Starr News has uncovered a provision shop in Koforidua selling expired soft drinks to innocent School Children. The Shop is located close to a Private School at Two–Streams, a suburb of the New Juaben Municipality, Eastern Region, therefore highly patronized by the pupils. A label on the product -“Dada New …
Read More »Galamsey: 315 excavators seized; only 127 left – Task force
The leader of the team in charge of monitoring and securing all seized earthmoving and auxiliary equipment used for illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) has revealed that 315 excavators had been seized as of 31 January 2020 but only 127 are left in the central pool in Accra. According to Nana …
Read More »Law school mass failure: Parliament calls for remarking
The house of legislature has called on the Ghana Legal Council (GLC) to remark all scripts of failed students in the 2019 Ghana School of Law (GSL) entrance exams. Parliament’s recommendation follows the mass disqualification of over 1,600 law students who sat for the 2019 entrance exam for admission to …
Read More »Court discharges Kofi Amoabeng
An Accra Circuit Court has dropped all charges against Prince Kofi Amoabeng, the former Managing Director of defunct UT Bank. Police Prosecutor, ASP Emmanuel Nyamekye on Wednesday, 5th February 2020, told the Circuit Court Judge, Emmanuel Essandoh, that the State intends to file a fresh case against Mr Amoabeng at …
Read More »Two killed in weird motorbike accidents
Two persons died Tuesday afternoon after two motorcycles crashed into a cargo truck in separate accidents at Asuom in the Eastern region. The first incident occurred after 11: am on the Asuom-Twapease road when a motorcycle barreled into a moving truck loaded with bamboo sticks. A few hours after the …
Read More »We’re not worried about NDCs refusal to sign peace accord – Peace Council
Chairman of the National Peace Council, Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has disclosed that the Peace Council is not worried about the National Democratic Congress’s refusal to sign the peace accord put together by the council in their bid to end political party vigilantism. However, they have taken notice of the …
Read More »Be firm, resolute – GUTA boss to EC Chair
Dr Joseph Obeng, President of the Ghana National Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has asked the general public to respect the independence of the Electoral Commission and allow it to carry out its constitutional mandate. He called on the EC to be resolute and firm in its decision in relation …
Read More »Today in 1965: J.B. Danquah dies at Nsawam Prisons
Dr J. B. Danquah stood as a presidential candidate against Nkrumah in April 1960 but lost the election. On 3 October 1961, Danquah was arrested under the Preventive Detention Act, on the grounds of involvement with alleged plans to subvert the CPP government. He was released on 22 June 1962. …
Read More »€5m Airbus Saga: US court nails kingpin and brother
A United States of America Court document has revealed gory details about how the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government under Prof. Mills and Mahama took bribes and allowed European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus SE, to supply the Ghana Armed Forces with uncertified aircraft that can best be described as ‘Kokompe’ planes. …
Read More »W/R: 15 people were killed in road accidents in Jan. – Police
15 people have died while over one hundred people sustained injuries in road accidents in the Western Region in the month of January 2020. The Western Regional Commander for Motor, Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service Chief Superintendent, Richard Appiah, told Empire FM’s Emmanuel Ohene Gyan …
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