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Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsia Asare, has justified the mandatory vaccination exercise introduced by the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Heath Service. He said the government is determined to the lives of Ghanaian against the dreaded coronavirus hence the scaling up of the vaccination exercise. Healthcare workers, security personnel, staffs of schools and all staffs of government ...

A former Senior Governance Adviser at the United Nations, Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah says the ongoing impasse between the Majority and Minority in Parliament over the 2022 Budget is preventable. Speaking to Francis Abban on Morning Starr Thursday, Prof. Agyeman-Duah stated that the current composition of Parliament should inform the government on how to deal with issues in the House. According ...

The Inspector General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has disclosed to personnel of the Service plans to introduce a one million dollar Police emergency fund to cater for officers who sustain injuries in the line of duty. According to the IGP, the fund was triggered by his own experiences with officers who were injured in the line of duty ...

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Wusu (Joewise) has justified the approval of the 2022 budget statement. During deliberations in the House on Wednesday December, 1 he stated that a Deputy Speaker could not be described as a Speaker hence, arguments being against the number of MPs in the chamber as of the time of the approval of ...

The new variant of the COVID-19 pandemic, Omicron, has been detected in a passenger at the Kotoka International Airport. This was disclosed by the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, on Wednesday, 1 December 2021 at the lauch of the COVID-19 vaccination month. According to the GHS Director-General, the virus was detected in a Nigerian traveller ...

The Dome-Kwabenya arm of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed scepticism about the identity of a lady MP who took part in Tuesday’s vote on the budget as Adwoa Safo, the MP for Dome-Kwabenya. Ms Safo has not been seen in public for months. Her leave was extended by President Nana Akufo-Addo some weeks ago. In her absence, ...

A private citizen Richard Sky has filed a writ at the Supreme Court challenging the Speaker of Parliament’s decision to allow 137 members of parliament vote to reject the 2022 budget. Last Friday, Speaker Alban Bagbin allowed 137 Minority MPs to vote on the budget. The MPs voted to reject the budget but many including the Majority said what the ...

A former Member of Parliament for the Tamale Central Constituency in the Northern Region has stressed the need for parliament to live above the manipulation of numbers on the floor. According to Mr. Inusah Fuseini, “Ghana’s democracy stands to suffer if the manipulation of numbers on the floor continues to play out during proceedings in the house”. The former opposition ...

A former Deputy Minister of Information, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has asked Ghanaians to prepare for extreme hardships following the approval of the 2022 budget by Parliament without the Minority. In a Facebook post reacting to the approval of the budget, he said “If you are a Ghanaian, the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government, with the help of their MPs, has given you the ...

The former Minister of Finance, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, has added his voice to the many calls for the rejection of the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-levy) saying it will compound the several taxes on the Ghanaians. Dr. Duffuor reiterated that implementing the E-levy would affect the ordinary Ghanaian directly since it is the mode of payment widely used. The former Governor ...