The government is making an effort to raise $1.5 billion to develop more infrastructure in schools selected for the double-track system to hasten the process of phasing out the system within the shortest possible time. The amount will be raised from both local and international sources by using 40 per cent of the GETFund as security. Already, the Ministry of ...

Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah has urged former President John Dramani Mahama to stop passing cynical comments about social intervention policies being implemented by government. Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah advised John Mahama to make his public utterances based on facts, and in the interest of the nation. “The administration thereby encourages the former President that when it comes to state and national ...

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), has suspended its Eastern Regional Director, Fred Dzeny for asking President Akufo-Addo to show leadership in the fight against corruption by prosecuting corrupt officials within his government. Mr. Dzeny, according to an earlier publication by Starr News is said to have suggested the fight against corruption will only be successful if the ruling ...

Sites for the construction of dams in eight farming communities in the Kasena-Nankana Municipal and West District of the Upper East Region under government’s ‘One Village, One Dam’ policy have been handed over to contractors for work to begin. The Assemblies are to benefit from a total of 20 dams but eight have so far been approved and the construction ...

It is emerging that some former Ministers may not have conducted themselves in the best interest of Ghana in relation to the procurement of some ambulances for the country. The businessman contracted to supply the country with some 200 ambulances has pointed fingers at former Finance Minister Seth Terkper and former Health Minister Sherry Ayitey. Richard Dzakpa told Daniel Dadzie ...

NDC Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fusieni, has called for thorough and independent investigations into circumstances that led to the assault of a journalist by a member of former President Mahama’s security detail. The Joy FM reporter, Kwesi Parker Wilson, was slapped by the bodyguard, during Former President Mahama’s five-day tour of the Greater Accra Region ahead of ...

The government has revealed that the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has concluded investigations on embattled former Ghana Football Association (GFA) boss, Kwesi Nyantakyi. In a statement signed by the Deputy Information Minister, Puis Enam Hadzide on Thursday, the government expects the docket to be presented to the state’s chief prosecutor soon. “Criminal investigations have been ...

A former Attorney General in the erstwhile Rawlings administration, Dr Obed Asamoah, has cautioned the National Democratic Congress (NDC) against any attempt to oppose ongoing processes for the creation of new regions in the country. He said it would be politically suicidal for the biggest opposition party to be seen as the source of recent agitations against the constitutional processes ...

Government has rejected allegations that it has done nothing about a sports corruption scandal that has attracted a FIFA ban on former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President, Kwesi Nyantakyi. Deputy Attorney-General Godfred Dame told Myjoyonline that the world football governing body, FIFA, relied on government’s work before it announced the lifetime ban Tuesday. Kwesi Nyantakyi is not allowed any involvement ...

The Federation of International Football Association on Tuesday, October 30 brought finality to its investigations of Kwesi Nyantakyi, imposing a lifetime ban on the embattled lawyer. FIFA on Tuesday announced that Kwesi Nyantakyi has been banned for life from all football-related activities. The development comes four months after the renowned administrator was captured in an investigative documentary engaging in corrupt ...