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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…

The Chairman of the Interim Management Committee at the Tema Oil Refinery Norbet Anku says the organization owes “almost everybody including their lunch providers”. According to him, stakeholders in the industry are unable to trust TOR because they have not been able to manage their finances and operations well over the years. The comment comes on the back of the interdiction of some staff of the organization over alleged stealing and disappearance of products. “Everybody who has been in TOR knows that these things (stealing and product losses) happen. For some reason, they are unable to bring it to the…

NDC Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Sam Nartey-George has described as hollow, a memo by a group kicking against the anti-gay bill before Parliament. The anti-gay bill seeks to criminalize and impose jail terms on lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and queers (LGBTQ+) and people who promote such activities in the country. But a group made up of academics, lawyers, researchers, civil society organisations (CSOs) and human rights activists has kicked against it. They describe the bill as a flagrant violation of the 1992 Constitution, as it seeks to curtail freedom of expression and the media, the right to assemble and…