The young girl who planted the Apple tree which has gone viral on social media after it started bearing fruits died some five years ago, family sources have told Starr News. Nana Ama Asantewaa, according to reports, planted the seed despite the popular perception that the fruit is an exotic breed and does not grow in Ghana. Her parents who ...

Once upon a time (2yrs ago) the current National Identification Authority (NIA) said to Ghanaians it had acquired some huge sum of money to be used to continue the Card issuance the previous Government started. We were all excited. The previous government was issuing cards to all Ghanaians of all ages. It was a National Card. In fact my children ...

Jean Mensa is decreeing that over 392, 455 Ghanaians from the Central Region will not vote in 2020, because they don’t have a Ghana Card as a requirement to register. The question is, are they not citizens? Jean Mensa’s Electoral Commission and Ken Attafuah’s National Identification Authority are like square pegs in round holes As Sydney Smith once famously said, ...

The coalition of Unconsented Nurses and Midwives group, comprising over 2000 nurses and midwives are raising red flags over what they describe as “deliberate delay” of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives’ Association to refund their salary deductions to them. According to the group, even though they have provided all material proof to the GRNMA and its related partners to ...

The Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS) to be deployed by UNIPASS is ready to take-off at the Tema Port. Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) Ghana Link Network Services Limited and the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) have successfully conducted a simulation exercise for the new Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS) at the Port. The exercise which included the Meridian Port ...

Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare says Ghanaians should brace up for more COVID-19 recoveries as some 1500 patients are on the waiting list to be declared free from the disease. Ghanaians were thrown into a state of shock when the country’s COVID-19 recoveries recorded massive jump 670 to 1,754 on Saturday with 1,084 new recoveries. This massive increase of recoveries set tongue wagging with ...

“This is my take, 54 countries on the continent and we are leading and showing the way. Why should we let our strength be on the fact that it should have been South Africa first before Ghana or Mauritius before Ghana. “Bottom line, where is Ivory Coast, where is Botswana, where is Nigeria? All these countries are lagging and we ...

Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, a former youth and sports minister, has advised Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana broadcast on Metro TV to think deeply about his TV programme following his ‘Stop Misbehaving’ editorial about the Klottey-Korley MP. According to Afriyie Ankrah, the feedback from that particular episode of his programme was in bad taste. “I didn’t watch it ...

IMANI boss Franklin Cudjoe has expressed concerns over what he says is the amount of time and investment by the government to give life to the Airbus scandal. According to him, there are current and ongoing deals that are more scandalous than the Airbus saga. “I am intrigued at the amount of time and investment being put into the alleged ...

Suspended former Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs says the beginning of his hatred in his party started when he refused to criticize President Akufo-Addo’s free Senior High School policy. According to him, he hit hard at the Akufo-Addo government when the free Senior High School policy was implemented as it has always ...