Employees under the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) are set to embark on a nationwide demonstration over unpaid allowances. The programme, which currently employs some 99,000 youth, has faced challenges with beneficiaries leaving the policy without notifying their respective offices. Some of the beneficiaries since their employment in 2018 have been agitating over non-payment of their […] The post NABCO

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has confirmed five deaths after Accra got flooded Sunday night. Speaking on Morning Starr, the Greater Accra Regional Director of NADMO, Archibald Cobbinah said the incident involves a woman and her child, two men and one other who was electrocuted. The police have conveyed the bodies to the morgue. […] The post Accra flood: Five dead –

The Central Bank has announced it has begun issuing upgraded banknotes into circulation aimed at enhancing security features. “The upgraded banknotes also come with improved durability and machine readability,” the Bank of Ghana said in a circular. Below are details of the statement: BANK OF GHANA INTRODUCES UPGRADED BANKNOTES The Bank of Ghana will issue […] The post BoG introduces

Professor Ransford Gyampo has reiterated university lecturers will go every length to resist attempts by government control academic freedoms by taking absolute control of universities through the councils. It comes after the Public Relations officer of the education ministry Vincent Ekow Assafuah  reacted to his opposition to the supposed move by accusing him of seeking […] The post We’ll

Referee Theresa Bremansu was beaten up by a Prisons Officer after their Ladies team lost 1-0 to Ampem Darkoa in the first leg semi-final of Women’s Special Competition. Mavis Owusu scored the only goal of the match in the 48th minute at the Army Park in Sunyani to give the visitors huge advantage. After the […] The post Photos: Prisons officer beats up female referee

Workers at the newly-commissioned Juaso Women Palm Oil Processing Centre have been challenged to maintain the facility well in order for posterity to benefit from it. The Gh¢740,000 facility located in the Asante Akyem South Municipal of the Ashanti region, was on Friday commissioned by the MTN Ghana Foundation and it is expected to provide […] The post Keep

Professor Ransford Gyampo of the University of Ghana, Legon, has accused the Akufo-Addo government of seeking to curtail academic freedom by taking absolute control of public universities in the country. According to him, a draft bill is currently being considered to enable the government appoint majority of the members on councils of the universities. “Just […] The post Gyampo

The government of Ghana has commenced processes aimed at pushing the cost of the internet down, Communications Minister Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has said. There will be an industry forum early next month, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful said to force a consensus on the way forward. Mrs Owusu-Ekuful made this known during a recent courtesy call paid to […] The post Internet price will soon go down

Protesting youth of Nanton in the Northern region are demanding an Abudu chief, accusing the Dagbon overlord of promoting divisions by filling up chieftaincy vacancies with only members of the Andani Family. The youth explained, the protest was sparked by failure of the Yaa Naa to “select the right person for the area”, despite a petition […] The post Give us an

The load management programme announced by Power Distribution Services Ghana has been suspended “until further notice.” PDS said the suspension is due to “sufficient generation.” According to the distributor, GRIDCo has directed it to “suspend with immediate effect the load management programme until further notice because there is sufficient generation.” “The Load Management Programme has […] The post PDS

At least six rioting protestors arrested by Police in Wednesday night’s protest against power outage in both Lower and Yilo Krobo have been remanded into Prison custody. The Odumase Krobo District Court judge, Frank Gbegby remanded the six for a week to reappear before the court on Friday 12 April, 2019. The prosecutor, DSP Akwasi […] The post Krobo Dumsor Protest: 6 rioters

A rainstorm has ripped off a three unit Classroom block and Three bedroom teachers bungallow as well as a CHPS Compound at Hliadzi Electoral area in the Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region. The incident has destroyed the scarce teaching and learning materials as well as medical tools of the affected facilities. Assembly […] The post Rainstorm rips off CHPS

Waste Management firm, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has commissioned a 20-million dollar Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (IRECOP) to supports the government’s quest to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa. The IRECOP has an 80% waste recovery rate with the capacity to handle 800 tons of solid waste on a 16-hour shift. The Plant is […] The post Zoomlion

Ghana’s biggest telecommunication network, MTN on Thursday donated an amount of Gh¢100,000 and a hamper worth Gh¢5,000 to His Royal Majesty, the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. The donation, according to MTN, is their token to support the 20th anniversary celebration of His Majesty ascending the Golden Stool. The Manhyia Palace has drawn a detailed […] The post MTN Ghana Donates

The No Business As Usual Hub has churned out a hundred and forty youth equipped in employability and entrepreneurship skills in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The No Business as Usual Hub is making strides at reducing the high rate of youth unemployment in the Asocore Mampong municipality of the Ashanti Region. […] The post NBU

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the co-operation between Ghana and Cuba is being extended to the eradication of malaria in Ghana. According to President Akufo-Addo, “soon, through a joint venture agreement with Labiofam S.A., a bio-larvicide factory will be established in Savelugu, in the Northern Region of Ghana.” In addition, […] The post BIO-LARVICIDE

Three illegal miners have been arrested in the Atewa Forest Reserve. The suspects – Foster Boakye, 24, Alhassan Larbara, 30 and Isaac Ampofo, 35, all residents of Akyem Pameng have been transferred to the Eastern regional Hospital in Koforidua. They were arrested in the act by Resource Guards from Anyinam led by Range Manager, Kofi […] The post Three illegal miners arrested

Former deputy power minister John Jinapor has charged the Akufo-Addo administration to call for help as it “struggles to find solution” to the recent power challenges facing the country. This was after he methodically listed the Mahama administration’s investments in the country’s power sector to halt the dreaded three-year power outages the country faced. Speaking […] The post Come

Former president John Mahama has predicted the New Patriotic Party government will soon be exposed by reality if they keep on resorting to lies and propaganda. “You can do all the lies and propaganda with the economy [that] you like, the reality of the people’s lives will expose you,” Mr. Mahama said at an economic […] The post Propaganda, lies will expose NPP gov’t

The Government has justified the appointment of Dr. Alexander Adusei as the Managing Director for the yet to be established Keta Port in the Volta region. President Akufo-Addo through his Minister for Transport Kwaku Asiamah in a letter sighted by Starr News made the appointment even though there is no port at Keta at the […] The post Gov’t justifies appointment