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Drug baron Nayele Ametefe has been released from jail term and back to Austria, Starrfmonline.com can confirm. The Ghanaian who has Austrian citizenship was convicted January 6, 2015 for transporting cocaine to the UK and was sentenced to eight years and eight months jail term. She was convicted on her own plea by the Isleworth Crown Court in the UK. ...

The Ministry of Education has defended the two hundred and twenty Ghana cedis it is charging candidates writing the upcoming license Examinations for Teacher trainees in July. The Ghana National Association of Teachers last week called for a halt in the collection of the said amount with reasons that no stakeholder engagement was organized to determine the amount. In a ...

The New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central in the Central Region, Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has rebuffed claims that his wife grabbed juicy contracts at the Energy Ministry through sole sourcing. The controversial MP was responding to some media reports that the Akufo-Addo government has awarded contracts to Mrs. Agyapong’s company to the tune of one ...

The New Juaben Municipal Police command is investigating the circumstances which led to the death of a 60-year-old Treasurer of the Koforidua Ascension Presbyterian Church in the Eastern region at a Guest House in Nkrukan. The deceased, identified as William Osae-Ansah reportedly checked into the Guest House known as “Su Su Sei Me Guest House” with a 40-year-old woman also ...

A man has recounted how he watched floodwaters wash his wife away at Teshie Rasta in Accra. Bernard Kofi Agyei Oppong said all efforts to rescue his wife, Dr Aya Hayfron who was trapped in her Hyundai Accent saloon car proved futile. Narrating his ordeal on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem Tuesday, Mr Oppong said his wife was driving home from ...

With virtually six months to the Bank of Ghana’s minimum capital deadline for banks, the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) says banks hoping to use Initial Public Offers (IPOs) to recapitalise but are yet to get their documentation ready have missed the opportunity available for capital raising under a public offer. This is because the various processes required to make an ...

A teacher believed to be in his early 40s was, this morning crashed to death by a speeding VIP bus at Suhum in the Eastern Region. The teacher, identified as Sampson Amoako Attah Narh, was on his way to school when the VIP bus with registration number GT5287-11 crashed him and a motorbike he was riding on. The accident occurred ...

Ghana League Club Association (GHALCA) boss Kudjoe Fianoo has resigned from the interim five-member committee set up by the government to oversee football administration in the country. He said his decision to step aside is to avoid a possible conflict between the league clubs association and the committee on which he was appointed to serve. Fianoo was appointed General Secretary ...

An aide to Kwesi Nyantakyi, Martin Luthor Obeng, has suggested that the former Ghana Football Association President may have been the victim of a conspiracy to prevent Morocco from winning the rights to host the World Cup in 2026. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Monday, Mr Obeng stated that the BBC financed Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ latest investigative piece to use ...

Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah will be accompanied by Ghana Football Association General Secretary Isaac Addo and Executive Committee member Kurt Okraku to meet Fifa officials on Tuesday to look at the way forward after government initiated steps to dissolve the local football governing body. Joy Sports understands that Fifa requested the presence of the GFA officials at the Zurich meeting, ...