POLITICS

Details available to The Herald, suggest the Akufo-Addo government, is gravely divided over the implementation of UNIPASS transaction, which is to take over the Ghana National Single Widow (GNSW) operations at the country’s ports. The most shocking of all, is reports that the Government Economic Management Team (EMT) chaired by the Vice-President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, is equally divided on the ...

The United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland chapter of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has refuted reports that one of its leading members and MP, Cassiel Ato Forson, was exposed in London. Reports in the news recently alleged that the Former Deputy Finance Minister under the erstwhile John Mahama government, had been exposed by NPP UK for privately praising the ...

Former President John Mahama has called on government to set up isolation centres in the various regions across the country in order to control the spread of coronavirus in Ghana. According to him, with his experience in helping other countries deal with Ebola during the outbreak in 2014, it is not ideal to transport cases from other regions to the ...

Former President John Mahama says he has asked his former appointees who were involved in his government’s efforts towards preventing Ebola to help the health ministry as the country battles coronavirus. “I have instructed my communications team and my public health advisors to support any efforts by the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Health in this particular regard. ...

The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Clemence Honyenugah has dismissed a preliminary objection barring him from hearing an application against himself for a political comment he made in public. After hearing the lawyers and the State Attorneys on the preliminary issues, the judge ruled that the preliminary matter is needless. According to the judge, ...

Staff of the National Identification Authority (NIA) have suspended the ongoing mass registration exercise in the Eastern Region over coronavirus. A visit to some centres by Starr News observed staff of the Authority were packing away even the exercise has not ended in the region. Ghana has recorded six cases of the coronavirus within a week with about 170 contact ...

The government will deal drastically with journalists and persons who will publish fake news with the intention of creating fear and panic. Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in an interview on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ program said anyone who will be caught in such an act will not be spared. This follows six confirmed cases of COVID-19 that have been recorded ...

The Centre for Ethical Governance and Administration (CEGA) has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana to suspend the compilation of the new Voters Register in the outbreak of the Coronavirus in the country. Ghana has so far recorded six cases of Covid 19. The EC is set to roll out registration for the compilation of a new voter ...

The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has revealed that one of the two people infected with the Coronavirus is a Ghanaian. The other infected person, according to Oppong Nkrumah is a Turkish citizen who returned to Ghana about a week ago. The Ghanaian who works abroad also returned to Ghana from Norway adding that both infected persons arrived separately ...

Parliament on Thursday adopted a motion for the House to constitute an ad hoc committee, to be chaired by Deputy Majority Leader Sarah Adwoa Safo to recommend to the House the appointment of an auditor to audit the accounts of the Office of the Auditor-General. Members of the committee would be Public Accounts Committee Chairman James Klutse Avedzi, who is ...