Two military officers at Michel Camp military base in the Greater Accra region have allegedly abused a journalist whose assistance they had sought in resolving a misunderstanding between two trotro drivers. Mr James Harry Obeng claims he was handed a cutlass and unjustifiably made to weed a bushy area within the camp for one hour before being released by the ...
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NDC Primaries: University of Ghana don joins race
A senior lecturer at the Department of Physics at the University of Ghana, Dr Nana Ama Browne Klutse has joined the race for the selection of a Parliamentary nominee for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese constituency in the Central Region. Dr Klutse is the only female joining seven other contestants for the August 24, 2019, ...
Read More »NAM 1 to spend weekend in custody
The Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Nana Appiah Mensah popularly known as NAM 1 is expected to spend the weekend in custody as the police begins verification process for documents of properties his lawyers have supplied to meet the GHC1 billion bail bond placed on him by the court. According to Starr News sources, the police is verifying the authenticity ...
Read More »NDC primaries: Millionaire aspirant stumbles over English language
The hopes of a multi-millionaire fishing magnate, Charles Hagan, to contest the Sekondi parliamentary seat for opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Western Region hangs in the balance due to inability to speak English. Regional Organiser of the Party, Japheth Baidoo who confirmed the development to Empire News said the rich fisherman popularly known in Sekondi as “Panya” could ...
Read More »Double track to take 5 to 7years before elimination – Education Minister
The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has stated that the double-track system within the Senior High School (SHS) level in the country is bound to take about five to seven years before it would be totally eliminated from the second cycle institutions. He explained that the Free Senior High School (FSHS) that has come under the Nana Addo-led ...
Read More »Mahama’s ‘unprecedented roads’ exist only in his Green Book – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has bemoaned the poor road network in the country. According to the President, his working tour of the country has brought to the fore the need for government to invest heavily in the country’s road sector. He indicated that the situation is contrary to the rosy picture painted by former President Mahama who boasted of unprecedented road infrastructure ...
Read More »‘NAM1 doesn’t have to prove he defrauded 16,000 people’ – Lawyer
A legal practitioner Nii Kpakpo Samoa has said the CEO of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah popularly known as NAM 1 doesn’t have to prove in court that he defrauded about 16,000 people since the case is not a civil one. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Friday he said since it is the state claiming that NAM1 defrauded these people, it ...
Read More »NAM 1 granted GHC1bn bail
Menzgold Chief Executive Nana Appiah Mensah has been granted bail by an Accra High court. He is however to satisfy a GHC 1 billion bail bond with 5 sureities, 3 to be justified before gaining access to his freedom custody. The matters has been adjourned to August 12. Before today’s court appearance, customers of Menzgold, who thronged the court Friday ...
Read More »Minority touts NDC record in cocoa sector
The Minority in Parliament has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to focus on cleaning what it describes as the mess his government has created in the cocoa sector. They contended that the first-ever highest yield of one million tonnes of cocoa in cocoa production was realised under the Mills/Mahama National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration in the 2010/2011 cocoa ...
Read More »Stop the ‘corporate footsoldierism’ – Adom Otchere jabs under par JoyFM editor
Senior Journalist and host of Good Evening Ghana Paul Adom Otchere has hit out at Multimedia Group journalists for toeing a political line by justifying and standing by their works after the National Media Commission ruled a documentary produced and aired by the media house as ‘misleading and sensational’. Singling out a post by an editor at the news organization ...
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