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One of the medical practitioners who pushed for the removal of the new director general of the Ghana Health Service has claimed he did not go through due process to secure the job. Dr Baffour Awuah who was appointed by the President on November 5,2019 has had his appointment withdrawn days after some health workers claiming to be members of ...

Some 170 suspects have been arrested in a joint security operation code-named Koudanlgou III near the Ghana-Togo borders to stop planned terrorist activities and other criminal moves. “The exercise is aimed at preventing terrorist activities, illegal resource extraction, drug trafficking, dealing in illicit arms, smuggling, among other transnational crimes,” Ghana’s National Security Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah said in a statement. According ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has cut sod for the inner roads construction project in the Cape Coast metropolis. The project which forms part of the Syno-Hydro partnership agreement between the Chinese Government and the Government of Ghana will see 30,000 km of roads being constructed in Cape Coast. Beneficiary communities are Basakrom, Kwapraw, Apewosika,Dankwakrom, Ayifua ,Abura and Academy of ...

Following the successful discovery of a new oil field, the two major political parties, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP), have started engaging in who did what for the discovery. A Ghanaian oil company, Springfield Exploration and Production Limited (SEP), has worked to find some 1.2 billion barrels of oil in the West Cape Three Points ...

The Regional Reorganisation and Development Minister has proposed a total withdrawal of the December 17 referendum over what he said are attacks on President Akufo-Addo’s person. Dan Kwaku Botwe is convinced some persons are unjustifiably hurling invectives at the President over government-backed ‘YES’ campaign for an upcoming referendum. The December 17 referendum seeks to amend the law to enable Metropolitan, ...

Popular fetish priest Kwaku Bonsam says he is willing to serve as President of the proposed National Shrine if government goes ahead to construct it. The Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious AffairsSamuel Kofi Dzamesi has said government will not rule out the possibility of establishing a national shrine. According to him, some traditional groups have been canvassing for a national ...

CEO for GIHOC distilleries Maxwell Kofi Jumah has lambasted the minority in parliament, describing the opposition party as a slogan hitting party. According to him, the group on the left side in parliament can’t stand up to any in-depth discussion. Mr Jumah who was on the Starr Chat with Bola Ray Wednesday said “the minority has not been effective, they ...

The CEO of defunct Ideal Finance Nii Kotei Dzani was on Wednesday arrested by the police for misappropriation of some funds in his care. Reliable sources told Starrfm.com.gh that the Council of State member was detained at the Ministries Police Station for some hours before being released on bail. Sources say he was arrested over the misappropriation of some GHc ...

The two University of Ghana lecturers Professor Ransford Gyampo and Dr. Paul Butakor who were alleged to have abused their positions in the BBC’s ‘sex for grades’ documentary are to face the schools Disciplinary Committee. Both lecturers were were interdicted by the university following the release of the documentary. A fact-finding committee set up to investigate the issue has found ...

The University of Ghana fact-finding committee set up to investigate two lecturers indicted over the BBC “sex for grades” documentary has found them guilty of misconduct. In its report, the committee recommended that the matter should be brought before the University of Ghana’s Disciplinary committee for further actions. The committee which was chaired by Justice Vida Akoto-Bamfo noted that the ...