POLITICS

Some residents of Kumasi look forward to a bigger fortune in the National Weekly Lotto with ‘locked up’ numbers linked with former President Mahama. Over the weekend lotto stakers at Moshie Zongo and other communities won massively, using the former President’s birth year, 1958. Luv FM’s Kwasi Debrah went to town to find the euphoria surrounding the win, and anticipation ...

The Director-General of the Ghana Health Services (GHS), Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has refuted allegations by the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament that the contract sum for Fly Zipline Ghana Limited to airlift blood and essential drugs to remote health facilities using drones is too high. The Minority, in debating the contract on Monday between the Ministry of Health ...

Former National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Adams has warned that any attempt to mortgage the party’s fortunes by electing a novice to lead it in 2020 will be disastrous. According to him, the party requires an experienced person who has been tried and tested and is capable of pulling the masses along to lead ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer hopeful Alban Bagbin has dissociated himself from the presidential nomination forms picked on his behalf. “I’m not associated with this. It’s not on my authority and I disregard it,” the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament told Starr News after the forms were picked in his name by some of his constituents led by David Dzawara ...

The Lyon Business School in France has conferred an honorary doctorate degree on former president John Dramani Mahama. The ceremony took place in Lyon, France on the campus of the school. The Igbinedion University, Okada (IUO), in the Edo State of Nigeria, last week also conferred an honorary doctorate degree, a Doctor of Letters, on the former president. The Ekiti ...

It’s already terrible as it is, having the party penniless, months after its kick out from government, they cannot afford to worsen it any further by picking leaders who are financially unstable and incapable of putting the party back on its feet as far as finance is concerned, Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Bernard Allotey Jacobs has ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has explained that returning to the use of its original logo, which bears the Coat of Arms and has a ballot box showing the hand casting its vote will not “cost any significant amount of money.” “This is not supposed to cost any significant amount of money because the logo was already there, so in our ...

President Akufo-Addo has appealed to Chief Executive Officers and heads of business firms operating in the Tema business enclave to join hands with government to develop the economy. Addressing a host of Chief Executive Officers and heads of businesses at the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) Tower in Tema, as part of his three-day working tour of the Greater ...

NDC flagbearer aspirants Alban Bagbin, Stephen Atubiga and Sylvester Mensah have also picked forms to contest the presidential primaries of the party. It brings the number of candidates who have so far picked forms to contest the race to five after former President John Mahama and Professor Joshua Alabi picked theirs earlier. All three candidates had earlier indicated they were ...

A number of sitting and former Members of Parliament (MPs) and grassroots supporters, as well as some executives of the party in the United States (US), who supporting the bid of Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin for the 2020 presidential ticket have announced their readiness to foot the GH¢420,000 filing fee for him to pick and file his nomination. They have, ...