Koforidua residents fed up with politics on airwaves
Many residents in the Koforidua Municipalities and its surrounding communities have expressed their displeasure about the daily political discussions on the airwaves. According to them, it distracted...
View ArticleIMF’s Executive Board yet to receive proposals on Ghana
According to an official of the Fund, negotiations are still ongoing with Ghanaian authorities over an agreement. “I don’t really have any fresh guidance on Ghana, per se, in terms of developments,”...
View Article‘I have no ill-feelings towards Seth Terkper’ – Kwesi Botchwey
The Board Chairman of the Ghana National Gas Company, (GNGC), Dr. Kwesi Botchwey has denied reports of a frosty relationship between him and Finance Minister, Seth Terkper. Speculations are rife that...
View ArticleGhana’s rent law to be reviewed
The Rent Control Department will be reviewing Ghana’s current rent law to address issues surrounding the temporary acquisition of residential facilities in the country. According to the Chief Rent...
View ArticlePolice investigating death of four in cesspit
Police have begun investigations into an incident that led to the death of four people in the Light Industrial Area, North Kaneshie in Accra on Thursday. According to reports, the deceased were...
View ArticlePolitical instability in W/A must be eliminated – Hanna Tetteh
Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh has expressed the need for the West African sub-region to consolidate the peace to forestall rising threats to democratic processes and peace. She said...
View ArticleJoyce tested HIV positive in 2007 – AIDS Commission
The Ghana AIDS Commission has countered claims by a famous HIV Campaigner, Joyce Dzidzor Mensah that she has never tested HIV positive. Ms. Mensah on Monday shocked the nation by claiming that she is...
View ArticleWorld Cup probe member Anokye-Darko exposed
A case of conflict of interest is gradually creeping into the work of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Ghana’s participation at the 2014 Brazil World Cup. In a shocking turn of events, it...
View ArticleCHRAJ staff beat war drums over boss’ hotel bills
Staff of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) are locked up in a meeting over the continuous stay in office by their boss Lauretta Vivian Lamptey. According to Starr News’...
View ArticleJoyce Mensah, AIDS Commission meeting ends inconclusively
A meeting between former HIV and AIDS Ambassador Joyce Dzidzor Mensah and the Ghana AIDS Commission last Wednesday ended inconclusively. The meeting, called at the behest of the AIDS Commission, ended...
View ArticleKofi Adams: What Ghanaians never knew about Rawlings
Kofi Adams, official spokesperson for former President Jerry John Rawlings, is a household name. Like his revolutionary master, many functionaries of the ruling National Democratic Congress, NDC,...
View ArticleEx‑Olympic champ Guenot banned for doping violations
Steeve Guenot, who won wrestling gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was banned for a year by the French anti-doping agency (AFLD) on Thursday for missing doping controls. The 29-year-old six-time...
View ArticleSchool for the Blind and Deaf receives books
Miss Sophia Bondzie, the Central Regional representative of the just-ended Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB), has distributed 1,000 Sasso-customised exercise books to children of the Cape Coast School for...
View ArticleBugri Naabu calls for unity in NPP
Mr Daniel Bugri Naabu, the Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic party (NPP), has called on members to close their ranks and work hard to attract more people to the party. He said unity and...
View ArticlePresident fetes 2,500 school children
A total of 2,500 school children drawn from basic schools in the Nkoranza Municipality in the Brong Agafo Region were feted at this year’s President’s Christmas Party on Friday. The children were also...
View ArticleJay Z And Beyonce Just Lost The Most Expensive Home In Beverly Hills To This Man
Markus Persson, the Swedish creator of Minecraft, has bought the most expensive house in Beverly Hills, California — the same mansion Jay Z and Beyoncé made a bid on. Not even Beyoncé could make him...
View ArticleRawlings to address NDC congress
Former president Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings is billed to address the 8th National Delegates’ Congress of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The congress, which officially kicks off Saturday...
View Article‘Nobody is seeing your Better Ghana Agenda’ – CPP to NDC
“You don’t care”, General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ivor Greenstreet has told President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur in the face at the governing National...
View ArticleNDC repairs Kumasi roads
Some bad roads in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital that had virtually been neglected for some years now, have received attention, thanks to the upcoming national delegates’ congress of the...
View ArticleNDC disrespects persons with disability – Akomfrah
Communications Director of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Nii Armah Akomfrah has said the widely condemned response of presidential staffer, Sam George to the party’s wheelchair-bound General...
View ArticleMost pregnant women prefer delivery through caesarian section
Pregnant women have been advised to go through spontaneous vaginal delivery (SVD) because that is the best method. Mrs Jovial Nyarko-Ababio, a midwife in-charge of the Sunyani Regional Hospital labour...
View ArticleSickKids-Ghana Scaling Up Paediatric Nursing in Ghana
AGENDA Opening remarks at noon Dr. Mike Apkon, President & CEO, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Funding announcement Member of Parliament, Lois Brown, Parliamentary Secretary to the...
View ArticleFloods kill at least 40 people in Malawi and Mozambique
Flooding from heavy rains have killed at least 40 people in Mozambique and neighbouring Malawi, where a state of natural disaster was declared Tuesday in nearly a third of the country. In Mozambique,...
View ArticleAfigya-Kwabre ups health promotion efforts
The Afigya-Kwabre District Assembly has increased its efforts at promoting access to healthcare through the upgrading of health facilities and supply of equipment. Mr. Kwaku Oppong-Kyekyeku Kaakyire,...
View ArticleSouth Sudan foes agree to end conflict
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar have signed a deal, committing to end the conflict that has devastated the country. The ceasefire agreement was signed at talks in...
View ArticleIslamic State shows burning of hostage, Jordan vows ‘earth-shaking’ response
AMMAN (Reuters) – Islamic State militants released a video on Tuesday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive, and Jordan vowed to avenge his death with an “earth-shaking”...
View ArticleBreaking News: Veteran Gospel Musician Comfort Annor Is Dead
Veteran gospel musician Comfort Annor has been reported dead today at the Komfo Anokye Teaching hospital today around 5pm. The musician who currently cried for help to support her as her kidney and...
View ArticleWANTED: WOMAN STEALS GH¢ 470,000…AND BOLTS AFTER RECEIVING POLICE BAIL
A 37 year old woman is on the wanted list of the Ghana Police Service for stealing GHC 470,000 from a reputable financial company. On 4th January, 2014, the suspect Joyce Oduro who was an Investment...
View ArticleRussian opposition leader Nemtsov shot dead
MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin, just a day before a planned protest against...
View ArticleTeen killed by police had four gunshot wounds
DENVER (AP) — An autopsy shows a 17-year-old girl who was killed by Denver police officers while driving a stolen car suffered four gunshot wounds. In a report released Friday, the Denver medical...
View ArticleAsuboi teachers’ bungalow, basic schools overrun by bats
A colony of bats has invaded the lone teachers’ bungalow and classrooms at the Asuboi Municipal Assembly basic schools in the Offinso South Municipality of the Ashanti Region. Some teachers of the...
View ArticleKidney diseases on the increase in Ghana – Expert
Cases of kidney diseases are on the increase, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Dr Dominic Kumashie, the Medical Doctor in-charge of Police Hospital’s Dialysis Centre, said on Thursday. He said in 2013...
View ArticleGhana News – Kidney patients queue to receive treatment at Police Hospital
Inadequate equipments at the Dialysis Centre of the Police Hospital in Accra is causing kidney patients to wait in queues for long hours to receive treatment. Medical Officer in charge of the dialysis...
View ArticleKantanka Dam?…What do you think GHANA?..
Kantanka Dam?…What do you think GH?. First and foremost, I will thank the most high God for the gift of such a noble man for the motherland Ghana. I know and believe that he is God sent, I pray that...
View ArticleFire ravaged Kumasi fuel station had no permit – EPA
It has emerged that the fuel station at Agric Kokode in the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi which caught fire and resulted in the fiery deaths of two children on Sunday had no permit to operate. Isaac...
View ArticleKATH Burns Unit records five deaths
The Intensive Burns Care Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), the nation’s second largest referral facility, recorded five deaths during the first quarter of the year. The victims were...
View ArticleAcid-attacked NPP chairman dead
Starr News has gathered that the Upper East regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who was showered with acid last night has died. Adams Mahama was attacked by two unidentified men...
View Article90 babies die daily & 30,000 annually
In Ghana, one newborn dies every 15 minutes, and 90 die daily. In all, as many as 30,000 newborns die annually before reaching the first month of life. The major causes of these deaths are...
View ArticleFrench jets pound ISIS in Syria, Iraq
French jets from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier struck Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria on Monday while Britain offered France the use of an air base in Cyprus to hit the militants group...
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