The Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr. Andrew Barnes has expressed shock at the level of corruption in Ghana, a nation dominated by Christians. To Mr. Barnes, corruption should not be an issue eating up a country which Christian population constitutes approximately 71.2% of the entire population. Christianity is the …

China’s new $11bn (£8.8bn) mega airport has opened its doors, days before the country’s 70th anniversary celebrations. The Daxing International Airport in the capital Beijing was formally opened by President Xi Jinping on Wednesday. The airport spans 700,000 square metres, or 98 football fields, says state media outlet China Daily. Beijing’s …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his Government has ensured that poverty is no longer a stumbling block to the access of education of Ghana’s children, as a result of the implementation of the Free Senior High School policy in September 2017. According to President Akufo-Addo, “I am glad that …

Some dismissed Level 100 Students of the forty-six Colleges of Education in the country are reportedly attempting suicide. One of the affected students in Assin South in the Central region has reportedly committed suicide by drinking poison. Another student at Koforidua Asokore SDA College of Education told Starr News she …

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has failed in its efforts to help fight corruption, the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo has stated. The Office was set up with the aim to monitor and investigate economic and organised crime, and on the authority of the Attorney-General prosecute these offences …

Thieves have stolen two television sets from a home of South Africa’s police chief Gen Khehla Sitole, a police spokesman has said. “Actually it was not a break-in. However, two television sets were stolen,” Brigadier Vish Naudi was quoted by South Africa’s privately owned IOL news site as saying. “The …

The Okyeman Council says it will not accept the written apology from the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NDC, Mr. Kwame Zu. According to them, the party will have to come in person and apologize to the Okyeman council for some pacification to be done before any form of apology …

A senior lecturer at the History and Political Science Studies Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Dr Samuel Adu-Gyamfi has admonished the largest opposition, National Democratic Congress (NDC) to school their Communications Directors on Chieftaincy issues. According to him, the recent comments by the …

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has commended the people of Kyebi in the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area for demonstrating against some ‘distasteful’ comments made by the Ashanti regional secretary of the NDC, Mr. Kwame Zu. “I’m glad the Okyeman citizenry bared its teeth enough to elicit an apology from the …

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is likely to be banned in all 940 towns and villages at Akyem Abuakwa for failing to render an unqualified apology and pacify the gods of the land. The Akyem people believe the unsavory comment made about their chief, Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin II …