POLITICS

Three top Electoral Commission (EC) officials, including a deputy commissioner, have been interdicted over the commission’s staff welfare fund. Georgina Opoku Amankwaah, a Deputy Commissioner in-charge of Finance and Administration together with Kwaku Owusu Agyei-Larbi, Chief Accountant and Joseph Asamoah, a Finance Officer, have been asked to proceed on leave over a missing GH¢480,000 belonging to the workers. A letter ...

A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Council Member in the Awutu-Senya Constituency of the Central Region, Alhaji Mohammed Musah alias Alhaji 94 has berated the disciplinary committee of the party for failing to live up to its expectation. He wondered why the party has failed to sanction controversial lawmaker, Kennedy Agyepong over his recent comments that is inimical ...

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako Jr. has said even though he is a member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), he votes for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in presidential elections. Speaking at the 13th Kronti ne Akwamu lecture organised by the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana on the theme “Search for Accountability Government ...

Editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Junior has commended Ace lawyers; Martin Amidu, Ace Ankomah, and award-winning investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas among other personalities for their role in promoting accountability and their keen interest in issues of governance in the country. Kweku Baako, speaking at the annual Kronti ne Akwamu lectures organized by the ...

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) has begun investigating some officials of the Electoral Commission over the loss of 480,000 cedis from the Commission’s Endowment Fund. The Documents sighted by thepublisheronline.com reveal that EOCO has started investigating three top officials of the Commission over the missing cash. The officials are the Commission’s Deputy Chairperson in-charge of Finance and Administration, ...

Former Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has exposed the Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, that she personally facilitated the construction of one government’s E-Blocks in her constituency. According to her, she negotiated with the World Bank directly to build a community day school in her constituency adding that that the Senior High School was ...

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament and MP for Nadowli-Kaleo Alban Bagbin has expressed concerns about the treatment meted out to ‘honest’ people in the country. According to him, Ghanaians treat people who speak the truth with disdain. Speaking at a youth mentoring program organized by the National Youth Authority in Wa, the veteran legislator said,” We have established a ...

Strategic Thinkers Network-Africa, a public interest advocacy group, has filed a suit at the Accra High Court to have the transaction involving the sale of contaminated fuel by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited to Movenpinaa Energy and others rendered “null and void”. Cited in the suit are the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), BOST, Managing Director of ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Adansi Asokwa has snubbed president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo after being sidelined in the elephant-size ministerial appointments. The outspoken lawmaker has rejected a board chairmanship offer from the president because he feels he is gone past such post, having served as a deputy energy minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration. Starrfmonline.com can confirm ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo, says it is the expectation of government and Ghanaians that the Offshore Cape Three Point (OCTP) partners will ensure prudent management of the Sankofa oil and gas project to achieve cost efficiency. This, according to President Akufo-Addo, is the only way low gas prices can be guaranteed, and, eventually, low electricity tariffs to stimulate development. “With the ...