Mike Oquaye Is Speaker of Parliament
Former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Reverend Professor Michael Aaron Oquaye has been elected as the Speaker of the Seventh Parliament of Ghana. He was proposed by Minority Leader of the...
Category: Politics
NPP Supporters To Akufo-Addo’s Swearing-In Stranded In Tamale
Scores of New Patriotic Party supporters in Tamale due to attend Saturday’s inauguration of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the president of Ghana are stranded. About 300 of the supporters who were...
[Photos] African Leaders Touch Down For Akufo-Addo’s Inauguration
Some African heads of states have arrived in Accra for the inauguration of Ghana’s president-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Saturday. The African leaders, who started arriving at the Kotoka...
Govt Starts Payment To GETFund Contractors Today
2017 started with some contractors working on GETFund projects picketing at the Ministry of Finance to demand monies owed them. It is to the tune of over GHc 300 million spanning a period of six...
Bagbin Urges Parliament To Intensify Public Education On Its Work
The outgoing Majority Leader of Ghana’s Sixth Parliament under the Forth Republic, Alban S. K. Bagbin wants the next Parliament, as an institution, to intensify its efforts at educating the public...
Black Stars’ AFCON 2017 Opponents Crowned Best National Team
Ghana’s opening day opponents at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, Uganda, have been crowned the best national team on the continent. The Cranes lost only one competitive game in 2016, making them...
Sale of NPP Paraphernalia Booms
Patronage of New Patriotic Party (NPP) paraphernalia is booming across the country ahead of the inauguration of the president-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday. Traders are cashing in as...
Kofi Agyapong Appointed Aide To Bawumia
An administrator at the New Patriotic Party headquarters, Kofi Agyapong, has been appointed as the press aide to Ghana’s next vice president, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. He succeeds Kwabena Boadu who died...
GES Denies Extension of Vacation For SHS As Gov’t Pays Part of Feeding Grants
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has denied rumours that it has extended the reopening date of Senior High Schools across the country. A statement purported to come from the GES and circulated on...
Nigerian Chibok Girl Found With Her Six-Month-Old Baby
The Nigerian army says that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls has been found, along with her six-month-old baby. She was discovered by soldiers investigating suspected members of Islamist...
Two Revelations From Mahama’s 2017 SONA, According To Nabdam MP
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Nabdam and former Minister for the Upper East Region, Boniface Gambila Adagbila, has expressed his surprise about two “unknown truths” to Ghanaians from...
[PHOTO] Posh Yvonne Nelson Meets President-Elect Nana Akufo-Addo
After meeting former President J. A Kufuor, celebrated Ghanaian actress Yvonne Nelson moved up the ladder to formally meet president-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who is due to be sworn into...
Mahama’s 2017 State of the Nation Address
Allow me to begin by wishing everyone a Happy New Year. Afihyiapa. This hall that exists within these walls is a place where I have always felt at home. It was in this august house, as an MP for...
Likely Leadership of Parliament
Snippets of information gathered by 3news.com suggest that Joe Osei Owusu and Alban Bagbin would be seconded as the First and Second Deputy Speakers of Parliament under the Seventh Parliament. There...
Mahama Touts Achievement In Road Sector As the Best In Ghana’s History
President John Dramani Mahama says his investment and concomitant achievement in the road sector tops any other president’s in the history of Ghana. “My tenure in office has seen the most...
CAF President Hayatou Investigated
Egyptian officials say that Issa Hayatou, the president of African football’s governing body CAF, has been referred to prosecutors for investigation over allegedly abusing his position. At issue is...
Mahama Must Be Candid With Us In His Last SONA – Muntaka
Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed wants President John Mahama to be truthful to Ghanaians so far as his four-year stewardship is concerned as he delivers his last address to Parliament...
Abdul-Majeed Waris, Two Others Dropped As Grant Prunes Squad Down To 23
France-based striker Abdul-Majeed Waris was among the three players dropped from the Black Stars squad for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. Together with Raphael Dwamena of Austrian side Lustenau and...
Customs Exceeds 2016 Target By Over GHC329 Million In Ashanti
The Ashanti Regional sector of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority has made significant gains, recording excess revenue of GHC329.032 million in 2016. The sector was given an initial...
Nana Akufo Addo Has Made the Right Choice – Nunoo Mensah
A former National Security Advisor, Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah has lauded President-elect Nana Akufo Addo for the persons named to man the security of the country for the next four years. Nana...