POLITICS

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has denied claims of withdrawal of its five-year partnership with the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). This follows media reports suggesting that the Committee had withdrawn from a five-year partnership aimed at fighting corruption related to disbursement of petroleum revenue with EOCO in the country. A statement issued on Monday, 15 November ...

Pollster and Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch Newspaper, Ben Ephson the former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings may not bring any exceptional differences to the NDC if she rejoins. According to him, despite the fact that politics is about numbers considering Nana Konadu’s impact after her breakaway there will be no major impact if she rejoins the party her ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has stated that the Police Administration cannot arrest the Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Francis Xavier Sosu after they approved the Madina demonstration. Addressing the Speaker’s Breakfast Forum in Kumasi on Monday, 15th November, 2021, Mr. Bagbin described the attempts by the Police to arrest the MP as obstruction of his duties as ...

The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otokunor, has said the party is open to discussing the return of Mrs Konadu Agyeman Rawlings if she applies to rejoin the party. Speaking on Morning Starr, Monday 15th November 2021, the Deputy General Secretary in-Charge of Operation stated that Article 8 of the NDC’s constitution spells out ...

A Deputy communications director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Nyamah, has opined that the government’s digitalization drive in the country will eliminate examination leakages and malpractices in the country by way of removing the human element in its handling and transportation. He said a lot of the challenges in the country such as corruption, examination malpractices shall be ...

The Humanist Association in Ghana has expressed confidence that the LGBTQI+ bill currently in Ghana’s Parliament will be thrown away since it is an affront on the minority group in the country. In an interview with Starrfm, the Spokesperson for the Humanist Association of Ghana, Justice Okai Allotey observed that the first public hearing on the bill in Parliament has ...

The Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has heaped glowing tributes on the Vice President of the Republic, Mahamudu Bawumia. In a statement made on the floor of Parliament on Friday, 12th of November, 2021, the Effutu Member of Parliament said; “Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia is another calm character, easy of address, a determined soul, ready to serve his country” ...

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has commended Muslim and Christian leaders in Ghana for their immense contributions to religious tolerance and peace in the country. Addressing thousands of Muslims on Saturday, at the 2021 National Maulid – the celebration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad, S.A.W – Dr. Bawumia said Ghana’s global credentials as a religious tolerant and a ...

The Bank of Ghana has revealed that an assessment of the banking sector as at end-August 2021 indicated that the sector’s performance remained strong, underpinned by sustained growth in total assets, deposits, and investments. The expansion in the industry’s assets was on the back of increased liquidity flows from deposits and borrowings during the review period. Banks’ average lending rates ...

“Just as we were the first country, south of the Sahara, to gain our independence, Ghana’s distinguished diplomat, Patrick Seddoh, was the first African to be elected chairperson of the Executive Board of UNESCO in 1983. We were also the first African country to have a female representative on the Executive Board, in the person of another distinguished diplomat, Mrs. ...