The Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has set up a Commission of Inquiry to probe circumstances leading to the violence that occurred during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election last Thursday. The decision was taken with the consent of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who is out of the country. There was a shooting incident near a La Bawaleshie polling …
Leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko is saddened by the recent violent occurrences in the country and how some ‘elements’, through their irresponsible actions, have depicted the wrong image of the party to citizens and the world at large. In a post on his wall, Mr. Otchere-Darko strongly defended his party, maintaining that the ruling …
The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has summoned some top officials of the Shaanxi Mining Company Ltd over attempts to bribe Starr News’ Upper East regional correspondent after they were caught having secret meetings with a judge during some undercover investigations on public access to equal justice under the law. One of the officials involved in the secret meetings, …
Two hundred and forty-five buses have been imported by the government in 2016 to implement the urban transport system to improve public transportation in the country. A JoyNews investigation has revealed that the buses and the infrastructure to run them have cost the nation GH¢742 million, but the programme has stalled. In a JoyNews investigative series titled “Grounded Wheels,” Manasseh …
The government of Ghana has announced that it will not hesitate to seek international arbitration if its counterparts from neighbouring Togo fail to cooperate with Ghana’s Technical Delegation Team that is negotiating a maritime dispute along the eastern border of the country. Ghana and Togo have failed to come to a consensus after three rounds of negotiations on …
Alexander Kojo Koranchie, father of Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, one of the three kidnapped girls in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, has revealed that the prime suspect in the kidnapping cases once called him and threatened to kill his daughter. This was immediately after the 28-year-old Nigerian suspected kidnapper, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, had kidnapped her daughter on December 21, 2018, at a …
The suit challenging the removal of Charlotte Osei as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) has been dismissed by the Supreme Court. The suit filed by the editor-in-chief of the Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr., had claimed that the committee set up by the Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo, to investigate six allegations levelled against …
Only two per cent of senior high school (SHS) students in the country are willing to venture into self-built enterprises after school, the Minister of Business Development, Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, has disclosed. He said while 120,000 students who graduated from the various universities in the country annually were interested in public sector jobs, the government could employ only …
The Mayor of Accra, Mohammed Adjei Sowah has warned scrap dealers to desist from stealing metal gratings used to cover drains in the city or risk being prosecuted. According to him, the sharp rise in the theft of these drain covers, by scrap dealers was worrying posing a great danger to vehicles and pedestrians. The Mayor gave the …
Controversial television personality,Afia Schwarzenegger has thrown jabs at Kumahood actor, Nana Ama Mcbrown for not giving birth several years after marriage. The comedienne in a video posted on her Instagram page said “this is something you are all talking about in your homes but you lack the courage to say it out”. She went on to say “We were …
