POLITICS

The five-member Parliamentary ad-hoc committee investigating the cash for seat saga will begin its public sitting today, Thursday January 11, 2018. Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Aaron Oquaye set up the bi-partisan committee to probe claims that the Trade Ministry extorted as much as $100,000 from expatriates to allow them to sit close to the President at the recently held ...

Former President JJ Rawlings has mood swings and people around him must learn to adjust to it, former President John Mahama has stated. The observation of the former President comes after a seeming terse handshake with Mr. Rawlings at the 25thanniversary celebration of Ghana 4th republic sparked rumors of tension between the two leaders. Speaking to GTV’s Abdul Moomen Tuesday, Mr. ...

Former president John Mahama is making a case for Ghanaians to pay TV licenses in the wake of widespread public uproar against the policy. The Chief Justice has set up 11 special courts across Ghana to prosecute TV license fee defaulters. The development has incurred the wrath of Ghanaians in general who have resolved never to pay TV license fee. ...

Son of the late Managing Editor of the Al-Hajj newspaper, Alhaji Bature; Mubarak Bature, has taken a swipe at Rev. Owusu Bempah over claims that the latter predicted the death of his father. Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah who is the Founder of Glorious Word Ministry, on 31st December 2017, during a Watch Night service predicted that a popular journalist in ...

A former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short, has cautioned judges to put aside their political leanings while arriving at decisions. His comments come on the back of renowned lawyer Raymond Atuguba’s pronouncements urging the nation to ensure political balance when it comes to the appointment of Judges especially at the Supreme ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has stated that he has learnt to act accordingly with senior NDC colleague Jerry John Rawlings based on his mood as he affirmed that he has “absolutely” nothing against him. His utterance was in response to a trending video clip in circulation on social media which appeared that all was not well with Ghana’s former ...

A former Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS) Dr Michael Kpessa Whyte has dismissed government’s assertion that Senior High School education is actually free. The Akufo-Addo government launched its flagship Free SHS education programme in September 2017, scrapping fees at the second cycle level. The programme is to ensure that every student eligible to enter second cycle institution ...

Security Analyst Dr. Kwasi Aning has charged the Akufo-Addo government to take steps to ensure that the brazen impunity displayed by some of its supporters in its first year in office is not repeated in 2018. Speaking Monday January 8, 2018 to Starr News on the back of the first anniversary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, Dr. Aning ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama is expected to storm an Accra High Court today to ‘solidarize’ with the immediate-past Board Chairman of the National Communication Authority (NCA) and four others before the court for alleged fraud and causing financial loss to the state. The former president has over the past days used several platforms to call for support for his ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said he was not brought up to lie to Ghanaians for political power and it is not in his character to do such as being done by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) “If you look at the kind lies peddled about me because of political power…. I was not born to lie to ...