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Fire guts Blessed Home church; properties destroyed

Fire has gutted the Blessed Home Ministry International Church at New Abirim in the Birim North Municipality of the Eastern region damaging properties worth Thousands of Ghana cedis . Some of the items destroyed were musical instruments, Plastic Chairs, Ceiling fans, quantities of anointing oil and other valuables. Information gathered by Starr News indicates that the fire started Monday dawn ...

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Tension at Ada-Foah over Chieftaincy

There is uneasy calm at Ada-Foah in the Greater Accra Region after the installation of one Julius Dugbah Daddah as the Divisional Chief of the area recently following the demise of Nene Tawiah Nanor Kokotey Tettey-Gal V last year. Irate youth of the area, mostly members of the Lomobia-We Clan, expressed their displeasure over the installation and have threaten to ...

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Leakage of Short Commission report irresponsible – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has condemned the leakage of part of the Emile Short Commission report of the Awayaso Wuogon by election describing it as irresponsible. He said the government will rather err on the side of caution rather than make any hasty decisions. President Akufo-Addo said until the government is satisfied with response that is up to it’s sense of responsibilities, ...

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Archbishop Kwofie takes over from Archbishop Palmer-Buckle as Chancellor of CIBT

On Thursday, 11th April, 2019, Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle, former Chancellor of the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology (CIBT), formerly handed over his position as Chancellor of the Institute to the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Accra, Most Rev. John Bonaventure Kwofie at a short ceremony at the Institute in Adabraka, Accra. The ceremony was attended by the ...

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Asante Twi version of the Quran launched in Kumasi

An Asante Twi version of the Quran has been launched in Kumasi to help with a better understanding and appreciation of the Holy book so as to help those who cannot read and write the Arabic language. It was the Muslim cleric, Sheikh Harun Nkansah Agyekum, who took 40 years to translate the Quran from Arabic to Asante Twi. A ...

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BNI boss out; Deputy takes over

The director of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) Rasheed Seidu Inussah has been relieved of his post, Starrfm.com.gh can confirm. His deputy Dumfeh is taking over from him either today or May 2, 2019, government officials are saying. Ambassador Inussah has been sacked over security lapses in recent times and lack of coordination between the police and the BNI. ...

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ECOWAS court throws out Justice Dery, others over Anas bribes

The Community Court of the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) on Monday threw out three dismissed High Court Judges in Ghana for failing to prove that their rights were violated in process leading to the disciplinary actions taken against them by Ghana Judicial Council. Justices – Paul Uuter Dery, Mustapha Habib Logoh and Gilbert Ayisi Addo – were ...

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Akufo-Addo delivers on promise to Ghana Immigration Service

Ghana’s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has, on behalf of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, commissioned a number of projects at the Ghana Immigration Service Academy at Assin Foso in the Central region. The projects were undertaken in fulfilment of a promise by President Akufo-Addo to revamp the structures of the school to upgrade it to an International Academy for ...

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Bukari saga: They want to kill me – Journalist

A journalist with Accra-based Starr FM, Mr Edward Adeti, has said he has been receiving death threats following his exposé of a bribery incident involving a minister of state at the presidency, Mr Rockson Bukari, who had attempted to compromise him to drop a bad story concerning a judge and Chinese mining firm Shaanxi in the Upper East Region. With ...

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