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The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has opened nominations for its upcoming parliamentary primaries slated for April 25, 2020. Mr. Joseph Aninkora Kuntin has picked form to contest Incumbent Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong for Assin Central seat. Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong is a Ghanaian politician and businessman who represents Assin Central in parliament ...

The regional Communication Officer for NDC W/North Region Sam Jerome has personally condemn the decision by the NPP hierarchy to charge new aspirants a whopping sum of Ghc52,000 as their total filing fees. With elucidation, this includes a nomination form fee of Ghc2000, filing fee of Ghc20,000 and a tiger fee of Ghc30,000 as a developmental fee. This is indeed ...

Powerful people with military protection are those behind the resurgence of illegal mining in Ghana’s forests, the Bekwai District Manager of the Forestry Commission, Mr Rexford Twum-Damoah has revealed to journalists. The Bekwai forest reserve in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region is one of the areas bearing the brunt of the return of galamsey as some seven ...

The Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is hatching diabolic plans to disorganise the activities of the Electoral Commission (EC) ahead of the 2020 general election. The NDC’s main objective, according to him, is to work in secret and destroy the vital information of the EC, especially when the ...

Senior High Schools in the country risk closure over lack of funds and shortage of food. Funds have not been disbursed to the schools since the beginning of the 2019/2020 academic year affecting the smooth running of the schools. Starr News checks in the Eastern region reveal most schools have run out of food. Some headmasters who spoke to Starr ...

If it is about the question of how life is after retirement, then the expected answers from majority of workers who have retired from the public sector will not be pleasant. It stems from delayed payment of benefits to part payment of benefits or even none of the above. But the story of Mr. William Azure Akologo, a retired teacher ...

Although he campaigned for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during the 2016 elections, A Plus seems to be losing hope in the president as he posits that the country’s leader is now focused on retaining power rather than being tough in his fight against activities bedeviling the nation. In the wake of concerns by the Forestry Commission that some powerful members ...

The Nkawkaw District Police Command has arrested one person in connection with the exhumation of remains of a deceased at Awenade, a community near Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region. The suspect Nana Kwaku Ampadu, 39, was picked up by Police Monday, January 27, 2020 at about 12:35 pm at his hideout. He has been detained by Police to assist in ...

Mother of the Ahwoi brothers, Charlotte Hanson, passed on peacefully at her residence in Lashibi on 20th January, 2020. She died at the age of 97. Kwesi Ahwoi, former minister for Food and Agriculture and Ghanaian High Commissioner to South Africa, announced the demise of his mother on his Facebook wall. “Mum and I, she got her visa finally and ...

Anti-graft campaigner, Vitus Azeem says the attempt by government to compare the corruption perception index (CPI) and the Afrobarometer corruption report is counterproductive to the fight against graft. According to him, even though both surveys focus on corruption, their methodology and areas of interest are uniquely different. “You cannot compare them because they are talking about different things. The methodology ...