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The Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah has told residents of the region that President Akufo-Addo cannot fix all roads in the region even if he is given another term in office. “Definitely we can’t do all the roads. Even if you add the next four years to us (NPP) I cannot promise the people of Kumasi and Ashanti Region ...

US-based Ghanaian lawyer Prof Kwaku Asare says although the latest law school entrance results is an improvement, it still falls short of the quest to have all qualified law degree holders access to the school. Unlike the previous year when only twenty-eight students passed out of 1,820, this year saw 1,045 passes, out of a total of 2,720. Speaking to ...

FIFA Coaching Instructor, Bernhard Lippert has been appointed as Technical Director of the Ghana Football Association for a period of two years. The 58-year-old German trainer is a FIFA expert in instructing and training coaches and coach trainers. Until this appointment, Lippert was Technical Director of the Associations of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA), a position he’s occupied for 12 ...

Charles Kormi Kudzodzi, popularly known as Papavi, the 85-year-old leader of the Homeland Study Group Foundation has questioned the rationale behind the government’s decision to send over 1000 armed men to look for him. He explained he had made himself available to the police and other state security agencies on several occasions anytime they needed him. In a viral video ...

The Chief Executive Officer for Ghana COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has hinted that government will in October this year launch the most anticipated Cocoa Pension Scheme. This, Mr. Boahen Aidoo explained is in fulfillment of a manifesto promise President Nana Akufo-Addo made during the 2016 electioneering period. He told journalists in the Western Region that the necessary arrangements have been ...

President Akufo-Addo has announced he will file his nomination today at the Electoral Commission contest the December polls on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. In a tweet,  the President said he will be at the premises at the EC at 11 am to submit his forms to the commission. “I will, on Tuesday, 6th October 2020, file my ...

Five people have been confirmed dead at Ayanfuri-Gyaaman a community in the Upper-Denkyira West District of the Central Region after a mining pit caved in on them. More than fifteen others have sustained various degrees of injuries. NOTICE: For Advertisement and promotion of product on Ghanadailies.com Please Call us on 0265575352   The bodies of the deceased have been deposited ...

A six-year-old boy has drowned in an uncompleted manhole at Okorase Domeabra in the Akuapem North Municipality of the Eastern Region. The incident occurred Thursday, October 1. The body of the deceased has been retrieved and deposited at the morgue by Police. Starr News has gathered that the child went to another house to play while his parents were absent ...

The Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says the current COVID -19 tests at the airport must be celebrated and not attacked. The minister also announced that government has no plans of suspending the tests at the airport, changing the company or suspending the contract. According to him, the company Health Frontiers, as contracted by the airport company Limited is ...

The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) is considering proposals to increase the retirement age from the current 60 years. Chief Executive of NPRA, Hayford Attah Krufi, said the Authority is also considering a similar proposal to increase the deductions made from the workers’ salary for the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) pension scheme. He said the proposals for ...