Ghartey Committee Submits Report
The Joe Ghartey Committee investigating the bribery scandal against the leadership of the Appointments Committee of parliament on Wednesday, 29 March presented its report to parliament. Last week,...
Tag: Appointments Committee
Godfred Dame Appears Before Appointments Committee
Parliament Appointments Committee has resumed its sitting to vet some ministers of state and deputy ministers of the President. The deputy minister-designate of Office of Attorney General and...
Owuraku Aidoo Appears Before Appointments Committee
Parliament Appointments Committee has resumed its sitting to vet some ministers of state and deputy ministers of the President. The deputy minister-designate of the Energy Ministry, Owuraku Aidoo is...
Minority Leader Jabs Kwaku Kwarteng
MINORITY Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has questioned why the ministry of finance is, on its own, writing to companies and revoking tax exemptions granted by Parliament. Mr. Iddrisu believes such an...
MDAs Have Purchased New Vehicles – Ablakwa
North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has disclosed that a lot of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) purchased new vehicles ahead of government’s directive not to purchase new vehicles....
Joe Ghartey Committee Presents ‘bribery’ Report Today
Parliament’s committee investigating the recent bribery scandal that hit the Appointments Committee is expected to present its report today The report is expected to explain the circumstances...
Ghartey Committee Report Out Today
The five-member ad hoc committee investigating the bribery scandal that hit the Appointments Committee of Parliament will present its report to Parliament today. The chairman of the committee, Joe...
I’ve Given Up US Citizenship – Deputy Finance Minister-Designate
Deputy Minister-designate of Finance Charles Adu Boahen has refuted suggestions that he holds dual citizenship. Asked by Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu during parliament’s Appointments Committee on...
IMF Programme Has Taught Us Self-Reliance
A Deputy Finance Minister nominee, Kwaku Kwarteng, has noted that the three-year International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme, has taught the country a lesson that such programmes will not...
Parliamentary Bribery Scandal
Even before the Joe Ghartey-led committee investigating the bribery scandal that rocked Parliament’s Appointments Committee makes public its findings, Member of Parliament for Bekwai and first...
Parliamentary Bribery Allegation Report Not Ready
It is likely that the presentation of the report of the five- member committee set up to investigate bribery against leadership of the Appointments Committee may not take place on Wednesday, March...
Adu Boaten Tells Appointments Committee
Mr Charles Kofi Asare Adu Boahen, a son of the late Professor Albert Adu Boahen who has been nominated as a deputy minister of finance has explained that he used to be an American citizen but has...
Kwaku Kwarteng Backs Bawumia On GHC7 Billion Unaccounted Expenditure
A Deputy Finance Minister nominee, Kwaku Kwarteng, has explained that Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia never suggested that a GHc7 billion expenditure by the former NDC administration was missing....
Kwaku Kwarteng Backs Bawumia On GHc7bn Unaccounted Expenditure
A Deputy Finance Minister nominee, Kwaku Kwarteng, has explained that Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia never suggested that a GHc7 billion expenditure by the former NDC administration was missing,....
4-Year SHS Students Better Than 3-Year Counterparts
The Minister of State-designate in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has defended the four-year Senior High School curriculum saying that students who went through that system...
Otiko; Educate Yourself; Unlearn Your Misogynistic Ways
Dear Otiko! It was shocking to read portions of the speech you gave to the impressionable girls at the Krobo Girls Secondary School over the weekend. You took my breathe away when I saw you on TV...
Separation of Powers and What It Will Mean For Our Democracy [Article]
There have been 1001 calls on successive governments taking steps to address the issue of dividing and conquering the dangers of concentrating power in one arm of the government. These calls have...
Otiko; Educate Yourself; Unlearn Your Misogynistic Ways
Dear Otiko! It was shocking to read portions of the speech you gave to the impressionable girls at the Krobo Girls Secondary School over the weekend. You took my breathe away when I saw you on TV...
Sarah Adwoa Safo Appears Before Appointments Committee
As the vetting of Ministers resumed by Parliament’s Appointments Committee Monday March 27, Procurement Minister designate, Sarah Adwoa Safo made appearance before members of the committee to be...
‘We’ll Sanction Procurement Offenders’
NOMINEE Minister of State for Procurement, Adwoa Safo, has said her ministry will cooperate with the office of the Attorney General to sanction any entity found culpable of resorting to...