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Three factories established in the Akuapem North Municipality under the government’s signature One District, One Factory (1D1F) programme, have begun operations, Mr. Dennis Aboagye, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has announced. These are into coffee production, poultry farming, and palm oil extraction. The Asili Coffee Factory at Akropong has been producing three tons of bagged coffee for both the local ...

A senior Commissioner of Police (COP) has been picked up by a combined team of National Security Secretariat and Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) operatives regarding his alleged role in the September ‘Coup plot’ to destabilize Ghana, MyNewsGh.com can authoritatively confirm. The said COP is alleged to have been in close contact with the ‘coup plotters’ and had even been ...

It is emerging that the assailant who killed the New Patriotic Party (NPP) treasurer for Takoradi Constituency in the Western Region left behind the weapon he used to perpetrate the heinous crime. The Western Regional Police Commander, DCOP Vincent Redeemer Dedjoe, confirmed to journalists yesterday that preliminary investigations were showing that Mark Ofori’s killer actually left behind the pistol used. ...

A senior state attorney in Ghana, Emmanuel Lawrence Otoo-Boison, advised a crime suspect, who is said to be on the list of the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL), to run away from facing trial after taking a pregnant goat and cash from the suspect’s ‘agent’ in the latest undercover investigation on Ghana’s justice system. The suspect, Mohammed Awal, is standing ...

The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr. Stephen Opuni, has sued the New Patriotic Party (NPP) chairman for the New Juaben North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Kwadwo Boateng-Agyemang, over allegations of embezzlement of $400 million. Dr. Opuni is claiming the NPP chairman defamed him when he alleged that he (Opuni) withdrew the huge sums ...

The Embassy of Israel in Ghana and 102 countries around the world have reopened after a shut down Wednesday. Embassy announced a temporal shutdown via a press release, following a misunderstanding with the Finance Ministry of Israel. A statement from the embassy copied to Starr News said: “Due to the decision of the Israeli Ministry of Finance to breach understandings ...

If there is any process ongoing to reconcile former President Jerry John Rawlings and his successor-president, John Agyekum Kufuor, well, it has failed on arrival as the former is again accusing the latter of being the cause of floods and general construction indiscipline in Ghana. Mr Rawlings posits that Kufuor is the pacesetter for illegal structures that stand in waterways, ...

Reverend Francis Antwi aka Rev. Obofour who was invited by the Greater Accra Regional Police Command on Thursday, 31st October, 2019, for allowing a man to smoke Indian hemp in his church has responded to the invite. According to the man of God in a statement to the police, he was in the spiritual realm and as such did not ...

A big mammal believed to be a whale has been washed ashore at Bakano in Sekondi. This has attracted many people from all walks of life to move to the scene to catch a glimpse of the mammal. Not even the offensive stench could stop the residents from tripping to the shore. Some concerned residents told Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene-Gyan ...

The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery has dismissed claims that the recent spate of kidnappings is new to Ghana. Defending his assertion, Mr. Dery said the country has recorded some 504 kidnapping cases since 2011. The GNA reports that the Minister was addressing Regional, Divisional and District Crime Officers at the opening of a two-day annual conference when he made the ...