POLITICS

The president of IMANI Africa is raising red flags over a contract the Communications Ministry has signed with a Haitian company GVG/Kelni to deal with revenue losses in the telcos and deal with simbox fraud. Franklin Cudjoe says the $89 million contract signed in 2017 is a careless duplication of jobs and a needless drain on the country’s scarce resources. ...

The Acting Secretary of the Forum For Rebuilding the Convention People’s Party (FRCPP) says the proposed conversion of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) from crude refinery into a tank farm for the storage of fuel is worrying and visionless. Mr. Peterkin Kwame Kin-Adano says, “We register our strongest protest against this massaging attempts being made by the NPP government to ...

The acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay is to spend a whopping $11, 412, 500 – an equivalent of GHC52,846,171.65 – to secure 275 buses for the party, Starrfmonline.com can confirm. Documents available to Starrfmonline.com reveal that Mr. Blay, who is serving as a “Guarantor” on behalf of constituency chairpersons of the NPP, who are ...

President Akufo-Addo is set to begin a nationwide tour beginning Friday, May 18 to touch base with Ghanaians. The tour will see the President visiting each of the ten regions of Ghana starting from the Brong Ahafo region. The President returned home Wednesday night from the United Kingdom after a weeklong vacation, his first since assuming office as President. He ...

The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Employment Committee, Dr. Kwabena Donkor wants President Nana Akufo-Addo to enlist the help of Ghana’s living former Presidents to help him deal with the challenge of political vigilantism. According to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Pru East, the expertise and stature of the statesmen can be tapped to fashion out a solution to ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it will be a waste of time for anyone to contest President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo internally. The party’s Director of Elections, Evans Nimako, told Nyankonton Mu Nsem on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that, the current president will be the party’s 2020 presidential candidate and there would no room for anyone to contest ...

The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko has slammed the Chief Executive Officer of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Issac Osei for challenging plans to convert TOR into a tank farm. The Energy Minister disclosed in January that government in partnership with the private sector will build a new oil refinery at the cost of $4billion. The new refinery is expected to produce ...

Seasoned Journalist Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has hinted the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will soon lay off several Presidential appointees. Kweku Baako made this shocking revelation on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’, Wednesday. According to him, some of the Presidential appointees lacked discretion and would have their issues dissected in the media when there are proper avenues for ...

Cynthia Lamptey has warned that she would resign from the deputy Special Prosecutor post should she be sidelined. “…If I should face something of that sort I will resign because I wasn’t put there just for a cosmetic sake. I was put there to work,” she told the Appointments Committee of Parliament Wednesday. “I cannot be a puppet over there,” ...

Samira Bawumia, wife of the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says her husband’s critique of the Mahama government’s borrowing when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was in opposition has been taken out of context. Dr Bawumia has recently come under fire after justifying the NPP government’s rate of borrowing. Dr. Bawumia had said the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) would ...