NEWS

Tweet           Source:Starrfmonline Share on: WhatsApp

The US-Africa Business Centre has released its maiden Investor Confidence Indicator for Africa (ICIFA) in Washington, ranking Ghana among the best countries in Africa in terms of convenience of doing business. Ghana’s overall score was 59.4 per cent which placed it in the first quartile of overall performers in Africa. The report, which was released on June 12, is a ...

The controversy over alleged shady deals involving the Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST), Alfred Obeng Boateng is being instigated within the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), a party official has revealed. Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Stephen Amoah on Accra-based Okay Fm said they are ...

Mr Isaac Asamoah, Training and Development Officer of Kpone Katamanso District, has urged teachers and parents to avoid canning children as a disciplinary measure. He said they could use other forms of punishment which would not be injurious to the children. Mr Asamoah gave the advice at a day’s seminar for teachers and parents organised by SOS Children’s Villages Ghana ...

Economic Advisor to the Vice President, Godwin Boako, has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has no business cautioning the NPP administration against leveraging Ghana’s natural resources, specifically bauxite through its recent partnership with China, since the former sold 58 percent of Ghana’s bauxite concession to Ibrahim Mahama, brother of former President Mahama. Mr. Boako made the revelation while ...

The current New Patriotic Party (NPP) government under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should not waste time in arresting and jailing officials of the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government found to be corrupt, a former deputy minister of Employment and Labour Relations has dared them. Mr Baba Jamal responded to claims by Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microfinance ...

A founding partner of the E. O Group, George Yaw Owusu, credited with the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities in Ghana, has vehemently denied claim that, former President John Kufuor, used him and his colleague as fronts to chip away substantial part of the natural mineral to himself. Mr. Owusu, who worked in the Petrochemical industry for 27 ...

Former Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, James Klutse Avedzi, has admitted his committee received money from officials of the National Lottery Authority before deliberating on the amendment of the National Lottery Act, 2006 (Act 722). He said the Authority first presented GHC 50,000 to the Committee “but when we looked at the provisions, we realised that the amount was not ...

The grand finale of the 2017 National Science and Math Quiz will be held today [Thursday], at the National Theatre in Accra. The event will see three schools; St. Thomas Aquinas, Adisadel College and Prempeh College, battle for supremacy and bragging rights. The three competitors successfully triumphed over other schools throughout the contest to make it to this stage. The ...

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, might soon face Parliament’s Education Committee following the refusal of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), to organize a special exams for some 200 students at Bunkpurugu in the Northern Region who could not write two papers in the just ended exams. The over two hundred students were unable to write this ...