POLITICS

The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, will pay a day’s working visit to Ghana on August 30, at the invitation of President Nana Akufo-Addo. Merkel and her Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Gerd Müller are on a tour of different African countries but will meet in Ghana to round off their tour with a joint press conference with ...

The Truth Defence Network (TDN) congratulates his excellency John Dramani Mahama, former President of the republic of Ghana for his decision to return to run for president of this country. He has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that he has the people of Ghana at heart. Contrary to what others may think, the emergence of the former President brings to the ...

Discussing national issues in the full glare of a camera appears to bring the worst in some politicians. The situation can hang on the brink of a fistfight if the poking goes a little further into the face of a fellow speaker on the show. UTV’s Adekye Nsroma was the latest ‘word fight’ arena for two very vocal politicians; NPP’s ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said he expects former President John Dramani Mahama to easily win the scramble for the NDC’s flagbearership, setting up a grand finale in 2020 with President Akufo-Addo. The NDC lost the 2016 elections miserably to the governing NPP led by Akufo-Addo. Akufo-Addo garnered 5, 716, 609 votes, representing ...

Let me take this opportunity to thank God for answering my prayers yesterday, and also take the opportunity to congratulate His excellency the former president John Dramani Mahama for listening to the call of the good people of Ghana to come and rescue them. The track records of the former President is something that can not be underrated and can ...

The extended family of the former United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan is in shock, following his death last Saturday. Even though the late Annan was 80 years, his family said his death came to them as a shock since he did not show any sign of ill health. The Head of the family, Nana Kofi Brewuo III, who is ...

Otiko Djaba has declined president Akufo-Addo’s appointment to serve as Ghana’s ambassador to Italy. The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection who was kicked out of office in Nana Addo’s maiden reshuffle said she is retiring from active politics. Starrfmonline.com understands she has informed the president about her decision to “enjoy her family life.” “At 56 years, I want ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo will not win the upcoming general election on a silver platter following some issues at the party’s grassroots level, outspoken member of the governing New Patriotic Party, Kennedy Agyapong has said. According to him, currently, there is disquiet within the grassroots which may spell doom for the party in the next polls. “I will not say 2020 ...

Thirty-five companies have successfully gone through documentation processes to establish viable factories under the “One District, One Factory’ (1D1F) policy in the Central Region. The factories are expected to engage in commercial processing and production of salt, bricks and tiles, plywood tiles, starch, oil palm, bamboo, tomatoes paste and cassava processing into industrial ethanol among others. Mr Charles Nkrumah, an ...

Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan is reported dead. He is said to have died in Switzerland, Saturday morning after a short illness. Biography Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi on April 8, 1938. Since 1960 Ghana has been a republic within the British Commonwealth, a group of nations dependent on Great Britain. Named for an African empire along ...