The chief of Kpargu Yili, Kparigu Lana Abdul Aziz Dokurugu was attacked and nearly killed by six armed men in his palace Wednesday night. The men wielding locally manufactured guns and wearing facemasks stormed the chief’s palace at about 11 pm. Upon their arrival, the suspected armed men met a …

The police in Sokoto have arrested one Maude Salisu over attack at the residence of a district head in Sokoto State during which one person was killed and another kidnapped. The Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Kaoje, disclosed this in Sokoto yesterday while parading suspects of various crimes. He said: “Armed …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Thursday, 8 August 2019, for a two-day official visit to the Republic of Angola, at the invitation of President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço. The visit, the first by a Ghanaian President, is aimed at deepening and strengthening the ties that exist between the …

A 14-year-old boy has lost an eye after a white bat attacked him at Breman Asikuma in the Central region. The victim, after the attack, started experiencing excruciating pains in his right eye. But, according to reports, his parents, instead of taking him to the hospital, sent him to a …

National security operatives made up of 12 armed personnel have reportedly picked up 4 Indians and two Ghanaians over yet to be known reasons, Starr News has learnt. The incident occurred last night at  Ahowdo in the Kumasi metropolis. The officers reportedly seized gold and an undisclosed amount of money …

Government has directed the Power Distribution Services (PDS) to provide ECG with a detailed revenue collection and expenditure report on a weekly basis. This comes as the finance ministry begins steps to unfreeze bank accounts of PDS. The financial and intelligence centre last week froze the bank accounts of PDS …

A Tamale-based Sakawa kingpin is bragging of how Nigerian businessman touted as Africa’s richest Aliko Dangote is his small boy if it is about cash. According to the diminutive young man known among his peers as Shatta Bundle because he is known to always walk around with dollar bills, he …

Commercial sex workers in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have bared their teeth at the Ashanti Regional Security Council over attempts to get rid of them from the streets. Their reaction is a response to Ashanti Regional Security Council embarking on an exercise to clamp down on prostitutes and their …

A former Vice Chairperson of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and two other activists of the party have defected to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Walewale Constituency of the North East Region. Sumani Mutawakilu who is the former NDC executive who led Majeed Mahamudu and Mubinu Halidu …

A man killed four people during a stabbing rampage in Southern California before officers arrested him after finding his silver Mercedes parked outside a 7-Eleven, authorities said. In addition to the people killed, the attacker left two others wounded in multiple crime scenes in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, police …