The brother of Afghan Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada has been killed in a powerful bomb blast at a mosque in southwestern Pakistan, Taliban sources have confirmed. A senior Taliban source said that Hafiz Ahmadullah was the imam of the Khair Ul Madarais mosque in the town of Kuchlak, on the …
Read More »BoG closes down Ideal, Midland, GN and others
Bank of Ghana has closed down 23 Savings and Loans companies, Starrfm.com.gh can reveal. Documents available to Starrfm.com.gh contain some heavy weights in the savings and loans sector such as Midland, Ideal, uniCredit and Global Access whose licenses have been revoked after a review exercise in the past months. According …
Read More »No pupil will be sacked for not wearing new uniforms – GES
The Ghana Education Service (GES) says no pupil will be sacked for not wearing the new school uniforms for Junior High School students when the academic year starts in September. Commenting on its implementation, the Director-General of GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa said the old uniform will be phased out …
Read More »GES shifts reopening for SHS 3 students to August 25
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has shifted the reopening of school for third-year Senior High School (SHS) students from Monday, August 19 to Sunday, August 25, 2019. A statement issued on Friday and signed by the Director-General of the GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku Amankwa, said the new date was arrived …
Read More »Apologise if you now accept free SHS – Napo to NDC
The Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, also known as Napo has called on the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to apologise to Ghanaians for speaking against the government’s flagship free Senior High School policy.Addressing the chiefs and people Saboba as part of President Nansa Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s …
Read More »Election of MMDCEs: EC sets referendum for December 17
The Electoral Commission (EC) has now settled on December 17, this year for the referendum on the election of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs). Earlier, the EC had fixed December 10, 2019, for the referendum. The Director of Electoral Services at the EC, Dr Serebour Quaicoe, announced the …
Read More »Savannah Region: Death toll now 2 in Thursday’s communal violence
At least two persons are dead three others wounded after communal violence broke out Thursday evening between two rival groups at Lakula near Daboya in the Savannah Region. The death toll moved to two on Friday after one of the injured persons referred to the Walewale hospital failed to respond to treatment. …
Read More »Savannah Region: One dead, four injured after communal violence
At least one person is feared dead and four others wounded after communal violence broke out Thursday evening between two rival groups at Lakula near Daboya in the Savannah Region. An eye witness in Mankarigu, a nearby community, confirmed to Joy News that the violence was triggered by a misunderstanding …
Read More »A Letter To Mahama Over His Pretentious U-Turn On Free S.H.S
Dear Mr Mahama, Your pretentious u-turn on President Akufo-Addo’s Free Senior High School implementation has been exposed by the affable and competent Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. You and your surrogates, since 2012, have caused for over forty advertisements to be made against President Akufo-Addo’s Free S.H.S …
Read More »Zoomlion And Stakeholders To Use WHO Recommended Biological Agent for Mosquito Control
The Vector Control unit of waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana limited in collaboration with the ministry of Health is set to use Bacillus thuringiensis var israelensis (Bti) which is a biological agent recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as efficient to control out door mosquitoes. BTI is a bacterial …
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