POLITICS

The true certified copy of the full judgment of the Supreme Court in the consolidated case in which the National Democratic Congress and Mark Takyi-Banson sued the Electoral Commission and the Attorney General on the mode for the compilation of a new voters’ register is ready for pick after 12noon today, Wednesday, July 15. A seven-member panel of the apex ...

Parliament on Tuesday approved a facility agreement amounting to fifty six million, one hundred and fifty-three thousand, five hundred euros (€56,153,500.000) from Deutsche Bank AG and Global Services (UK) Limited for the construction of health facilities in parts of the country. These include the construction of Trauma Hospitals in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region and Anyinam in the Eastern, an ...

The National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party Henry Nana Boakye popularly known as Nana B says SHS students who have tested positive for COVID-19 in schools brought the virus from their homes. “It is important to note that the students who have tested positive for COVID-19 did not even contract the virus on their respective campuses, this is ...

One person has been killed in Banda in the Bono region over a confrontation at a registration centre. Starr News understands that the scuffle at the registration center began after some persons associated with the NPP parliamentary candidate for the constituency confronted brother of the MP for the area, Ahmed Ibrahim, over reasons not yet known. The deceased, according to ...

A five-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justice Victor Jones Dotse has adjourned the case in which the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Ofosu Ampofo is challenging a High Court decision in his leaked tape trial at the High Court. The NDC chairman and Kweku Boahen are standing trial at the High Court ...

The deputy regional secretaries of the opposition NDC have issued a press release congratulating Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman in her appointment as running mate for the 2020 election. The statement read: “We are extremely excited about the nomination of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as the Vice Presidential Candidate of the NDC for election 2020. “ “It is a great honour ...

The women in the inner city and Zongos will be elevated and exposed to personal development and growth in the next NDC government, the incoming vice president being a woman will surely understand the need to support women in the inner cities and Zongos to move forward in all aspect of life. Prof Jane will ensure the involvement and participation ...

Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has said calls for re-opened schools to be shut down over rising cases of the Coronavirus, particularly in Senior High Schools, are untenable. Speaking during an interview on Adom TV’s ‘Badwam’ programme on Monday, July 13, 2020, the Minister said he disagreed with the calls for SHSs to be closed down and the students ...

Former Vice Chancellor of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Professor Stephen Adei has defended his earlier assertion that Ghana will become worse off if former President John Mahama becomes president of the Republic of Ghana again. According to him, Mr Mahama does not have the qualities such as strategic thinking, amongst others to lead the country. ...

Deputy Education Minister Dr. Yaw Adutwum says the Education Ministry will take action against the Youth Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party for visiting a senior high school to campaign despite a government directive. Henry Nana Boakye, popularly known as ‘Nana B’, is seen an in image gone viral on social media addressing some senior high school students in ...