A 32-year-old Corporal, Emmanuel Owusu-Yeboah, of the Ghana Air Force and other alleged accomplices, are in the grip of the police for their alleged involvement in a series of robberies in the Tarkwa area of the Western Region. The other suspects are Ahmed Edusah, 28 years old; Michael Tetteh, 32; Christian Obina Anomu, 32; Joseph Boafo, 25; Nana Yaw Tuffuor and Mark Lawrence Madugba Chison, 36. DCOP Alex Quainoo, Western Regional Police Commander who disclosed this {....}

Oil firms were last night withdrawing staff from Nigeria and Liberia after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak to be an international public health emergency. Leading medical experts said the virus – which has a death rate of 50% and has already killed nearly 1,000 people – required an “extraordinary response” to halt its spread. The disease began in the forests of eastern Guinea in February, but its epicentre has spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria – home {....}

More than 500,000 people die annually from Hepatitis B related diseases around the world. This is according to Dr Alhassan Abdul-Mumin, a Doctor at the Tamale Teaching Hospital. He said more than 2 billion people were infected with the disease globally, which needs a holistic approach to address the phenomenon. Dr Abdul-Mumin disclosed this during a workshop in Tamale on World Hepatitis Day, which was organised by the Comfort Foundation, Ghana. The event which was on the theme {....}

Former Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah has refuted media speculations that he has set his eyes on the position of the Vice President of Ghana. Afriyie-Ankrah, who is currently a Minister of State at the Presidency, insists media reports suggesting that he is planning to vie for the Vice President role are baseless and untrue. He said: “These speculations are unhealthy and inappropriate for the body politic of the party. As a committed party member, who has played various roles in {....}

The fate of 90 remand prisoners, locked up for years at the Sunyani Central Prisons will soon be known under the “Justice for All” programme. The suspects have spent between three and 16 years on remand for various crimes including murder, manslaughter, armed robbery and fraud. The Justice for All is a programme initiated by the Attorney General and the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) which is aimed at ensuring legal justice is provided for every citizen, irrespective of one’s social {....}

An audit of GH¢1.8 billion claims submitted by the Bulk Oil Distribution Companies (BDCs) has stalled because the local banks that finance the BDCs are not co-operating. Ernst and Young, an audit firm, was contracted by the Ministry of Finance in the second week of June 2014 to audit the claims of the BDCs before payment. The government, on June 27, 2014, released GH¢450 million to cover part of its indebtedness to the BDCs, while it awaited the final audit report to settle the balance. {....}

A Greek Oil vessel, MT Fair Artemis, hijacked by pirates off Ghana’s waters in June this year has finally berthed at the Takoradi Port to offload oil. This is according to the Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Mr. Richard Anamoo. The pirates are said to have siphoned 3,500 metric tonnes of crude oil from the vessel into another vessel and voyaged to Benin for sale but luck run out on them and were arrested by the security agencies in that country. Mr. Anamoo {....}

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced it has received a formal request from Ghana to initiate discussions on an economic programme that could be supported by the IMF. The Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, Min Zhu in a statement said: “The Fund stands ready to help Ghana address the current economic challenges it is facing.” “An IMF team will be sent to Ghana in early September to initiate discussions on a programme,” he added. Last week, the government announced {....}

Ghana may now have recorded her first Ebola case. A Burkinabe man, who had fever and bled from his nose and ears “was brought in dead,” at the Bawku Presby Hospital in Ghana’s Upper East region Friday afternoon. The Medical Director at the Hospital, Dr Joseph Yaw Manu, confirmed to StarrFMonline.com that the man had died at the time he was brought in, saying: “…What scared me most as a Medical Doctor is that he was bleeding from his ears and nose–symptoms of Ebola {....}

South Sudan refugees residing in a UN camp are living in knee-deep, sewage-contaminated floodwater, forcing some families to sleep standing up so they can hold their children out of the water, an international aid group has said. Doctors Without Borders said on Friday the conditions in the camp in Bentiu are “an affront to human dignity”, and demanded that dry land within the camp be immediately made available for living space. The residents, most of whom fled fighting between rebels who {....}

The Deputy Minister in charge of Tertiary Education, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has expressed optimism that the impasse between the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) over their book and research allowance will be resolved soon. He said the ministry had held a meeting with vice chancellors, and expressed the hope that the engagement would yield good results. He has meanwhile appealed to the lecturers to call off their strike in order not to disrupt the academic {....}

A 22-year-old national of Gabon has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing an Ivorian to death at Weiman in Accra. John Maviane, a student of the Ambassador University College at Lapaz, is believed to have struggled with the 24-year-old Ivorian, Madeleine Josian E. Souaduo, before stabbing her in the abdomen several times. The police also discovered that the Ivorian was stabbed in the neck and right hand. Relating the incident, the Accra Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent of {....}

With this message from Juliet Ibrahim one can say with no fear that the actress is upset with on air personalities who have been joking about Ebola on air. You know what, Juliet Ibrahim is right. We Africans are lazy, selfish, stupid and fools sometimes. just not long ago, a white man and woman were infected with the virus and within some few hours, a cure for Ebola was given to the infected ones and now they are fit as feeble. Instead of we Africans to take things seriously and stop joking with {....}

Ghanaian Hiplife artiste Eduwoji has been arrested by the Ada Police on the Accra-Aflao highway yesterday 7th August 2014 for illegally possessing a substance suspected to be marijuana. The Yenko Nkoa Hit maker who was in a group of other three young men were said to be on their way to ‘Mepe’ in the Volta region to perform at the annual Asafotu festival. According to sources, other artistes including Stay Jay, Gallaxy and Tema based music promoter Mc Coaches were also spotted being {....}