A member of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) Council of Elders in the Eastern region has accused some elements in the Nkrumaist party of using the party for selfish financial gains. Mr Opare Addo, a former Eastern Regional Chairman and a Parliamentary Candidate believes the situation has made CPP politically porous allowing the two major political parties; National Democratic Congress ...

Prior to the 2016 general elections, the New Patriotic Party’s manifesto was stolen, Charles Bissue has said. According to him, the said manifesto was being traded by another political party and so the party had to change theirs. Although Mr Bissue refused to mention the name of the party to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr, he revealed the 2020 ...

Founder of the African University College of Communications, Kojo Yankah has backed the decision of the Akufo-Addo government to construct an airport in the Central Regional Capital of Cape Coast. According to him, the region which is known to be the center of tourism in the country deserves what it takes to elevate it from its current 4th position as ...

Ghanaians, have been left stunned over how President Akufo-Addo and his vice, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, could reject and accept the request to build an airport in the Central Region within a spate of 24 hours. Last Friday, many woke up to news of the President, rejecting suggestion from people in the Central Region that government looks at constructing an airport ...

The Agyapa Royalties deal recently passed by Ghana’s Parliament is just a way to park the country’s debts off the balance sheet, Prof Kwaku Asare, a law professor and accountant has said. Parliament passed the deal two weeks ago by approving five agreements to allow the country to derive maximum value from its mineral resources and monetise its mineral income ...

South Africa’s students in all grades resume classes on Monday after weeks of closure because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Final-year students had resumed classes earlier to prepare for examinations. President Cyril Ramaphosa closed the schools in July after they were briefly reopened following a public outcry on rising virus cases. Monday’s resumption of classes comes as the country registers a decline in ...

The former Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Bissue has refuted suggestions that President Nana Akufo-Addo was unaware that the NPP’s manifesto contained a promise to build an airport and a harbour in Cape Coast. On Friday, a day before the NPP’s manifesto launch in Cape Coast, President Akufo Addo stated in an interview ...

There are signs of hope on the African continent as cases of COVID-19 begin to fall in some worst hit countries. The continent-wide daily average was 10,300 last week, down from 11,000 the week before. Africa has recorded 1,147,369 cases, more than half of which are in South Africa, and about 26,000 deaths. The Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control ...

Bayern Munich overcame Paris St-Germain in a tightly contested Champions League final in Lisbon to claim the crown for the sixth time. Kingsley Coman, who started his career at PSG, settled a tense affair with a 59th-minute header at the far post from Joshua Kimmich’s cross to leave the French giants still searching for that elusive Champions League triumph. It ...

Kellyanne Conway has announced that she is resigning from her post as senior adviser to US President Donald Trump. In a statement, Mrs Conway, 53, said she was stepping down at the end of August to focus on her children, giving them “less drama, more mama”. Her husband, George, an outspoken critic of the president, will also be stepping back ...