The management of the University of Ghana, Legon (UG) has disassociated itself from Professor Austin Nwagbara, a Nigerian Professor of English who was captured on video denigrating the university and other Ghanaian tertiary institutions at a meeting. “Professor Nwagbara is currently not a member of faculty at the University of Ghana,” the university disowned him in a statement. Professor Nwagbara ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sent a strong signal to digital fraudsters that his administration will wage a relentless war against their efforts and activities in order to safeguard the digital economy of the country. Addressing the opening ceremony of a three-day SWIFT African Regional Conference under the theme: “Enabling the Digital Economy”, at the Kempinski Gold Coast, President ...

Ghana Premier League side Dreams FC have appointed former assistant coach of the club, Winfred Dormon as the first team manager, the club has confirmed. Dormon who is an ex-player of the club has risen to the position of head coach after serving under so many managers as assistant. Before his appointment, Dormon handled the side in an acting role ...

Ashanti Regional Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Nurudeen Abass,­ has told Electoral Commission (EC) Chair, Jean Adukwei Mensa to pick lessons from people who know more about elections in Ghana to avoid ‘basic’ mistakes. This comes after many centers, on Day 1 of the ongoing Limited Voters’ Registration Exercise, faced several challenges including extremely long waiting periods, ...

A visiting Nigerian lecturer Prof. Austin Nwagbara at the University of Education is being interrogated at the police headquarters in Accra over the contents of a video that has gone viral on social media. Starr News is reliably informed that Prof. Nwagbara was arrested Tuesday afternoon over the video in which he is allegedly heard inciting the Nigerian Community in ...

Africa is slowly but surely recognising the positive effects and benefits of cryptocurrency. Local governments and national banks are putting down their pitchforks and seeing how cryptocurrency and blockchain technology can harness the potential of their citizens. One of the core reasons why African establishments did not embrace digital currencies from the start is out of fears that their decentralised and unregulated ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) is strongly pushing back at claims that it has ambushed political parties when it resorted to offline registration after its internet connection failed in the ongoing limited registration exercise in the country. According to the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the EC on Monday surreptitiously reverted to the offline registration during the exercise without informing the political ...

The midfield maestro has fallen off the map in recent months but he is determined to bow out on his own terms From being voted Manchester City‘s player of the year in 2014 to a seemingly failed trial with a Chinese second-division side just last month, the career of Yaya Toure is winding to an interesting and potentially disappointing close. Having scaled ...

Tamale North MP Alhassan Suhuyini has fired back at Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, describing him as “shamelessly dishonest” in a row over a purported tweet sent by the economist in 2016. The National Democratic Congress legislator over the weekend read a tweet supposedly coming from the Twitter account of then vice presidential candidate of the NPP, Dr. Bawumia, to ...

So how do Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay compare, and which one is more widely accepted right now? Mobile payments could soon make your wallet obsolete by allowing you to pay with just the tap of your phone or smartwatch. But they’ve had a slow roll-out and not all options are made equal. The three most established systems are from Apple, Samsung and Google, although ...