POLITICS

The Emile Short Commission of Inquiry has recommended the dissolution of the SWAT team at the National Security Council Secretariat, Starrfm.com.gh can confirm. The confidential report in possession of Starrfm.com.gh recommended operatives should be re-assigned to their respective units after disbanding the SWAT team. “The Commission recommends that the SWAT team of the National Security Council Secretariat should be disbanded ...

The Minority in Parliament has once again rejected President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s Bono regional Minister Nominee Evelyn Kumi-Richardson. The NDC MPs argue that the nominee is not fit for the office, given a number of controversies she’s embroiled in. Speaking on the floor ahead of her approval, North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, accused Ms Richardson of perjury when ...

The Director of Research for the opposition National Democratic Congress has described as hypocritical President Nana Akufo-Addo’s excitement over projects expected to be funded with the two billion dollar Sinohydro deal. Per the compact, Ghana will benefit from two billion dollars worth of priority projects in return for a commensurate value of refined bauxite from Ghana’s rich mineral deposits. Each ...

The Bank of Ghana has released a clearer version of the upgraded cedi notes due to start circulation on May 6. The notes were signed by the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Addison, on March 4 and now due to be released into the market next month. The exercise is meant to strengthen the currency against faking, ...

Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President Jerry John Rawlings has paid tribute to late former Chairman of the party, Alhaji Issifu Ali for his level of integrity. The former President said: “People like him (Issifu Ali) will get a red-carpet treatment to heaven. Ali was a man of integrity. Let’s not allow people of integrity and moral ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Kennedy Ohene Agyapong and his Net2 Television station have been sued by a Lebanese-born Ghanaian businessman, Hassan Zein, for the airing of a defamatory video of him. In his statement of claims, the plaintiff averred that in December last year, Net2 broadcast videos purported to have captured him involved in “fraud, drugs, money ...

During a two-day working visit to the Western North region, President Akufo-Addo met with the Omanhene of Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Area, who praised the President as being “courageous” and a “promise keeper” for his government’s creation of a new region there. “Many were those who did not believe in you, but you have proven to us that you are ?seade?y? ...

Sources within the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have corroborated earlier reports by MyNewsGh.com that a female lawmaker is indeed behind the leaked tape which captured the voice that sounds like the National Chairman of the party, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo. The party’s security details at the headquarters and officials of the IT Department zeroed on her but action cannot to be ...

Following a publication that Cassiel Ato-Forson seems to have churned out misleading information to the public in his desperate attempt to showcase that the Ghanaian economy is performing poorly under the New Patriotic Party (NPP’s) Government, the spokesperson on finance for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says his figures are accurate. “I emphatically maintain that the Vice President deliberately deceived ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo is beginning the first phase of his 2019 nationwide tour today, DGN Online can confirm. Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, briefed the media about the tour early on Wednesday morning in Accra. According to him, after commissioning $1.5 billion Sinohydro Roads Project in Tamale today, the President would kickstart the tour, beginning with six newly created regions. ...