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Residents of Bepoase Ayensu electoral area in the Eastern Region of Ghana, have pleaded with the government to furbish up the network-related problems associated...

Former President John Mahama has downplayed concerns that time is running out for him to name a running mate for the December polls. According to him, he is clear in his mind who will partner him for the elections but will announce him after the necessary consultations are done in the NDC. Speaking during his second live Digital Conversation, the NDC flagbearer also said it is not ideal to name a running mate when the country is still battling COVID-19. “In the midst of COVID, what is the use of naming a running mate? When you can’t outdoor the person and all. But let me assure you I have a fair idea who will partner me and for the elections after the necessary consultation with the national executives and council of elders are done we will do. I can assure you that he will make a significant contribution to the development of our nation,” Mr. Mahama responded to a questioner who enquired on the running mate. It comes in the wake of claims that he will choose a running mate from th..

Deputy ranking member of the Health Committee of Parliament and MP for Binduri Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem has described the Health minister as ‘grossly incompetent’ over delays in completing health infrastracture projects started by the Mahama administration. According to him, claims by Mr. Kwaku Agyemang-Manu that government had to look for funding to complete some of the projects because the previous administration left no funds for them is shameful. “What have they been using the tax they collect for? And they are now saying there is no money to finish those projects? There was no money but Mahama started somehow. You come and tell us this after 3 years in government? “An incompetent minister coming to tell us why he couldn’t finish the projects, a grossly incompetent minister like that must go. We all know the Health minister is incompetent and he must be shown the exit,” he told Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Wednesday. The criticism comes as Mr. Agyemang-Manu rejects accusati..

For two years running the country’s agriculture sector has experienced declines in growth, despite an impressive performance in 2017 after the government introduced the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme. Annual GDP figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service show that the country’s largest employer – the agriculture sector – grew by 4.6 percent in 2019, a 0.2 percentage point decline from that of 2018, making it the slowest growth since growth jumped to 6.1 percent in 2017 from the 2.9 percent it recorded the previous year. That is not all: the 2019 growth of 4.6 percent was also the least recorded in all three sectors of the economy, as industry and services grew at 6.4 percent and 7.6 percent respectively. Looking at the data from when rebasing of the economy took effect (2014), the Agriculture sector has constantly trailed the other two sectors in growth – with the exception of 2015 when it surpassed industry by 1.2 percentage points. This clearly shows that the se..

Dreamland Sports Plus, an events management company on Thursday surprised some security personnel controlling traffic and managing the various barriers in some parts of the capital with Parle Biscuits and Namio Soya Drinks as refreshments gesture. CEO Emmanuel Olla Williams, a sanitation ambassador as well as youth coordinator of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) who led the exercise in Ablekuma North, West and South constituencies said they have been touched by the positive conduct of the security forces in the country and want to encourage them. He expressed appreciation on the police and military who have engaged in clean ups and maintaining peace and order during the lock down. He commended companies like Unilever, Equator Foods Ltd and Namio Ghana Ltd for supporting their efforts in the fight against the covid-19 pandermic. Padmanabhan Bhoopathy, general manager of Namio Ghana Ltd, producers of Namio Drinks said it is part of their social responsibility plans to support laudab..

Organisers of Radio and Television Personality Awards (RTP), Big Events Ghana, have hinted they may consider changing the voting pattern of the prestigious award in subsequent years. According to the Chief Executive Officer of Big Events Ghana, Prince Mackay, he has received many complaints about fans finding it difficult to vote for their favorite nominees. “Some of the complaints are genuine whiles others are network problems which the organizers cannot do anything about but we shall surely take decision on their grievances and observations and let me add that the voting is on mobile money order and not through credit deductions,” Mr Mackay told Daakyehene Ofosu Agyemang on Power FM. Mr Mackay revealed that the RTP Board had finished compiling their 40% of their votes and were awaiting the remainder 60% of public votes. Voting is expected to end later today before the award event takes off at the Accra International Conference Centre. The current voting system is in two folds, it..

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the savannah region notes with concern the shambolic manner in which the National Identification Authority(NIA) is carrying out its registration processes in the savannah region. The NDC Savannah region states with visible evidence the deliberate attempt by the National Identification Authority(NIA) in denying indigenes of the region access to getting themselves registered for whatsoever reason. After several failed attempts to getting our concerns noticed and issues rectified by the NIA, we wish to bring to the attention of the public, media and most especially our traditional rulers the avoidable fallouts which we find deliberate on the side of government to disenfranchise people in the savannah region the opportunity of getting themselves registered before the deadline. These are: 1. A registration exercise which was suppose to commence on the 4th of October and end on the 23rd of October (3weeks period) only commenced 4days after the ann..

Ghana is likely to return to the IMF, economist Dr. Lord Mensah has said. According to the University of Ghana Business School Lecturer, if the country continues dwindling in its revenue, and debt continues to go up, it may be forced to subscribe to the IMF programme in the coming years. Mr. Mensah said Ghana has made a lot of investment in the bid to enhance revenue generation, but the effect is not visible. He noted “if we continue to realize this dwindling revenue over the years and it continues for about five years, I think we are not far from going to IMF again,” he told Starr News’ Naa Dede Tetteh. He explained: “as a country we’ve done a lot of investment in a direction to enhance revenue generation. So I ask myself why is it that all this investment are not building up into the revenue generation. Is it because the investment has been done and there is a large effect that we expect to see in the future?” “So for me I think that there are so many things are not adding up in..

The 2020 flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama has criticised the Akufo-Addo government for what he described as the deliberate rejection of some key recommendations of the Emile Short Commission. He described the government’s white paper on the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election commission report as “unconscionable” and a complete waste of the commission’s time. “To believe that government can say an MP deserves to be slapped because he provoked a security officer is unconscionable. I don’t know by what moral code this judgement is being made but it creates a very bad precedent for us…It means that… anybody can be brutalized by a security officer if he believes that you have provoked him… not even an MP is immune to brutality,” he lamented. Former President Mahama bemoaned the government’s posture when he was interacting with executives of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) who paid him a visit to officially invite him for the climax of GJA’s 70th anni..

The Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has criticized the Akufo-Addo government’s rejection of most of the key recommendations of the Justice Emile Short Committee Report on the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence. Mr. Mahama, speaking during a courtesy call by executives of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), said it should be of concern to all Ghanaians that government, by its actions, appears to approve of the lawless assault on innocent civilians. “To believe that Government can say an MP deserves to be slapped because he provoked a security officer is unconscionable. I don’t know by what moral code this judgement is being made but it creates a very bad precedent for us. It means that… anybody can be brutalized by a security officer if he believes that you have provoked him… not even an MP is immune to brutality,” President Mahama lamented. Mr. Mahama argued that the actions of government provides a sinister premonition of future..