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Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Honourable Kennedy Agyapong has pleaded with President Akufo-Addo to step aside for him to contest the 2020 elections in order to beat who he calls a ‘shameless candidate’ John Mahama. His reason, according to mynewsgh, is that Akufo-Addo is too big for John Mahama for which reason he wants the President to take a ...

Fear has gripped shoppers and workers of one of Ghana’s biggest shopping malls after the roof of the popular GAME shop at the Accra Mall at the Tetteh Quarshie roundabout caved in. An eyewitness who spoke to Starr News said the roof of the popular shop caved in Thursday morning forcing shoppers and workers to flee for their lives. According ...

Former Commissioner of CHRAJ, Dr Emile Short, has said Ghanaians who feel the Special Prosecutor is taking too long to begin prosecuting corruption expected too much too early. “I think that Ghanaians were probably expecting too much because they didn’t take into account what it takes to establish an office from scratch and so there were heightened expectations about what ...

Presiding Members of the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) across the country have been directed by the National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) to pay GH¢1000 for the procurement of gowns as uniform for their meeting. NALAG, in a circular dated october 5 to the Birim North District Assembly in the Eastern Region and sighted by ...

The High Court in Accra on Thursday declined an application by Kennedy Agyapong seeking to dismiss the GH¢25 million defamation suit against him by Anas Aremeyaw Anas. The Court also held that the writ filed by Anas does not in any way violate the constitutional rights of Mr Agyapong as no relevant legal points have been raised to substantiate that ...

Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Professor George Toku Oduro has chastised government for being unfair to parents whose wards are day students under the Free Senior High School policy. According the UCC Pro Vice Chancellor, although the Free SHS policy has been successful to an extent, there are serious issues with the quality of education ...

The 17-year old girl who is a victim of an alleged sexual assault at Obuasi Senior High Technical School in the Ashanti region has revealed, an official of the Ghana Education Service coached her to deny that the teacher forcibly had sex with her. The 47-year-old teacher and housemaster Seth Amponsah is being investigated by the GES after he denied ...

The two Delta Force members who were arrested by the police over the attack on the Monitoring and Evaluation minister Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei have been remanded into police custody by a Kumasi Circuit court. The duo with their colleagues scuttled an NPP meeting in Tafo, chasing out the Member of Parliament for the Area, Dr Akoto-Osei and the MCE. ...

President Akufo-Addo has granted the deputy Inspector General of Police James Oppong-Boanuh a one-year contract extension following his retirement. Mr. Oppong-Boanuh was elevated to occupy the second highest office of the Police Service barely three weeks to his statutory retirement at the age of 60. A letter from the Executive Secretary of the president Nana Asante Bediatuo to Mr. Oppong-Boanuh ...

The Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to publish the names of companies importing substandard goods into the country or face a court action. The ultimatum follows the Authority’s disclosure last week that it had identified some sub-standard goods on the Ghanaian market. Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, the Chief ...