POLITICS

Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has said the Akufo-Addo-led government has managed Ghana’s economy better than his predecessor despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Minister was speaking at a Press Conference held in Accra on Wednesday, 9 February 2022. The Minister noted that the government will need time to fix the country due to the effect of the COVID-19 ...

STC Chief Executive Officer, Nana Akomea has waded into discussions surrounding foreign travels by government officials, both past and present. The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been criticizing the ruling government over the cost of travels for President Akufo-Addo. General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, popularly known as General Mosquito claims the controversial e-levy will only be used ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram Sam Nartey George has said the government is unable to justify why Ghanaians should pay the controversial Electronic Transfer Levy (E-levy). “If we gave you Ghc300 billion and you have failed to do anything significant in our lives. How then do you explain that with Ghc6 billion you can transform Ghana, that lie ...

THE AKUFO-ADDO administration constructed, tarred and asphalted a total of 3,620 kilometres of roads across the country in its first four years, Chairman of the Roads and Transport Committee of Parliament, Kennedy Nyarko Osei has revealed. According to him, 1,600 kilometres of the road network was asphaltic bitumen, while the remaining kilometres were bitumen surfacing, explaining that a kilometre of ...

The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has revealed that a future NDC government will abolish E-Levy within their first 100 days in office should the Akufo-Addo-led government pass it. According to him, E-levy is not taxation but thievery. Speaking to a crowd gathered at the Obra Spot demonstrating against the E-levy dubbed ...

Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has said the E-levy spelt cake he cut during his 65th birthday was a gift from a businessman who is not even a family remember nor affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to him, his intent was not to provoke Ghanaians as it is being speculated by some social media users. Some Ghanaians ...

Founder of the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) Mensah Thompson has been arrested by the Police. Starr News sources say the outspoken head of ASEPA is currently being held at the Teshie Police station in Accra. The arrest follows a formal complaint by the Military to the Police. He is reportedly set for court Thursday February 10,2022. ...

The demonstrators are expected to converge at the Obra Spot where the march will commence through the Kwame Nkrumah Avenue through Farisco, Striking Force, the Kinbu Road, the Octagon, the National Theatre through the AU Roundabout and finally end at the Parliament House. The Police said the Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD) will deploy personnel to assist with traffic ...

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has given its seal of approval for Ghana’s national Identity Card, the Ghana Card to be recognized globally as a valid e-passport Thus, holders of the Ghana Card as well as its future biometric equivalents can present it as official documentation at all 197 (ICAO) compliant countries and 44,000 airports worldwide and board flights ...

A call has been made to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to resign on the grounds of infirmness. The call from former CPP acting General Secretary, James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr, aka Kabila, is hinged on grounds of ill-health, principle, and conscience to save Ghana’s Parliament. An earlier call from veteran journalist, Kweku Baako Jnr, on similar grounds reads, “Step ...