POLITICS

President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has donated ghc500 to each of the stranded Kayaye (head porters) who were stopped at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region on their way to the Northern Region. The head porters, numbering about 76, had attempted to flee from Accra back to their hometowns in the wake of the President’s order for a partial lockdown in the ...

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Asiedu Nketia says Ghana is in a state of emergency due to COVID-19 but the Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu is brewing controversy with the Airbus scandal. This follows Martin Amidu’s invite to some four persons over the Airbus scandal. The four are Samuel Mahama, who he describes as a brother of ...

The National Youth Authority (NYA) has launched a nationwide youth campaign against the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 Youth Campaign, according to the NYA, seeks to create awareness on the pandemic and educate the youth on the various precautionary measures needed to combat the virus. Consequently, the National Youth Authority says it collaborating with some youth-based organisations and influential young leaders ...

Interior Minister Ambrose Dery has assured that officers found culpable of brutalizing citizens in the ongoing partial lockdown will be dealt with accordingly. He reiterated the operation is a humanitarian one and not one to terrorize innocent citizens. Speaking to Starr News’ Ibrahim Alhassan, Mr Dery acknowledged some of the videos making rounds are real and have been sent to ...

The road fund under the erstwhile Mahama administration was branded “sick” by the Majority in Parliament after their counterparts used parliamentary privilege to blame the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for the delay in the construction of the Bolgatanga-Bawku-Pulimakom road. Led by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pusiga, Laadi Ayii Ayamba, the Minority MPs said the NPP government ...

A former chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) is demanding that government comes clear on how it is going to police the use of funds it is demanding from legally appropriated oil funds, for COVID 19 emergency expenditures. According to Mr Kwame Jantuah, Ghanaians cannot trust government to use resources from the futuristic Heritage and the Stabilization ...

The Special Prosecutor has invited a brother of former President John Mahama to assist in the ongoing probe into the Airbus scandal. Samuel Mahama and three other individuals believed to have played different roles in the purchase of three aircraft from Airbus SE for Ghana are to appear before the special prosecutor, a statement published in the Daily Graphic said. ...

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta is in Parliament today, March 30, 2020 to brief the House on measures the government has adopted to sustain the economy, following the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Parliament received a request from the government on Saturday to approve an agreement with the World Bank for an amount of $35 million to support its operations ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress and former President John Mahama have donated items to the Ridge Hospital for the fights against the global pandemic – Coronavirus. The Items included PPEs for the frontline workers and food items as well as water. The Ridge Hospital is one of the dedicated centres for the virus in Ghana. Ghana’s COVID-19 cases have jumped ...

Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Minister of Information, on Sunday said the executive arm of government that is those exempted from the government COVID-19 restrictions also includes heads of government institutions, appointees and special assistants. He advised all the exempted person who fall into the stated categories go to work with their staff identity cards to show at security points ...