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The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has refuted reports that Engineers and Planners Company Limited owned by Ibrahim Mahama is indebted to it. In a letter sighted by myjoyonline.com dated May 5, 2017, and signed by the Deputy Managing Director of GACL, Dr J. Okwesie Arthur said:  “Reference to your letter dated May 3, 2017, on the above subject, we wish ...

Accra Hearts of Oak have ended WAFA’s seven-match unbeaten run in the Premier League after beating them 2:1 in Accra. Skipper Thomas Abbey gave the Phobians an early lead to subdue the spirited academy boys, and playmaker Winful Cobbina sealed the win with a spectacular free kick midway in the second half. The second goal temporarily killed off the little ...

The installation of former Director-General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), Professor Ayemang Badu Akosa as chief of Kwahu-Abene in the Eastern Region last Friday was illegal and a flagrant violation of traditional rules, a chief has said. The Abetifi chief who also doubles as the acting Kwahumanhene, Nana Acheamfuor Asiedu Agyemang, told the media Monday, the enstoolment of the pathologist ...

Suspected armed robbers on a motorbike have shot and killed a man around the TOR traffic light at Tema, StarrFMonline.com has learnt. The deceased and his  colleague, who are believed to be workers of Ferro Fabric at Tema, were reportedly taking money  to the bank on a motorbike, when they were accosted by the robbers Monday afternoon. The robbers, according ...

Over 4,000 unemployed bonded nurses have received financial clearance from the ministry of finance to enable the ministry of health post them to the various health facilities across the country to start work. These psychiatric nurses, general nurses, and midwives, have been unemployed since completing their national service in August 2016. These psychiatric nurses, general nurses, and midwives, have been ...

Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II All the chiefs in Akyem Abuakwa in the Eastern Region are getting ready to visit the offices of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) in Accra to register their displeasure with a report on illegal mining by the security agency which indicts the Okyenhene. The secretary to Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, DM Ofori-Atta ...

A well-connected and powerful Chinese woman who is into galamsey in the Ashanti Region has been invited for questioning by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Joy News has learnt. Asia Hwan alias Aisha, who also identifies herself as Yaa Asantewaa, has been invited in connection with some four Chinese nationals who were arrested over the weekend for engaging in an ...

Mr Daniel Bugri Naabu, the New Patriotic Party’s Northern regional Chairman, has accused Mr Rockson Bukari, the Upper East Regional Minister, as well as Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Afisa Djaba, of having a hand in the murder of the party’s late Upper East Regional chairman Adams Mahama. Mr Mahama was murdered in an acid attack ...

After 47 years of public service, the Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, will retire on June 8, 2017, and two names remain in the race to replace her as Ghana’s next Chief Justice. The top contenders are: Justice Victor Jones Mawulom Dotse and Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah. The top two contenders lead from 14 Supreme Court potentials. The Chief Justice is ...

The maverick Northern regional chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party Daniel Bugri Naabu has accused two ministers in the Akufo-Addo government of being involved in the plot that led to the murder of Adams Mahama, the NPP’s Upper East regional chairman. “…Otiko has been a controversial woman in the party. As I’m telling you, this Adams issue, she was ...