Wood Appointed To Council of State
Outgoing Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood has been appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo as a member of the Council of State. This is in accordance with Article 89(2)(a)(i) which...
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Akufo-Addo’s Trip Unconstitutional – Minority
The Minority in Parliament has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has violated the 1992 constitution for failing to inform the House about his trip to Belgium on a national assignment. The...
Ofori-Atta To Brief Parliament On $2.25bn Bond Today
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta will today (Wednesday) appear before Parliament to present full documentation on the controversial issuance of the 2.25 billion dollars bond. This is after the...
Naa Torshie Addo Appointed As Common Fund Administrator
President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed the former Member of Parliament for Tema West Constituency, Irene Naa Torshie Addo, as the new administrator for the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF). This...
Safety Issues Resulted In ‘act of God’ Kintampo Fall Deaths – Afeku
The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Catherine Afeku, has said that a report on the Kintampo disaster that claimed 19 lives “concluded that although this was an act of God, a number...
Naa Torshie Appointed Common Fund Boss
Irene Naa Torshie Addo, is former MP for Tema West, The former Member of Parliament for Tema West, Irene Naa Torshie Addo, has been named the new Administrator of the District Assembly Common Fund....
Naa Torshie Appointed Administrator of District Assemblies Common Fund
Madam Irene Naa Torshie Addo has been nominated as the administrator of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF). The appointment of the former Member of Parliament for Tema West constituency was...
Family Wants Monument Erected In His Honour
Family of the late Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama has appealed to the state to erect a monument in any part of the country to serve as a reminder to the country of the death of its son. The family wants...
Captain Mahama To Be Buried Friday
The family of the slain soldier, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, has announced that he would be buried on Friday, June 9. Spokespersons for the family, Zakaria Sakara and WOII Ibrahim Samed, said the...
Parliament To Engage Experts For Modern Chamber
The Parliamentary Service has given approval to the idea for the House to have a new modern Chamber, Speaker Professor Michael Oquaye has revealed. He said, the current Chamber has reached a...
Parliament To Establish A Legal Department In Parliamentary Service
The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Michael Aaron Oquaye has underscored the need for the House to establish a legal department in the parliamentary service to assist them on legal related matters....
Speaker Pursues Diplomatic Resolution
Speaker of Parliament Prof Mike Oquaye is adopting diplomacy in resolving visa fraud allegations against some Members of Parliament, Kate Addo, Acting Director of Public Affairs of Parliament, has...
Parliament To Hold Media Encounters To Help Bring the House Closer To the People
Parliament’s Acting Director of Public Affairs, Kate Addo has hinted of a series of programmes to be instituted by parliament to bridge the gap between the House and its constituents. The move is...
Speaker Meets With Moroccan Housing and Tourism Ministers In Rabat
Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye has held talks with the Ministers of Housing and Tourism in Morocco as part of his visit to Morocco. According to the Speaker the move is to foster...
UK Commission Couldn’t Prove I Acted Fraudulently – MP
The former Member of Parliament for the Asunafo South constituency in the Brong Ahafor Region, George Boakye has said the UK High Commissioner has failed to prove that he was indeed involved in any...
Speaker Leads Parliamentary Delegation To Morocco
Ghana’s Speaker of parliament Prof Mike Aaron Oquaye has led a seven-member delegation are in the Moroccan city of Rabat for a three day visit to that country’s House of Representatives. He is...
Justice Dotse As CJ Would Have Ensured Ethnic Balance – Amaliba
Lawyer Abraham Amaliba has noted that although Justice Sophia Akufo is an excellent choice for the Chief Justice position, appointing Justice Dotse would have ensured an ethnic balance. In an...
Parliament Reconvenes May 30
The house in Parliament went on a brief recess for the Easter holidays Ghana’s Parliament is set to resume sitting on May 30, 2017. This was contained in a letter by the Speaker of Parliament, Prof...
Speaker Urged To Hand Over Alleged Visa Fraudster MPs To Police, BNI
A civil society group is calling on the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Rt. Hon. Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye to handover the four parliamentarians alleged to have been involved in visa fraud to the...
Current Parliament Can’t Punish ‘visa Fraud’ MPs For Past Wrongs – Amidu
Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, has said that the 7th Parliament, currently led by Speaker, Prof. Mike Oquaye, cannot punish the three incumbent Members of Parliament and a former one, accused...