Statistical analysis has revealed that the opposition National Democratic Congress has a slight edge over the ruling New Patriotic Party in the upcoming December elections. Data by the Governance Research Bureau shows that the NDC must put in a little effort to win the upcoming December polls but the NPP will have to do much more than the NDC to ...

The old voters register which is about to be discarded by the Electoral Commission (EC) on account that it is over-bloated with names of non-Ghanaians, dead people and been overstretched still appears to have some staunch defendants. One of such defendants is policy think tank Imani Ghana, which in spite of the EC’s near completion of the compilation of a ...

People in Beirut have expressed anger at the government over what they say was negligence that led to Tuesday’s huge explosion. President Michel Aoun said the blast was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a warehouse. Many have accused the authorities of corruption, neglect and mismanagement. The blast killed at least 137 people and injured about ...

Facebook and Twitter have penalised Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were “almost immune” to coronavirus. Facebook deleted the post – a clip from an interview Mr Trump gave to Fox News – saying it contained “harmful Covid misinformation”. Twitter followed by saying it had frozen a Trump campaign account until a tweet ...

Government is seeking parliamentary approval to borrow a total of $166,120,000 for the purchase of armoured vehicles. The three separate agreements were laid in parliament Monday and referred to a joint committee on Finance, Defence and Interior. The first facility is between government of  Ghana (represented by the Ministry of Finance) and Israel Discount Bank Limited for an amount of ...

The Electoral Commission has revealed that the mop up exercise scheduled for the 8th and 9th August will take place at its District Offices and not registration centres as expected by the public. Speaking on the Morning Starr Thursday, the Director of Public Affairs for the Electoral Commission, Sylvia Annor said the EC has taken the decision to conduct the ...

A project initiated by the Participatory Action for Rural Development Alternatives (PARDA) to ensure that mothers and their babies remain alive and well before and after delivery has led to the discovery of four Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds running without a midwife. The discovery comes two years after Ghana’s Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, had promised ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his government has paid all the locked-up deposits in the nine local banks that collapsed and 98 per cent of the funds that got stuck in the over 386 microfinance institutions, finance houses and savings & loans companies that also went down. The banks and financial institutions were collapsed by the Bank of ...

Wilfried Osei Kwaku Palmer, the man at the centre of the CAS’ impending ruling which has the potential of shaking the foundation of Ghana football has denied receiving the verdict from the sports adjudication body. Sense of apprehension and anxiety hit the roof yesterday as interested parties waited for the ruling which had been scheduled for August 4 by CAS. ...

Veteran journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, has waded into the conversation about revelations from the recently launched book by leading member of the National Democratic Congress, Prof. Kwamena Ato Ahwoi. The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide intimated that the timing of the release of Prof Ahwoi’s ‘Working with Rawlings’ book was poor, considering that a lot of the assertions ...