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President Nana Akufo-Addo has replaced John Mahama as the Co-Chair of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates. This was announced by the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres on Tuesday. President Akufo-Addo will co-chair the group alongside the Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, until the end of 2018. The SDG advocates comprise 16 persons meant to support ...

Another microfinance scandal has hit the country as thousands of angry customers of ASN Financial Services protest delay in the refund of their investments from the company. The customers who have been investing with the company for some time now are angry over the delays by management of the savings and loans company to pay their hard earned investments. Management ...

Some illegal miners in Akwatia in the Eastern Region have cautioned the President to halt his fight against illegal mining known as galamsey or risk losing the 2020 elections. The miners told Joy News government’s attempt to disrupt their activities will send them into poverty because they depend on the mining to meet their needs and that of their families. ...

The ‘Chinese FPSO’. INSET: Some of the Chinese covering their faces  A Sekondi High Court has ordered the seizure of the ‘water home’ and other equipment on the River Ankobra purportedly built by some Chinese illegal miners for their operations in the river. The well-built ‘water-homes’ also referred to as ‘Chinese FPSO,’ is covered with tents and mosquito nettings. The ...

Violent clashes have erupted between Konkombas and Dagombas at the Agbobloshie Yam market in Accra with one person feared dead. Information gathered by Starr News indicate that the violence started after a Dagomba man was beaten by some Konkombas for allegedly stealing a mobile phone Monday evening. On Tuesday, the Dagomba man who was beaten returned with an armed gang ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo, has urged one of the world’s leading airlines, British Airways, to upgrade the quality of the services it offers on the Accra-London-Accra route. He says, “people complain about the movement (of flights to and from Accra) from Terminal 5 to Terminal 3 at Heathrow. Terminal 3 is not so convenient place as Terminal 5. As the airline ...

Information Minister Mustapha Hamid has dismissed any possible threat to the bilateral relations between China and Ghana over the fight against illegal mining popularly called galamsey. Mr. Hamid says the anti galamsey campaign will be sustained because government has demonstrated the will and the capacity to stamp it out. “President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he wants to be seen as ...

There have been calls on government to consider as part of its the one-district, one factory policy to identify comparative advantages in each district to inform the choice of a factory. The New Patriotic Party’s Member of Parliament for Lawra, and Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways Anthony Karbo suggested a dog meat factory in the three regions of the ...

The Kumasi Circuit Court Four, presided over by John Ekwow Mensah has pardoned the 13 members of the Delta Force for their actions at the KMA Circuit Court on April 6 2017. The accused persons who were answering charges on conspiracy, assault on public officer, causing unlawful damages and rioting escaped from the court after the judge Mary Senkyere had ...

Celebrated Ghanaian bamboo bike maker, Bernice Dapaah has donated samples of her bicycles to pupils of the Drobonso SDA Basic School, in the Sekyere Afram Plains district of the Ashanti Region. Her social enterprise-the Ghana Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative received funding from a U.S-based not-for-profit corporation, the African Bicycle Contribution Foundation (ABCF) to make the donation possible. School facilities in ...