Staff of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) are to begin a sit-down strike from Wednesday December 11 over the mounting debts which they say is crippling the company. The move is part of a series of actions the staff have resolved to adopt in getting authorities to address their concerns. An internal memo sighted by Starr News said emergency services will ...

Spokesperson for the Rawlings family, Ernest Owusu Bempah, has brushed aside accusations that the former president orchestrated and sponsored the extrajudicial killings of some former army personnel shortly after the 1979 revolution. Former close associate of Mr Rawlings and one of the architects of the June 4 Uprising, Major Osahene Boakye Gyan had suggested in recent media interview that Mr ...

A failed Chairman-aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Richard Amoako Baah, has revealed that despite President Nana Akufo-Addo relaying a message through the First Lady to him for a meeting, the “gatekeepers” at the Jubilee House have refused to grant him access to the President for the past two months. “Some of them will even tell you ...

Spokesperson for the Rawlings family, Ernest Owusu Bempah, has brushed aside accusations that the former president orchestrated and sponsored the extrajudicial killings of some former army personnel shortly after the 1979 revolution. Former close associate of Mr Rawlings and one of the architects of the June 4 Uprising, Major Osahene Boakye Gyan had suggested in recent media interview that Mr ...

Arsenal and former Germany international Mesut Ozil has expressed his delight by the renaming of a Ghanaian youth club after him. A post on social media shows a gathering of excited kids clad in Arsenal jerseys, all with the player’s name written on their backs. Also among the gathering is his agent Erkut Sogut. “Abiriw Ozil Football Club. Nice to have a football ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) has served notice that it will not withdraw the nomination of the Director-General of the National Communications Authority(NCA) Joe Anokye as its representative at Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meetings. The opposition NDC has raised red flags over the NPP’s choice of Joe Anokye as a representative at an IPAC meeting to discuss a new procurement ...

The state is losing more than GH¢3 million a month to an illegal scheme that diverts international calls into local ones, according to the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications. Known as sim box fraud, the illegality is perpetrated by Ghanaians and their international partners who route international calls through the Internet and terminate them on local mobile phone numbers to attract ...

The Deputy Chief of Staff at the Presidency, Francis Asenso Boakye has denied assertions made against his person by political scientist Dr. Amoako Baah. In an interview on Neat FM’s afternoon talk show, Meman Nti hosted by Adakabri Frimpong Manson, the NPP top gun alleged that Mr. Francis Asenso Boakye, the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Opare and the other appointees surrounding ...

The Electoral Commission has canceled its arrangement to get media personnel vote early on December 10, ahead of the district assemblies and local level elections. Media personnel are usually added to the lists of groups of people who partake in the special voting to enable them monitor elections on main polling days. A statement issued by the Commission on Tuesday ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi, is optimistic the major opposition, National Democratic Congress (NDC) will win the 2020 general election considering the analysis and results produced by the Afrobarometer survey on “Who is Winning 2020?” Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor on PM Express on Tuesday indicated the ruling government’s major flagship programmes, including Free Senior High School, One village-One dam (1V1D), One district- One ...