The Board Chairman of the National Investment Bank (NIB) has resigned, Starr Business has gathered. Torgbe Afede’s resignation was as a result of internal wrangling at the state-owned bank, sources with knowledge of the development told Starr Business. He resigned last week, according to the sources after opposing moves by some elements in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to ...

GCB Bank has terminated the contracts of 56 ex-staff of defunct UT and Capital Banks for not possessing the minimum qualification required to work with the bank. The termination of their contracts was done after an audit of employees of the defunct banks exposed issues with the minimum qualification of about 160 staff. The affected staff have since been issued ...

Kennedy Agyapong has stated unequivocally he will continue to support the activities pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante groups, the Delta and Invisible Forces once the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vowed to form more vigilante groups in addition to the number they already have. His argument is that, both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the NDC must agree and ...

A judge has ruled that Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI must defend themselves in court over the human rights case brought against them by Ibrahim Sannie Daara after they sought to dodge the case by asking a lawyer to answer to the lawsuit on their behalf. The judge His Lordship Mr Justice Nicholas Abodakpi slammed Anas’defence of ...

Jeffrey Kwabena Yeboah is a part-time Ghanaian student who has found a unique way of turning Accra’s waste into furniture. The young entrepreneur uses old tires to make coffee tables and armchairs, decorating them with fabric and various coloured ropes. Yeboah told Reuters that his enterprise is part of efforts to educate people about waste management. His company Ripples Interior ...

Broadcast journalist and host of Peace FM’s flagship programme “Kokrokoo”, Kwami Sefa Kayi has lightheartedly asked astute journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni to “go and sin no more” in the manner of NPP MP, Ken Agyapong, after Mr Awuni apologized to the IGP, David Asante-Apeatu for reportedly likening the security camp’s inability to fight vigilantism as a “castrated pig”. Manasseh Azure, ...

If the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is banking its hopes on outspoken lawmaker, Kennedy Agyapong to campaign for it in 2020, then it better rethink because he has served notice he would not campaign for the party either in Ghana or elsewhere outside the country. According to a radio interview monitored by MyNewsGh.com, the NPP firebrand has officially declared ...

The music scene in the East recently witnessed tee rhyme a rapper from tafo disrespecting his fellow rappers in Koforidua, calling them weak and broke because they don’t rent houses above 30gh cedis. It generated tension among these rappers which triggered a reply from otaniba and mp rudboi. The rest of the rappers does not seem bothered, but emceeDYCE hinted ...

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Marfo has said the office of the Special Prosecutor has not met his expectation. According to him, he and many other people had some expectation of the office, but that has not materialized so far. Some Ghanaians, including former President Jerry John Rawlings, have expressed concern about the delay in the prosecution of corruption-related cases by the ...

A tape allegedly showing R Kelly having sex with an underage girl has been unearthed. Attorney Michael Avenatti released a statement explaining that the footage shows Kelly ‘engaging in multiple sexual assaults of a girl underage’. He adds that the tape is ‘clear’ and runs for 45 minutes. Avenatti said: “Our work has been painstaking, detailed, expensive, and time consuming. ...