POLITICS

Information Minister designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said he will back the passage of a law that will crack down on the dissemination of fake news on the country’s cyberspace. “We are all being used as news spreading outlet and nobody is taking responsibility to [verify] if it’s true or false. I forwarded it, as received. And we have become ...

Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong has asserted that high taxes which ‘don’t make sense’ are causing the collapse of many businesses and Ghanaians are losing their means of employment; MyNewsGH.com can report. According to Mr Agyapong, Ghanaian and expatriate businesses are all being affected as they cannot sustain their operations due to the high tax demands from the AKUFO-Addo government. ...

Financial economists have called on the Bank of Ghana to bailout struggling indigenous local banks. Failure to, they grimly warned, will lead to a total meltdown of the country’s financial sector. The collapse of some seven indigenous banks—five of which were merged into one entity under the name Consolidated Bank of Ghana Limited (CBG) has led to what has been ...

Klarity has today unveiled a collaboration with award-winning Ghanaian investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas and Tiger Eye Foundation. Together they launch JeSuisAnas.org, an online platform that allows users to record and upload videos of everyday corruption, with Klarity providing the technology and the full spectrum of product development. Tiger Eye will serve as Klarity’s partner, a collaborating organization with a ...

The Governing Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been dissolved with immediate effect. It follows recent developments at the University that led to students vandalizing property on campus. A peaceful protest by the students on Monday turned violent prompting the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) to order the indefinite closure of the University. A ...

To help Dr. Edward Omane Boamah and Members of the NDC to understand and appreciate the contest and pretext of Social Intervention Policies, I would like to give a basic and practical definition to Social Intervention Policies. Social Intervention Policies defined practically as  policies which have nationwide effects after their implementation and are absolutely at no cost to the beneficiaries. ...

Some contract staff of the National Identification Authority (NIA) are seething with anger after they were paid three days salary for six months job done. According to one of the contract staff, who spoke to Starr News on condition of anonymity, they have just been paid a little over GHC100 when the NIA owes them about GHC4000 for work done ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the objective of an integrated Africa cannot be achieved without peace and stability on the continent. “Efforts at integration of the continent will be negatively affected if African countries continue to battle with the human security challenges which confront their peoples. No country would want to integrate with another whose ...

Some governance experts have descended on the Paramount Chief of the Asogli Traditional Area, for his recent comments regarding the creation of new regions. Togbe Afede XIV stated that the authorities involved in the creation of the regions should not be bias in the interpretation of the law. The traditional leader who is also President of the National House of ...

A former deputy communications minister under the erstwhile Mahama government, Felix Kwakye-Ofosu, has incurred the wrath of some Ghanaians on social media for what they call an insult to Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia. Bawumia had earlier stated that despite its many boasts, the NDC did not introduce any social intervention programme in its eight-year rule. According to Bawumia, both the late ...