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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his government has paid all the locked-up deposits in the nine local banks that collapsed and 98 per cent of the funds that got stuck in the over 386 microfinance institutions, finance houses and savings & loans companies that also went down. The banks and financial institutions were collapsed by the Bank of ...

The Managing Director of Bank of Africa (BoA) Mr. Kobby Andah has noted that small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) have been at the heart of the operations of the bank. To that end, he said the bank is making available special packages to support SMEs to grow in the wake of the COVID-19. He stated that the bank is ...

The National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) has urged the media to support the fight against HIV and AIDS by drumming home continuously the message of adherence to treatment. This intervention, the institution believes can contribute immensely to the achievement of epidemic control in the country and the world at large. National Manager for NACP, Dr Stephen Ayisi Addo in a ...

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Senior High Schools (CHASS) has ordered Headmasters in the Ashanti Region to alert the Police anytime students intend demonstrate. According to the council of heads of Assisted Secondary Schools in the Ashanti region school heads must call in the police if students begin showing signs of converging for any protests. The directive follows mass ...

Eight more persons in Ghana have died from COVID-19, taking the country’s death toll to 199, according to latest figures by the Ghana Health Service. According to the GHS, 574 COVID-19 new cases have also been recorded pushing the national cumulative tally to 39,075. Meanwhile, a total of 35,563 people have also recovered and have been discharged. The country’s current ...

The Council of University of Professional Studies, UPSA has given Professor Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey a second term as Vice-Chancellor for the University. The decision was taken at a Special Meeting of the Council of the University held on Monday, August 3, 2020 where members unanimously approved a second term for the Vice-Chancellor. Prof. Amartey’s first term as VC expires ...

The Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has dismissed suggestions that the directive for the Auditor General, Daniel Domelovo, to proceed on leave is a ruse being used by the president to sack him. Speaking in an interview on GHONE TV on Wednesday, Oppong-Nkrumah justified the directive stating that the Auditor-General will resume work after he exhausts his leave. Mr Domelovo ...

Former Communications Minister Dr Edward Omane Boamah has denied claims by Professor Kwamena Ahwoi that he and other young politicians in the NDC were purposely groomed to speak up to JJ Rawlings. The NDC kingpin in his book ‘Working with Rawlings’ has suggested that some young ministers under the erstwhile Mills administration were created to counter attacks on the late ...

The once cosy relationship between the Ahwoi brothers and former President Rawlings went sour after Ato Ahwoi, a former Secretary (Minister) of the PNDC, refused to contest the late Prof. Atta-Mills. According to Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi, if his brother had contested Atta-Mills, it would have been a betrayal of a good relationship Ato Ahwoi had with Atta-Mills. Therefore, the Ahwoi ...

Starr FM news anchor Atiewin Mbillah-Lawson has had her nationality challenged while attempting to register for her voter’s ID card. According to the award-winning broadcaster, party agents at a registration centre at Pokuase in Accra challenged her nationality on the basis that she could not speak local dialects Twi or Ga. Narrating her ordeal on the Morning Starr Monday, Mrs ...