The Church of Pentecost is building five settlement camp prisons for the Ghana Prisons Service to help decongest the country’s prisons. The new facilities are located in Obuasi and Ejura in the Ashanti Region, Nsawam in the Eastern Region, Hawia in the Western Region, and Kenyasi in the Ahafo Region. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Prisons Service, ...

The Member of Parliament for the Tafo-Pankrono constituency in the Ashanti Region Dr. Anthony Osei Akoto has announced he will not contest the ruling party’s upcoming primaries for the 2020 polls. The Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation made his decision known to the party’s constituency executives at a meeting held on Monday in Kumasi. Constituency Chairman of the ruling New ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that some military personnel including an officer are in custody over the alleged attempted coup plot on Ghana’s presidency. According to him, charges will be put against the suspects in the court of law in the coming days. “There are military persons including an officer who are in custody and being interrogated in ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, has indicated that Parliament will welcome proposals to enact a law that will regulate the operations of doom-mongers operating as prophets before their activities plunge the country into chaos. He said that had become necessary due to the penchant for some ‘men of God’ to come up with prophetic messages about people ...

Private legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has expressed dissatisfaction at the final work done by the Emile Short Commission. He said although the findings of the commission were predictable, he expected the MP for Ningo Prampram, Sam Nartey George to have been punished. He posited that the MP should have been suspended as an MP or punished for his rude behaviour, ...

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has released the first rebased Inflation rate since the change in the formula for calculating the rate of increase in the price levels of goods and services in the country. Using the month of August, this year as the base period for the exercise, it recorded an inflation rate of 7.8 per cent for the ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been given three days to appease the Okyehene, Amoatia Ofori Panin II, for comments deemed derogatory against the paramount chief by the party’s Ashanti Region Secretary. Addressing a demonstration organised by the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council Monday to express disquiet about the said disparaging statement, Secretary of the Council, Daniel Marfo Ofori-Atta said: “a ...

The government has issued a White Paper and published the report of the Emile Short Commission which investigated the violence which characterised the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency by-election early this year. Starrfm.com.gh has been serialising parts of the report in April before it was released last week. Below is the full recommendations: RECOMMENDATIONS 1. STRUCTURAL 1.1. The Commission recommends that ...

The Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Josephine Nkrumah, has described Ghana’s system of democracy as ‘sick’, as politicians who are voted in power come into office to do the bidding of others no matter how principled they were before. Speaking on Citi TVs ‘Point of View’, Ms Nkrumah indicated that this is so because people who ...

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated his commitment to the fight against corruption, but will not prosecute people without any factual evidence. According to the President, it is not enough to condemn people because someone said they were corrupt, a situation, he added, would not inure to good governance. President Akufo-Addo was reiterating what he had told chief ...