MPs Stranded As Job 600 Is Shutdown
Members of Parliament (MPs) have been left stranded without offices to work from as officers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) have shut down the Job 600 building as a result of a fire...
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Another Bribery Scandal Hits Parliament
Former Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, James Klutse Avedzi, has admitted his committee received money from officials of the National Lottery Authority before deliberating on the...
Are We Going Back To the Era of Unfulfilled Promises?
On 7th January 2017, RTI advocates, the media and other sympathizers of the age long campaign for the passage of the RTI Bill observed with dismay as the 6th Parliament of the 4th Republic of...
Parliament Resumes Today After Recess
Members of Parliament are expected to be in Parliament today, Tuesday, for parliamentary business after being on recess for about a month. The legislators are expected to receive 14 bills, 10...
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...
RTI Bill Not On Parliament’s Agenda As It Reconvenes For Second Sitting
Journalists and citizens who eagerly anticipated the presentation of the RTI bill to parliament for scrutiny and passage would have to wait till the third sitting of the 7th parliament for any hope...
ASK Series Train Stops In Kumasi On Saturday
The second edition of one of Ghana’s biggest peer mentoring and networking event, ASK Series will be held over the weeked in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi. The event will be bring together...
Let’s Be Temperate In Our Language – Speaker Urges Public
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Prof. Aaron Michael Oquaye, is urging the public who have shown much interest in discussing the alleged UK visa by four Ghanaian MPs to be temperate in their...
Speaker Urges MPs To Be Temporate – Kate Addo
The Speaker of Parliament has urged Members of Parliament to be temporate in their comments on the matter of alleged visa fraud against some Members of the House. According to the Speaker the issue...
Visa Fraud: Case Was Summitted To Speaker In January Before Letter Leaked
The Acting Public Affairs Director for Ghana’s Parliament, Madam Kate Addo has told the press that, the letter from the British High Commission involving some four Members of Parliament in the...
Visa Fraud: MPs Confront Jon Benjamin Over Allegations
Some persons out of the four Members of Parliament accused of engaging in visa offences have confronted the former British High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, Jon Benjamin to register their...
The Law Will Take Its Course – Kate Addo
Acting Director of Public Affairs at Ghana's Parliament Kate Addo has indicated that the law will take due course irrespective of the persons involved if the case regarding the visa fraud is...
MPs’ 10-Year Visa Ban Will Be Upheld
The Parliament of Ghana has said that the sanctioning of some Members of Parliament (MP) for visa irregularities by the British government will be effected as the Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike...
Parliament’s Public Affairs Dep’t To Use Social Media Often
Staff of the Public Affairs Directorate of Parliament have been trained to increase public engagement in the legislative process. At a workshop in Koforidua, the Public Affairs Director of the...
Parliament Debunks Claims That Its CCTV Cameras Are Not Working
The Acting Director of Public Affairs in Parliament, Kate Addo has refuted reports that all Closed-Circuit Television cameras (CCTV) in the legislature are not working. Kate Addo insisted that there...
I Willl Petition CHRAJ Again – Journalist
A freelance Journalist, Listowel Nana Poku says he will reinforce his earlier petition to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice(CHRAJ) to look into the bribery scandal in...
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...
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...
Bribery Scandal: Ghartey C’ttee Report Out Wednesday
The five-member ad hoc committee investigating the bribery scandal that hit the Appointments Committee of Parliament is expected to present its report Wednesday, the Director of Public Affairs of...