselves and their families. While their peers are in school, some of these child beggars, with the tacit endorsement of their parents, can be found on some of the city’s major roads, including the ceremonial ...

Ghana’s youngest Member of Parliament (MP), Ms Francisca Oteng Mensah, of the Kwabre East Constituency of the Ashanti Region has graduated with a Second Class Upper Division in LLB from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). At this year’s graduation ceremony in Kumasi last Saturday, she formed part of ...

It has been revealed that a fetish priest in the Nsuta area of the Western Region forewarned illegal miners (galamseyers) in the community not to operate in the pit that caved in last Monday and killed about 17 of them. According to some of the residents, 22 ‘galamseyers’ did not heed the advice from the fetish priest and decided to ...

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 ...