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The security agencies have busted 12 persons for their alleged involvement in an international scam. The 12, made up of different nationalities, were operating from their base at Dunkunah in Accra. They were picked up by officers from the Defence and Intelligence Unit of the Ghana Armed Forces and officers from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) from their operational ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced a compensation package for aspirants who lost in the just ended parliamentary elections. The party says the failed parliamentary candidates will be appointed to positions if the NPP is re-elected in the 2020 general elections. The Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, announced the plan an exclusive interview with Starr News while encouraging aspirants ...

Former President of the Republic of Ghana and head of state for a combined period of nineteen (19), Jerry John Rawlings has revealed that but for the intervention of a respected figure Kofi Annan who ‘forced’ him to open a foreign bank account, he had never owned any bank account outside the shores of Ghana. He was addressing Cadres and ...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) Ghana, under the Office of the President, Mr Stephen Amoah, faces legal action following an advertisement he allegedly caused to be published in the Wednesday, September 25, 2019 edition (page 44) of the Daily Graphic. Headed “INVITATION TO TENDER, PROCUREMENT OF GOODS”, the said advert sought invitation ...

A 35-year-old Takoradi based taxi driver was nearly lynched after he was hired by four persons to go and rescue one of the kidnapped Takoradi girls – later confirmed dead by DNA – in a mission that turned futile. Together with the mother of the driver, Comfort Awoyie, the wife of the driver, walked into the studios of Connect FM ...

The Ghana Education Service says the controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education curriculum has not been approved for schools in the country. According to the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment Dr. Prince Armah, the curriculum is yet to be endorsed by the relevant learning and teaching agencies. “It’s a draft, it has not been approved, there are ...

One person has been confirmed dead in clashes between Police and angry Okada riders at Senchi in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern Region. The deceased was shot when police were firing warning shots to disperse the mob who had massed up at the police station to demand release of two of their colleagues arrested by the police. A reinforcement ...

The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has condemned the recent spate of assault on some student leaders and a near-kidnapping of the SRC President, Mr Charles Junior Adu-Baah. A release issued by KNUST SRC’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Richard Amoh, on Sunday, 29 September 2019 stated that: “The President of ...

President of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC), Rev. Prof. Frimpong Manso has waded into the controversial Guidelines for the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) being introduced by the Ghana Education Service insisting the Churches will resist it if the GES dares to foist it on pupils. The Ghana Education Service (GES) will, from next term, introduce sex education into ...

President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Most Rev. Philip Naameh has said the minister of education, Mathew Opoku Prempeh has not been honest with church leaders regarding the Comprehensive Sexuality Education, (CSE) ABC News can report. The Prelate, who speaks on behalf of the conference said the minister of education, in September 2019, held a meeting with Church leaders ...