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The Deputy Director, Technical at the National Sports Authority (NSA) Saka Acquaye has died. The experienced sports administrator died today Wednesday, June 24, 2020, at the 37 Military Hospital. His daughter confirmed to Starr Sports. “Dad suddenly collapsed on Tuesday although he had no medical conditions so we rushed him to the 37 Military Hospital where he was revived on ...

A five-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Anin Yeboah has directed the Attorney General’s department to mobilise resources and acquire properties of businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome. The motion for leave of the court by the State is premised on auctioneers’ notice that it was unable to auction the properties because buyers fear the properties could ...

Headmaster of Odorgonno Senior High School, Samuel Mensah has dismissed reports that some six returning students have contracted Coronavirus and are in isolation. He told our reporter Grace Hammoah Asare on Wednesday that four of the returning students indeed recorded high temperatures and were placed in isolation for further checks. The checks conducted by nurses from the Ghana Health Service ...

A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court will deliver judgement in a consolidated application where the National Democratic Congress and Mark Takyi-Banson are challenging the compilation of the electoral register by the Electoral Commission. In court today, Takyi-Banson and his lawyers had 10 minutes to move the application while the Attorney General’s department also had the same time to respond. ...

Ghana’s former High Commissioner to India, Samuel Pee Yalley has thrown his weight behind the cry of the Majority Leader, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu for mechanisms to maintain experienced Members of Parliament (MPs). Forty (40) Incumbent NPP MPs at its just ended primaries, lost their seats, which according to the Majority Leader is a setback as it impedes the effectiveness of ...

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested two persons in relation to the demolition of a building on the premises of the Nigeria High Commissioner in Accra. The two, according to a press release issued by the CID were arrested on Monday, June 22, 2020. The two have been charged with conspiracy to Commit Crime ...

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, is in isolation at the University of Ghana Medical Center (UGMC) in Accra after being suspected of contracting coronavirus. This follows a voluntary test he undertook of COVID-19 at the same centre on Monday evening after he returned from his constituency. The Minister reportedly had symptoms of COVID-19 such as headache and ...

Some stranded Ghanaian footballers including Lee Addy – a former 2010 World Cup star – are appealing to the government to evacuate them from Ethiopia. In a viral video, Lee Addy and goalkeeper Muntari Tagoe say the players have exhausted all their money since the season was truncated in March. Muntari stressed that they are in possession of return tickets ...

The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLs) have expressed disappointment in President Akufo-Addo’s government in the lack of commitment to heed to professional advice in the fight of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. It wants government to prioritize the healthcare of citizens over profit and politics. The professional body has persistently urged the authorities to expand testing centres using ...

Kennedy Agyapong says the MP for Asawase is not someone relevant in his life, therefore, he is not going to reconcile with him. The two men had a fracas in Parliament over a year ago. According to the Assin Central MP, he would have fought the MP in Parliament, but he has since grown calmer over the matter. “I would ...