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The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has dismissed the case filed by businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, against the state. The court said Woyome’s right to non-discrimination, right to equality before the law, equal protection before the law and his right to be heard by an impartial tribunal had all not been violated. Below is a summary of the ...

Ghana’s former President Jerry John Rawlings has called on the Electoral Commission to take a critical look at the concerns raised by the National Democratic Congress on the ongoing limited voter registration exercise. The former President said following concerns raised in a press conference by the NDC on Thursday, it has become necessary for the Electoral Commission to give the ...

Tullow Oil has announced five hundred million dollars in profits for the first half of this year [2019]. The company’s revenue also recorded 900 million dollars. Tullow is however hopeful that the figure will inch up when production levels increase to expected levels. Tullow, in its trading statement, said the increase in production in West Africa from 95,000 to 100,000 ...

Power Distributor PDS Ghana Limited has said it will undertake scheduled maintenance works in the Volta Region. This is to improve service delivery. In a PDS statement released on Thursday, 27 June 2019, the company said: “The following areas will experience power outage on Monday, 1 July 2019 and Wednesday, 3 July 2019 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.” The ...

Chief Executive Officer of the now-defunct The Beige Bank, Mr Michael Nyinaku, together with 12 of his subsidiary companies, are expected to cough up over GHC1.3 billion to the Receiver of the defunct company, Nii Amanor Dodoo. Mr Amanor Dodoo, who has dragged Nyinaku and 12 of his subsidiaries, including Legacy Pension Trust Ltd, The Beige Group Ltd, BBS Logistics ...

A Tema District Court, presided over by Mrs Akosua Anokyewaa Adjepong, has ordered prosecutors to furnish the court with all the documents that they will rely on as evidence against the accused persons in the murder case of Mrs Josephine Asante, the former Marketing and Public Affairs Manager of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA). The order was given ...

Dedicated to ensuring decent development and discipline for deprived and destitute children, the Echoing Hill Village has descended into moral decrepitude that defies all description; descended into disheartening and deplorable depths of depravity, destitution and decadence. The hills only echo to the dreary din of debauchery; it’s the very definition of dereliction and desolation! Death Threat The General Manager of ...

A converted call girl who claims to be the Queen Mother of all prostitutes in Ghana has confessed that she had sex with over 5,000 just to acquire plenty money and live a flashy lifestyle. She said people doubt her anytime she confesses adding that though she smeared concoctions imported from Cote D’ Ivoire on her private part when having ...

Former Minister for Defence, Dr Benjamin Bewa-Nyog Kunbuor has said political parties accusing the Electoral Commission of suspicious acts are doing so due to the internal methods of conducting their own elections. According to the Former National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for the Nandom constituency, parties who use crooked methods in their internal elections are fearful that same method will ...

A member of the Communications Committee of Parliament, Sam George, on Thursday claimed the government of Ghana is spying on Ghanaians. “I’m saying that as it sits today, it’s very…very likely that our calls and text messages are being listened and read,” the Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament told Starr News’ Ibrahim Alhassan. According to him, that is because the ...