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A female lawyer in Zimbabwe has mounted a legal challenge to abolish lobola, or the bride price, saying it is an outdated practice which reduces women to mere “properties”, the state-run Herald newspaper reports. Priccilar Vengesai believes that if the custom

The Director-General of Police In charge of National Patrols, COP Yaagy Akuribah, on Monday felt embarrassed in Tamale when senior police officers in the Northern region could not recite lines of the mission and vision of the Ghana Police Service. The

The Chief executive officer of the Community and Entrepreneurial Development Initiative (CEDI Ghana) Mr. Kingsley Kwaku Pinkrah last week 27th October,  honored an invitation to address  entrepreneur’s workshop held in Accra at the Lucas University. A day workshop was organized by the

A medical doctor who was “wrongfully dismissed” from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and his salary arrears withheld since 2012 has told Starr News he now lives as a single-room squatter who begs for table scraps to survive. Described by many

The US government has released 2,800 previously classified files on the assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963. President Donald Trump said the public deserved to be “fully informed” about the event, which has been the subject of various conspiracy

 In a bid to broaden their business activities and form more partnerships in the African continent and beyond, Moroccan businesses have embarked on a vigorous drive across the African Sub-Regions. In Ghana on Monday, a business delegation made up of 80

A toilet paper manufacturer in Brazil has dropped the slogan “Black Is Beautiful” from its black-coloured brand. It is not so much the colour of the toilet roll, but the advert for it, which has attracted the most criticism. Personal VIP

Security has been tightened in Kenya as voting takes place in a re-run of the presidential election, which is being boycotted by the main opposition. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is seeking a second term, has urged people to vote and