POLITICS

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has called on the government to heighten security at the country’s borders following this week’s jailbreak in neighbouring Nigeria where some 240 suspected Boko Haram terrorists and other hardened criminals have escaped from prison. According to Mr Ablakwa, evidence suggests a number of these fugitives always head to Ghana. ...

IPhone owners should beware picking up bad vibrations from powerful motorbikes, as they may damage camera systems, Apple has said. The technology giant published a warning iPhones should not be attached to powerful bikes, in a support document spotted by MacRumors. Engine vibrations can harm phones’ optical-image stabilisation or closed-loop autofocus systems, it says. Owners of scooters and mopeds should ...

The Ashanti Region Youth Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has thrown support for former president John Dramani Mahama to lead the party again into the 2024 elections. In a statement issued amid controversy over Mr Mahama’s two-day Thank You tour of the Region, regional Youth Organiser Osman Nabali Abdullah insisted that the three-time Presidential Candidate is the only ...

Private legal practitioner Abraham Amaliba has described as reckless, government’s accusation against lawyers for evading taxes. Both President AKufo-Addo and the Attorney-General have strongly criticized the lawyers for using their knowledge of the law to deliberately avoid paying taxes. Speaking to Starr News, Abraham Amaliba said the accusation impunes on the integrity of the legal profession He said “that comment, ...

Former Member of Parliament for Mion Abdul Aziz Mohammed has urged the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to allow former President John Mahama to go unopposed as presidential candidate in the 2024 elections. According to the former MP, Mr. Mahama who contested the 2020 election on the ticket of the party and lost to president Akufo-Addo is the only one poised ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has admonished the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to use the 2024 elections to redeem its image given the circumstances under which the 2020 polls were held. “A lot of things didn’t go well especially the discovery of extra ballot papers,” he said in an exclusive interview with Media General‘s William Evans-Nkum on Monday, September 13. “We’ve held elections, we’ve had ...

Former Member of Parliament for the Mion constituency Mohammed Abdul-Aziz has stated that President Nana Akufo-Addo’s delay in appointing Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) nine months into his second term is a failure of his mandate to the people of Ghana. He said President Akufo-Addo is not a new President but rather continuing from a first term which ...

The Founder and Leader of the Glorious Word Power Ministries International, Reverend Isaac Owusu-Bempah, has been remanded into Police custody by an Accra High Court. Rev Owusu-Bempah and four others Mensah Ofori, Michael Boateng, Frederick Ohene and Nathaniel Agyekum were together charged with six counts. They have all pleaded not guilty to the charges pressed against them for threatening to ...

NDC’s South Dayi representative in Parliament Nelson-Rockson Etse Dafeamekpor has dragged government to court again. Mr Dafeamekpor, this time, wants the court to enjoin government to complete the community day senior high schools started by the Mahama-led administration but abandoned by the current government. So far, about 46 out of the 200 schools promised by John Dramani Mahama in the ...

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has appealed to the Committee on Foreign Retail Trade, to as a matter of urgency resume operations to close down shops of undocumented foreign retailers. GUTA’s resolution follows a move by the Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana (NUTAG) to reject the special dispensation granted them by the Government of Ghana despite ...