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Leadership of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) is opposing the appointment of a new Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission (NLC). The confusion on the labour front follows the appointment of a former MP for Kade Ofosu Asamoah. The Unions say due processes were not followed during the appointment. Speaking on Morning Starr, the General Secretary of ...

Two Muslims residing in Accra have petitioned the Education Minister to halt the plan to hand over mission schools to churches. According to the petitioners, – Dr. Abdullatiff Diaby and Abdulahi Ibrahim – these mission schools though built in the colonial era have received a substantial investment from government over several decades resulting into their much transformation to date. The ...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has assured Ghanaians there are no plastic eggs on the market. The assurance comes days after the regulator also denied speculations about the sale and consumption of plastic rice. The Head of Food Inspection, Isabella Agrah told Starr News a probe by the FDA has revealed that the supposed plastic eggs are rather rotten ...

Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, on June 25, 2017, led a delegation of government officials to Jereh Group headquarters in Yantai, China for a strategic cooperation summit aimed at achieving mutual growth through a win-win collaboration. The two parties had an in-depth discussion on the Aboadze-Tema Gas Transportation Pipeline Project as well as other areas of mutual synergy and future opportunities ...

A circuit court in Koforidua in the Eastern region has granted bail to 12 suspects who allegedly attacked the Somanya district police command and destroyed several properties. At the Koforidua Circuit court, Her Honour, Mercy Addai Kortei slapped a GHC70,000 on each of the suspects with two sureties, Eastern regional correspondent Kofi Siaw has reported. Their counsel had prayed the ...

The Secretary of Umar and Imams in the Ashanti Region, Alhaji Saed has charged President Nana Akufo-Addo to discharge his duties diligently. According to him, Ghanaians are of high expectations following the campaign promises by the president, who defeated an incumbent leader at the third attempt. Ghanaians he said, will be glad and support the president if he is able ...

Representatives of infamous Financial Engineer Alfred Agbesi Woyome who is currently dragged before the Supreme Court to explain why he has still not paid the GHc51.2 million he illegally took from the government of Ghana have pitched camp at the precincts of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) brandishing some documents demanding that the Trust forks out a ...

Residents of New Amanful, a fishing community in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region, were dumbfounded when news broke that a six-year-old boy in the area had been mauled to death by a dog under bizarre circumstances. The unfortunate incident took place last Tuesday on the premises of the deceased’s school New Amanful D/A Methodist Primary School. DAILY ...

The Office of the Nii Abbey Family of Kwabenya, the family which has traditional authority over Kwabenya lands in Ga State of the Greater Accra Region, has issued a strong-worded warning that one Theophilus Ankama Aryee, who is parading himself as the Chief of Kwabenya is not the legitimate person to ascend the throne. The said Theophilus Ankama Aryee, the ...

The Greater Accra Regional Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has threatened to quit politics if the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is able to build a single factory during the next four years. Anthony Nukpenu said the Nana Addo administration lacks the ability to deliver on one of its key campaign promises. “I will quit politics if Nana ...