POLITICS

Embattled businessman Alfred Woyome who is contesting the state’s action to retrieve a 47.2m debt says he is ready to cooperate if he loses the case at an Africa court. The African Court on Human and People’s Rights, based in Arusha, Tanzania is expected to deliver its judgement Friday 10am, determining if his human rights have been abused in a ...

Guinea and Ghana have undertaken to deepen economic ties as preparations near completion for the establishment of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area. Guinean President Alpha Conde expressed this expectation when Ghana’s Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah delivered a special message from President Akufo-Addo to Prof Conde. Mr Nkrumah who was in Guinea as President Akufo-Addo’s special envoy engaged ...

Former Minister for Defence, Dr Benjamin Bewa-Nyog Kunbuor has said political parties accusing the Electoral Commission of suspicious acts are doing so due to the internal methods of conducting their own elections. According to the Former National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for the Nandom constituency, parties who use crooked methods in their internal elections are fearful that same method will ...

A member of the Communications Committee of Parliament, Sam George, on Thursday claimed the government of Ghana is spying on Ghanaians. “I’m saying that as it sits today, it’s very…very likely that our calls and text messages are being listened and read,” the Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament told Starr News’ Ibrahim Alhassan. According to him, that is because the ...

Embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome has served notice he will seek a review in a Supreme Court judgment that his properties must be sold to offset a GhC51 million judgment debt paid to him illegally by the State. A single Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Alfred Benin, on Thursday gave the order. The properties are two executive buildings located ...

Coach of Ghana’s Black Stars, Kwesi Appiah has described Ghana’s game against Benin as a good game. Ghanaians especially social media users are mad at the Black Stars for drawing with Benin who are seen as underdogs in the tournament. But at the press conference after the game, Kwesi Appiah noted that the game between Ghana and Benin was a ...

The decision by the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Builsa South Constituency in the Upper East Region, Daniel Gariba, of becoming the parliamentary candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the constituency, is being fought by some members of the party. The NPP members have hinted of plans to prevent the aspiring DCE from winning the primaries to ...

A new political force is emerging from the Ashanti region with the aim of wrestling power from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) come the 2020 elections, MyNewsGh.com can exclusively report. The founder and financier of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike who ditched his ambition for the presidency on the last minute and declared support for the ...

The National Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Freddie Worsemao Blay, is challenging a contempt case against him at the Accra High Court initiated by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). In his affidavit in opposition, he described the contempt application as “fatally flawed and procedurally incompetent”. CHRAJ dragged Mr Blay to court over ...

Chief of Staff, Hon. Akosua Frema Osei-Opare has fired at Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of teaching hospitals in the country urging them to step efforts aimed at providing prudent and innovative ways than do sit in their comfort expecting government to do everything for the facilities they preside over. “I wish to use this opportunity to urge other health agencies ...