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Ghana and Togo have resolved to deepen co-operation, as well as strengthen the ties of friendship that exist between them in the sectors of security, immigration, agriculture and water, health, trade, digital economy, environment, energy, transport and the issue of maritime borders. A communiqué issued at the end of the official visit of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly is demolishing unauthorized structures and settlements around the Kwame Nkrumah interchange at Circle in Accra. The numerous hawkers on the pavement are also being asked to vacate the place immediately. The exercise is reportedly at the behest of the Accra Mayor Mohammed Adjei Sowah. The interchange which was outdoored less than a year ago has been ...

An opinion leader in Bole, hometown of former President John Dramani Mahama, Mallam Mohammed Hudu has said that the gods of the traditionalists and the God of Muslims and Christians will continue to guide Ibrahim Mahama with the current high level of hatred for him by some elements in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government. Speaking on the morning show ...

Ghana Oil Company Limited, GOIL, has handed over One Thousand beds to the Ministry of Health to be distributed to hospitals across the country. The beds, fitted with mattresses are estimated to cost 1.6 million Ghana Cedis. In a brief remark before the handing over, The Group CEO and Managing Director of GOIL, Patrick Akpe Kwame Akorli stated the donation ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana has said claims by the Ghana Grid Company that power will be restored by 10m today is not feasible. The CEO of the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) Ing. William Amuna told Morning Starr Thursday that “hopefully by 10am” the massive blackout that hit the entire country Wednesday night would have been fixed. According to ...

The Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah-Dame has revealed that the public will in the next few days be informed about what he describes as ‘good news’ about the famous Alfred Agbesi Woyome GH¢51.2m Judgment debt case. According to him, the Akufo Addo led-government remains resolute in its commitment to get back the tax payers hard earned money which was wrongfully ...

More than 70 percent of Ghana was Wednesday night plunged into darkness following what officials describes as ‘disturbance’ to the country’s power system. Engineers spent the night busily working to restore electricity but has been unsuccessful so far (Thursday morning). According to the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) there was a surge around 9pm Wednesday night which resulted in the loss ...

Hospital authorities at the Nandom St. Theresa Hospital in the Upper West region are bemoaning the situation in which doctors have to queue before they can use the theatre for operations. They are unhappy about having to wait long hours before they can use the only operating theatre available for use by the four doctors on call there. The hospital ...

A former New Patriotic Party (NPP) chairman of the Korle Klottey constituency Nii Noi Nortey is asking for clemency from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, having defied him to go independent during the 2016 elections. Nii Noi won the initial primaries to contest the parliamentary seat on the ticket of the then opposition NPP, but his main contender Philip Addison ...

A company bidding for contracts in Ghana’s public sector must be willing to pay a bribe if it is to stand any realistic chance of being selected, some businessmen claim. Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Wednesday, two business owners confessed to paying bribes to state officials in order to win contracts. They were unanimous the country’s Public Procurement ...