Following a string of mutinies, plummeting cocoa prices, depressed growth and social unrest, Ivory Coast’s economic “miracle” has taken a battering and runs the risk of turning into a mirage. Crippled by a decade-long conflict that began in 2002, the world’s top cocoa producer has made a spectacular comeback since President Alassane Ouattara took office … Read more
Leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor, was on Tuesday cautioned by an Accra Circuit Court not to be provoked by the cross examination of defence counsel in robbery case before it. The court said that Madam Donkor could be provoked by some questions and responses but that should not influence her … Read more
The trader who was beaten up by some personnel of the United Creative Solutions (UCS) did not die as a result of the ordeal Kwame Nkrumah Interchange on Saturday, Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has said. The victim of the beating by the UCS personnel, who have been contracted by the AMA to manage the lawn and … Read more
The celebrated legend of African neighbourliness has been reinforced by Sahara Group after the leading African energy conglomerate extended a hand of support to victims of fire disasters in Ghana. The gesture, which is in line with Sahara’s Corporate Responsibility policies follows similar support from Sahara to the nation’s disaster victims in the past. In … Read more
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly has denied members of its Rapid Response Unit (RRU) assaulted a hawker at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange resulting in scuffles between hawkers and the AMA taskforce on Saturday 13 May. According to the AMA, the brouhaha was rather between personnel of the United Creative Solutions (UCS), a company contracted by the … Read more
Police personnel had to disperse the crowd at the Circle underbridge Tension has engulfed the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra as angry traders clash with officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly and police. It is unclear what triggered the chaos but Starr News’ Peter Owusu who is at the scene reports that the Police are … Read more
Tension is mounting at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchage as traders and hawkers rebel against AMA guards for allegedly beating a man believed to be 40years to death. The man, also a trader, Kasapafmonline.com understands, had a telephone call from an unknown source and in the process of receiving the said call walked on the lawn, … Read more
Modestina Dadzie, a 31-year-old trader at Okaishie in Accra, is demanding a Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test to ascertain whether a dead baby girl belongs to her as doctors at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital claim. According to the aggrieved woman, she was referred from St. Johns Hospital to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for delivery … Read more
A Russian billionaire has been ordered to pay his estranged wife £453m in a divorce settlement at a British court. The payment from the 61-year-old, a former oil and gas trader, to his ex-wife, 41, has been described as one of the biggest awards made by a UK court. During a High Court hearing, a … Read more
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, has given traders who have taken over the Kumasi Central Market footbridge one month to vacate the place or be forced out. The GHc2.2 million 70-meter bridge was built for the safety of pedestrians and to ease congestion at the Central Business District but the purpose has largely been … Read more
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, has given traders who have taken over the Kumasi Central Market footbridge one month to vacate the place or be forced out. The GHc2.2 million 70-meter bridge was built for the safety of pedestrians and to ease congestion at the Central Business District but the purpose has largely been … Read more
The Akufo-Addo government on March 2 presented its 2017 Budget and Economic Policy statement dubbed the Asempa Budget to the nation through Parliament. The Budget read by Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta a celebrated former investment banker, generated immense interest, praise and criticism across political, business and civil society platforms. Indeed prior to the reading … Read more
The demolition exercise embarked on by officials from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Thursday morning seems to have incurred the wrath of some traders whose structures were completely destroyed. The visibly angry victims expressed their displeasure at President Akufo-Addo for endorsing the exercise at the expense of their businesses and monies … Read more
The Nigerianarmy calls it “New Banki City”, an optimistic name conjuring up visions of modern housing. The reality is an overcrowded camp for 32,000 desperate people made homeless by Boko Haram. In this ravaged corner of northeast Nigeria, the Islamists frequently launch attacks on military convoys, unleash suicide bombers and litter the surrounding roads and … Read more
Mr Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey, the Behavioural Change Communication Specialist of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has observed that there is a remarkable reduction in malaria cases in terms of prevalence rate. He said Ghana, which was now in a hyper transmission area had a major decline in malaria cases and deaths with a significant reduction … Read more
Governments in West Africa are taking action to stop the import of fuel with dangerously high levels Ghana and Nigeria are the first countries to respond to reports of European companies exploiting weak fuel standards in Africa. Stricter limits on the sulfur content of diesel will come into force on July 1. Governments in West … Read more
Imani has described as “fuzzy arithmetic”, former Power Minister Dr Kwabena Donkor’s figures he churned out in a 94-page document to counter what he had said were misinformation provided by the policy think tank in connection with the controversial $510million Ameri deal which the Addison Committee said was overpriced by $150million. In Imani’s response, it … Read more
A second prosecution witness expected to testify in the case in which Akua Donkor, founder of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) and failed presidential hopeful – has dragged four persons, including her driver, to court for robbery, did not turn up. The witness, who was third time absent, left Akua as the sole witness to … Read more
IMANI Ghana says it is extremely disappointed in shocking conclusions reached by former Power Minister in his long response over the AMERI scandal. Dr. Kwabena Donkor in response to IMANI and Bright Simons’ relentless campaign for the $510 million AMERI power deal which they say cost Ghana $150 million even by the most liberal and … Read more
Islam Maytat thought marrying an Afghan-British businessman was her ticket to a new life as a fashionista in London. Instead she became a widow living under jihadist rule in Syria. At just 23, the young Moroccan spent three traumatic years in northern Syria under the Islamic State group’s so-called “caliphate”. Tens of thousands of foreigners … Read more