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Former Ghana international Sam Johnson has cautioned newly installed Black Stars Coach Charles Akonnor to steer clear of player agents who try to influence player selections, if he wants to be a success. Akonnor took over the Black Stars mantle earlier this month as a replacement to James Kwasi Appiah. …

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has launched a blistering verbal attack against President Akufo-Addo, scoffing at the latter’s much-acclaimed champion of human-rights track record in the process. A visibly riled Asiedu Nketia indicted the current administration for the repeated acts of violence, intimidation …

The Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF) has expressed interest in inviting American-born Ghanaian amateur fighter, Joseph Awinongya Jnr, to compete for the nation at the Commonwealth Games, Olympic Games and the World Championship. According to the president of the GBF, Mr George Lamptey, his outfit was monitoring the progress of Awinongya …

Ghanaian legend Stephen Appiah has been named among top football stars that will feature in the upcoming ‘May’s Football For Fires’ fundraiser at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium. The Australia fire has been described as the worst wildfires seen in decades. So far large swaths of the country have been destroyed with …

A 52 year old unemployed, who defiled a three-year-old girl at Apatrapa New Site, near Kumasi, has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court. Owusu Sebi pleaded not guilty to the offence but was found guilty after trial by the Court, presided over by Comfort Tasiame. …

The Spanish top-flight powerhouse have also expressed interest in capturing the talented youngster, footballghana.com can exclusively report. The current La Liga champions FC Barcelona have decided to give a two week trial to Asante Kotoko’s whikzid Matthew Anim Cudjoe. The Catalan based club has joined Bayern Munich in showing interest …

Government has intervened to avoid the imminent collapse of Neoplan. According to Starr News sources within the management of the firm, state officials are working with authorities of the now struggling auto company to continue to stay in business. A top official of the company told Starr News they have …

The Registrar of the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat, Kingsley Agyeman, has cautioned persons who forge documents to show scholarships from the Scholarship Secretariat to desist from the act or risk facing the laws. His statement comes in the wake of four Ghanaian students who were deported and banned for ten years …

The signals of recovery from the financial crisis that hit the economy in 2017 have begun to positively to impact on the performance of the Ghana Stock Exchange in the first month of this year. The market’s benchmark index, GSE Composite index (CI) at the end of trading session on …

Nairobians Tuesday woke up to banners mounted by unknown people on footbridges along major roads leading to the central business district calling out the judiciary on its rulings perceived as selective. The banners ask why Kenya’s criminal justice system favours the rich and condemns the poor. The banners cropped up …

A student of Accra Academy with the Instagram handle @f_a_square will soon be counting his blessings as a video clip which captured him showing his rap prowess and proving his mettle has caught the attention of Wyclef Jean’s Carnival World Music Group. The video was shared by many, including Ghanaian …

Hundreds of Ghanaians with some of them perceived to be sympathizers of the opposition National Democratic Congress took to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s Facebook page to rain imprintable insults on him for organizing a “funfair” before distributing the ambulances he bought. The president yesterday Tuesday, 28 January 2020 inaugurated …

A payroll audit by the Auditor General has uncovered that over 10,000 employees have either no justification or sufficient information to continue drawing salaries from the public purse. It has therefore asked the affected employees to make themselves available for enumeration from January 28 to February 11, 2020 at the …

Veteran highlife musician, Lucky Mensah, has stated that members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been more supportive of him than those of the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to which he formerly belonged. Lucky Mensah said he will still campaign and vote for the …

The Upper East Regional Chairman of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA), Mr Eric Amoh has come under pressure from a group calling itself Loyalists of Joseph Kofi Adda, the MP for Navrongo Central and Aviation Minister for describing him as childish and immature at a press Soirée organised by the …

A Kenyan female bus conductor who has a beard has shared how she was stripped naked in a police cell to confirm her gender. Theresia Mumbi told BBC Swahili that traffic police in the capital, Nairobi, arrested her and held in a cell with other women. “Two officers came and …

A number of boarding schools in Malawi have closed and sent their pupils home ahead of a court ruling next week about the country’s disputed election. Opposition parties are challenging the re-election of President Peter Mutharika in May last year – and the judiciary has announced that its decision will …

The Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) has extended an invitation to Patrick Allotey – World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Africa Super Welterweight Champion, following his recent conduct at the Accra Sports Stadium, during the sixth week league game between Accra Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko. Allotey last Sunday, was seen in …

There is another fire outbreak on the campus of Accra Academy, a few days after a similar incident on the campus. The Alema Hall fire according to GhanaWeb sources started round 8:30 pm. This is the second time since January 15, when the first fire outbreak swept the same Alema …

The Ghana Union of Traders Association is advising members of the business community, particularly traders who intend or are preparing to China for business or any other thing to hold on. It rather encourages the possibility of transacting business and other communication via the internet until the coronavirus outbreak is …

Ghana placed 5th in Africa and number 67 in the world, according to the 2020 Best Countries Report put together by US News & World Report and supported by Wharton Business School of University of Pennsylvania and BAV Group. Egypt was 1st in Africa and number 36 in the world …

The coronavirus was confirmed in the Chinese city on January 7, 2020. Cases have since been confirmed in several other Asian countries, Europe and the United States. The World Health Organisation’s Africa emergency response program manager Michel Yao advised health ministers in the region to activate standard flu screening at …

The newly-commissioned ambulances are fitted with digitised state-of-the-art dispatch management system, integrated with the national digital property addressing system which will automatically generate the digital address location of the caller, President Akufo-Addo has disclosed. This according to the President, will enable the control centre to determine straightaway the nearest ambulance to dispatch, he …

The Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Ministry has disclosed that no Ghanaian student in coronavirus-hit China has been infected with the disease. The Ministry says it has been in contact with the student population thereafter they requested to be evacuated from the country that is on strict lockdown to prevent …

A man suspected to be in his late 30s or early 40s, was on Tuesday morning found dead in a storm drain close to the Ashaiman Under-Bridge on the Tema – Accra side of the Motorway. The deceased (yet to be identified as at the time of filing this report), …