The Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection has extended its registration of Prison inmates onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to the three prisons in the Ashanti region. About 1,700 prisons inmates in Ashanti are expected to be captured after the registration of prisons inmates in the Manhyia, Kumasi Central and Amanfrom camp […]
Chairman of the Ghana Prisons Council, Rev. Stephen Wengam says Ghana’s current legal system need serious overhauling. According to the Prisons Council Chair, the hitches in the judicial service impacts negatively on the activities of the prisons service. He was making a submission on Daybreak Kapital Tuesday November 3, 2015, concerning the country’s current legal
A court in Accra has thrown out a case against the indefinite suspension of New Patriotic Party (NPP) national chairman Paul Afoko.A supporter of the main opposition NPP was in court to challenge the National Executive Committee’s decision to penalize the embattled chairman.According to NEC, Afoko’s actions were inimical to the fortunes of the Danquah-Busia-Dombo
T he Jaman South Police Command in the Brong Ahafo region has arrested four persons for attempting to traffic 22 children from Drobo in the Jaman South district to Accra.The Police Command upon a tip off went to the rescue of the children.ASP Stephen Ofori Akrasi, the Jaman South District Police Commander told Starr News
The group is accusing Alhaji Nurudeen Amidan of spearheading what they call illegal demolition exercises within the area. According to them, the MCE has refused to wait for court rulings before pulling down structures that the Assembly declares their locations as unlawful. Members of the group cited a number of demolitions exercises Alhaji Amidan
The flagbearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo and his running mate Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia have arrived for the controversial National Executive meeting of the party.The meeting being chaired by the acting chairperson Freddie Blay at its headquarters in Accra has been described as illegal by the suspended national chairman of
Health personnel in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, have express worry over the increasing cases of crude abortion practices involving teenagers in the district. Teenagers in the district mostly pupils in Junior High Schools (SHS) and Senior High Schools lately, have resorted to the wrong procedures in conducting abortions which has resulted
Residents of Mfanti a fishing community near Half Assini in the Jomoro district of the Western Region are complaining of foul odor produced by a decomposing Whale that was washed ashore last Saturday. The mysterious creature residents reveal, has been left at the shore of a local beach in the area with no effort by
Ghana football legend Abedi Ayew Pele has given up on his ambition to become the president of the Ghana FA. The three-time African Footballer of the Year and former Black Stars captain contested Ben Koufie in the 2001 FA presidential race only to withdraw at the eleventh hour. Meanwhile, some connoisseurs have been courting the
About 120 persons have been killed in road accidents between first to third quarters of this year alone in the Ashanti Region according latest statistics from the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC). Out of the number indicated, 39 reported deaths were recorded within the third quarter with a total of 264 case involving 337
