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The opposition Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, was ordered to leave the floor of parliament on Wednesday, 6 February 2019 by First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu. Accra100.5FM’s parliamentary correspondent, Richard Appiah Sarpong, who was in parliament when the incident happened, reported that Alhassan Suhuyini was disrupting proceedings of the house after the Majority side had moved a ...

Ghanaians should be patient with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as he turns the country around for the better, movie producer and actress Yvonne Nelson has said. She said Mr Akufo-Addo has two more years to end his first term of office and, therefore, still has time to fix things. Ms Nelson told TV3 News on Tuesday, 5 February 2019 ...

An activist of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hanan Confidence Abdul has said he will file an official protest in Heaven if he gets there and finds Chairman of the Peace Council, Rev Prof Emmanuel Asante there too, MyNewsGh.com reports. Rev. Asante incurred the wrath of opposition activists when he called on former President John Dramani Mahama to apologize ...

A 19-year-old senior high school student, Abigail Manu, feigned her kidnapping and requested her father to send her a ¢500 ransom being demanded by the supposed kidnapper. Her stratagem, however, failed after her 11-year-old brother led her father and police officers to the house of her 25-year-old lover, Reagan Boabeng Ampofo, at Mpobi, about 12 kilometres from Kumasi, the Ashanti ...

Nana Akufo-Addo, the president of Ghana, is a great speaker. English audiences listen in awe to his speeches, marvelling at his mastery of their mother tongue. His fellow citizens did not stand a chance against his charm. He defeated an incumbent to the coveted position he now occupies with relative ease. His oratory was not all that won the votes ...

Former Organiser of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams has said the ruling New Patriotic party cannot justify the violence that characterised the Ayawaso West West Wuogon by-elections last Thursday. He insisted the NPP was aware the gun-wielding men in mask would cause mayhem during the polls, and added that it is the reason government top officials have ...

Alexander Kojo Koranchie, father of Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, one of the three kidnapped girls in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, has revealed that the prime suspect in the kidnapping cases once called him and threatened to kill his daughter. This was immediately after the 28-year-old Nigerian suspected kidnapper, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, had kidnapped her daughter on December 21, 2018, at a spot ...

The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has summoned some top officials of the Shaanxi Mining Company Ltd over attempts to bribe Starr News’ Upper East regional correspondent after they were caught having secret meetings with a judge during some undercover investigations on public access to equal justice under the law. One of the officials involved in the secret meetings, a ...

Only two per cent of senior high school (SHS) students in the country are willing to venture into self-built enterprises after school, the Minister of Business Development, Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, has disclosed. He said while 120,000 students who graduated from the various universities in the country annually were interested in public sector jobs, the government could employ only 10,000 ...

The government of Ghana has announced that it will not hesitate to seek international arbitration if its counterparts from neighbouring Togo fail to cooperate with Ghana’s Technical Delegation Team that is negotiating a maritime dispute along the eastern border of the country. Ghana and Togo have failed to come to a consensus after three rounds of negotiations on the maritime ...