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Women and children wailed uncontrollably in Diaso where a military commander was lynched a week ago as the chiefs went before the gods to pacify them. Captain Maxwell Mahama was killed in cold blood by the locals of Diaso in the Upper West Denkyira district of the Central region after a snail seller raised a false alarm that he was ...

Two (2) candidates Monday morning turned up pregnant to take part in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Western region. The two students are among over Seven thousand candidates writing the BECE in the Sekondi-Takoradi. This was revealed by Western regional director of education Enyonam Amefugah during her visit to four examination centers. Three (3) were also ...

THE PRESIDENT, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has charged newly-appointed ambassadors and high commissioners work closely with the various ministries and agencies to promote Ghana’s commercial interest and to drive private sector investments into the country. According to the President, government has made it a policy to seek more private sector equity financing for its infrastructure projects “rather than the historic ...

A Supreme Court Judge, Justice Jones Dotse, has blamed the problems of Ghana on the alarming rate at which most Ghanaians bend the laws of the country. According to him, while some people bend the rules for their personal gains, others are pressurised to vary the rules when it concerns certain people. In his view, Ghana has some of the ...

Justice Jones Dotse, a Justice of the Supreme Court, has said victims of the “June 3 Disaster” who left behind families and those who survived but are currently facing challenges must be adequately rehabilitated. He said this during the launch of the OneGhana Movement adding that the Movement was in the right direction and called on the public to support ...

The issue about the health status of Former President Jerry John Rawlings which became a topical discussion in the run up to the 2016 general elections with executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) explaining why he had been excluded from the campaigns has resurfaced. It would be recalled that the General Secretary of the party, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia ...

The police have so far arrested 42 persons in connection with the horrendous murder of Captain Maxwell Mahama. The Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the Ghana Police Service, DSP Sheila Kesse Buckman, told Starr News the youngest among the suspects is a 12-year-old while the oldest is a 57–year-old man. “So far we have arrested 42 suspects which we ...

A man believed to be in his 30s on Sunday drowned in a pond at Teacher-Mante in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern region. The deceased, Identified as Kwasi Ammarh was swimming in the pond with his five-year-old boy when they both began to drown, however, the child was saved by an eyewitness. Several efforts to rescue the man failed ...

The National Youth Wing of the ruling New Patriotic Party has extended a “special goodwill message” to all candidates writing the Basic Education Certificate Examination (B.E.C.E.) which commences today Monday June 05, 2017. “As this exam marks a very crucial stepping stone in the academic pursuits of all candidates, it is the hope and prayer of the entire youth wing ...

The Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has laughed off claims that Ghana’s president Akufo-Addo garnered a disappointing two votes to lose out on the ECOWAS chairmanship slot to Togo’s Faure Gnassingbè. Social media is awash with rumours that Akufo-Addo lost miserably to his Togolese counterpart, but Ghana’s foreign minister is surprised about the news since “there was no vote” ...