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The Member of Parliament for Upper Manya Krobo in the Eastern Region Bismark Tetteh Nyarko has organized communal labour to fix some portions of the deteriorated Koforidua Asesewa highway. Residents used manpower to clear heaps of sand on the road, weed the narrow portions and filled some portholes to reduce accidents. The MP Bismark Tetteh told Starr news “I am ...

President Akufo-Addo has assured Herbert Mensah and executives of the May 9 Foundation that his administration will offer them it’s support to ensure that it goes about its activities aimed at supporting the families of the victims of the May 9th Accra sports stadium disaster. President Akufo-Addo gave this assurance when he received a delegation from the foundation at the Jubilee ...

Chiefs and residents of Gomoa Abamkrom in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region have expressed anger over the lack of developmental projects in the community. According to them, over the years, the government has neglected their community in terms of developmental projects unlike other communities in the Gomoa West District. Speaking to starrfm.com.gh, they said the government should ...

The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service has invited heads of some secondary schools in the Ashanti region over an alleged ‘food for cash’ ongoing in their schools. The Ministry of Education in a letter intercepted by starrfm.com.gh addressed to the Ashanti regional director of the GES noted that “management has received a letter from the Criminal Investigations ...

The King of the Igbo community in Ghana, Eze Dr Chukwudi Jude Ihenetu, has debunked the assertion that Nigerians living in Ghana are corrupt and responsible for the crimes in the country. There is an assertion in Ghana that Nigerians are responsible for most of the country’s criminal activities such as prostitution, cybercrime and armed robbery. However, speaking on Ghana ...

An Economist at the University of Ghana Business School, Dr Lord Mensah, says Ghana’s economy has been in distress since 2017 adding that the government must reduce its appetite for borrowing from the local market. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Monday, May 10, Dr Mensah said the government must also restructure its policies and put in place policies that ...

At least 15 people have been killed by a landslide at a clandestine gold mine in Guinea’s north-eastern Siguiri region. Overhanging rocks collapsed on Saturday morning, crushing some victims and burying others inside the mine. A government spokesman has said the “exact circumstances and causes of the tragedy” will be investigated. A local Red Cross official said two women were ...

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor, has pledged the government’s support to the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) towards scaling up a technology developed by the institution to purify water bodies polluted through illegal mining activities. He said the discovery of that technology was a major boost to the government’s quest to restore the ...

Lieutenant General Emmanuel Alexander Erskine, the retired Ghanaian soldier and politician has passed on. The 86-year-old Lt Gen is survived by a wife and eight children. Family sources confirmed the death of the man who was the first commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from 1978 to 1981. He was also a former Chief of Army ...

The minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, says the Akufo-Addo government had to embark on extra borrowing in order to get the Ghanaian economy functioning despite the harsh impact of COVID-19. He said the media must play a role in reminding Ghanaians about the devasting impact the pandemic has had on the world economy and the need to work with ...