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A Senior Lecturer at the University of Education Winneba (UEW) Dr Frimpong Duku has stated that the university has not been working effectively ever since the Akufo-Addo’s government assumed office in January 2017. He explained that a new governing council has not been constituted to oversee activities of the university after the old one was dissolved in 2017 when there ...

A retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe, has advised against the act where people are forced to provide gifts in exchange for a service. He said such moves, which cannot be described as ‘gift-giving’ constitutes a corrupt practice and therefore advised against it. He was speaking at the 2017 National Dialogue on the theme: “Restoring the Ghanaian Identity; Our ...

A deputy general secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho, has criticized Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his numerous trips, stating the President should let Ghanaians know if he wants to denounce his citizenship status. Mr. Anyidoho in an interview with Baisiwa Dowuona-Hammond on Gh Today said: “The president should stop traveling, come home and work… If he wants to change ...

Sixty-three Ghanaians deported from the United States of America have arrived at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra. Starr News gathers that, the Ghanaians were evicted from US because they did not have the required documents to continue living in that country where they had gone to seek greener pastures. Starr News sources confirmed that more Ghanaians are expected to ...

The Police have dismissed suggestions by an NGO, Child Rights International, that it is holding a 12-year-old boy in connection with Major Mahama’s killing. Director of Police Public Affairs, DSP Sheila Abayie Buckman, says the boy was questioned by officers on his role in the murder of Major Mahama and was let go. After the callous lynching of Major Maxwell ...

Fresh from a “major” victory in court, pressure group Occupy Ghana has vowed to do everything possible to retrieve an estimated ?5bn of taxpayer’s money lost through mismanagement by public officers. A member of the group Sydney Casely Hayford told Joy News Tuesday, the judgement emboldens the Auditor-General to do more than document the sins of public officers in his ...

The 2017 graduation ceremony for students who pursued various masters’ programmes at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) has been postponed indefinitely. The ceremony was to have taken place in February, but a notice from school authorities in January said it has been called off. Myjoyonline.com’s sources at the Institute revealed the absence of a standing Council for the school ...

Interdicted former Commander of the East Legon District Police command, DSP Emmanuel A. Basintale has stated that he has not engaged in any act of criminality and is ready to fight allegations of gold fraud against him in court. Five policemen including DSP Basintale, were interdicted in March this year in connection with a number of alleged fraudulent gold deals ...

Some traders in some markets in Ghana, especially in Accra, have been found to be selling fake, plastic eggs. The plastic eggs at first glance look real but when shaken slightly appear to contain a lot of fluid. When boiled, they get the appearance of shea butter. On Wednesday June 14, host of Nkran Kwanso on Accra100.5FM, Blakk Eye, chanced ...

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has sternly rejected assertion making rounds that four Warrant Officres are being investigated by the military high command in connection with the gruesome murder of Major Maxwell Mahama at Denkyira-Oboase in the Central region. In a statement dismissing what it described as “a number of unsubstantiated assertions have been made by Kwodwo Asare-Baffour Acheampong (KABA) ...