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The novel coronavirus crisis has led to a slowdown of the economic growth of countries across the world. According to the World Bank biannual Africa’s Pulse report, which discusses the macroeconomic outlook for sub-Saharan Africa, released in April 2020, economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa will decline from 2.4 percent in 2019 to between -2.1 percent and -5.1 percent in 2020, ...

Law lecturer and Head of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Dr. Alex Ansong, has questioned the decision of some African countries to close their land boarders to fellow member States warning that the action will adversely affect the smooth implementation and sustenance of the African Continental Free Trade ...

Public Affairs Director of Parliament, Kate Addo has made a sudden u-turn on her denial that 2 Members of Parliament (MPs) and 13 Staff of Parliament have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. A statement from the Public Affairs Office of the legislature on Tuesday, May 26, 2020, denied reports that some two Members of Parliament and thirteen staff of ...

Political Science lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Jonathan Asante Okyere has questioned the resolutions taken by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter registration in late June regardless of opposition from some political parties and in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking to Nana Yaw Opare on the Yensempa morning show on Onua FM, ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, says his investigations so far have revealed that about 80% of fake pastors in the country are from the Ashanti Region. According to the MP who has sworn to expose fake pastors in the country, these fake pastors from the Ashanti Region are young men who have promoted themselves from magicians ...

The Commercial Division of the Accra High Court has ordered the Attorney-General’s (A-G’s) Department to serve former Managing Director of UT Bank, Prince Kofi Amoabeng, and four others who are standing trial for the collapse of UT Bank with all the documents it intends to rely on for their trial. Justice Philip Bright Mensah , a Justice of the Court ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Authority Michael Okyere Baafi says he will beat the incumbent member of Parliament for New Juaben South Mark Assibey-Yeboah at the polls if elections were held today. According to the aspiring member of parliament, his support for the constituency and the NPP over the years informs his confidence to win in ...

The Attorney General (AG) has responded to claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the Electoral Commission (EC) is enjoined to compile the register of voters only once at the inception of the Constitution and not on multiple occasions, describing the position of the party as “patently absurd, far-fetched, outrageous and grossly erroneous.” In its response to a ...

Five major markets in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region after been closed down in order to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. The comes after the Ghana Health Service declared the area as the new hotspot for Covid-19 after it recorded 57 new cases. Per reports by Starr News Emmanuel Ohene-Gyan, these markets will be closed down ...

The Volta Regional Deputy Director of Health in charge of Public Health, Dr. Kwesi Senanu Djokoto has called for stakeholder support in educating the public on the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to adhere to the safety protocols to curb the spread of the disease. According to Dr. Djokoto, many residents of the region continue to ...