Deputy Information Minister Pius Hadzide has called on former President John Mahama to reprimand his spokesperson for questioning the number of COVID-19 recoveries in Ghana. According to him, the former President risks creating the impression that he supports the position of Joyce Bawa Mogtari if he fails to condemn her actions publicly. Mrs Bawa Mogtari asked for further probe into ...

On Thursday 14/05/20, I read two media statements on Election 2020, one from NDC chairman Ofosu-Ampofo and the other from former NPP chairman, Peter Mac Manu. But please read the letter below, which I wrote to the NIA about my experience regarding the Ghana card registration, providentially, dated 15/05/19 – almost exactly one year to the day of the exchanges between the two party leaders ...

A virologist at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Dr Kofi Bonney, says Ghana is recording high recoveries of the novel coronavirus because most of the people who contracted the disease were asymptomatic. Of the 5,735 cases recorded in the country as at last Saturday, recoveries stood at 1,754 with 29 deaths. Health authorities say a 1,000 more people ...

Construction work has resumed on the Anlo-Afiadenyigba to Havedzi road in the Keta municipality of the Volta region, after several years of abandonment. In 2013, the then NDC government began an initiative towards the construction of Anlo-Afiadenyigba to Havedzi roads, with the purpose of extending same to Weta and other communities. The 26km stretch which was awarded to KAPPRA URC ...

A former National Democratic Congress(NDC) Member of Parliament(MP) for Nabdam constituency in the Upper East region Moses Aduku Asaga has expressed doubts over an easy win for his party and the governing New Patriotic Party in the upcoming elections. Describing the 2020 elections as one that is close to call, the one time Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of the National Petroleum ...

55-year-old Osmanu Mumuni has been arrested by the Weija Divisional DOVVSU for Cutting off part of his son’s ear with blade. According to the police, the mother of the child reported that a day earlier, her ex-husband Osman Mumuni whom the boy stays with chipped off part of his right ear and also placed his fingers in an open fire ...

The young girl who planted the Apple tree which has gone viral on social media after it started bearing fruits died some five years ago, family sources have told Starr News. Nana Ama Asantewaa, according to reports, planted the seed despite the popular perception that the fruit is an exotic breed and does not grow in Ghana. Her parents who ...

Once upon a time (2yrs ago) the current National Identification Authority (NIA) said to Ghanaians it had acquired some huge sum of money to be used to continue the Card issuance the previous Government started. We were all excited. The previous government was issuing cards to all Ghanaians of all ages. It was a National Card. In fact my children ...

Jean Mensa is decreeing that over 392, 455 Ghanaians from the Central Region will not vote in 2020, because they don’t have a Ghana Card as a requirement to register. The question is, are they not citizens? Jean Mensa’s Electoral Commission and Ken Attafuah’s National Identification Authority are like square pegs in round holes As Sydney Smith once famously said, ...

The coalition of Unconsented Nurses and Midwives group, comprising over 2000 nurses and midwives are raising red flags over what they describe as “deliberate delay” of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives’ Association to refund their salary deductions to them. According to the group, even though they have provided all material proof to the GRNMA and its related partners to ...