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A political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Edward Gyampo has been caught up in the “sex for grades” investigations carried out by BBC Africa Eye. Professor Gyampo, who is also the Head of European Studies at the University of Ghana, in the compromising video was seen requesting to marry one of the BBC reporters who posed ...

Hard drives in about five High Courts located in the Law Court Complex building which houses about forty-two (42) High Courts have been stolen from the system’s units of computers used for recording and storing Court records and proceedings. The case of theft is believed to have happened during the just ended legal vacation which was observed from 1st August ...

Hard drives in about five High Courts located in the Law Court Complex  have been stolen from systems units of computers used for recording and storing Court records and proceedings, Starr News has learnt. The case of theft is believed to have happened during the just ended legal vacation which was observed from 1st August to 5th of October 2019. ...

Law graduates and students of the Ghana School of Law are demanding a total scrap of the School’s controversial entrance examination, which has seen systematic failure in recent times. The Supreme Court in 2017 declared as unconstitutional, the entrance examination and interview session used in admitting students for the two-year professional law course. These two requirements, the court held, were ...

Former GNPC Chief Executive Alex Mould says the Akufo-Addo government has failed. “We all heard, 1 District 1 Factory, 1 Village 1 Dam, US$1 million per constituency per a year, Free SHS, reduction of cost of electricity etc” Mr. Mould reechoed while addressing a section of TEIN members at University of Cape Coast (UCC) campus on Saturday. “All these pipe ...

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has directed the National Council of Tertiary Education (NCTE) to investigate an alleged illegal termination of contracts awarded to TACOA Construction Limited and Barony Company Limited by the University of Cape Coast (UCC). A letter signed by Ms. Wilhelmina Asamoah, Director of General Administration to the NCTE, following a petition to the ...

Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor a lecturer at the Department of Teacher Education of the School of Education and Leadership, University of Ghana has been named as the first Lecturer fingered in the sex for grades scandal that has hit West African Universities. The lecturer is caught on tape lustfully admiring and trying to woo a supposed prospective applicant to a ...

President Akufo-Addo has arrived in Kumasi in the Ashanti region to meet religious leaders over the controversial comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE). The unannounced meeting is being held behind closed doors, Starr News has learnt. The President is also expected to meet traditional and other opinion leaders to alley their fears over the programme which has been overwhelmingly rejected by Ghanaians. ...

Yaw Brogya Genfi, a National Communication Member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has revealed that, the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) course which has been clarified as not part of basic schools’ curriculum was ‘shamefully’ withdrawn by President Akufo-Addo after succumbing to public pressure. In a submission on Kumasi-based Pure FM with Sit-in host Kojo Marfo monitored by MyNewsGh.com, ...

“I struggled with them until I became too weak to fight. One of them squeezed my breast and I really felt pain in it. The other one covered my mouth with his hand and, defiled me first. Later the other one also took over and had sex with me. They kicked me hard afterward.” This is how then 16-year girl ...