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NLA Gets New Office Complex in Ho, Volta Region

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) under Hon. Kofi Osei-Ameyaw has built an ultra-modern Regional Office Complex for the Staff, Lotto Marketing Companies and other stakeholders in Ho, Volta Region. Previously, the Authority was renting an office space for its day-to-day businesses, administration and operations in the Region. The new office complex serves as a relief for the Staff of the ...

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OVER 600 NPP DELEGATES IN BIBIANI-ANHWIASO-BEKWAI CONSTITUENCY PICKS NOMINATIONS FORM FOR MR. ALFRED OBENG-BOATENG

Earlier today, January 30, 2020, over Six hundred delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Constituency converged at the Party’s Office to pick a nomination form for Mr. Alfred Obeng-Boateng, popularly called APPROACHERS to contest for the Party’s Parliamentary slot. The triumphant entry to the party’s office saw Electoral Area Coordinators, Polling Station Executives, Former Constituency and ...

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Ghana not ready for Cyber attack – Cybersecurity advisor

The National Cybersecurity advisor Dr Albert Antwi-Boasiako says Ghana has much to do in order to be able to defend itself from any attack in its cyberspace. According to Dr Antwi-Boasiako, the fact that individuals and even organizations fall for the simplest of scams speaks to how much work is required in securing the country’s cyberspace. Starr News’ Ibrahim Alhassan ...

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Western Regional Police Commander diagnoses cause of kidnappings

The new Western Regional Police Commander, DCOP Felix Fosu-Agyeman, has attributed the numerous cases of missing children and its associated kidnapping cases in the region to unresolved misunderstandings between parents and these children. According to him, most of the missing cases reported are as a result of broken homes, which often push children away. DCOP Fosu-Agyeman is therefore appealing to ...

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Anaesthetists to strike from Friday over title change

Members of the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists (GACRA) have served notice they will embark on strike from Friday, January 31, 2020. According to the association, their appeal to the Medical and Dental Council over plans to change their name has been ignored. They claim the MDC has instead directed the various health training schools to begin to change ...

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Voters register: EC makes further push at Eminent Advisory C’ttee meeting

The meeting between the Eminent Advisory Committee, the electoral commission and political parties is currently underway. The EC is making another presentation on the new biometric voter management system it intends to procure for the December polls as it seeks to engender consensus on the need for a new register. Today’s meeting is expected to provide the avenue for stakeholders ...

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Lawyers must be allowed to advertise – Robert Clegg

Private legal practitioner and author Robert Nii Arday Clegg is of the view that practising lawyers in the country must be allowed to advertise their services. In his opinion, professional advertising should be approved and regulated as the advertising of alcoholic beverages is also being regulated. He, however, noted that currently lawyers are allowed to promote, market their services without ...

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CHRAJ records more human rights abuses in Central Region

Cape Coast, Jan. 29, GNA – The Central Regional office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), last year, recorded a total of 667 human rights infractions compared with the 2018 total of 660 cases. Five hundred and seventy-seven (577) of the cases involving rights violations, administrative justice and corruption, reported to the Commission, were successfully dealt ...

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Paul Adom-Otchere ‘not my tight buddy’ – Nii Arday Clegg

The claim by Paul Adom-Otchere, host of Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV, that the former host of Morning Starr on Starr FM, Robert Nii Arday Clegg, once wrote an Interim Assessment (IA) for him during their university days still haunts Paul. Mr Adom-Otchere during an interview on Starr FM’s ‘Starr Chat’, made this claim which sort to question the ...

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