NEWS

The Ministry of Youth and Sports have denied reports circulating in the media that players and technical members of the Black Starlets team were paid peanut on their return after failing to qualify for the 2019 Africa Youth Championship. Ghana could not make it to next year’s competition in Tanzania after losing on penalties to perennial rivals Nigeria in the ...

The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has warned it will resist attempts by Chinese Broadcasting company StarTimes to takeover the broadcasting space in Ghana through its arrangement with government. The Chinese company has secured a deal with government that will see it extend satellite TV to over 300 villages across the country. The communications ministry believes the move will help ...

The Asuogyaman district assembly has coughed out a hefty amount of GHC72,618.00 to renovate the residence of the district coordinating director of the area. The amount was approved for payment by the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Asuogyaman, Samuel Kwame Agyekum in May this year. The DCE is also reported to have spent a whopping amount of money to renovate ...

Government has been urged to stop giving allowances to both nurses and teacher trainees and invest such funds in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET). Professor Stephen Adei, Former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), said “it is time to put the required emphasis on TVET because of its critical role in national development. By ...

A group calling itself the National Concerned Spare Parts Dealers Association at Abossey Okai has revealed that it is scheduled to hold a massive demonstration against the government on Friday, September 21, 2018. According to Chairman of the group, Kwabena Agyei on Accra-based Okay Fm, they can no longer contain the hardship under the current administration following the imposition of ...

Following alleged rot festering on at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited, maverick politician Kennedy Agyapong has admitted missing the services of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. The Assin Central lawmaker is in court after being sued GH¢25 million by ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas for defamation. Prior to the premiere of Anas’ latest work in ...

The Economic and Organized Crime Organization (EOCO) has reportedly mounted a manhunt for Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko, a former Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) Limited following a warrant secured for his arrest. Mr. Awuah-Darko, according to sources at EOCO, was declared ‘wanted’ after he allegedly turned down several invitations to explain some alleged payments and ...

A fatal accident involving a school bus, carrying over 30 school pupils of Learners’ Bridge Academy in the Western region and a tipper truck, has claimed over seven. According to Starr News sources, the school bus was conveying the pupils to their various destinations after close of school Tuesday when the accident occurred at Pepease in Wasa Dompim. Reports say ...

The 38-year-old Ghanaian banker convicted of the UK’s biggest fraud, Kweku Adoboli has won a bid to delay being deported to Ghana. This is because a judge has awarded a judicial review for the case. Adoboli was set to be deported to Ghana on Tuesday, 18th September 2018 in accordance with the UK law which states that, if a foreign ...

The most unfortunate vice president in the history of this precious republic His excellency Dr. Mahamoud Bawumia who has lost his intellectual credibility should sincerely apologize to the good people of Ghana and call for help to be able to manage the economy for the few days left for him to be a vice president of Ghana. The economic cacophonies ...