POLITICS

Musician Kwame A Plus has said he is writing to the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) company limited to cancel a contract he has with the state oil firm following criticisms against him by supporters of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) that he bagging contract after contract right after the party won power after the December 2016 elections. ...

The government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been renaming the policies and projects started by the Mahama administration in order to take credit for those projects, Edward Acquah (Fayah), the Ekumfi Constituency Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said. According to him, the Planting for Food and Jobs programme launched by Mr Akufo-Addo is the brain child ...

Controversial artiste, A Plus has thrown a challenge to the Deputy Chief of Staff Francis Asenso-Boakye to explain to Ghanaians and the World at large why he reported him to President Akufo-Addo weeks ago. The Facebook banter between A Plus and the two Deputies Chief of Staff Asenso-Boakye and Samuel Abu Jinapor started when A Plus described them as arrogant ...

Gunmen wielding AK47 rifles and other sophisticated weapons and wearing mask to cover their identity have attacked General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia at Teacher Mante, near Suhum in the Eastern Region Monday afternoon. According to Asiedu Nketia, the attackers who were driving a Toyota Tunda vehicle accosted him and other occupants of his ...

Ranking member on the Energy Committee of Parliament, Adam Mutawakilu is warning of imminent increase in electricity tariff if government bows to demands by jubilee partners for upward review of gas sale to Ghana. As part of their plans to fully develop the Jubilee field, Joy News is learning the Jubilee partners, is renegotiating the gas purchase agreement from the ...

For the defenders of the Electoral Commissioner Madam Charlotte Osei,please give us a break because it’s not even that serious, as Americans would say. It has been said that “where ignorance is a bliss, it’s foolish to be [the wisest]” among the pack. More important, it is worth reminding ourselves or telling those who may not know that the most ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram, Sam George, has called for investigations into allegations and counter-allegations levelled against appointees of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). His call comes on the heels of accusations by Assin North MP, Kennedy Agyapong, that some staffers at the presidency received bribes in order to facilitate meetings between businessmen and the president. This ...

Former Minister of Information under the Mahama led Administration; Felix Ofosu Kwakye has said Musician, Kwame A Plus is doing to the NPP what they thanked him for doing to the NDC. Kwame A Plus over the weekend made several allegations of fraud and corruption against the Deputy Chief of Staff, Francis Asenso-Boakye and Abu Jinapor. He described them as ...

The Minority in Parliament has called on President Akufo-Addo to sack the deputy minister for food and Agriculture William Quaitoo for making ethnocentric comments. The deputy Minister in an interview with Starr News described farmers from the North who are demanding compensation for their crops destroyed by the army worm invasion as people who cannot be trusted and have intentions ...

One of the fiercest critics of then candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo prior to the 2016 elections is Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho. He was among the lead vociferous persons fighting against plans by the current president to become the Commander –In-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces and in some cases said he had ...