MP for Nadowli-Kaleo constituency, Alban Bagbin, has revealed he did all kinds of odd jobs including working as a farm labourer in order to survive. Recounting his childhood experience on Starr Chat with Bola Ray on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 the second deputy Speaker of Parliament said he lost his father while in Senior High School and he had to ...

The Asset Retrieval Taskforce at the Presidency yesterday seized expensive vehicles said to belong to the state from an individual. The taskforce stormed an area called Oforikrom, near Nsawam in the Eastern Region in the early hours and raided a private property, where the 37 cars, including those registered in the name of State Protocol Department (SPD), were found. Akwasi ...

Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, has indicated he is hopeful Ghana will secure victory in the ongoing Maritime boundary dispute with Ivory Coast in September. Speaking at a stakeholders’ forum on Ghana’s 10 years’ experience as commercial oil producer in Accra organized by the Petroleum Commission, Mr. Agyarko believes this will help attract more investors into the oil and gas sector. ...

The board chairman of COCOBOD Hackman Owusu-Agyemang has revealed that the salary of the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, Joseph Boahen Aidoo is twice that of president Akufo-Addo. This is after he bemoaned what he described as “outrageous” the amount paid the former CEO of the state-owned company Dr. Steven Opuni – who was said to be ...

Thirty-two out of the 58 suspects involved in the lynching of Major Maxwell Mahama will face prosecution on July 6, 2017. The court which discharged 26 of the suspects were rearrested by the police as investigations continued into their alleged involvement in the case. The Accra central district court also ordered that one of the suspects who claimed to be ...

Gender advocates in the country should push for the passage of the Affirmative Action Bill into law the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana, Dr Raymond Atuguba, has said. He described the bill as one with good intentions to empower women to be economically independent, adding, “This is a bill which, among others, seeks to ...

Farmers are rejecting imported seeds meant for the government’s ‘Planting for Food and Jobs programme’. According to the farmers, the imported seeds do not suit local conditions for proper cultivation. The Minister of Agriculture Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie confessed, “Government has had to import seeds for the programme due to local seed producers’ inability to meet up with demands.” On ...

Former Chelsea attacker Oscar has been banned by the Chinese Football Association (CFA) for inciting a brawl in Shanghai SIPG’s 1-1 draw on Sunday. The Brazilian kicked the ball violently and purposefully against two Guangzhou R&F players, resulting in a fight on the pitch between both sets of teams. Oscar will now not be eligible to play in the Chinese ...

A research fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Professor Ransford Gyampo has urged President Akufo-Addo and subsequent Presidents of the country to implore the skillset and expertise of “competent” members from the main opposition political parties in the country. “The President, all Presidents must be encouraged to reach out to the main opposition parties in the search for competent ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is ready to return to the Flagstaff House in 2020, the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin has said. His comments come days after the 13-member Committee tasked by the NDC to conduct a comprehensive review of its “planning, execution and outcomes” of campaign and participation in the election submitted its ...