POLITICS

As the reality of the compilation of a new voters’ register dawns on the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), the party is said to be considering fresh options from its rulebook. A series of meetings have already been held by the highest echelon of the party towards the effective application of the Machiavelli-inclined strategies, the security of which engagements have ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said that the decision of his government to declare Ghana an insolvent state, thus a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) was due to the firm assurance of debt cancellation he received from two female British politicians, Baroness Valerie Amos and Clare Short. According to former President Kufuor, “not even my cabinet readily accepted the ...

Former National Security Adviser, Brigadier Joseph Nunoo-Mensah (rtd) says his criticism of John Dramani Mahama as a failure in his tenure is not out bitterness but rather patriotism. Nunoo Mensah says Mahama pushed away competent and principled statesmen from his government put there by his predecessor, Prof John Evans Atta Mills. According to him, Mahama should have surrounded himself with ...

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi has been picked up by the BNI after a discussion on UTV. It is unclear the reason for the arrest. Starr News sources say the NDC communicator is currently in the control of the BNI officials who are believed to be taking him for interrogation. The lawyer-cum-politician has ...

The Electoral Commission has dismissed claims that it has imported some faulty biometric devices from Nigeria. According to the commission, such suggestions by one Owula Mangortey in an article making on social media, are false and must be ignored. “The Electoral Commission has noted with concern an article circulating on social media on allegations of the smuggling of faulty Biometric ...

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia is alleging that the Electoral Commission has ‘bribed’ some top journalists to support their campaign for the new voters’ register. According to the NDC general secretary, the EC held a secret meeting with some senior journalists to convince them to shut up and rather propagate, the Commission’s agenda ...

The Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says government welcomes the change in the nation’s economic outlook from stable to positive by the Moody’s rating agency. He told Journalists at a briefing in Accra on Sunday that the Economic Management Team is very pleased with the outlook change and commits to doing more. “The change in outlook is a very ...

The pressure group calling itself, Interparty Resistance Against New Voters Register led by the opposition NDC have been advised to put a stop to the needless demonstrations they are staging against the EC’s decision to compile a new voters register ahead of this year’s general election. The latest advice is coming from the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), the ...

A young, humble, accessible, dynamic and highly-spirited politician, Alfred Kumi on Thursday picked his parliamentary nomination forms at the Adenta Constituency Office of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). Alfred Kumi by this bold step has launched the strongest contention against the incumbent Hon. Lawyer Yaw Buaben Asamoah in the impending NPP parliamentary primaries. Alfred Kumi is seeking to snatch ...

The Board Chairman of the National Theatre, Nana Fredua Agyeman Ofori-Atta, has picked nomination forms to contest on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Okaikoi South. He was accompanied by some party supporters while others waited for him at the party’s constituency office at Bubuashie in Accra last Wednesday. Rationale He said he had served the party ...