POLITICS

The African Union (AU) has expressed extreme concern at “the very serious and dangerous situation created in Ukraine.” AU Chair Macky Sall, President of Senegal, and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, expressed this concern in a statement. They called on the Russian Federation and any other regional or international actor to imperatively respect international law, ...

President of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS)-Ukraine, Philip Ansah has disclosed that the number of Ghanaian students and non-students in Ukraine could be around 1500. Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr, Ansah said per data collected a month ago, Ghanaians students are about 959 students in Ukraine who have registered with NUGS. Lands For Sale In ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K Bagbin, has said democracy must improve the quality of life and meet the hopes and aspirations of citizens. To help actualise this necessity, he said the legislature must add value to interventions targeted at improving the lot of the citizenry, and not the reverse. The Speaker made the remarks when the Qatari Ambassador ...

The District Chief Executive for Okere in the Eastern Region Daniel Kenneth has revealed that the assembly received only one million cedis out of the four million cedis expected to be released into the District Assembly Common Fund [DACF] from Central government for the year 2021. The amount received represents 25% of the fund. According to the DCE, the Member ...

The Komenda Sugar factory in the Central Region, will begin operations by April, 2022. This was disclosed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during a meeting with the chiefs of Komenda at the Jubilee House. According to President Akufo-Addo, some civil works are being carried out currently on the factory. However, it is expected that the works will be completed ...

An anti-corruption organization, Crusaders Against Corruption has hauled the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong before the Office of the Special Prosecutor. In a petition dated 23rd February 2022, the Organization is asking the Special Prosecutor to investigate Kennedy Agyapong for publications made on Asaase Radio on the 22nd February 2022. Among the publication include the allegations ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor has expressed dissatisfaction with a cash donation of Four Million United States Dollars (US$4,000,000.00) presented by the Ghana Chamber of Mines to the Appiatse Support Fund. The Fund was established to, among others, support the victims of the Appiatse explosion incident and reconstruct the Appiatse community. The Chamber made the ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has described the attitude of the First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu to overrule his rulings as unconstitutional, illegal, and offensive. The first Deputy Speaker on Tuesday dismissed a private members’ motion for a bi-partisan committee inquiry into Covid-19 expenditure since 2020. The motion was moved by Ranking Member for the Finance Committee, Cassiel Ato ...

A 2014 presidential candidate aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Francis Addai-Nimoh has expressed some concerns about the scarcity of the party’s nomination forms for the upcoming polling station elections. According to Mr Addai-Nimoh the event is worrying. Mr. Addai-Nimoh in a statement dated February 22, 2022, said there are reported cases of abuse of the process by ...

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has begun a campaign for the use of electric and gas powered vehicles in the country. This forms part of efforts to get Ghana in tandem with a global agenda to end the production of fossil fuel-based vehicles by the year 2030 to ensure net zero carbon emission. At a National Energy Transition Forum in Accra ...