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Six persons have been arrested following a bloody clash between Ghanaian and Nigerian traders in Accra. Three persons, according to the police, were injured during the Monday morning fight at Kwame Nkrumah Circle. The fight follows the closure of shops belonging to some Nigerian traders. Earlier report suggested that the aggrieved Nigerian traders attacked their Ghanaian counterparts with guns and ...

A former Commissioner at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Anna Bossman says Ghana needs people with strong character to fight corruption. Speaking at the launch of the Anti-Corruption and Transparency week, the former commissioner who is now Ghana’s Ambassador to France said she disagrees with President Obama’s assertion that the country needs only strong institutions. According ...

The Ghana Publishing Company is to begin security printing in the country, the Managing Director of the company, Mr David Boateng Asante has said. Speaking on Morning Starr on Monday, Mr Boateng said Ghana Publishing has seen transformation under his leadership since he took over in 2017. The Ghana Publishing Company also known as the Assembly Press, recently launched a ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the government is formulating a policy to ensure that teachers own houses before they retire. The policy, he said, tied into the general reforms in the educational sector, where the teacher was at the centre of the transformation agenda. The President said this at the 70th anniversary celebration of Prempeh College in Kumasi, ...

The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) has signed an agreement that will see it refine 11 million barrels of crude. The agreement – a tolling crude oil processing agreement between Tema Oil Refinery and Woodfields Energy Resources Limited, a wholly Ghanaian-owned oil trading company, is backed by the world’s largest oil and gas trader. Woodfields Energy’s long history with the Refinery ...

Deputy Minister for Agriculture Kennedy Osei Nyarko says it is not the responsibility of government to promote local rice. According to him, that responsibility lies in the hands of the local processing companies. He also charged processing companies to endeavour to make their brands visible on the market as well as promote the health benefits of locally processed rice as ...

Members of the National Health Students’ Association of Ghana (NAHSAG) have expressed their displeasure at the delay in the payment of their trainee and national service allowances and have, thus, called on the Ministry of Health and relevant stakeholders to ensure the backlog is cleared promptly. According to the leadership of NAHSAG, the government has not paid its allowances for ...

The Ghana Publishing Company says it is ready to print the ballot papers for the 2020 polls. According to the managing director of the company, David Asante, the firm is mandated to handle sensitive projects such as polls. “I am still trying to understand why printing of ballot papers fizzle into the hands of private printing firms. By law, we ...

National Democratic Congress activist, Yayra Koku has charged aides of former president John Mahama, to go beyond confrontation and met out slaps, as well drag out the founder and leader of Glorious Word and Power Ministry, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah, the next time they encounter him. The comments by the NDC member follows an altercation between an aide of the ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) says it intends to gradually replace its lower banknotes denominations with coins to reduce its cost of printing. “BoG will also embark on a vigorous campaign among road transport workers, market operators, small businesses, supermarkets, vendors and others to create avenues for the usage of the coins including develop infrastructures for coin usage,” the Central ...