The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has expressed anger over the ridiculously low rent charges by Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies in the country. The committee is demanding an upward review of the rents charged on government bungalows. Speaking at a PAC sitting in Ho in the Volta region Thursday, Chairman of the committee, […] The post Two

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye has categorically stated that he will resign if he is ever presented with a bill that would legalise homosexuality in the country. The Speaker has on several occasions stated that Ghana will never legalise homosexuality as long as he remains Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament. In a recorded interview […] The post I Would

Two persons have been arrested in connection with the death of a final year student of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School (OKESS). They were fished out of their hideouts around the area in the afternoon. The deceased Godfred Arthur was stabbed to death by unknown assailants of which one of them is suspected to be a […] The post Okess student death: Two suspects arrested appeared

The teaching and learning activities at the Life Community Special School at Deduako, a surburb of Kumasi, is set to witness a new paradigm, with a donation from the Rotary Club. The club which is a not-for-profit organization, on Tuesday, commissioned a Ghs15,000 sensory room and a garden project for the pupils who have autism […] The post K’si:

Telecommunications Giant Vodafone Ghana has declared the month of May, the Ashanti month in honour of the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II who celebrated his birthday over the weekend. Top management of Vodafone on Wednesday, presented a royal cake to the Otumfuo at his palace to celebrate his 68th birthday and 19th year of coronation […] The post Vodafone declares

Officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) have arrested a Ugandan for trafficking narcotics at the Kotoka International Airport.  The culprit Bwogo Federick, 53 years was picked-up by operatives of NACOB upon arrival on board Ethiopian Air flight ET 921 from Kampala-Uganda when he was going through arrival formalities at the Kotoka International Airport on […] The post Ugandan

Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has called for the removal of all forms of trade barriers between Ghana and Nigeria to enhance existing relationship between the two countries. Again, he has charged Nigerian business owners to take advantage of the conducive economic atmosphere in Ghana for investment opportunities. Dr. Bawumia was speaking at the maiden […] The post All

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has said he’ll under no circumstance ever kneel before the revered Overlord of Asanteman, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. According to him, he is not a coward and there’ll be no justification for him to ever kneel before the Asantehene. Abdul Malik Kweku Baako made […] The post I’ll never kneel before

A prisoner serving a 10-year jail term at the Koforidua prisons has allegedly escaped. The convict, Charles Agyei, alias Rasta escaped Wednesday when he and other inmates went out with some prison officers to fetch firewood at Akwadum road. An informant close to the Prisons, indicates that the escapee was using a chainsaw machine to cut […] The post Prisoner escapes from Koforidua

Award-winning gospel Musician, Ohemaa Mercy, has revealed she was detained at the hospital at a point in her life because she had no money to foot her medical bills. Recounting some of the difficulties she encountered in the past, the multiple award winner told Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Wednesday, May 9 that the incident happened as she […] The post I Was Detained

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has postponed its national delegates’ conference to July 7, 2018 due to the Eid al-Adha festivities. The conference was scheduled to be held in June 15-17, 2018 in Koforidua in the Eastern region. This comes after the Muslim community of the party petitioned the leadership of the party to re-schedule the […] The post NPP postpones

A 19-year-old student of the Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School in the Tafo-Pankrono Municipality of the Ashanti Region Godfred Arthur has been stabbed to death by a suspected former student of the school during prep time. The final year student who was found in a pool of blood is reported to have died on Wednesday night with knife wounds […] The post Kumasi: Okess student stabbed

Pressure group, OccupyGhana has expressed disappointment in the late response by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) concerning a vociferous member of the party who assaulted Adom FM’s newscaster Ohemaa Sakyiwaa Ahwenepa. He wondered why it took the leadership of the party days to condemn one of their own for attacking a journalist on duty. Hajia […] The post We

Beloved Ghanaian journalist, Christopher Opoku died exactly a year ago today. To mark the anniversary, his widow, pens down this piece about this departure. “To my husband Christopher Nana Opoku. I can’t believe it’s a year already Chris. A year without a phone call from you, A year without sharing ideas with you A year […] The post A year without you, Christopher Opoku

“… Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall”. Could there have been a better time for such a maturity test for Ghana? That a day after the country hosted the World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) celebrations, a journalist with the Multimedia group, in the line of duty at the headquarters […] The post Hajia Fati and

Mr. Kojo Adu Boahene, Administrator of God’s Way International Church on Wednesday informed an Accra Circuit Court that Bishop Daniel Obinim, Founder of the church who is on trial was sick and had to visit the hospital. Mr. Boahene said: “My Lord Bishop Obinim was not feeling well and he had to be taken to […] The post ‘Angel’ Bishop Obinim sick,

The Energy Ministry has dismissed as null and void the suspension of the embattled CEO of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited Frances Essiam, Starr news has gathered. The board of GCMCL Tuesday ordered Essiam to step aside with immediate effect. The action came on the back of the impasse between the board and Essiam […] The post Frances Essiam Not Suspended –

US President Donald Trump has welcomed home three American detainees released by North Korea. Mr Trump said it was a “special night for these really great people” as they arrived at the Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. The White House said the trio had been freed as a gesture of goodwill ahead of the […] The post North Korea summit: Trump greets

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is on a weeklong vacation in the United Kingdom, effective Wednesday, May 9, 2018. He was accompanied by the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, his children and grandchildren, Jubilee House spokesperson Eugene Arhin announced Thursday. Akufo-Addo will honour two public engagements while away in the UK –  on Friday, 11th […] The post Nana