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“Let me also indicate to you my commitment to establishing a Committee, God willing, early next year, to take a comprehensive look at the issue to do with the compulsory acquisition of lands by Government, its consequences and the possible restoration of lands to their allodial owners.” These were the words of the President of Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 29th October ...

The Food and Drugs Authority has assured that smugglers of unwholesome goods into the country would be unsuccessful henceforth. The entity maintains that necessary structures have been put in place to safeguard the health of Ghanaians right from the ports to the shelves. Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Thursday Ebenezer Kofi Essel from the Food Industrial Support ...

The vice-presidential candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang has assured voters in the Volta region that her party is committed to creating an equal, just and inclusive society if voted into power at the December 7, polls. According to the NDC runningmate, the NDC has a track record of ensuring that every part of ...

The National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has indicated that a total of 8,000 people will be recruited into the Ghana Police Service should the party win the December 7th general elections. According to Mr. Ofosu Ampofo, the recruitment would be part of measures the government will put in place to improve upon security ...

The High Court in Accra hearing the trial of 14 alleged murderers of the late Major Maxwell Adam Mahana has fixed a new date to resume the trial. The court was expected to resume the trial today, Thursday, October 29, but it has now been adjourned to November 19, 2020. The trial has since February 29, 2020 been on hold ...

Government has given itself a pat on the back for improving the status of teachers following the latest ranking of the country as the second out of thirty-five countries on the status of teachers. The ranking was done by the Varkey Foundation, a global charitable foundation focused on improving the standards of education for underprivileged children, based on the data ...

Independent Presidential candidate in the upcoming elections Alfred Asiedu Walker has described the controversial Agyapa mineral royalties deal as a fraud. According to him, it is not appropriate for the government of Ghana to do business in a tax haven country. “We have sold our assets, with the hope that somebody will give us something but we should stop doing ...

Managers of Ghana’s economy cannot run away from borrowing due to the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Economist with the Institute of Chartered Economists Gideon Amissah has indicated. In 2018, the national debt of Ghana amounted to approximately 59.29 percent of the GDP. A figure that currently stands at over 65%. Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta on Wednesday requested parliament ...

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has described media reports that suggest Kennedy Agyapong, the Assin Central MP, has won an appeal against him as a classic case of “premature ejaculation”. According to him, the report by Pinax TV, an online TV station that streams on YouTube, is “uninformed, totally illiterate, uneducated understanding of what happened in court”. He explained that the lawyers ...

The vice-presidential candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang has assured voters in the Volta region that her party is committed to creating an equal, just and inclusive society if voted into power at the December 7, polls. According to the NDC runningmate, the NDC has a track record of ensuring that every part of ...