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Former Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) appointed under successive National Democratic Congress (NDC) governments have appealed to former President John Dramani Mahama make himself available to serve the party and Ghana as the presidential candidate of the party. Mahama should immediately declare his intentions for the party’s presidential ticket ahead of the December 2020 polls. “…We wish to ...

Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has called on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to embrace the politics of conscience, truth and the power of conviction as it seeks to return to power in 2020. The Founder of the NDC said it is important the party recognized the reasons it lost the 2016 election in order to put ...

Former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea has refused to pick nomination forms to contest for the Vice Chairmanship position in the party. Akomea said he decided after realizing that if care is not taken most of the top leadership positions may go to party stalwarts from the “Akan sub-group.” “When nominations opened last week, l ...

The Ministry of Education is to introduce coding in the basic school curriculum to promote software and website development. Communication Minister, Ursula Owusu Ekuful, says it will also bridge the technology gap between their counterparts in the developed world. She was speaking at a ceremony Friday to mark Girls in ICT Day in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. Mrs Ekuful ...

There was drama on Thursday morning in the studios of Adom FM in Accra when their interdicted journalist Captain Smart attempted, and succeeded in signing into a morning program to run the show in defiance of his interdiction the previous day. Listeners of Adom FM on Thursday morning woke up to news of Captain Smart’s interdiction but were hit by ...

Wife of Dr. Hilla Liman, Ghana’s only president under the Third Republic, has revealed that things were not easy for herself and her family after the overthrow of her husband in 1981. In an exclusive interview with the former first lady, Fulera Hilla Liman, as a build up to Mothers Day, she told Media General’s Sarah Parku ‘‘We were worst ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo Prampram, Sam George, has described as weak the argument by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate hopeful, Dr. Ekow Spio Garbrah, that party members must elect a candidate who is eligible to serve two terms. Dr. Spio-Gabrah speaking on Morning Starr Thursday urged members of the main opposition party to be particular about ...

The government has issued a cheque of GhC 410,389 to the Northern Regional Director of Ghana Education Service, Alhaji Cambodia, to rescue the Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO) from a judgment debt. A court in Tamale in the Northern region has confiscated a student bus and the official vehicle of the headmistress of Ghanasco after the Ghana Education Service failed ...

An amount of GH₵8.8 million has been released by the government for the payment of the outstanding utility bills of 688 public senior high schools. The amount covers the cost of electricity and water that were supplied to the schools for the first term of the 2017/18 academic year, following the implementation of the free SHS policy. Out of the ...

Ghana’s Second Lady, Samira Bawumia and her Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEPH)  has launched “The Safe Delivery Project” in Salaga, the East Gonja Municipal capital of the Northern Region to fight  the alarming rate of maternal and neonatal mortality in rural communities in Ghana. The Project, launched under the theme: “Promoting Safe Deliveries and Ensuring Healthy Infants”, would provide up ...