POLITICS

Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye last Wednesday, August 2, 2017, practically insulted operatives of one of the country’s biggest market by urging Members of Parliament (MPs) to approach business of the house with the highest level of decorum, but not like people in Makola Market. Rating himself and the MPs above the traders, the Speaker stated “There is ...

The deportation of the 2016 National Campaign Manager of the governing New Patriotic Party, Peter Mac-Manu from Kenya seems to have created some form anxiety in that country. Mac Manu who was leading a team of election observers was prevented from entering Kenya which has its election scheduled for Tuesday, August 8, 2017. Earlier reports suggest that Mac Manu was ...

The Head of the Ahmadiyya Mission in Ghana, Maulvi Mohammed Bin Salih has charged President Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo to bring all on board if he really wants Ghanaians to be citizens and not spectators. According to him, if the person charging you to be a participant or citizen does not extend to you a hand of invitation, how do you ...

Former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Martin ABK Amidu, appears to be elated over the recent police administration’s invitation to former National Security capo, Yaw Donkor, to answer some questions. Drama unfolded when the immediate-past National Security Coordinator who was head of the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) for many years until his elevation, protested the circumstances under which ...

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo has hinted of possible job cuts in the public sector after admitting the sector is full. “The public sector is full,” the senior minister told an IEA forum, adding, government may “even have to lay some off.” According to the former Finance minister, the country requires more technically oriented graduates in order to develop in ...

Controversial musician and sympathizer of the New Patriotic Party, Kwame A Plus has said the Mandatory Towing Levi policy is just a way for people to create loot and share the country’s resources. The musician in a post on Facebook indicated that some members of the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress are behind the push for the ...

The national organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Adams has said Martin Amidu’s endless viciousness against the party was due to its decision to replace him as its running mate in the 2004 and 2008 elections. Mr. Adams disclosed this Monday August 7, 2017 on Morning Starr in his reaction to a recent write-up by the former Attorney ...

In the politics of oil in Ghana a certain Tsatsu Tsikata stood tall in the search for oil in commercial quantities. There were others before him but his name at a point became almost synonymous to Ghana’s search for oil. But that tall name was dwarfed by one man- JA Kufuor- whose focus leadership and direction of the Ghana National ...

A ranking member of the Parliamentary Committee on foreign affairs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has waded into the deportation saga involving former NPP chairman Peter Mac Manu and Kenya. According to the North Tongu MP, the matter deserves probing by the foreign affairs ministry. “The alleged treatment of Mr. Mac Manu at the hands of Kenyan authorities deserve looking into. I ...

Eastern Regional Vice Chairman of NPP, Nana Fredua Ofori-Atta, on Monday boycotted TV3’s New Day to register his displeasure with a former Member of Parliament, George Loh, who he claim insulted him. Nana Fredua who was billed to discuss newspapers on a segment of the TV magazine show with Mr Loh and others, told producers he will not be on ...