The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has refuted claims by the Electoral Commission that it sought to attack its integrity and mandate during a press conference. The EC in a statement Monday denied receiving Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) from the government as allegedly claimed by the Minority Leader. The EC also stated that it was not under the control of anybody ...

Some 30 health officials at the Ho Teaching Hospital in the Volta region have been asked to self-quarantine by managers of the facility after coming into contact with a patient who tested positive for the deadly novel coronavirus. The patient, a 50-year old woman was said to have reported to the facility on Sunday, while unconscious but was resuscitated, and ...

The Ghana Tourism Authority has announced that drinking bars in the country can begin operation while observing the social distancing guidelines in the wake of COVID-19. The authority also indicated that all hotels can operate as normal “subject to the specified elevated hygiene protocols and social distancing”. It however noted that night clubs will remain closed. The GTA made this ...

In an interesting turn of events, former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Bernard Allotey Jacob has gone back on his words of continuing his media activities to bow to the pressure and demands from the party. The NDC last week announced a boycott of Peace FM’s Kokrokoo show over what it said was an “unfair panelling ...

The Chairman of the Ghana FA Beach Soccer Committee has debunked reports that beach soccer clubs have been promised a financial package from the GFA. This follows the earlier disclosure by GFA President Kurt Okraku that FIFA will give every member association financial support dubbed “Emergency Fund” in the coming days. Further, according to Mr Okraku, the moment the funds ...

Some Pregnant women and newborn mothers receiving care at the maternity ward of the Wa Municipal Hospital have expressed their disappointment over the lack of beds for some of them who visit the facility daily for healthcare. Some of the affected victims who were spotted by Starr News expressed with deep sorrow that they were admitted over three days ago ...

Ghanaians woke up on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 to an information circulating on various social media platforms to the effect that failing to wear a nose mask is a criminal offense which is liable to a jail term of not less than six months or a fine of GHS20,000. The message which was widely spread on various media platforms reads ...

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies Dr. Said Boakye has charged Government to be more diligent in the consolidation of extra-budgetary expenditure for better representation of Ghana’s macroeconomic data. This comes on the back of the Finance Ministry’s insistence, that data shared with the IMF in accessing the recent Rapid Credit Facility, was not in tangent with ...

The Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Scheme in Ghana, Gifty Oware-Aboagye says the fate of 2020/2021 National Service Personnel will be decided by the Board of the National Service Scheme at a meeting to be held later this month. The fate of final year Tertiary Students in Ghana hangs in the balance as there has been a ban ...

“I decided that today I will not come . . . I am very sorry; I know I will disappoint you (Kwami Sefa Kayi),” Social Commentator, Allotey Jacobs said in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ programme Wednesday. The former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has decided to stop attending political discussions ...