There was a clear pattern of match manipulation during South Africa’s 2022 World Cup qualifier against Ghana, according to South African Football Association (Safa) president Danny Jordaan. Ghana beat Bafana Bafana 1-0 on Sunday in the crucial qualifier – a result which saw the Black Stars advance to Africa’s play-offs for the tournament at the expense of the South Africans ...

Vice President of Imani Africa, Kofi Bentil has welcomes the decision by the government to abolish road tolls in the country. According to him, the policy think tank had always advocated the scrapping of the road tolls initiative because it was more expensive. “For years we argued for their scrapping because it was actually more expensive. Finally someone heard ! How ...

The YouStart initiative that has been introduced by the government in the 2022 budget statement will help in reducing the youth unemployment situation in the country, Lawmaker for Nsawam-Adoagyiri, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has said. “The 2022 Budget demonstrates a listening government in touch with our challenges as Ghanaians. Initiatives like YouStart tackle the challenge of youth unemployment head-on. Govt is still ...

Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described as “most shocking and an unpardonable dereliction” the total silence of the 2022 budget on the raging disaster along the coast of the Volta Region. He said having combed through the budget as presented by the Finance Minister on Wednesday, November 17, absolutely no word was mentioned on the tidal ...

Two Ghanaian citizens have sued the Attorney General and Minister of Justice over a number of protections the Speaker of Parliament, a Member of Parliament and the Clerk to Parliament enjoy under the 1992 Constitution. In the writ sighted by Starrfm.com.gh, the petitioners quote Article 117, and 118(1) and (2) of the 1992 Constitution among others that give the Speaker, MPs ...

The Minister of National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, is expected in Parliament today, Thursday, November 18, to answer questions on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s foreign travels. The question was posed by Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, in May. He had accused the President of profligacy in going for a more expensive aircraft while the presidential ...

Ghana is developing a proposal for the adoption of E-Mobility in the transport sector to address the high levels of Green House Gas (GHG) and air pollution associated with the sector Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed. Road transport alone contributes 45.4 percent of total fuel combustion emissions and accounts for 13 percent of the overall national GHG emissions. The ...

As part of the climate action and sustainable transition to a low carbon economy, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed that the government intends to invest in the use of technology, and will, in partnership with the private sector, invest in the assembly and integration of electric motorbikes. This was contained in the 2022 budget statement Mr Ofori-Atta presented before ...

The Government of Ghana has announced an ambitious plan to connect more towns and rural communities to the national grid by the year 2022. Ghana, currently, has an electricity coverage rate of about 86.63 percent. In 2020, the government connected a total of 162 communities to the national grid. Currently, electricity connections to 512 communities are also at various stages ...

The General Legal Council (GLC) has reportedly agreed to admit the 499 law students at the Law School. This was after representatives of the aggrieved students and their lawyer met with the GLC and the Attorney General on Wednesday. “The subcommittee of the GLC that we met this evening will go back and report on the contents of these deliberations ...