POLITICS

The government of Ghana is broke and might soon have difficulties paying workers, honouring debt obligations and also meeting payments to contractors they promised a One Hundred Day payment plan by Nana Akufo-Addo, during the 2016 electioneering campaign, because he and his men know where and how to raise money. Already, the Flagstaff House, has been hit by an avalanche ...

The Principal State Attorney who insisted that the charges against 8 members of pro-New Patriotic Party vigilante group, Delta Force be dropped offered an explanation for the decision. In her reply to a letter from the prosecutor for her legal opinion on the case, she concluded that there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute the suspects. The suspects were standing trial ...

The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia popularly known as General Mosquito has questioned President Akufo-Addo on why he has not retrieved the GH¢51.2 million judgement debt from businessman Alfred Woyome as promised if he claims there is no money in the state coffers. It would be recalled that President Nana Addo addressing the ...

A former Ghana High Commissioner to the UK, Victor Smith, has stated that the failure of former vice president Kwesi Amissah-Arthur to swiftly deal with Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s 170 questions during electioneering could be one of the reasons the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost the 2016 elections. Dr. Bawumia in the build up to the December 7, 2016 ...

National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams has lambasted President Akufo-Addo’s administration for spending the tax payer’s money on ministers and their deputies. The Minister of Finance in April 2017 directed that names of 26, 589 public sector workers be removed from government’s payroll noting that those who were to be affected (Ghost names) had not ...

The man described as a “Gem” in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kennedy Agyapong, has charged at Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, challenging him to fix the country’s economy for the masses ,who are unemployed to find jobs. Very much ignoring the role of President Nana Akufo-Addo, Kennedy Agyapong insisted, “Dr. Bawumia, if the NDC has collapsed the economy, ...

Former boss of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Sylvester Mensah has called on supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to unite ahead of the 2020 general elections. Speaking at the NDC’s National Cadres Conference in Accra Tuesday, he said irrespective of the challenges that led to the party’s defeat in the 2016 polls, there is the need ...

On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 we published a story with the headline: “Only brilliant students will benefit from Free SHS – Napo” based on an interview the Education Minister Mathew Opoku-Prempeh granted us. The use of the adjective “brilliant” was based on inference and had no malice attached. We updated the headline later to reflect the minister’s quote after further ...

Educationist Prof D.K Agyemang has charged government to render an unqualified apology to Ghanaians for misleading them with regards to the free SHS policy. Barely three months to the implementation of the policy, the Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh disclosed to Morning Starr host, Francis Abban that only students who passed their BECE exams will have the opportunity to enjoy ...

A National Democratic Congress (NDC) defeated parliamentary candidate for Abuakwa South Victor Smith believes “weak leadership” cost the party the 2016 elections. Speaking to Morning Starr host Francis Abban Wednesday, the former Ghana High Commissioner to the UK stated the NDC “had victory on our hands” but its intelligence system failed to anticipate a possible defeat. “Weak leadership could have ...