The National Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) has asked suppliers under the Free Senior High School programme to supply Ghana rice to schools starting next year or face sanctions. It gave a signal that licensed suppliers’ failure to do so would attract sanctions, which include non-payment for services rendered and revocation …
Read More »Planned fuel increment canceled after Akufo-Addo intervention
The planned increment in the prices of fuel at the pumps has been halted following an intervention by President Akufo-Addo, Starr News has learnt. National Petroleum Authority (NPA) had in a notice Monday morning directed oil marketing companies to effect a 4 pesewa adjustment in the price of fuel. However, …
Read More »Court orders ICGC, Crossroad Church to pay GHC30,000 for nuisance
An Accra high court presided over by Her Ladyship Justice Novisi Afua Aryene has awarded damages and cost against the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) and Crossroad Community Church Ministries, both at Haasto in the Greater Accra Region, for nuisance. The court further ordered the Municipal Chief Executive of Abokobi …
Read More »Couple with 3 children with rare abnormal growth left devastated
The abnormal condition of three children with growth disorder in Asante-Akyem North District of the Ashanti Region has left their parents devastated. Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital say few cases of the rare condition of the children are reported at the facility. Father of the stunted children, aged …
Read More »Work progresses steadily on Bolga-Bawku Road
Work on the Bolgatanga-Bawku Road is progressing steadily with the Brazilian construction firm Queiroz Galvao targeting to complete the construction of the entire stretch by August 2021 MyNewsGh.com has gathered. Work resumed on the 116km stretch after the project stalled several months due to lack of funds and also for …
Read More »VIDEO: Fire guts server room of GRA office at Madina
The server room of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) office at Madina, Zongo junction near Oman FM caught fire on Monday, December 16, 2019. According to sources, the main section for record-keeping went up in flames though the cause of fire in the building is currently unknown. Several attempts by …
Read More »VIDEO: Church members drink pastor’s bathwater for ‘anointing’
An insane video of members of a so-called church drinking their church leader’s bathwater has angered the Ghanaian public. The video, which became an instant internet sensation for the wrong reasons, had the so-called ‘man of God’ directing his church members to drink water he had soaked his body in. …
Read More »COPEC threatens court action over fuel hike
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers has threatened legal action against the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) over a directive to oil marketers to increase fuel prices at the pumps. This directive according to COPEC is illegal and unconstitutional and must be reversed immediately else face court tomorrow. According to the chamber, …
Read More »Goodbye to Her Ladyship Chief Justice Sophia Abena Boafoa Akuffo
Friday, December 20, 2019, marks the end of Her Ladyship the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo’s tenure as Ghana’s 13thChief Justice since independence and the 6th Chief Justice under Ghana’s 4th Republican Constitution. Quite unfortunately, there seems to be a growing notion that Her Ladyship the Chief Justice has not acquitted …
Read More »Tackie Tawiah I, the Accra king who defied British order to steal the Golden Stool
The Ga-Dangme of Ghana revere their ancestor-king Abiasuma King Tackie Tawiah I immensely and for good cause. King Tawiah l was the overlord of the Ga people of Ghana, who reigned during the “Golden years” of Accra (1862-1902) and still acclaimed as the most illustrious, progressive and enterprising of all …
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