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The Managing Director of Tullow Ghana Kweku Awotwi has revealed his outfit has awarded contracts totalling $10.6 billion to indigenous companies and joint ventures in which local companies are partners. “Participation in Ghana’s oil sector is not just about recruitment and employee development. Businesses can also tap into diverse opportunities in the oil and gas value chain. Tullow Ghana has ...

The Chinese woman who was arrested for possessing large quantities of Rosewoods have been released. Starr News sources says she has been put on inquiry bail. The 43-year-old Chinese woman identified as Helen Hyuan was arrested on Monday. She was arrested at a police checkpoint around Viting, an outskirt suburb on the Tamale Kintampo highway, with four containers all together ...

Some officers of the National Identification Authority (NIA) have been busted for allegedly registering people for the national identity card, Ghana Card at night. They were reportedly busted at a private residence at Awudome, near the St Theresa Catholic Church in Accra on Tuesday night [May 7] at about 7:30 pm. It was some residents of the area, who claimed ...

The police in Accra say they have picked up a suspect in connection with the attack on a student of the University of Ghana, Legon on Saturday. Director of Operations for the Greater Accra Police, ACP Kwesi Ofori told Joy News the police have taken over investigations and are working to establish if there are other suspects on the run. ...

The Deputy Minister in charge of Basic and Secondary Education, Dr Yaw Adutwum, has said the involvement of parents in the education of their children in private schools, coupled with accountability in those schools, is what accounts for the high success rates recorded by the pupils and students of private education institutions compared to those of the public schools. Dr ...

A five (5) week-old baby has been rescued by the Police officers from the Koforidua Central Police Station after he was abandoned on the street by the unknown mother. The infant believed to have been abandoned around 10 pm at the Traffic light close to the Eastern Regional Hospital was heard crying by passers-by. Upon receipt of the information, the ...

The police have arrested eight persons belonging to the Homeland Study Group Foundation aimed at seceding from Ghana to declare Volta region as an independent state. They were arrested in Ho on Sunday in “a meeting to finalise arrangements to declare independent Western Togoland on 9th May, 2019”, a police statement said. “The arrest was made by a team of ...

Desperate attempts by some persons to link President Akufo-Addo and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to the AGM-Aker Energy deal to explore and produce oil offshore Ghana appear to have backfired. This is because Quad Energy, the company leading a consortium partnering AGM/Aker Energy, is reportedly not linked to President Akufo-Addo and his Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. The Minority NDC on ...

Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has dropped a hint that bigwigs in both the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have all been fingered in the second part of Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ investigative piece dubbed, galamsey fraud. Though he will not mention specific names, he revealed that he ...

The largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has estimated that a minimum of one million potential voters will be disenfranchised should the Electoral Commission adamantly continue to hold the limited registration exercise for the Assembly election at its district offices instead of at the electoral levels. The EC recently announced plans to undertake a limited voter registration exercise ...