Minority To Demand Public Hearing
The Minority in Parliament is set to demand a public hearing of the committee set up to investigate the bribery allegation against the appointments committee of the House. The move, according to...
Day: February 1, 2017
GHS7bn Saga: Bawumia Deceiving Ghanaians
The government of Nana Akufo-Addo is finding excuses to run away from its promises by claiming that the Mahama administration “hid” GHS7billion of expenditure during its time in office, Mr James...
Oscar Pistorius Prosecutor Gerrie Nel Joins Afriforum
The South African lawyer who led the prosecution of Oscar Pistorius has quit to join a lobby group, accusing the state office of selective prosecution. Gerrie Nel has joined AfriForum, a group...
The Head of Communications at Charterhouse Ghana, organisers of the Ghana Music Awards, has refuted speculations that some categories have been scrapped from the awards. George Quaye says the...
Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Awards Recognises African Excellence
play videoWatch this edition of Hi-Tech on The Morning Call with Ismail Akwei One equally important event at the AU Summit in Ethiopia was the 2016 Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Awards ceremony launched...
Bribery Scandal: Minority To Demand Public Hearing
The Minority in Parliament is set to demand a public hearing of the committee set up to investigate the bribery allegation against the appointments committee of the House. The move, according to...
The Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed that the government has uncovered Gh¢7 billion expenditure which was not captured in the nation’s financial books by the outgone Mahama-led...
Ghana’s Parliament Leaks
Ghana’s Parliament House was leaking horribly on Tuesday as heavy rains visited the capital, Accra. Reports reaching Starr News indicate the heavy downpour which was heralded by a windstorm ripped...
Ellembelle Youth To Demonstrate Against New Ghana Gas CEO
Some youth in Ellembelle in the Western region have threatened to demonstrate against the appointment of the New Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Gas Company. Early this week,...
Israel Authorises 3,000 More Settler Homes In West Bank
Latest: Ellembelle youth to demonstrate against new Ghana Gas CEO Israel has announced the construction of 3,000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the fourth such announcement in the less...
Trump Picks Neil Gorsuch As Nominee For Supreme Court
President Donald Trump has nominated Colorado federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch for the US Supreme Court. If confirmed by the Senate, the 49-year-old would replace the vacancy left on the...
KG Pupils Killed By Collapsed School Building
It was a sad day yesterday at Breman Jamra in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa (AOB) District of the Central Region when the Jamra Methodist Kindergarten (KG) School block collapsed, killing instantly four...
Securities and Exchange Commission Suspends Licenses of Two Investment Companies
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended the licenses of Met Capital Group Limited and Mec-Ellis Investments Limited – both investment advisors- for breaching some provisions of...
Group To Petition CHRAJ Over Ayariga’s Bribery Claims
A group calling itself the Movement for Democratic and Accountable Governance (MODAG) has threatened to petition the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to probe the...
Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu says he suspects poor works done on re-roofing of the main chamber of parliament is most likely to be the cause of the terrible scene of leakages that visited...
Maverick politician and Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Ken Agyepong believes the setting up of a Parliamentary adhoc committee to investigate the bribery scandal that has rocked Ghana’s...
The minister-nominee for Employment and Labour relations, Ignatius Baffuor-Awuah says he will investigate the cause of the delay in payment of tier two pension allowances. According to him, he will...
The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has charged the leadership in Parliament to redeem itself a by allowing independent investigations of the bribery allegations made by some members of the Minority...
Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana
Prices of fuel must be cut by between 1 and 4% in the first pricing window for February, the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana has said. In a statement, the Chamber said prices of fuel products...
NADMO Assesses Parliament’s Defective Roofing
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) will be assessing the extent of damage caused to parliament’s roofing system after Tuesday night’s violent rainstorm that ripped off some...