Four people have since January died of rabies at hospitals in the Ashanti region. This was after they had been bitten by dogs infected with the disease. Officials from the veterinary services in the region are appealing for public support in the vaccination of domestic animals. Rabies, a fatal illness, …

With barely a year to the 2020 general elections, the political climate is already heating up both parliamentary and executive contests. The main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has selected its flagbearer and majority of its parliamentary candidates for next year. However, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), …

The Director-General of Police in charge of Research and Planning, COP Nathan Kofi Boakye, has urged the public to report activities of errant and corrupt police officers for action to be taken against them. According to him acts of corruption, extortion, human rights abuses and irresponsible policing which in recent …

A 23 year old stubborn thief known as Khalipha was trapped to death by a store gate in an attempt to steal from a store at Anomangye in the Suame municipality in the Ashanti region. The incident of the shocking end of that dreadful thief occurred on Thursday, September 26, …

One senior military officer, Colonel Samuel Kojo Gamelii, and a civilian employee of the Ghana Armed Forces, Geshong Akpa, have been put before an Accra district court in connection with the alleged plot to topple the government. The two have been charged with possession of explosives, firearms and ammunition without …

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, has called for full disclosure on the government’s role in the controversial Aker Energy deal. The former President asked the Conference and Ghanaians to query President Akufo-Addo, why the government would renegotiate a contract to the disadvantage of Ghanaians when …

Sadat Mohammed, aka Alhaji, the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of the Otumfuo’s Asamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduo, has been remanded in police custody. Police investigators hauled him to the Asokore Mampong District Court after he was captured and brought to Kumasi last week to seek proper custody for him …

About five acre marijuana farm at Anum in the Eastern region has been destroyed by Police personnel deployed from the  Regional police Headquarters. Starr News has gathered the weed farm located in a secluded bush was destroyed Thursday September 26,2019 after intelligence by the Drug Law Enforcement Unit at the …

Some 180 condemned prisoners are languishing on death row at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison because successive Presidents had, since 1993, refused to sign their death warrants. The condemned prisoners include 174 men and six women, with many of them being sentenced to death by hanging for murder. The Nsawam …

Nigerian police say they have rescued nearly 500 people from a building in the northern city of Kaduna where they were detained and allegedly tortured. Those held were all men and boys – some were found chained up. Kaduna state’s police chief Ali Janga told the BBC the large house …