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The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has challenged the incoming Chief Justice (CJ), Justice Sophia Akuffo to wage a relentless war on judicial corruption to redeem the image of the bench. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in accordance with Article 144 (1) of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution named the Supreme Court Judge as a successor to Justice Georgina Theodora Wood ...

Members of the Builsa North District Assembly have been lauded for endorsing the President’s nomination of Mr. David Afoko as Chief Executive Officer for the area. Mr Afoko who is the younger brother of suspended National Chairman of the party, Paul Awentami Afoko, on Friday, May 12, 2017, polled 30 votes representing 69.7% out of a total of 43 with ...

A lecturer with the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana says Ghana does not have any strategy towards China to enable it to win the war on galamsey. A lecturer with the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana says Ghana does not have any foreign policy towards China to enable it to win the war on ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has assured students of Technical High Schools that his government will equip them with skills to cope in a fast-changing world. According to President Akufo-Addo, his government will not “turn the Free SHS into a process that simply churns out young people that would not be equipped to cope with the modern world”, stressing that “a High ...

About 60 per cent of Ghana’s water bodies are polluted, with many in critical condition, the Water Resources Commission (WRC) has said. Mr. Ben Ampomah, Executive Secretary of the Commission at a workshop in Ho, said the polluted water bodies were mostly in the south-western parts of the country, where illegal mining activities (galamsey) were widespread. He was addressing a ...

Tension has engulfed the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra as angry traders clash with officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly and police. It is unclear what triggered the chaos but Starr News’ Peter Owusu who is at the scene reports that the Police are firing warning shots to disperse the mob. Reports however suggest a trader has been brutally beaten ...

Samuel Kwasi Kyei Darkwah, the Akwatia branch manager of GN Bank Ghana Limited, has appeared before an Accra circuit court for allegedly stealing over GH¢2 million belonging to the bank. The accused is in the dock alongside one Selassie Awudi Solomon, a real estate developer. The two, according to the prosecutor, ASP Stephen K. Adjei, conspired with one Kenneth Obina, ...

John Dramani Mahama, immediate past president of Ghana has slammed what he says is a humiliating tag of corruption on African countries. According to him, corruption was a global cancer that required a concerted effort to fight. Mahama spoke exclusively to Africanews on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on Africa held in Durban, South Africa. ‘‘I reject that ...

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, has rallied the clergy to use the pulpit to shine a spotlight on issues relating to the environment to arouse public consciousness of the dire consequences of the destructive activities of illegal miners and loggers. He said the church could not remain indifferent to the massive degradation of the natural vegetation and pollution of water ...

The Electoral Commissioner Charlotte Osei has welcomed the selection of Justice Sophia Akuffo as Ghana’s next Chief Justice. Ms. Akuffo was outdoored by President Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House Friday. she takes over from her ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood who retires in June. She will be the 13th person at the post and first to be handed over by another ...