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The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has said the trend where experienced Members of Parliament (MPs), especially on the side of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), are voted against by their delegates in the party’s internal elections thereby allowing novices to enter Parliament, is affecting the quality of debate on the floor of the House. According to him, ...

The deputy Agric Minister, William Quaitoo, has rendered an unqualified apology for branding some Northern ethnic groups as “difficult people”. According to him, the comment was unfortunate and thoughtless. “I have apologized and withdrawn it. Sincerely, within my heart I have done,” the remorseful Quaitoo told Starr Today’s Benard Nasara Saibu Friday. His public apology follows calls on him by ...

Former President John Kufuor is urging the current leadership of the party to strategise and keep the party in power for a long time. He said it is only when the party keeps on winning consistently would the roots of the party go deep and the NPP will become the party of the nation. He was speaking at the National ...

The suspended general secretary of the New Patriotic Party Kwabena Agyepong says he misses his job at the party secretariat. According to him, although he remains suspended from the fold of the elephant family, the party is still on his heart. “I do miss my role. It is service to my party. I still miss it,” Agyapong told journalists when ...

Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has revealed that the party’s greatest strength lies in the talented members who use their knowledge to advance the interest of the party. Speaking during the NPP’s delegate’s conference in Cape Coast on Saturday, August 26, Mr Blay said: “In a conference of this nature, we must take stock ...

The suspended General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, has made his way to the University of Cape Coast, where delegates of the party have gathered for this year’s conference. Mr Agyepong was suspended by the National Council prior to the 2016 general elections together with National Chairman Paul Awentami Afoko. Their suspension was to be ...

A pickup car with registration number GN 5195-15 belonging to the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection Friday morning knocked down a pregnant hawker in a gory accident at Dzorwulu around the Fidelity Bank in Accra. The unfortunate incident left the woman unconscious and in critical condition; her limbs broken, stomach opened and intestines gushing out. An eyewitness, Theodora Nartey, ...

Information reaching Joy News indicates that scores of Togolese are attempting to cross over to Ghana as moves to end the reign of the Eyadema dynasty heightens. Joy News’ Ivy Setordzi who is in the West African country has reported that residents who are uncertain about their safety are leaving the country. She said many shops have closed, streets are ...

The Minority in Parliament is demanding Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko submits to the House details of a possible 15-year Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) agreement yet to be signed with Equatorial Guinea. Ranking Member on Parliament’s Mines and Energy Committee, Adam Mutawakilu insists the deal is an international agreement that must have ratification by the House. Quoting a recent Supreme Court ...

Four land guards, in the early hours of Friday, stormed the premises of the Pantang Hospital in Accra to attack security officers on duty. Elvis Akuamoah, a senior staff member at the hospital who revealed this in an interview with Accra News, narrated that the land guards claimed the security officers at the hospital were farming on a plot of ...