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The Begoro District branch of the Forestry Commission in the Eastern region has arrested three illegal chainsaw operators harvesting economic trees in the Akwadum Portion of the Atiwa Forest reserve. The suspects are Kwaku Adu,  a chainsaw operator, David Oppong and Richard Odoi . The suspects were arrested by the rapid response team and Rangers at the Begoro Forestry office having ...

A former constituency chairman of the New Patriotic Party in the Klottey Korle Constituency, Valentino Nii Noi Nortey has called on Ghanaians to be patient with the government of Nana Akufo-Addo over its indebtedness. He was reacting to the incessant pressure brought on government by School Feeding Cooks and some graduate teachers over non-payment of arrears and salaries. The Caterers ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi Boasiako says he has had a change of mind about his earlier decision to contest the national chairmanship position of the great ‘Elephant’ party. According to him, his desire to occupy the highest office of his party was far above the ground but had to revise his ...

At least 30 per cent of placement in the elite Senior High Schools (SHSs) will be reserved solely for students from the public schools and deprived communities under the government’s Free Senior High School Policy, the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has announced. He explained that the move was to ensure that children from those schools and communities ...

NPP’s Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as ‘Chairman Wontumi’ says he has first-hand information about Former President John Dramani Mahama’s secret meeting in the Ashanti Region. He was emphatic that, the immediate past president and some allies are planning to form a new National Democratic Congress [NDC] party which will sideline its original founder, Former President John Jerry Rawlings. “I ...

ducation Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has signaled government’s commitment to hand back the management of mission schools to religious bodies. The Minister told journalists at a stakeholder’s forum on education in Kumasi, the return of the schools to its previous management is a 2016 New Patriotic Party (NPP) manifesto pledge. The reiterated commitment will be nothing short of excitement ...

Ghanaian public officials are fond of quoting Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist to literally beg for more aid, anytime donor agencies give money or items to help facilitate their operations. This was the case when the European Union donated vehicles, IT equipment and other items worth about GHc 2.3 million to help manage the country’s borders more effectively, under the EU-funded ...

Pressure group, OccupyGhana, has petitioned the Attorney-General (A-G) over what it claims to be minor charges purported to have been levelled against five Chinese accused of engaging in illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. The five alleged ‘galamseyers’- Gao Jin Cheng, 45; Lu Qi Jun, 39; Haibin Gao, 26; Zhang Zhipen, 23, and En Huang, 31, a woman, also known ...

The Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Service has arrested two members of a syndicate producing fake voters ID card for sale. It follows a Starr News exposé about the activities of the syndicate which operates at Abeka Lapaz in Accra under the guise of providing printing and photocopying services. The production of the fake cards secretly takes place in ...

A Prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former officials of the National Service Secretariat (NSS) has revealed to the court that an amount of GH¢280,000 was allegedly paid to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from the ghost names allowances. Silas Ewontuma, the third witness to be called by the state alleged that former NSS boss, Alhaji Alhassan Mohammad Imoro, ...