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Scores of private basic schools in the Central Region on Monday, January 11, 2021, begun undergoing mass disinfection against the new coronavirus (Covid-19). The exercise was also to allow for the safe reopening of all the schools on Friday, January 15, as directed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his 21st Covid-19 address to the nation. The ongoing disinfection ...

A 55-year-old Ghanaian citizen living in the United States of America has been enstooled Gyaasehemaa for Nana Korankye Bediatuo II-Otutu Abrempong, Tufohene of Akuapem Akropong and The Asona Family of Aburi. The Gyaasehemaa known in Private life as Joyce Odi has been given the stool name Naabea Ansrogya Odi I . Speaking at the colourful installation, Nana Korankye Bediatuo II-Otutu ...

A warehouse at Suame Magazine in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional has been gutted by fire Tuesday morning. The warehouse according to reports, is used for the storage of vehicle spare parts at Suame Magazine, a popular market for car parts. This is the fourth fire incident recorded in the Region in three days. Firefighters at the scene managed to bring ...

A Suhum Circuit Court in the Eastern Region has jailed a notorious quack abortion Doctor who had operated in the area for about 10 years now. Starr News Eastern Regional Correspondent Kojo Ansah in 2017, secretly filmed this quack doctor -Darko David through undercover investigation in a small dirty room turned abortion Clinic at Mile 44 community a suburb of ...

The old is gone; all is set for new ministerial appointments. What will comprise this new administration and what numbers are we looking at? Rumours are so far rife about a possible pruning of the previous administration comprising of 110 ministers and the number projected for this one is 70. Of course, considering the general order of things, the poorly-performing ...

Kumasi Youth Association (KUYA) has awarded former KMA Mayor, Kojo Bonsu for standing out among all former Mayors of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly. According to the group, the innovation of the former mayor gave birth to the famous Rattray Park, Kejetia Market and renovated Prempeh Assembly Hall among other equally important monumental infrastructural projects in Kumasi. On 12th July 2016, ...

The Government of the Republic of Ghana intends to launch a 2021 International Capital Market (ICM) funding programme for the medium term. Accordingly, the government says it is looking for Co-Managers for the 2021 Medium Term ICM Programme. For the 2021 portion of the programme, the Government intends to raise up to US$ 5.0 billion to support growth-oriented expenditures in ...

The late President Jerry John Rawlings will be laid in state at the foyer of the Accra International Conference Centre from January 24 to January 26, 2021, the Foreign Affairs Ministry has said in a circular to foreign missions. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana presents its compliments to all Diplomatic Missions, International ...

The National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) has urged Parliament to apologise to Ghanaians over the chaos that engulfed the House in the wake of the Speakership election on January 7. In a statement, the NCCE said the happenings in Parliament on the day was “unconstitutional, disgraceful, detestable and smacks of indiscipline.”. “The NCCE urges Parliament to purge itself from ...

Parliament has approved a $162, 931,563.27 Barclays Bank PLC loan to finance the design, construction and furnishing of seven district hospitals and provide an integrated IT systems by NMS Infrastructure Limited. The money is part of the amendment agreements to the ECGD Loan Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Ghana, Barclays Bank PLC (as Coordinating MLA) and Her ...