Teachers are responsible for six percent of the 13,355 cases of teenage pregnancies in the Central region in 2016, a study has found. The 13,355 figure is a slight drop from the previous year’s figure of over 14,000 cases of teenage pregnancy. This came up during the Central regional health performance review at the University … Read more
One of the dormitories of the Akatsi College of Education in the Volta Region has caught fire, resulting in loss of property running into thousands of Ghana cedis. The incident, which occurred Saturday afternoon, affected parts of the girls’ dormitory. Personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) were frantically making efforts to douse the … Read more
Seven police officers on Thursday, 16 February have sustained gun wounds at Kumawu Bodomase in the Ashanti Region in connection with a resurgent chieftaincy conflict. The police got caught up in clashes between two rival royal clans each claiming title to the throne following the death and burial of late Kumawu Akyempimhene Nana Okyere Krampah … Read more
Lawless display by students of the Kumasi Technical Institute in the Ashanti region last Tuesday was met by a police response deemed excessive, extreme and abusive. Rowdy KTI students blocked road in front of the school, created an artificial traffic during the celebration of a fourth position chalked by the school in an Inter-Schools competition … Read more
The Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem municipality assembly is proposing the inclusion of toilet facilities at the home of men as a precondition for contracting marriages. This according to the assembly’s municipal sanitation officer Alex Damptey will help deal with the alarming rate of open defecation in the area, as many homes are without toilet facilities forcing women and … Read more
The Eastern regional police command has arrested six suspected robbers at Pentuawala and its environs in the Eastern region after three days of operation. The police, after conducting a search on them in their hideouts, retrieved eight laptops, a crowbar and three masks among other items. The seventh person, who is a taxi driver is … Read more
A refugee situation has been created in Yendi, a second largest but highly polarized city, in the Northern region after a six-hour heavy fighting between chieftaincy factions in Bimbila, Nanumba North district capital left 11 persons dead. At least 30 families fleeing the grinding chieftaincy unrest to Saboba and Chereponi entered Yendi waiting for other … Read more
Pregnant women carrying dead foetus have been identified in the Eastern region. The medical condition known as intrauterine fetal deaths, was recorded during a free mobile ultrasound scan project organized by Divine Mother and Child Foundation (DMAC -Foundation ), a Maternal and Child health NGO, at four communities in Ayensuano District. The communities were Dokrochiwa, … Read more
Police in Assin Fosu are on the heels of one Kojo Joseph for allegedly beating his wife to death at Assin Atintan in the Assin North district of the Central region. The Assin Fosu Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Eric Batchor, who confirmed the incident to Starr News’ Central regional Correspondent Kwaku Baah-Acheamfour said the accused, aged 27, … Read more
Some pupils of the Little Angel Preparatory School in Apedwa are in critical conditions after their school bus collided with another vehicle at Kibi-Amanfrom in the East Akyem Municipality of the Eastern region. The injured were rushed to the Kibi Government Hospital for treatment. According to DSP Emmanuel Issaka – the Kibi Divisional Crime Officer, … Read more
Some pupils of the Little Angel Preparatory School in Apedwa are in critical conditions after their school bus collided with another vehicle at Kibi-Amanfrom in the East Akyem Municipality of the Eastern region. The injured were rushed to the Kibi Government Hospital for treatment. According to DSP Emmanuel Issaka – the Kibi Divisional Crime Officer, … Read more
About 50 pupils of Little Angel Preparatory School have been involved in an accident at Apedwa Junction in the East Akyem Municipality of the Eastern region. The injured have been rushed to the Kibi government hospital where they are currently receiving treatment. However, some of the victims who are in critical conditions have been admitted at the … Read more
The Northern Region office of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has been attacked by men suspected to be supporters of the ruling party. TV3’s regional correspondent Zubaida Ismail said the attackers numbered about 20. They stormed the offices, she reports, and demanded that workers vacated. Most workers had to take cover at the Northern … Read more
The six kindergarten pupils who died at Breman Jamra in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa district after their school building collapsed on them are to be buried today, Thursday February 2. The incident according to Starr News’ Central regional correspondent Kwaku Baah-Acheamfour, occurred on Tuesday when a dilapidated school building was pulled down leaving just a … Read more
Critically ill patients and pregnant women in Asinesi, a remote farming community in the Yilo Krobo district of the Eastern region are carried on a bamboo- made stretcher and trek for long distance to board vehicles to hospital due to poor road network and absence of health facility in the area. The road network leading … Read more
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Manya Krobo in the Eastern Region, Hon. Joseph Tetteh has called for lasting solutions to the nomadic Fulani herdsmen menace which worsens during the dry season. According to the lawmaker, the situation is worrying given that it leads to deadly clashes and destruction of farms ploughed by farmers. … Read more
Tamale-based Journalist Kizito Abagoami is reported dead. Details of cause of death of the former reporter with Radio XYZ is not immediately known but family sources said he died on admission at a health facility in the Northern region after complaining of stomach pains. Colleagues are grief-stricken over the death of Ras Kizito as affectionately … Read more
Many farming communities in the Upper Manya Krobo district of the Eastern region are likely to be hit with severe famine following the destruction of several acres of farms by cattle of nomadic herdsmen. Hunger scare has already engulfed the communities as they struggle to get food to eat whiles others are indebted to their … Read more
Some queen mothers and widows at Anyaboni, a farming community in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern region have hit the streets protesting alleged attacks and harassment on them by Fulani herdsmen in the area. According to the aggrieved women, they are unable to go to their farms due to fear of being … Read more
Traders willing to comply with directive from Manhyia for commercial activities to be halted Traders and residents in the Ashanti regional capital of Kumasi have said they will ensure full compliance with a directive from Manhyia for commercial activities to be halted today, Thursday, 19 January, for the burial of the late Asantehemaa Afia Kobi … Read more