POLITICS

A former deputy Information Minister Pius Hadzide has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority (NYA) by President Akufo-Addo, Starr News has gathered. He replaces Sylvester Matthew Tetteh, who is now a member of Parliament for the Bortianor-Ngleshie Amanfro Constituency, in the Greater Accra Region. Mr. Hadzide is expected to be assisted by two deputies in the ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that his party, the National Democracy Congress (NDC) is prepared to sit around the same table with the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to deliberate on job creation for the teeming youth of the country. He explained that the issue of unemployment is not a problem only for the current government but all ...

President  Akufo-Addo has described Ghana’s relations with Germany as being “of utmost importance”, as Ghana is determined to participate fully in the global marketplace not on the basis of the exports of raw materials, but on the basis of the exports of things the country makes. According to President Akufo-Addo, “we, in Ghana, are drawing inspiration from the success stories ...

Former President John Mahama has urged Ghanaians to vote out the New Patriotic Party government in 2024 so they could account for their stewardship under a new government. ‘‘The NPP have no intention of fighting corruption and so the only way they can be made to account to the people of Ghana is for them to leave office so that ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has arrived in Germany to participate in the G20 Compact Initiative Programme established by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel to promote investments in African countries, including Ghana. The President left Ghana Sunday to Germany at the invitation of Chancellor Angela Merkel. The G20 Compact with Africa (CwA) was initiated under the German G20 Presidency to ...

An independent presidential aspirant, Mr Kofi Koranteng, has described both the main opposition National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) 2020 flag bearer, Mr John Mahama, and President Nana Akufo-Addo of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) as “incompetent twins”. In his view, the NPP is in power today because of the incompetence of the NDC when it had the reins of governance. ...

I read John Mahama saying on his belated “thank you tour” that NPP wants to break the eight in order to protect itself from corruption. The simple response to that must be that the NPP wants to break the eight in order to protect Ghana and the gains being made for Ghanaians from the likes of “Mahama the Disaster”. The ...

Prologue Ghanaians seem strangely unconcerned or disinterested, as one of the biggest abuses of office in Ghana’s history is unfolding in the form of what the late Professor Kofi Awoonor prophesised in a poem in 2012 as the “cathedral of doom”. The Muslim community, which stands to lose more, does not seem to notice the religious coup d’etat taking place ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said it will reject any audit report from SEC-licensed institutions if they do not follow the requirements of Act 929. SEC said in a statement that it “shall not accept any 2021 audited financial statements due to be published in 2022 that does not meet the requirements prescribed under Act 929”. It said ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is to hold discussions with global vaccine manufacturer Pfizer-BioNTech for the establishment of a Vaccine Institute in Ghana. The meeting, to be held in Germany, on the sidelines of the President’s official working visit to the European nation this week, will also consider modalities for the procurement of more of that manufacturer’s vaccine for Ghana’s ...