POLITICS

Majority of Ghanaian voters want MP aspirants to have at least tertiary education qualification, according to a survey conducted by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). 83.7 per cent of the respondents were of the view that the difficulty with which some MPs have expressed themselves on the floor of Parliament since the beginning of the Fourth Republic gives a ...

The home of a member of the Phillip Addison Committee, has been raided by government agents, as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) desperately digs for evidence to nail appointees of the Mahama administration to prove their corruption claims against the previous administration. Francis W. K. Dzata, arguably one of Ghana’s best brains in Emergency Power Construction, and who had served ...

The government has announced its much touted Free Senior High School policy will be enjoyed by only students who pass their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Outlining the master plan for the flagship Free SHS policy expected to be rolled out September 2017, the Education Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh noted qualified students must also be placed under the current ...

The MP for Adansi Asokwa KT Hammond has described as “nonsense” claims that he benefited from the controversial AMERI power deal signed in 2015 between the erstwhile Mahama administration and a UAE power company. “I am saying this is nonsense. This is crap,” he stated in an interview with Starr News’s parliamentary correspondent Ibrahim Alhassan. Commentary in some circles, including ...

NDC Central Regional Chairman, Allotey Jacobs has cautioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to exercise discretion on the petition filed against the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs. Charlotte Osei. Speaking on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’, Allotey Jacobs believed there may be some forces from the NPP government pushing for the removal of the EC Chairperson. To him, if the President doesn’t ...

Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education, on Wednesday inaugurated the National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NACCA). The NCCA is one of the three bodies established under the Education Act 778 (2008), as part of efforts to ensuring greater efficiency and strategic management of education delivery in the country. It was set up to handle the process of determining the ...

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has jumped to the defence of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei; claiming she’s being made a “target of scrutiny”. Kweku Baako, commenting on the issue on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’, called for thorough investigations into the EC allegations but however would not fault Mrs. Charlotte Osei for responding to the allegations for the ...

President  Akufo-Addo says the two major expectations of Ghanaians as far as his government is concerned is the elimination of corruption and the creation of jobs, particularly for the youth between the ages of 15 and 24 years. Speaking at a ceremony held at the Kempinski Hotel to launch a book entitled “Making Africa Work”, a handbook for Economic success, ...

The Minority in Parliament has demonstrated “hypocrisy” and “double standards” in their criticism of the raid by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service of former Power Minister Dr Kwabena Donkor’s home in connection with investigations into the controversial $510 Ameri deal. “I hate the hypocrisy, double standards and audacity of the Minority in Parliament to unlawfully ...

Joy News sources say the Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) and her six deputies have been directed by Parliament to prepare a Constitutional Instrument that will guide their work. Parliament believes that the regulation, which will have a force of law, will be a permanent solution to the ongoing disagreement between the EC Chair, Mrs. Charlotte Osei, and two ...