Facebook and Twitter have penalised Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were “almost immune” to coronavirus. Facebook deleted the post – a clip from an interview Mr Trump gave to Fox News – saying it contained “harmful Covid misinformation”. Twitter followed by saying it had frozen a Trump campaign account until a tweet ...

Government is seeking parliamentary approval to borrow a total of $166,120,000 for the purchase of armoured vehicles. The three separate agreements were laid in parliament Monday and referred to a joint committee on Finance, Defence and Interior. The first facility is between government of  Ghana (represented by the Ministry of Finance) and Israel Discount Bank Limited for an amount of ...

The Electoral Commission has revealed that the mop up exercise scheduled for the 8th and 9th August will take place at its District Offices and not registration centres as expected by the public. Speaking on the Morning Starr Thursday, the Director of Public Affairs for the Electoral Commission, Sylvia Annor said the EC has taken the decision to conduct the ...

A project initiated by the Participatory Action for Rural Development Alternatives (PARDA) to ensure that mothers and their babies remain alive and well before and after delivery has led to the discovery of four Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds running without a midwife. The discovery comes two years after Ghana’s Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, had promised ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his government has paid all the locked-up deposits in the nine local banks that collapsed and 98 per cent of the funds that got stuck in the over 386 microfinance institutions, finance houses and savings & loans companies that also went down. The banks and financial institutions were collapsed by the Bank of ...

Wilfried Osei Kwaku Palmer, the man at the centre of the CAS’ impending ruling which has the potential of shaking the foundation of Ghana football has denied receiving the verdict from the sports adjudication body. Sense of apprehension and anxiety hit the roof yesterday as interested parties waited for the ruling which had been scheduled for August 4 by CAS. ...

Veteran journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, has waded into the conversation about revelations from the recently launched book by leading member of the National Democratic Congress, Prof. Kwamena Ato Ahwoi. The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide intimated that the timing of the release of Prof Ahwoi’s ‘Working with Rawlings’ book was poor, considering that a lot of the assertions ...

Stephen Appiah took to his Instagram page to post a picture of his handsome son, Larry Appiah to mark his birthday which fell on 3rd August 2020. Stephen Appiah’s first child who is a teenager turned a year older on Monday and the former Black Stars took to his Instagram account to celebrate his ward on his new age. The ...

The Argentine has opened up on his “special rivalry” with the ex-Spain goalkeeper while describing him as one of the best players in La Liga history Lionel Messi has paid tribute to Real Madrid hero Iker Casillas following his retirement, insisting the shot stopper’s “status as a legend of the game was secured long ago.” Casillas called time on an ...

Former Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien has joined a tall list of African stars to sympathise with victims of the Beirut blast on Tuesday. At least 100 people are reported dead in a massive explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday evening, leaving dozens dead and thousands injured. The blast has been linked to a large supply of ...