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Government has scrapped AU and Republic Days as public holidays, replacing them with Constitution and Kwame Nkrumah Memorial and Founders Days. Constitution and Kwame Nkrumah Memorial and Founders’ Days will be celebrated on January 7, September 21 and August 4. This is contained in a bill laid in Parliament Wednesday entitled Public Holidays (amendment) act 2018. Source:Starrfmonline.com Share on: WhatsApp

Controversial Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, said he has been cursed many times by women in his constituency.  This is because he gave each of the women a gift of GH?50 after he had invited them to an event, but these women felt the GH?50 was not enough and so they curse him for “wasting their ...

Barely two months after maverick politician and businessman Kennedy Agyapong accused Politicians from the three Northern Regions of Ghana of not lifting one another up because they believe the race to the top is a competition where each of them thinks of himself first rather than support one another, Mr Agyapong is now asking the two most respected politicians from ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has dismissed media reports suggesting that he is complaining about the non-payment of his ex-gratia for eight years by the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration. Mr. Kufuor, in an interview with Accra-based Joy FM on Monday, December 10, 2018, revealed that he had not been paid his ex-gratia by the previous Mills/Mahama administration after ...

Former Youth and Sports Minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah says there Ghana will soon be hit by major youth uprising if the political parties do not minimize the influence of money in their internal elections. Speaking at an IDEG forum on development and political parties in Ghana on Wednesday warned that majority of the youth who are unemployed are contemplating revolting ...

Former NDC Central Regional Chairman, Allotey Jacobs has cast doubts over the enactment of the Right to Information Bill by Parliament. According to Allotey Jacobs, it is near impossibility for the legislators to pass the bill since it will entrap them. There have been lots of discussions and agitations for the Right to Information Bill to be enacted into an ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has responded to Wednesday morning’s press briefing organised by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), dubbed “Moment of Truth.” The NDC’s newly introduced press briefing series, dubbed, “Moment of Truth” is intended to focus on what the party terms as, “Exposing the failed promises of the Akufo-Addo – Bawumia government.” The maiden edition of the ...

Former Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has rubbished media reports that she may be contesting the vacant Ayawaso West Wuogon Parliamentary seat on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Some NDC campaign posters of Charlotte Osei surfaced online, but the former EC chair has condemned them as fake. “I am not and have never been a ...

Seasoned journalist, Kwesi Pratt has asked the two wives of the late Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayawaso West Wuogon Emmanuel Kyerematen Agyarko to cease fire in their alleged desire to succeed their late husband. According to reports, the two women are in a tussle over who legitimately takes up the seat as MP for the area. About 500 delegates ...

It has now been revealed that the late Emmanuel Kyeremanten Agyarko left a third woman behind with whom he had a child.  The late lawmaker was previously thought to have had seven children with two women.  But Mynewsgh.com is reporting that the former Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Ayawaso West Wuogon had a third wife, a certain ...