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A key member of the communications team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Francis Anom Boateng has expressed his disappointment in the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP for speaking in a disparaging manner about the running mate of John Dramani Mahama, Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang. In an interview with Kwame Afrifa Mensah on the ’Epa Hoa Daben’ show on Happy98.9FM, he ...

The Electoral Commission has announced it will begin a two-day voter registration exercise in Secondary Schools across the country tomorrow Friday, July 10, 2020 in order to register students who are eligible to vote in December. The EC in a statement called on all students who are 18 years and above to make themselves available for the registration exercise. It ...

A COVID-19 patient who contracted the disease in the line of duty at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has revealed she has been abandoned to fend for herself and her family. According to Abena, her husband, mother and nine-month-old baby have not been tested since she tested positive for the disease two weeks ago. Abena revealed on the Morning Starr ...

Over seven hundred and seventy-nine health workers in the country have contracted the novel Coronavirus with nine deaths as of June 30, the joint health sector unions and professional associations have announced. The affected health workers include 190 doctors with 4 unfortunate deaths, 410 nurses and midwives with I unfortunate death. 150 health service workers with 3 unfortunate deaths and ...

Listening to Kweku Baako recount stories of how political prisoners under the Provisional National Defense Council administration were tortured will send chills down your spine. It’s a heart-wrenching and ‘difficult to listen’ to narration of inhumane and dastard acts meted out to some Ghanaians supposedly under the command of former President Jerry John Rawlings, who was the chairman of the ...

More than seven months after the new coronavirus was first detected, scientists and health experts are still trying to get a better understanding of how it spreads and how to curb the COVID-19 respiratory disease it causes. The coronavirus is transmitted from person to person through “droplet transmission”, including direct contact with someone who has been infected, indirect contact with contaminated surfaces, ...

The Kwahu Traditional Council has banned the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) from conducting party activities in the area. This is after the party defied the Council’s directive against the invoking of curses within the Traditional Area. The executives of the NDC in the Eastern Region including the party’s Regional Communications Officer Dallas Williams, Sidi Bello Deputy Regional Youth Organizer, Daniel ...

Some workers of the Ghana Airport Company on Wednesday embarked on a protest over attempts by the government to cede management of the company to Turkish based TAV Airport Holdings. The protest follows a cabinet approval for engagement of the private company which the Aviation ministry has described as a strategic partner. This explanation has, however, not gone down well ...

Economist and Business Consultant, Dr. Ebenezer Ashley has indicated that the Ghana cedi has recorded its all-time best performance for the first half of 2020 than the first six months of any year since 2012 against the U.S dollar. Dr. Ashley made these observations in an interview with our reporter on the current developments in the exchange rate market amid ...

Security Analyst, Dr Kwesi Anning, has cautioned individuals who own guns, whether licensed or not, to desist from intimidating others and instigating violence during the December 2020 elections. He made the statement in reaction to the increasing gun-related crimes in the country and the effect it may have during the December polls in an interview with GhanaWeb on July 8, ...