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The election of Professor Andy Ofori-Binkorang as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has been annulled by the Supreme Court today. A High Court in Winneba in June last year dismissed an application by a lecturer of the university Dr Kaakyire Duku Frimpong seeking to stop the election of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor. The aggrieved lecturer decided to pursue the ...

Some former Ministers, as well as Members of Parliament, who served the country under the J.A. Kufuor administration, are demanding salary arrears of GH¢29.7m from the Government of Ghana. The Forum for Former Members of Parliament (FFMP) in their letter to Frema Osei Opare, the Chief of Staff demanded that in consonance with the principle of fairness and equity, “it is only appropriate ...

New updates released by the Ghana Health Service show another surge in Ghana’s coronavirus cases as 183 more persons have tested positive for the virus. This new update raises the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 5,918. Two more persons who tested positive for the virus have also been confirmed dead, raising the death toll to 31. ...

The Managing Director and Executive Vice President for Tullow Ghana, Kweku Awotwi is set to retire at the company after reaching 60. Mr Awotwi will, therefore, leave the firm next month. He will be replaced by Wissam Al Monthiry, a Canadian, the company announced in a statement. Dr Kweku Awotwi was appointed on March 1, 2018, and took over from ...

Residents of Weija are calling on water authorities and government to fix the cracks on the Weija Dam as the rainy season begins. Residents at Tetegu all the way to parts of Dansonman and its environs have been victims of perennial flooding as a result of spillage from the water treatment plant. Hundreds of locals are either displaced or lose ...

A virologist at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Dr Kofi Bonney, says Ghana is recording high recoveries of the novel coronavirus because most of the people who contracted the disease were asymptomatic. Of the 5,735 cases recorded in the country as at last Saturday, recoveries stood at 1,754 with 29 deaths. Health authorities say a 1,000 more people ...

Construction work has resumed on the Anlo-Afiadenyigba to Havedzi road in the Keta municipality of the Volta region, after several years of abandonment. In 2013, the then NDC government began an initiative towards the construction of Anlo-Afiadenyigba to Havedzi roads, with the purpose of extending same to Weta and other communities. The 26km stretch which was awarded to KAPPRA URC ...

55-year-old Osmanu Mumuni has been arrested by the Weija Divisional DOVVSU for Cutting off part of his son’s ear with blade. According to the police, the mother of the child reported that a day earlier, her ex-husband Osman Mumuni whom the boy stays with chipped off part of his right ear and also placed his fingers in an open fire ...

The young girl who planted the Apple tree which has gone viral on social media after it started bearing fruits died some five years ago, family sources have told Starr News. Nana Ama Asantewaa, according to reports, planted the seed despite the popular perception that the fruit is an exotic breed and does not grow in Ghana. Her parents who ...

Once upon a time (2yrs ago) the current National Identification Authority (NIA) said to Ghanaians it had acquired some huge sum of money to be used to continue the Card issuance the previous Government started. We were all excited. The previous government was issuing cards to all Ghanaians of all ages. It was a National Card. In fact my children ...