The Pentagon faced a burgeoning scandal Friday as more pictures of naked female service members apparently shared without their consent by male colleagues have turned up on secret social media sites. General Robert Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, appeared embarrassed and uncertain how to deal with the problem, which first surfaced among members … Read more
The Strategic Media Monitoring and Advocacy Institute (SMMAI), an independent media tracking agency, has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo received high print media exposure in the month of February, 2017. According to the Institute, through its scientific news content analysis, 35 newspapers, comprising state and privately owned, published 364 news stories between February 1 … Read more
Parliament has suffered a major blow to its public image due largely to its recent appointments committee bribery allegations, a report by the Centre for Media Analysis (CMA), an independent media monitoring agency, said on Tuesday. The report, compiled through CMA’s strategic analysis of print media news contents, called on the leadership of the august … Read more
According to a report from the Centre for Media Analysis (CMA), Ghana’s Parliament has received negative ratings from the print media news contents. This negative rating is largely due to the alleged bribery of the appointment committee in Parliament. The Centre of Media Analysis(CMA), an independent media monitoring agency conducted a research by analysing the … Read more
Parliament has suffered a major blow to its public image due largely to its recent appointments committee bribery allegations, a report by the Centre for Media Analysis (CMA), an independent media monitoring agency, said on Tuesday. The report, compiled through CMA’s strategic analysis of print media news contents, called on the leadership of the august … Read more
Blast hits building in southern Turkey housing legal officials in Viransehir wounding several people, media reports say. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. Join GhanaStar.com to receive daily email alerts of breaking news in Ghana. GhanaStar.com is your source … Read more
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Professional journalists working in the media have been asked to kick out charlatans who go around town including events grounds parading themselves as journalists to extort money from people. “If you go to an event and you see non-journalists who are just there for “Soli”, I think you should kick them out. At the Press … Read more
News reports during the day is put together into an hour bulletin for your viewing pleasure. Follow News 360 on TV3 for the latest news updates Join GhanaStar.com to receive daily email alerts of breaking news in Ghana. GhanaStar.com is your source for all Ghana News. Get the latest Ghana news, breaking news, sports, politics, … Read more
Thirty-two people were killed and 13 injured after their tour bus overturned on a road near Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, emergency officials say. Pictures from the scene showed the tour bus lying on its side. Most of those on board were local elderly tourists returning from a cherry blossom tour in Taichung, local media said. Taiwan … Read more
The Information Minister-designate, Mustapha Hamid, has expressed remorse over some scathing invective he spewed on his political opponents during electioneering last year. “I regret the polluted political environment that enables people from both sides of the political divide to throw such invective into the public space and poison the atmosphere,” he told the Appointments Committee … Read more
Minister Nominee for Information, Mustapha Hamid has promised to sanitize what he describes as the “polluted” political environment when approved by Parliament’s Appointments Committee. Mr . Hamid made the promise in response to a query from the Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Suhuyini Alhassan for describing the former President Mahama as an unrepentant bigot. … Read more
BBC.com hit record high in 2016. Site and apps viewed 15 billion times, with almost 100m unique browsers each month. Three senior appointments, expansion and investment in online video planned for 2017. New unit to combat fake news confirmed. BBC.com success in 2016 BBC.com had a record-breaking year in 2016, boasting 98 million unique browsers … Read more
Facebook is introducing new tools in Germany to help combat the spread of fabricated news stories. The world’s largest social network said it would enable German users to flag potentially false stories. The stories will then be passed to third-party fact-checkers and if found to be unreliable, will be marked in users’ news feeds as … Read more
Facebook is to create measures to curb the spread of fake news in Germany Facebook is to introduce measures to tackle the spread of fake news in Germany, ahead of its national elections this year. The social network says it will make it easier for German users to flag up potentially false stories which will … Read more
Facebook is introducing new tools in Germany to help combat the spread of fabricated news stories. The world’s largest social network said it would enable German users to flag potentially false stories. The stories will then be passed to third-party fact-checkers and if found to be unreliable, will be marked in users’ news feeds as … Read more
Profile of last batch of ministers nominated by President Akufo-Addo President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday announced the last batch of ministerial nominees. The Ghana News Agency hereby submits the brief profiles of the 11 nominees: Professor George Gyan-Baffour is 65 years old, and is currently a Member of Parliament (MP) for Wenchi. From July … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo named his third and final batch of ministerial appointments at the Flagstaff House today [Thursday]. He named 11 personalities bringing his total list of ministerial positions to 36. Akufo-Addo has named his former spokesperson, Mustapha Hamid, as the nominee for the Minister Information, and former Member of Parliament for Madina, Abubakar Boniface … Read more
The Information Minister designate, Mustapha Hamid has served notice that he will endeavor to be truthful to Ghanaians in line of his duties at all times. According to him, he might not be perfect as a human being but he will not trade his ethics and credibility just to cover up for the presidency. Speaking … Read more
Professor George Gyan-Baffour is 65 years old, and is currently a Member of Parliament (MP) for Wenchi. From July 2002 to December 2004 he was the Director General of The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) of the Republic of Ghana where he oversaw the preparation of the first Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (2003-2005) Paper. He … Read more