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The Krachi Youth Association have moved swiftly to deny reports making rounds in the media that MP of Krachi-East, Michael Gyato’s 200 acre mango and teak farm was burnt. The reports stated that the farm was burnt by some angry individuals because Mr Gyato influenced the siting of the Oti regional capital at Dambai against the wishes of the people ...

Bimbila based Gmantanbu 96. 1MHz, a powerful radio station serving several under-reported districts in the eastern corridor enclave of the Northern Region, has been shut down temporarily on Friday, February 22, 2019. The closure followed a fistfight which broke out at the Municipal Assembly building between managers of the radio station and some assemblymen, who have petitioned the National Communication ...

Brong Ahafo Regional First Vice Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe popularly known as Abronye DC has alleged that former President John Mahama, ahead of the Nigerian presidential and legislative elections, donated 1.5 million dollars to support the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, 72 is contesting President Muhammadu ...

The West Akyem Municipal Security Council is expected to meet Tuesday, February 26 over the tragic death of mourners in the Municipality. The meeting will also be attended by the Municipal Health Director, Dr Samuel Agyemang Boateng. The Chief Executive for West Akyem, Seth Oduro Boadu who doubles as chairman of Security Council tells Starr News Tuesday’s meeting is to ...

The NDC Professionals Forum has congratulated former president John Mahama for winning the flagbearership race of the party over the weekend. Mahama polled a whopping 213,487 votes representing 95.23% of the total votes cast to beat the six other contestants to lead the largest opposition party in the 2020 general elections. President of the NDC Professionals Forum, Amb. Sam P ...

The quest to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa faces huge setbacks as people paid to clean the city exhibit shoddy work. Many people within the country’s capital have in the past shown an open disgust at the filth that engulfs the city, but the situation has not seen much improvement. Make no mistake! These pictures accompanying this story ...

The Volta regional secretary for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Joseph Homenya, says former President John Mahama will remain an ex-President, despite his victory in the just ended National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearership primaries. The secretary who doubles as the Volta Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) says the opposition NDC has no satisfactory flagbearer than ...

The Normalisation Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), has denied media reports suggesting that it has presented a budget of $7.2 million to the government for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt. A statement signed by Mr. Dan Kwaku Yeboah, Spokesperson of the Committee said, “we wish to state unambiguously that the said publications are false. “The ...

The Mfantsipim Senior High School has banned its students from writing in this year’s November/December (Nov/Dec) West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates. According to the Headmaster of the school, Mr Manfred Barton Oduro, the move was to enable the students to concentrate on the main WASSCE examination in order to maximise the school’s passes in the ...

Pollster Ben Ephson has urged NDC flagbearer-elect John Mahama to resist making President Akufo-Addo the focus of his campaign ahead of the 2020 polls. He says such an effort can backfire if the President decides not contest in the 2020 elections. Instead, Mr. Mahama, should focus on government as a whole and its actions in order to have a more ...