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The Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Alfred Obeng Boateng has dismissed reports that he has resigned. Mr. Obeng has come under intense pressure to resign following the exposé that BOST had sold 5 million liters of contaminated fuel to two unlicensed companies, Zup Oil and Movenpiina Oil. Members of the minority in Parliament had called ...

The Headmaster of Adisadel College in Cape Coast says he is not bothered about the trolling on social for wearing a “zebra coat” during the grand finale of the National Science and Maths Quiz. He indicates that he wore the customized coat to the event ground at the National Theatre as a headmaster and former student because he was hopeful ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is considering options of adding other subjects to the national quiz competition. The move is to ensure that other students do not feel neglected in their subject of study. Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr, the spokesperson for the Ghana Education Service, Rev. Jonathan Betteh said, “We thinking seriously about it, to make ...

The immediate past Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST), Kwame Awuah Darko is ready for any probe into his work. According to his personnel assistant, Edward Combat, his boss has nothing to hide thus will avail himself for any probe. His comment is in reaction to the Majority’s claim that Mr Awuah Darko also sold contaminated ...

The father of the late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, Captain Dennis Mahama (Rtd) has denied taking part in the military firing squad of 1979 that executed some army officers, including a former Head of State, General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong during the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) regime under the leadership of Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. An audio recording now ...

Minister of state in charge of Tertiary Education Prof. Kwesi Yankah says the government is working towards scrapping the 25 percent tax imposed on private universities in 2013. He said the tax has been squeezing the little surpluses that the private universities incur on students which give the impression that such universities are expensive. Speaking with Raymond Acquah on Upfront ...

The Majority in Parliament has described as ridiculous calls for the interdiction of the MD of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) company, Alfred Obeng, following disclosures that he sanctioned the sale of contaminated fuel to two companies operating illegally in Ghana. They are Movenpiina and Zup Oil. The Minority at a press conference called for the interdiction of ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has said it was disgraceful for the Finance Committee of the previous parliament to have accepted sponsorship from the National Lottery Authority (NLA) to deliberate on the amendment of the National Lottery Act, 2006 (Act 722). It has emerged that the committee that did the deliberations was funded by the NLA. The ...

The deposed National Democratic Congress (NDC) government has been accused of virtually ceding the country’s bauxite deposits to Ibrahim Mahama, younger brother of former President John Dramani Mahama. Gideon Boako, an Economic Advisor at the Office of Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, made the astonishing allegation to the effect that 58% of Ghana’s bauxite reserves was sold to Ibrahim Mahama before ...

The Majority in Parliament has waded into the BOST scandal which has generated intense public interest and has accused the Minority of playing mischief with the case. This comes on the heels of accusations against Managing Director Alfred Obeng Boateng that he superintended the sale of five million litres of contaminated fuel to Movenpiina, who in turn sold it to ...