2018

First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has endorsed the 2018 Women African Cup of Nations, which is scheduled to take place in Ghana from November 17 to December 5, 2018. “I am very excited that Ghana will be hosting this years’…
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The Eremong Senior High Technical School in Lawra in the Upper West region has been shut down indefinitely following riots from students. According to a local reporter, Pollu Damasus, the rioting started Saturday night when students…
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Students of AKro Senior High Technical School in Odumase Krobo of the Eastern Region are calling for the dismissal of some of their teachers over what they describe as sexual harassment. In  a letter intercepted by Starr News, the…
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China has dismissed reports it bugged the African Union (AU) headquarters as “preposterous”. Kuang Weilin, the Chinese ambassador to the AU, told reporters in Ethiopia the “absurd” claim in France’s Le Monde was “very difficult to…
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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly in partnership with 100 Resilient Cities (100RC), has announced the appointment of Desmond Appiah as Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) of Accra. The appointment, according to AMA, is an essential step of…
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The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has attributed the power outages that hit parts of the country early Monday morning to “a disturbance on its transmission network.” A number of areas, especially within the capital city Accra,…
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The Institute of Energy Security (IES) wants the government to intervene and get the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) back to work. The IES believes this will largely be resolved with strengthening of the leadership of the facility. TOR has…
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The Association of Road Contractors is appealing to government to speed up the processes it is following, to pay its members monies owed them for the construction of roads in cocoa growing areas. In 2015, the erstwhile NDC government…
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The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has told Citi Business News it should select a concessionaire for the private sector participation in the ECG by September this year – 2018. This should allow the injection of some five hundred…
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The Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), has rescheduled the implementation of the mobile money interoperability to next month (February, 2018). This comes after missing the initial November 2017 deadline. The CEO…
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