GENERAL NEWS

Oasis Pool and Shisha Lounge in Accra has been cut off from the national grid for power theft. The night club, which is said to be owned by popular hiplife musician D-Black, is located at Cantonments behind the police headquarters in Accra. Operators were caught red handed by the National …

Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has made a passionate plea to billionaire Elon Musk to buy Ghana. In a post on his social media handle, the lawyer noted that the billionaire was worth more than the country’s total Gross Domestic Product (GDP). He asked Musk to buy one of …

Professor Stephen Adei has proffered a drastic solution to an ongoing strike by the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana, CLOGSAG. According to the former rector of GIMPA, the government should fire all striking workers and replace them with the military as a stop-gap measure as it recruits …

The Ghana Police Service has said it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a Police officer. The Police in a release signed by the Director-General of Public Affairs, DCOP Kwesi Ofori indicated that the Police Officer “allegedly shot himself while on duty on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at …

Retired Court of Appeal judge, Justice Isaac Duose, has described as “very unfair”, the U.S. Department of State’s 2021 Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released on 12 April 2022, in which Ghana’s judiciary is accused of being replete with corruption. The report said while the constitution and laws …

A former Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, has said that no president should be allowed to appoint the people who form the Council of State. He explained that seeing that the primary role of the Council of State is to offer advice to the president, there the need …

The Chief of Staff Akosua Frema Osei-Opare has directed that the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) commences from 1st April 2022 a 30% deductions of salaries from all government appointees. A letter from the Presidency dated 19th April 2022 seen by Starrfm.com.gh indicated that the directive was issued by Cabinet at its first …

On February 24, 1966, while Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was on a peacemaking trip over the Vietnam War in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, his government was overthrown. Launched by the National Liberation Council, the coup d’état was code-named “Operation Cold Chop.” Kwame Nkrumah had left a 3-person presidential commission …

Security expert, Professor Kwesi Aning, has responded harshly to the demining report issued by the United States Department on human rights in Ghana. In its 2021 Human Rights Report on Ghana issued on April 26, 2022, the State Department among other things accused the government of Ghana and agencies of the …

There is a seeming division currently rocking the National Executive Committee of the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) ahead of the association’s 11th National Terminal Congress and elections. The Association in a statement dated April 24, 2022, and signed by its National President, Emmanuel Brimpong Akosa announced the opening of …