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A teacher of the Labone Senior High School and her family have been rendered homeless after their four-bedroom house was demolished by officials of the Ledzokuku Krowor Municipal Assembly (LEKMA). The house was pulled down allegedly based on a complaint filed by a neighbor that the property owner has encroached on his land. LEKMA is reported to have carried out ...

Dear President Akufo-Addo, I listened to your Energy Minister speak at the National Policy Summit which was held this month. It reminds me of an American Jester’s oxymoronic quotation: “My mind is made up, and facts confuse me”. It also re-echoes a similar quotation in a novel, Alice in wonderland, which says, “Sentence him and find the evidence”. That is ...

Some residents of Somanya in the Eastern region have clashed with  staff of the ECG in the area over billing disagreements. The angry residents have reportedly caused damages to a pickup truck belonging to the state power distributor. According to Starr News sources, the angry residents are protesting exorbitant bills submitted to them by the ECG this month. The ECG ...

The Executive Chairman of the McDan Group Dr. Daniel McKorley has, on behalf of the Ghana Institute of Managament and Public Administration (GIMPA) presented a giant plaque to honour Ms. Fatou Bensouda, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The presentation was done during the launch of the African Center on International Criminal Justice (ACIJC) under Law Faculty of the ...

Attorney General and Minister of Justice Gloria Akuffo has responded to a request by private legal practitioner Victor Kojoga Adawudu for details regarding the $2.25 billion bond issued by the Government of Ghana about two months ago. “I acknowledge receipt of your letter bearing reference number LL/17/26 and dated 4th May, 2017 on the above subject matter. Please be informed ...

Government and Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) have pledged to support local cocoa processing companies in an effort to ensure that at least 50% of the country’s cocoa is processed. Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, the board chairman of COCOBOD disclosed this during a familiarization tour of some cocoa processing companies at the Free Zones Enclave in Tema. The entourage interacted with management of ...

A former District Chief Executive for Sekyere East, Kwadwo Addae, has insisted that the surest way to accomplish the rebuilding of the biggest opposition National Democratic Congress is for the rank and file of the party to apologize to ex-President Rawlings and his family to return to the party. According to Mr Addae, should the NDC be able to woo ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said Ghanaians are looking up to the Ghana Armed Forces to be at the forefront in the fight against illegal mining, otherwise referred to as ‘galamsey’. According to Akufo-Addo, as his government intensifies its efforts to curb ‘galamsey’, which is polluting the country’s waters, destroying farmlands and forests, and threatening the very survival of ...

More than 1,350 hectares of maize farms in the Central Region have been destroyed by army worms, the Finder newspaper has reported. The Central Regional Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) Mr Gershon Wodzrah has revealed, the devastation at the Regional Co-coordinating Council meeting with Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) and Heads of Department in Cape ...

The One-District-One Factory initiative was instituted by President Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to address the challenge of slow economic growth at the district level. The initiative aims to achieve this through a massive private sector led nationwide industrialization drive, which will equip and empower communities to utilise their local resources in manufacturing products that are in high demand both locally and ...