POLITICS

Former President John Mahama has told President Akufo-Addo that he does not have the power to determine the fate of the main opposition National Democratic Congress. It comes after the President told chiefs and people of Somanya on his tour to the area that the NDC will keep long in opposition because Ghanaians will not let them to win power ...

Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu has admitted that the country is currently faced with challenges in the power sector attributing the cause to an incomplete project that is meant to allow gas flow into the country. According to him, the incomplete project is due to a disagreement over tariffs between the Energy Ministry and the regulator; West African Gas Pipeline; ...

National Farmers and Fishermen Award Winners Association of Ghana (NFFAWAG), and Commercial Farmers in the Country have appealed to President Akufo-Addo to find innovative ways to rope Commercial Farmers into his administration’s flagship programme, Planting for Food and Jobs (PFFJ). Chairman of NFFAWAG, Davies Narh Korboe, made the appeal when he led the Association to pay a courtesy call on ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Sunday 25th November, 2018 joined the Chiefs and people of Nandom Traditional Area to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Kakube Festival at Nandom in the Upper West Region. The Kakube festival is celebrated to mark the end of the farming season each year and to show appreciation to the Almighty for His guidance ...

It was rather unfortunate to heard the misruled and failed Nana Addo lead Npp government, discriminating between the rich and the poor in their so called free SHS? How could the NPP lack common sense to know that, when parents are to be taxed compulsorily to finance the school fees of their wards in the senior high school where defaulters ...

First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has directed the Ministry of Transport to ensure that drivers do not abuse the use of sirens. Mr. Osei-Owusu said those who used sirens but without an authority to do so must be arrested and prosecuted. According to him, the impunity with which people in authority, including parliamentarians, abuse the use of sirens ...

The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said those who were pessimistic about the introduction of the One-district, One-factory (1D1F) project were proved wrong as many of such factories were springing up throughout the country and Ghanaians would see the reality. He said his government had plans for the nation and all the projects and programmes outlined for the country ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Monday arrived in Kumasi to begin the second part of his campaign tour of the Ashanti Region. Ahead of the National Delegates Congress of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mahama toured more than half of the constituencies in the Ashanti Region, seeking for mandate of delegates to lead the party to victory in the ...

Government has described as false claims that the President was planning to increase the number of staff at the Presidency from 998 to 1614. The government’s denial followed claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa that it intended to increase the number of presidential staffers over 1,600 as contained in the ...

The Education Ministry has challenged claims by some head teachers that new teachers being posted to schools to handle the gold track under the Free senior High school policy are not fit for purpose. Some headmasters have told Starr News the new teachers are not experienced and competent enough for the courses they have been posted to teach in their ...