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Senior High Schools in the country risk closure over lack of funds and shortage of food. Funds have not been disbursed to the schools since the beginning of the 2019/2020 academic year affecting the smooth running of the schools. Starr News checks in the Eastern region reveal most schools have run out of food. Some headmasters who spoke to Starr ...

If it is about the question of how life is after retirement, then the expected answers from majority of workers who have retired from the public sector will not be pleasant. It stems from delayed payment of benefits to part payment of benefits or even none of the above. But the story of Mr. William Azure Akologo, a retired teacher ...

Although he campaigned for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during the 2016 elections, A Plus seems to be losing hope in the president as he posits that the country’s leader is now focused on retaining power rather than being tough in his fight against activities bedeviling the nation. In the wake of concerns by the Forestry Commission that some powerful members ...

The Nkawkaw District Police Command has arrested one person in connection with the exhumation of remains of a deceased at Awenade, a community near Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region. The suspect Nana Kwaku Ampadu, 39, was picked up by Police Monday, January 27, 2020 at about 12:35 pm at his hideout. He has been detained by Police to assist in ...

Mother of the Ahwoi brothers, Charlotte Hanson, passed on peacefully at her residence in Lashibi on 20th January, 2020. She died at the age of 97. Kwesi Ahwoi, former minister for Food and Agriculture and Ghanaian High Commissioner to South Africa, announced the demise of his mother on his Facebook wall. “Mum and I, she got her visa finally and ...

Anti-graft campaigner, Vitus Azeem says the attempt by government to compare the corruption perception index (CPI) and the Afrobarometer corruption report is counterproductive to the fight against graft. According to him, even though both surveys focus on corruption, their methodology and areas of interest are uniquely different. “You cannot compare them because they are talking about different things. The methodology ...

The vice president of of the Concerned Youth Association (CYO) and other stakeholders of Akyem Maase in the Abuakwa south of the Eastern Region have mounted a defence for their Honourable member of parliament,Samuel Atta Akyea The move follows the fall – out released by the hired members of the group calling on the MP to construct Old Tafo to ...

AGGRIEVED STUDENT LOAN BENEFICIARIES. Press Release.                                                                                                Date: 27th January, 2020. Our Ref: Your ...

The Sunyani Technical University branch of the Tertiary Students Confederacy Network of the New Patriotic Party has declared 54.7 % massive win of the ruling NPP government led by Nana Akuffo Addo According to the former TESCON president of the Sunyani Technical University Mr Daniel Gyamebi ” the three years achievement of the Nana Addo led’s government is worth four ...

As the reality of the compilation of a new voters’ register dawns on the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), the party is said to be considering fresh options from its rulebook. A series of meetings have already been held by the highest echelon of the party towards the effective application of the Machiavelli-inclined strategies, the security of which engagements have ...