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The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority Gifty Klenam and the managing director of the Ghana Ports and Harbours authority are on their way out of office, sources in government have told Starrfmonline.com. The move is seen as part of efforts by President Akufo-Addo to rid government agencies of what seems to be a cycle of boardroom ...

Aggrieved residents of Ayanfuri, a mining community in the Upper Denkyira West District of Central region are calling for the immediate dismissal of John Peter Amewu, Minister for Lands and Natural Resources. The aggrieved residents have accused the minister of failing to effect the payment of compensation to residents affected by the mining operations of Persus Mining Company. The residents ...

The free-to-air private television station is said to have refused persistent warnings by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to pay the amount, said to be taxed from 2014 to 2018. Officials from the GRA stormed the premises at Labone where all workers were ushered out from the building and the offices placed under lock and key, TV3’s Nuong Faalong reported ...

The Concerned Small Scale Miners Association of Ghana has announced plans to stage a demonstration dubbed “Ku Me Preko” in Kumasi, on June 26, 2018 to protest against government’s refusal to lift the ban on Small Scale Mining, more than a year after its imposition. The demonstration will witness hundreds of Small Scale Miners nationwide converge in the Ashanti regional ...

Former Vice Chancellor of University of Ghana, Emeritus Professor Ivan Addae-Mensah is pushing for the opening of the University of Ghana Medical School. According to him, steps must be taken immediately to ensure the hospital begins operations. Speaking with Mike Eghan Snr on Conversations with Mike Eghan, Professor Addae Mensah says, teaching hospitals in universities are run by the university, ...

One of the ardent members of the communication team of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Malik Basintele has said Member of Parliament for Assin Central Kennedy Agyapong is an idiot. The Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong has within the past few days been executing a campaign against ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas who has promised to screen the latest ...

Those expecting the Akufo-Addo government to apologise for accusing the former government of fraud over the Ameri power barge contract in 2015, would have to wait a little longer. According to the Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, K.T. Hammond, the Akufo-Addo government will do no such thing, at least not now. He said in an interview on Eyewitness News ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has threatened to take legal action against media houses claiming that he received an amount of $8 million from some investor-friends of embattled President of the Ghana Football Association Kwasi Nyantakyi ahead of the 2016 elections. According to media reports, Mr. Nyantakyi who is facing charges for fraudulently using President Akufo-Addo’s name to swindle some ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has described as “evil” the level of corruption and greed perpetrated in the administration of football in Ghana. After watching excerpts of the documentary, Mr Kufuor who appears to be close to tears expressed disgust at the corrupt acts of some officials cited in the latest exposé by ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. In ...

Former President of the Republic of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has reacted to news that he received an amount of 8 million dollars from embattled President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr Kwesi Nyantakyi. JoyNews Evans Mensah had claimed Mr Nyantakyi in a statement to the Criminal Investigations Department, CID, of the Ghana Police on May 23 reportedly disclosed ...