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Scores of residents of Elubo and other communities in the Western Region have staged a demonstration on Thursday September 2, asking President Akufo Addo to open the Elubo border. They said the persistent closure of the border is having negative effect on their living conditions as economic activities are gradually grinding to a halt. Ghana’s land borders together with the ...

Even when the media warfare between some Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) over the deal with Aker Energy is yet to go down, the Energy Minister, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has announced plans to assist GNPC acquire blocks of the Jubilee and Tweneboa Enyenra Ntomme Oil (TEN) oil Fields. He also announced that there ...

Ultra-modern oxygen cylinders and medical equipment worth over US$38 million are left to rot at the abandoned Afari Military hospital in the Ashanti Region. The hospital is a 500-bed facility which according to media reports was expected to be completed in December 2018. However, the expectation was not met. In February 2021, the then minister-designate for Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, while ...

Energy Minister Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh has asked the board of the Ghana Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to prioritise Ghanaian participation in the petroleum sector of the local economy. Dr Opoku Prempeh lamented the low number of Ghanaians who are playing key roles in the sector and further charged the GNPC board to to improve on this narrative. He said this ...

The Institue of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has called for a renegotiation of agreements involving Ghana’s oil and extractive sectors. According to the institute, the country is losing out in its revenue generation due to the poor negotiations. The IFS compared Ghana’s learnings in the oil sector to that of Nigeria and Botswana saying that Nigeria is earning 51% of their ...

Former Minister of Water, Works, and Housing, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang is urging the younger generation to allow themselves to be mentored by the older generation in order to garner the right experience for success. Speaking at the Corporate Ghana Hall of Fame induction ceremony, the former parliamentarian applauded the organizers saying, “I believe that this initiative will tend to sort of ...

The West Akyem Municipal Assembly in Eastern Region have handed over a site for construction of a 3-unit classroom block and ancillary facilities such as library, office and 6-seater toilet facilities for Onyanfunso M/A Basic School after Starr News report on the terrible condition of the school building which has to led to mass withdrawals of pupils from the school ...

While Ghanaians are split in their opinion on the government’s ability to ensure that rule of law is upheld, majority, however, are not confident in the ability of the Akufo-Addo-led government to protect the country’s financial resources and curb corruption in the next four years. This is according to a post-election survey report issued by the Centre for Democratic Development-Ghana ...

Manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), Dr Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, has disclosed Ghana will not receive the Moderna vaccines on Saturday, August 28, as earlier announced because of some unforeseen circumstances. He said Ghana had on Friday prepared to receive the vaccines only to be hit bad news. Speaking to Alfred Ocansey on 3FM’s Sunrise, he said the vaccines ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has disclosed that some Metro/Municipal/District Director of Education in submitting the names of teachers for the government’s one-laptop-one-teacher policy have added names of persons who do not qualify, including non-teaching staff and retired or separated staff. According to the GES, in some instances strange names have been added to the list with fake staff IDs. ...