Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament Prof. Mike Oquaye has served notice he will deal with the three Members of Parliament who have been fingered in a Visa fraud. The UK High Commission has banned three Ghanaian lawmakers and a former MP from entering the European country over their alleged involvement in visa fraud with their Diplomatic passports. The MPs are Richard ...

The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that he is more focused on fulfiling God’s purpose and not moved by threats by some ‘Galamseyers’ in voting against him in 2020 general elections. The Akufo-Addo government has given a 40-day window period to miners in the country to move their machines from their sites. Speaking at Soabe in the Eastern ...

Insecurities have a way of interfering with our lives in very inconvenient and sometimes frustrating ways. This is why the need to deal with them can’t be overemphasized. Jumia Travel and Jumia Mobile Week share 6 ways to successfully deal with insecurities. Vocalize Your Self-Critical Thoughts The primary fuel for insecurities is the critical inner voice people have formed concerning ...

New Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah continues to demonstrate his desire of promoting players from the Ghana top-flight as he was monitoring his third match in just five days on Wednesday. Appiah, who arrived in the country last week Friday, continued his monitoring of the Ghana Premier League by watching WAFA SC play Liberty Professionals on Wednesday in Sogakope. The ...

A former Local Government Minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration, Kwadwo Adjei-Darko has been explaining why some people have been denied their ambition to become District Chief Executives (DCEs) indicating that some of the decision were taken based on their religious beliefs. “When I was in the Local Government Ministry we came to a point where we were appointing some ...

The Akufo-Addo government is set to issue a $2.24billion bond in the coming days to pay the huge debt burdening the country’s energy sector, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, a deputy Information Minister has disclosed. The issuance of the bond, he said Thursday on Morning Starr, is part of efforts by government to raise money over a long profile to pay the ...

The Trump administration in America is set to deport seven thousand Ghanaians who have abused the terms of their Visas. The Ghanaians are currently at different stages of the deportation process, the US ambassador to Ghana Robert Jackson has revealed. “In fact about 7000 of them are currently at different stages of the deportation process. And we are not apologetic ...

Hajia Kande, the Savelugu constituency Women’s Organiser of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has warned she will resign if the president’s nominee for District Chief Executive for her area, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu, is maintained. According to her, the president’s nominee is not known to constituency executives, therefore, they cannot work with her in prosecuting the NPP’s agenda for change. ...

The cedi outperformed the U.S dollar and the euro but depreciated versus the British pound at the close of trading in the week ending April 21. It recorded a 1.13 per cent appreciation against the U.S. dollar as investors languished over weaker-than-expected economic data in the world’s largest economy. As a result, the local currency exchanged at GH¢4.16 versus the ...

Unhappy with the tight fiscal space government is confronted with, economic Policy Think-Tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is advising caution in expenditure to forestall escalation of the fiscal deficit. Even though government has managed to create some space through its review of earmarked funds, the Institute is worried the space created is no match for the expected expenditure ...