Barcelona president Joan Laporta has revealed the Spanish club is 1.35bn euros (£1.15bn) in debt, describing the situation as “very worrying”. The club’s wage bill currently accounts for 103% of total income. Laporta blames predecessor Josep Maria Bartomeu for the debt, accusing him of leaving a “terrible inheritance”. Extending Lionel Messi’s contract would have made the wage bill accountable for ...

Nollywood actress, Doris Chima, is dead. She reportedly died after battling breast cancer. The Dailypost reported that the actress was diagnosed with the ailment in 2020 and her breast was removed to prevent further damage. Her death was confirmed by the Chairman of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, Emeka Rising Ibe, on Monday. Ibe, who expressed sadness ...

General manager of Ghone TV, Nana Aba Anamoah has adopted an informal approach to responding to allegations that the station’s news anchor and her protege, Serwaa Amihere has been captured in a secret sex tape. In a video currently in circulation on Instagram, the woman who has become known as Serwaa’s godmother says they don’t have the luxury of time ...

Ghana’s Minister of Energy, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, on Monday, 16 August 2021, cut the ribbon to launch the country’s delegation pavilion at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2021 in Houston, Texas, USA, with a call on investors to take advantage and invest in the vast opportunities available in Ghana’s upstream and downstream petroleum industry. Speaking at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, ...

The leadership of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has not been served with any application for contempt, lead Lawyer Kwesi Keli-Delataa has said. The National Labour Commission last Friday filed an application for contempt against the leadership of UTAG for disregarding a court order to return to the classroom. UTAG has since August 2 embarked on strike action ...

The governments of Ghana and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have completed processes for the visa waiver agreement for diplomatic and service passport holders. The agreement which is now operational saw the country’s Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecelia Dapaah, entering UAE on August 16, 2021, without any visa requirements. This was revealed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs ...

The People’s National Convention (PNC) has notified the Electoral Commission (EC) in a letter dated Monday, 16 August 2021, of some of its executive members who were not properly elected for certain positions and, thus, cannot be recognised as such. The party said on 30 September 2020, it held a Congress in all the 16 regions of the country simultaneously ...

A committee set up by the Chief of Staff to investigate allegations of inflated contracts at the Ghana Airport Company discovered discrepancies between figures quoted by companies vying for the contracts and the amounts submitted to the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) for approval. According to findings of the report sighted by Starr News, while the Service Level Agreement (SLA) between ...

A Human Rights advocate Selasi Tsegah has called for swift investigations into a viral video of a priest kissing three students during church service at the St. Monica’s College of Education in the Ashanti region. She has also urged parents to empower their children to resist the abuse of their rights. “It’s a clear abuse of his position of influence ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the Agenda 111 Hospitals Project will provide 20,000 jobs for professional health workers when completed. He said 88 sites have been identified for the project and works on them begin today, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 concurrently. The president said the 250 domestic contractors who are to undertake the project, have 18 months to ...