POLITICS

The Former Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni and Managing Director of Agricult Ghana Limited, Seidu Agongo have been left gnashing their teeth as the original powdered Lithovit Foliar Fertilizer which was tested and a certificate issued on has been submitted to an Accra High Court. A soil scientist at the Cocoa Research Institute ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Saturday to participate in the three-day conference on the G-20 Compact with Africa, taking place in Berlin, Germany, from October 29. The President, on his way, made a stopover in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, to confer with his Ivorian counterpart, President Alassane Ouattara, on bilateral and regional issues. The Compact with Africa (CwA) ...

The National Youth Organiser-elect of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Opare Addo, aka Pablo, has refitted claims from a cross section of the public that his election was influenced and induced by vote buying. He said apart from providing food and water to delegates at the party’s Youth & Women’s Congress held at the Pentecost Convention Center on ...

Former Attorney-General, Dr Obed Asamoah, has taken his support for the creation of the proposed Oti Region to another level by educating all those opposing the move, particularly Togbe Afede, the Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State. According to Dr Asamoah, calls by Togbe Afede and others to include all the people in the region in the referendum for the creation ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer aspirant, Kojo Bonsu, has assured all branch and Constituency executives that he will introduce Ex-Gratia to reward and appreciate the good works of executives, who end their tenure if voted to lead the NDC. According to Mr. Kojo Bonsu, he will establish a fund that will be in an investment in each region to cater ...

The founder and Owner of Groupe Nduom, Dr. Kwesi Nduom has resigned as the Chairman of all Group Nduom companies. Starrfmonline.com can confirm that Dr. Nduom took the decision last year in a bid to gradually ease the pressure on himself and allocate more responsibilities to other CEOs of his companies. He is officially set to retire in December this ...

Though he was a card bearing member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) when he co-moderated the 2012 Presidential debate, the Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has intimated that he did not favour then NPP Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo. Responding to a question from the Odododiodio MP, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye during his vetting, he said he exhibited the necessary professionalism ...

Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has warned authorities of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) not to ever make an attempt to change Casely Hayford Hall, (Casford) which is a male hall into a mixed hall. According to the Lawyer cum Politician who’s an alumnus of the Hall, any such attempt will be fiercely resisted. “I hope that ...

Senior lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Dr. Ahmed Jinapor, has described as worrying, the silence of Prof. Kwesi Yankah on the crisis at KNUST that has led to the closure of the university. He argued Prof. Yankah who is the Minister in charge of Tertiary Education, ought to be at the center of all discussions and plans ...

The National Service Scheme says it has released about 14, 000 pin codes to get trainee teachers across the country to undertake a compulsory one-year national service before being employed by the government. This new directive from the government stipulates that newly trained teachers will undertake their service after writing the Teacher Licensure Examinations. But some trainee teachers are opposed ...