POLITICS

Ghana’s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has, on behalf of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, commissioned a number of projects at the Ghana Immigration Service Academy at Assin Foso in the Central region. The projects were undertaken in fulfilment of a promise by President Akufo-Addo to revamp the structures of the school to upgrade it to an International Academy for ...

A journalist with Accra-based Starr FM, Mr Edward Adeti, has said he has been receiving death threats following his exposé of a bribery incident involving a minister of state at the presidency, Mr Rockson Bukari, who had attempted to compromise him to drop a bad story concerning a judge and Chinese mining firm Shaanxi in the Upper East Region. With ...

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF), Daniel Duku, and former National Democratic Congress ( NDC), Member of Parliament (MP) for Keta, Richard Lassey Agbenyefia, along with four others have been charged with eighty-six (86) counts of Stealing and Causing Financial Loss to the State of up to about Forty-Two million Ghana Cedis (GHc 42,000,000.00). According ...

Parliament has deferred the passage of the vigilantism and related offences bill to its next sitting to the chagrin of the Minority side of the House. It would be recalled the Speaker of Parliament Professor Mike Oquaye recalled the MPs (Members of Parliament) from their Easter break for emergency sitting aimed at passing the bill into law. Starr News’ Parliamentary ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that the creation of new constituencies is on its agenda but has denied reports that a decision has been taken for 25 additional constituencies. According to the EC, those reports are lies and inaccurate. The EC, according to media reports is ready to create 25 additional constituencies, bringing the number to 300, with the ...

The Electoral Commission has assured temporal staff it recruited for the just ended referenda for the creation of the new regions their delayed allowances will be paid next week. The aggrieved staff have been agitating over the delay in payment of their allowances since the exercise about 4 months ago. But appearing before the public accounts committee on Monday 29 ...

There was a spectacle at last week’s Inter-party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting at the Electoral Commission headquarters in Accra when the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa and the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, engaged in a brawl The agenda for the meeting was stated by the EC Chair as updates on the coming referendum ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has officially inaugurated all the standing and ad-hoc committees of its National Council as required by the party’s constitution. The committees include: the Constitution and Legal Committee, the Vetting Committee, the Finance Committee, the Elections Committee, the Disciplinary Committee and the Communications Committee. The rest are; the Organisational Committee, the Research Committee, the Events Committee, ...

The bodyguard of the Tamale mayor Iddrisu Musah Superior had to fire a warning shot to prevent a mob from attacking his boss at a suburb called Viting. Mr. Superior was in the community upon an invitation by authorities of the Viting Senior High School, following a renewed land encroachment dispute between the school and some residents. Dozens of structures ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) will today begin the mass registration of Ghanaians for the Ghana Card. The registration will be done on regional basis beginning from the Greater Accra region. It will be done between 8am and 5pm daily. The Card will replace many of the current proof of identity required by many state organisations and also be recognised ...