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Lawyer for the two University of Ghana lecturers who have been suspended over the BBC’s sex for grade documentary has welcomed the punishment, but with reservation. According to Francis-Xavier Sosu, considering the other sanctions attached to the suspension, the action is too harsh. “It is for this reason that we find the decision to be a little too harsh and ...

The deputy national organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Chief Biney has served notice that he is geared up for a robust campaign aimed at bringing former president John Mahama back to power. After a short political hiatus to focus on his historic marriage with the deputy CEO of MASLOC, Afia Akoto, the affable politician took to his social ...

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, expressed outrage when her staff who were sent to the market to buy shito for Ghanaians stranded in China said a bottle of shito costs GH¢80. The minister vented that she can’t buy that shito for GH¢80 and will go to the market herself to get cheaper options. Ideally, the ...

President  Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, 16th February 2020, commissioned a newly constructed Business Resource Centre (BRC) at Kadjebi in the Akan Constituency, in the Oti Region. The Business Resource Centre is mandated to promote and support the national industrialization agenda of the Akufo-Addo Government, and will serve as a one-stop-shop for business development and investment in the constituency. It will also ...

Officials of the National Security Sunday night stormed the premises of factories owned by former journalist Raymond Archer at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra and demolished it. Several properties of Universal Labels & Packaging Co. Ltd and Colour Planet Limited were damaged by the state security agency. It is unclear the basis for the demolishing. Speaking to Starrfm.com.gh, a ...

The Water Quality manager for the Ghana Water Company in the Ashanti region Alhaji Adam Yakubu says illegal mining is destroying the quality of water supplied to residents in the region. According to him, the turbidity of the water in the area has gone up 6000ph making it expensive to treat the same volume of water distributed to the people ...

“All the people in the region and beyond will attest to the fact that within this very short period of our independence, we as a region have begun to witness remarkable and progressive development. His Excellency, we wish to appreciate your good leadership since your assumption of this high office of the Presidency. Under your leadership, we the people in ...

Ghana and three other African countries – the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Zambia – have licensed and can now distribute an Ebola vaccine, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has hailed as a “milestone”. Preliminary study results indicate the Ervebo vaccine, manufactured by Merck, has a 97.5% efficacy rate. Data also suggests that vaccinating people who are already ...

The founder and leader of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), Percival Kofi Akpaloo has heavily descended on the flagbearer of National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama saying he is corrupt hence not fit to contest for the 2020 presidential elections. He argued that the NDC has a chance to “prevent another disaster in 2020” if they change their presidential ...

The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has announced the “readiness” of the Akufo-Addo government to ship loads of Ghanaian staple foods like “shito, gari and kenkey that can last over 2 weeks without going bad”, to the over 300 Ghanaian students who have been trapped in the Chinese province of Wuhan by the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, MyNewsGh.com ...