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The Education Ministry has rebutted Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s claim that the Minister of Education misled parliament on the issue of disbursement of funds for the progressively free SHS policy by the erstwhile John Mahama-led administration. On Wednesday, November 8, Mr. Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for North Tongu and Deputy Education Minister (tertiary), in the Mahama administration, released a statement to ...

Founder and Leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has called on the Vice-President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, to “stop acting as an all-knowing person” and focus on improving the economy of the country. According to him, the Vice-President has moved from a specialist in economics to an IT expert after his response to former President John Mahama’s ...

The National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Portuphy has admonished party members to desist from open vilification since that could weaken the leadership front of the party. He said the current development where party faithful have pitched camp with presidential hopefuls and engaging in insults against other factions is destroying the unity of the party. “We ...

The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central, Theophilus Tetteh Chaie, has questioned the basis for the 10 regional chairmen of the National Democratic Congress to endorse former President John Mahama for the 2020 general elections. Apart from Alban Bagbin who has officially declared to contest the flagbearship of the party, a number of leading personalities, including former President Mahama, Ekow ...

Former Obuasi Metropolitan Chief Executive under the erstwhile Mahama administration Richard Ofori Boakye Agyemang widely known as ‘Zuba’ has said his Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA is full of John Mahama and that he would want to see him contesting for President in 2020. Zuba claims he would be more than happy to see the former President lead the National Democratic ...

Minority spokesperson on Communications, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini has taken the vice president, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to the cleaners for “exhibiting gross incompetence in government”. According to him, Ghana’s economy under the self-styled ‘economic wizkid’ has taken a nosedive which in his opinion is affecting the socio-economic conditions in the country. Mr. Fuseini who is also the Member of Parliament for ...

A Deputy Minister for Finance Kwaku Kwarteng has described the International Monetary Fund as unreasonable following the Bretton Woods institution’s concerns over the undersubscribed Energy bond floated by the government. The attack was made on GHOne television hours after the deputy minister had told Morning Starr host Francis Abban that ‘IMF are not gods’ on Morning Starr. The IMF, according ...

Police in Tamale acting on a report by the Member of Tamale Central constituency, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has seized a vehicle belonging to an executive of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party in the Northern region as divisions continue to deepen to dangerous levels months after the John Mahama Unity Walk. Alhaji Mohammed Amin Adam, the Regional Youth Organizer of ...

The suspended General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party Kwabena Agyepong has sued the Ashanti regional chairman of the party Bernard Antwi Boasiako over some “defamatory” comments he made about him. In a writ sighted by StarrFMonline.com, Mr. Agyepong is asking the court to issue “an order compelling the first defendant to immediately cause to be retracted the defamatory statement ...

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) is probing former Executive Director of Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Dr George Crentsil, and other officials cited in an alleged 1.2 million dollar kickback scandal. A Joy News exposé earlier this year shed light on possible underhand dealings between a construction firm and Dr Crentsil, a deal that was aided by some officials ...