POLITICS

The Jubilee House spent in excess of GHC60 million on foreign trips and related expenses in the first 9 months of the year. According to budget estimate of the presidency submitted to Parliament Thursday, the Presidency also spent over one million cedis on Printed materials and stationary. Additionally, the Jubilee House expended over five million cedis on hotel accommodation within ...

Award winning freelance journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has said he was ready to choose a sheep as president rather than vote for then president John Mahama again in the 2016 election. His article was a response to aide to former president John Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari who claimed days ago, that Ghanaians have regretted voting out her boss, Mahama. Manasseh ...

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has assured Ghanaian workers that the next NDC administration will work to complete the processes already begun to review and bridge the remuneration and entitlement of public sector workers and Article 71 office holders. Speaking at a consultative meeting with the leadership of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in ...

Outgoing Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has cautioned would-be law students, law students and practising lawyers who are entertaining thoughts that the incoming Chief Justice, Justice Anin Yeboah, will relax standards, to manage their expectations because her potential successor is more of a person who insists on things unyieldingly than she has been. Addressing a valedictory ceremony held in her honour ...

Controversial musician and political activist Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A Plus has sued the government over the controversial Kroll contract. The Auditor-General has surcharged the Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo for paying $1million to the foreign firm over what he says is the failure of the company to deliver on the terms of the contract. Mr. Osafo-Maafo is challenging ...

Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says compiling a new voters’ register is unnecessary and that an upgrade of the current one is more reasonable. Peter Otokunor said if the Electoral Commission’s reasons for the compilation of a new register is the high rate of manual verification, then the problem is with the software, not the ...

The Cyber-crime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has extended an invitation to the National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi over an alleged cybercrime offence. The invitation follows a complaint made to the police by the Jubilee House. A source at the investigative body that confirmed the invitation ...

Profuse in her thanksgiving, outgoing Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has eulogized the late President Mills who nominated her to the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights based in Ethiopia. In her parting remarks at the Supreme Court in Accra, she called the late President “one of the kindest lecturers” she had ever met. Sophia Akuffo revealed her struggles with ...

Polls have closed in today’s district assembly elections with many of the centres recording a disappointing turnout. According to Starr News Musah Lansa most of the places he visited in the Ayawaso area recorded less than 10% of the expected numbers on the voters’ register. He also reported there is ” too much partisan politics that has taken over the ...

A former chief of defence staff under the PNDC, General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah says former president Jerry John Rawlings did not know about the killing of the three High Court judges and the ex-soldier abducted during the era of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). In an interview with Citi TV, the former national security advisor opined that people know the ...