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Conference of Heads of Private Second-Cycle Schools (CHOPSS) has urged government to include first-year Junior High and Senior High Schools’ students in the October 5 reopening of schools, to enable them to complete the academic calendar. Naphtali Kyei Baffour, Public Relations Officer, CHOPSS, who made the call in an interview with the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday said, even though ...

The investigator in the case in which Stephen Nana Kamkam, the Ofankor Landlord who allegedly murdered his tenant in cold blood over rent issues, has told the Abeka District Court that, the suspect in question has not escaped. Inspector Oppong Bekoe who is said to have been solely assigned to handle the case told the district court after he was ...

It’s less than three months to the 2020 general elections and the campaign mood is set as some political parties have devised strategic means of getting their messages to the masses. The heat, on the other hand is building as some political parties are throwing subtle jabs at each other to in the process of proving who is more competent. ...

The spokesperson for the 2020 campaign team of the National Democratic Congress, James Agyenim Boateng, has dismissed calls for the flagbearer of the party, John Mahama, to apologise for sharing an article that described some members within government as a ‘sakawa’ group. Mr Agyenim Boateng in an interview on Starr News said attempts to deliberately misinterpret the statement is mischievous ...

The Ghana Police Service has dismissed 28 personnel, including two females, for showing unprofessionalism. This was as a result of complaints lodged by the public, of which they were found culpable of 181 cases of unprofessional conduct, from January to August, 2020. Superintendent of Police, Mrs Sheila Kessie Abayie-Buckman, the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, in ...

At least 11 expensive cars have been reduced to metallic frame by fire at a straightening shop at Kumasi in the Ashanti region The fire incident occurred on Tuesday evening after a fire from a nearby mechanic shop extended to the shop where the cars were being worked on. The vehicles destroyed by the fire include a Range Rover, two ...

A Florida-based Ghanaian pastor, Sylvester Ofori, 35, has been arrested after allegedly shooting his wife, according to police in Orlando, USA. Ofori killed his wife, Barbara Tommey, 27, outside of the Navy Federal Credit Union near the Mall at Millenia, Orlando police said Tuesday. Ofori is currently is in custody. It happened on Gardens Park Boulevard in Orlando Tuesday morning. ...

A group calling itself the Concerned Citizens of Okyeman are demonstrating at Asamankese in the Eastern region against former President John Mahama over the ‘Akyem Sakawa’ saga. Mr. Mahama’s sharing of article by Bolga Central Member of Parliament Isaac Adongo on Facebook in which he labelled some individuals in government involved in the controversial Agyapa deal as ‘Sakawa-Akyem boys’ has ...

South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) has called US President Donald Trump “divisive, misogynistic and disrespectful” in response to reports that he was dismissive about Nelson Mandela, the country’s first black president. Mr Trump said the Nobel Peace Prize winner was “no leader”, according to his former lawyer Michael Cohen. The allegation comes from Cohen’s new book, Disloyal: A ...

Right To Play Ghana has marked the International Literacy Day (ILD) with an urgent call on parents and caregivers to ensure the continuous education of their children at home despite the threat posed by the coronavirus. The organisation said the school closures across Ghana since March 2020, should not put on hold the education of primary school children. International Literacy ...