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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that Churches and schools for final year students will resume in June as part of measures to ease the restrictions introduced to slow the spread of the deadly COVID-19. Effective June 5, 2020, Churches can reopen with a maximum of 100 people under effective social distancing rules. Churches and Mosques must also not ...

Akufo Addo is Robbing Ghanaians, Increase in the Prices of Petroleum Products Must Be Withdrawn-NDC Gallant soldiers write. The Gallant Soldiers Cadres Of NDC believe the Increment in the Petroleum Products by the Nana Akufo Addo government smacks off insensitivity and wickedness on the part of the Nana Akufo Addo ‘s government and this increase is unacceptable and a complete ...

Kantinka De beat fm A 13 year old girl, Atto Akweley has met her untimely death after falling into an opened well at Sefwi Juaboso in the Western north region. Akweley and her friends normally go to the place to fetch water, but this time, she went there doing which unfortunately fell into the well. According to an eye witness, ...

President Akufo-Addo has clarified that the Electoral Commission (EC) and the National Identification Authority (NIA) are not covered under the restrictions he imposed on institutions and Ghanaians in the wake of COVID-19. In an address to the nation on measures taken to combat the virus by government, the President said the EC and NIA are to undertake their operations but ...

A group called the aggrieved students’ loan beneficiaries and concerned tertiary students, Ghana have threatened a demonstration over the non-payment of student loans from the Student Loan Trust Fund (SLTF). They described the non-payments of loans as the failure of the body not being able to accomplish their duty in support of students not to talk of providing services to ...

Ghana has recorded over 300 more cases of COVID-19 increasing the country’s tally to 7,616 from 7303, according to latest figures released by the Ghana Health Service. The recoveries have also increased marginally to 2,421 from 2,412 while the death toll still stands at 34. The Greater Accra region continues to be the epicentre of the virus in Ghana with ...

Ghana’s fisheries sector plays a significant role in the socio-economic development of the nation. However, fisheries stakeholders have raised an alarm that Ghana’s fisheries are on the verge of collapse. To assess the issue, Starnewsonlines western region correspondent Emmanuel Ohene Djan, interviewed stakeholders to understand the status of Ghana’s fisheries sector. In an interview with, Mr. Kyei Kwadwo Yamoah, Programme ...

Dancehall musician Shatta Wale has finally broken his silence on the status of his signees, Militants, after months of speculations. According to the “Ayoo” hitmaker, he sacked the group in January this year but kept mute on the matter because he didn’t want the issue to dent his reputation. The controversial dancehall star said he sacked the Militants – made up of ...

A former Finance Minister under the erstwhile John Mahama administration has stated that the negative impact of COVID-19 on the Ghanaian economy is severer than the impact of the power crisis and the global financial crisis that had a direct impact on the economy. Mr Terkper’s comment comes after the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, on Thursday, presented a report to ...

President of Policy think tank IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe is convinced the posture and utterances of the Electoral Commission (EC) as regards this year’s electoral process are indications that the body is under a spell. “The more one listens to the EC commissioners on this horribly managed electoral process, it becomes obvious immediately, that they have been possessed by some ...