POLITICS

Parliament will later today [Friday], convene an urgent sitting called at the instance of the Minority. Last week, the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, wrote to the Speaker of Parliament, seconded by North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, with support from over 40 MPs, requesting a recall of the house. Days after the Minority’s letter to the Speaker, a memo ...

The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Johnson Kwadwo Asiedu Nketia says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has now arrogated to himself the powers of Ghana’s Chief Justice giving judgments on sensitive issues in his government in the court of public opinion. According to him, the president after assuming office has drawn conclusions on almost everything ...

You will have to go beyond your appointees, state institutions, security and intelligence officers to get timely, adequate and quality information from ordinary citizens to assist you to govern this country, else you will continue to be naked in office smiling with fake characters, receiving cooked intelligence, cock and bull information, and responding blindly. This is my new year appeal ...

The Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Johnson Asiama has resigned from his post. According to StarrFMonline.com sources at the Central Bank, Dr. Asiama sent his resignation letter to the presidency last Friday. “I wish to submit my disengagement letter from the post of 2nd deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana, with effect from January 1,2018. ...

A Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, has said supporters of the party will not storm court rooms to support officials of the Mahama administration who may be facing prosecution for alleged corruption. According to him, the relatives and friends of those officials can do that but not the entire party and its supporters. script ...

Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says his party is ready for the Special Prosecutor. Koku Anyidoho says erstwhile appointees of the National Democratic Congress government did nothing wrong to be coerced by the appointment of the Special Prosecutor. “First of all, we thank President Akufo Addo for signing the bill. It will go a long ...

The approval of the Special Prosecutor Act by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo shows that not all politicians are liars, Professor Ransford Gyampo, a senior Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, has said. According to him, Mr Akufo-Addo must be commended for fulfilling a promise he made during the 2016 election campaign. On Tuesday, 2 January 2018, the ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will emerge more fortified and unified after the political party is done with the implementation of the recommendations of the Professor Kwesi Botchwey Committee. The party, following its electoral loss to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which has seen it return to opposition, set up a 13-member ...

Member of Parliament for Kpandai, Mathew Nyindam, has said the Minority in Parliament is wasting the time of all parliamentarians with regards to the motion filed in relation to the alleged extortion of $100,000 from expatriate businessmen by the Trade Ministry during the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards held in Accra. The Speaker of Parliament Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye, has recalled ...

The General Secretary of the Ghana Federation of Labour(GFL) Abraham Koomson has said some ministers of the Akufo-Addo government are oblivious of the President’s agenda and aspirations. According to him, several of the ministers don’t act in sync with the president’s objectives. “Whereas he’s heading towards Takoradi, some of his ministers are reversing to Ashiaman and Adjei Kojo. They’ve lost ...