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Teachers and Administrators in some Technical Universities in the country remain defiant as it continues the strike contrary to the order from the National Labor Commission (NLC). On Friday, the NLC ordered the aggrieved teachers and administrators to immediately resume work as government agreed to pay their allowances by January 29. But checks by Starr News indicate that they are ...

Security expert Adam Bonaa has urged National Security Minister Kan Dapaah to resign from office following the leaked video with his girlfriend. According to him, the minister should have known better and must have exercised better judgment. “It’s very very disturbing. It could happen to anyone. But I believe that at certain positions we ought to be circumspect. The national ...

Political satirist A Plus has accused bigwigs in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) of setting up the Minister of National Security, Mr Albert Kan Dapaah over his leaked amorous video with an unknown lady. A Plus claims the NPP gurus had schemed a plan of sacking the National Security Minister from office, hence they contracted the lady to record ...

It is emerging that banks are still accruing a large percentage of their income from their investments in various securities. The latest banking sector report released by the Bank of Ghana disclosed that this component of income increased to 44.8 percent in October 2019 from 42.9 percent in October 2018. The Bank of Ghana’s industry report showed that income from ...

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Sam George is of the view the Minister of National Security, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah was set up by persons from within his own party with regard to his leaked amorous video call with an unknown lady. “State craft on display. Set a man up, play coy, orchestrate calls for his resignation and pressure him to ...

The Centre for Human Security and Peace Building has called for the resignation of the National Security Minister Kan Dapaah over the leaked video with his alleged girlfriend. According to the Executive Director of the security firm, Adib Saani, “for him to get embroiled in such a reckless act and exercising such poor judgment speaks a lot about how messy ...

A dormitory of the St Charles Minor Seminary Senior High School in Tamale went up in flames Monday afternoon destroying students’ personal belongings, a development that is likely to render the students homeless. The fire, which started at 12:29pm at the Cardinal Dery dormitory, completely burned eight of the nine rooms at a time that students were in class. It ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has so far registered 5.9 million (5,907,536) people as at the end of 2019 in the ongoing nationwide mass registration exercise. Of this number, the authority has printed 5.1 million (5,167,994) cards. Data from the NIA reveals that 3.3 million (3,323,839) of the printed cards have been issued to registrants while persons who did not ...

The African Union (AU) is optimistic Ghana will hold a peaceful and successful general election this year. While acknowledging that the contest will be intense and fierce, the AU remained “confident that Ghana will pull it off successfully since we have no doubts about the country’s credentials as far as elections are concerned,” the Deputy Chairperson of the AU, Mr ...

Member of Parliament for the Efutu, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has questioned the decision by the governing council of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) to reinstate only three of the lecturers who were sacked. According to him, the council was being selective in the implementation of the consensus reached between stakeholders at a meeting to resolve the impasse that resulted ...