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President of Ghana and chairman of ECOWAS Nana Akufo-Addo has admonished west African leaders against manipulating electoral systems to stay in power. According to President Akufo-Addo, there is no justification whatsoever for anybody to come to power through any other means rather than through the ballot box. Speaking at the ECOWAS high-level seminar in Winneba, Nana Addo reiterated the commitment of the sub-regional body to ensure term limits are respected He said “recessing to power by any other means other than the ballot box remains for me, wholly unacceptable no matter your sensible justification. This viewpoint is strongly affirmed by…

Grammy award-winning Afrobeats singer, Wizkid has smashed another record with the remix of his summer hit “Essence” featuring Tems and Justin Bieber, which is on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. “Essence” hit the number 10 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in its fourteenth week of release, earning Wizkid his first Hot 100 Top 10 song as a lead artist, and his second Hot 100 top 10 as a featured artist alongside Kyla on Canadian singer Drake‘s “One Dance“. This comes a few days after the initial release, “Essence” featuring Tems became the first African song to go platinum in the United States, following the sales…

Member of Parliament for the Asawase Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka has warned the diplomatic community that no amount of intimidation and threats will stop the MPs from passing the anti-LGBTQ bill pending before the house. Speaking on Kumasi-based Abusua 96.5 FM, the Minority Chief Whip said, Parliament is aware of plans to deny lead advocates of the anti-LGBTQ bill travel visa by foreign embassies in the country. He warned that he will lead a demonstration for closure of any embassy that will deny Sam George and other members of Parliament travel visas because of their advocacy…

Respect to lawyers but we know that one doesn’t need to have any special brain to be a lawyer. The bridge between students and Ghana School of law is not a thing of intellect, it is systemic. We have 3000 lawyers, of which 21 are at legal aid to serve millions of people who cannot afford the financial requirement between them and access to justice. In proper representation, we have a lawyer to hundred thousand citizens ratio. We have simple civil cases dragging on for years because of so many burdens on lawyers. Once you go through the legal system,…

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist pragmatist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. During his time in office he did not go for any foreign aid or loans, saying “He who feeds you, controls you. He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes. He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that…

The Black Stars of Ghana will continue their World Cup qualifier against the Warriors of Zimbabwe on 9th October 2021 at the Cape Coast sports stadium then the return leg three days later at Harare. The Black Stars are second in Group G with three points after beating Ethiopia 1-0 at home and losing to South Africa 1-0 at the FNB stadium in South Africa. The Warriors of Zimbabwe are also last on the log in Group G with just a point. They drew goalless with South Africa at home and lost to Ethiopia by a goal at Addis Ababa.…

A 28 year old man identified as Papa Kwame has been washed ashore after he went missing some three days ago. According to reports, the man drowned after bathing in a sea at Saltpond Nankesido in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. The body was discovered on Friday October 8 at 6:00 am. Central regional correspondent Yaw Boegyan reports that deceased was in the town for a festival and does not know how to swim in the sea. An eyewitness Wofa Sepha told Starr News that the deceased is believed to have also been under the influence of alcohol.…

A 19-year-old student of the Jachie-Pramso Senior High School in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region Osei Paul has been found dead after going missing for a day. Dry leaves suspected to be ‘Indian Hemp’ otherwise known as wee was found in his pocket. Station Officer at the Jarchie  Police Station, Chief Inspector Samuel Kra said a  resident discovered the half-naked body of the deceased final year General art students in an uncompleted building at Pramso, few kilometers from the school’s campus on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. He added that the family of the deceased has confirmed the identity…

This hungry cow is not hungry because she has no food within her yard; neither is she hungry because she is incapable of generating enough food on her table. The simple truth is that, this cow is hungry because an iron-lock has been placed on her head to cover her mouth. At the same time, her children are threatened against their lives to accept what they obviously know to be unacceptable. Hence, the hungry cow we see today. Sadly, those who milk Africa every day are not just greedy people who seek selfish benefit from her riches; they are also…

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has served notice it will resume its industrial action by Friday if government fails to shift its position in finding solutions to their concerns. The university lecturers first declared strike in August this year over the refusal of government to respect the terms of their conditions of service agreed upon in 2012. The 2012 Single Spine package put entry-level lecturers on a salary of $2,084 while the current level puts lecturers’ salaries around $900. The agreement has not been respected over the years. Despite the assurances by government to call off the strike…