POLITICS

The Medical Director of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital Eugene Dordoye has apologized unreservedly to staff and nurses of the facility after a strike by the nurses crippled activities at the hospital on Thursday. The nurses on Thursday, November 23, began a sit down strike to press home their demand for the removal of Dr. Dordoye. The nurses accuse Dr. Dordoye ...

Deputy Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has stressed that it is better for children to learn and eat under trees than hawk on the streets and go hungry. Reacting to Member of Parliament of North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s statement that the 2018 budget did not provide enough funds to address the current challenges the programme is facing, Dr ...

A deputy Minister of Communication Vincent Sowah Odotei was on Thursday, November 23, 2017 sacked from Parliament when he appeared to answer questions about his ministry. The Minority argued the junior minister was not “well placed to answer probing follow-up questions” hence the need to defer the session. According to Starr News’ Parliamentary correspondent Ibrahim Alhassan, the Speaker Prof. Mike ...

Allotey Jacobs has stated emphatically that the character of the wives of African leaders are very bad. He said this while commenting on latest developments in Zimbabwe. 93-year old Robert Mugabe resigned on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 as President of Zimbabwe. He announced his resignation in a letter submitted to Parliament after ruling the country for 37 years. His resignation ...

Suspended National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Awentami Afoko has described former host of the late afternoon political show, Ekosii Sen on Asempa FM, Kwadwo Asare Boffour Acheampong (KABA) as a son whose death has left many hearts broken. “This is the same building KABA interviewed me for the first time. Nana Yaa Brefo introduced me to ...

Minority parliamentarians have turned up their opposition to the 2018 budget a notch higher by threatening to begin a legal action to correct what they believe is a breach of aspects of the Public Financial Management Act. Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak, has said the foundation on which Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, presented 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy ...

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark has arrived in Ghana on a three-day state visit. Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia welcomed Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and wished her “a pleasant stay” in “our beautiful country” after her arrival in Ghana on Wednesday, November 22. Queen Margrethe II was accompanied by a business delegation to explore bilateral economic engagements with Ghanaian ...

Former Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance (NHIA), Sylvester Mensah, has said that he will be better than John Dramani Mahama if he is given the chance to lead the country. While stating that the former President’s administration “did their best” while in office, he insisted that he would be able to take the country further than Mahama ...

The Member of Parliament for the Sagnarigu constituency in the Northern region, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini has claimed that the free SHS policy by the governing New Patriotic Party is creating an “apartheid system” in several schools across the country. Speaking to GHONE TV’s Nana Aba Anamoah on State of Affairs Tuesday, the NDC MP said he had gathered that most ...

The founder and leader of the All Progressive Party (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has described the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s 2018 budget as an ‘Azonto budget’, because in his view, it is bereft of cogent measures to address the pertinent challenges Ghana faces. According to him, the budget is only stuffed with unrealistic promises meant to tickle Ghanaians. Likening the ...