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Internationally acclaimed young Ghanaian actor, Abraham Attah has been unveiled by the Education Ministry as the ambassador for the NPP government’s Free Senior High School programme. 15-year-old Attah, who played a starring role in Netflix’ 2015 hit movie ‘Beasts of No Nation’ was unveiled on Thursday, June 22, 2017 by the Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh at a short ceremony. ...

Since the beginning of May this year, social networks across Africa and its Diaspora have been saturated with photos and videos showing horrified people demonstrating the presence of plastic in food items, like rice and eggs. Yet most of these videos don’t have a grain of truth (or plastic) in them. Alexandre Capron, a French journalist and member of the ...

The MP for Odododiodoo constituency, Nii Lante Vanderpuije, has said he does not believe in openly criticising the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings. “I don’t believe in the situation that, whereby the founder does something and I go out there and criticise him in the open and I do something and the founder go out ...

The Member of Parliament of the Korle Klottey constituency, Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings has expressed her admiration for her father, former President Jerry John Rawlings who turns 70 today. Zanetor, the eldest daughter of the 1st President under the 4th Republic took to Facebook to laud her father for his selflessness and longevity. She wrote: “Wow… Dad, I can’t believe you’re ...

The United States Embassy in Ghana has been invited by the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament over the recent deportation of some 63 Ghanaians from that country. The meeting is expected to come off later today, Thursday, June 22, 2017. There are reports that the Ghanaians who were deported last week were living in the US without the requisite documentations. ...

MP for Nadowli-Kaleo constituency, Alban Bagbin, has revealed he did all kinds of odd jobs including working as a farm labourer in order to survive. Recounting his childhood experience on Starr Chat with Bola Ray on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 the second deputy Speaker of Parliament said he lost his father while in Senior High School and he had to ...

The Asset Retrieval Taskforce at the Presidency yesterday seized expensive vehicles said to belong to the state from an individual. The taskforce stormed an area called Oforikrom, near Nsawam in the Eastern Region in the early hours and raided a private property, where the 37 cars, including those registered in the name of State Protocol Department (SPD), were found. Akwasi ...

Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, has indicated he is hopeful Ghana will secure victory in the ongoing Maritime boundary dispute with Ivory Coast in September. Speaking at a stakeholders’ forum on Ghana’s 10 years’ experience as commercial oil producer in Accra organized by the Petroleum Commission, Mr. Agyarko believes this will help attract more investors into the oil and gas sector. ...

The board chairman of COCOBOD Hackman Owusu-Agyemang has revealed that the salary of the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, Joseph Boahen Aidoo is twice that of president Akufo-Addo. This is after he bemoaned what he described as “outrageous” the amount paid the former CEO of the state-owned company Dr. Steven Opuni – who was said to be ...

Thirty-two out of the 58 suspects involved in the lynching of Major Maxwell Mahama will face prosecution on July 6, 2017. The court which discharged 26 of the suspects were rearrested by the police as investigations continued into their alleged involvement in the case. The Accra central district court also ordered that one of the suspects who claimed to be ...