Akufo-Addo Was ‘fantastic’ – ET Mensah
President Nana Akufo-Addo was “fantastic” with his delivery of the State of the Nation Address, former Ningo-Prampram MP ET Mensah has commended. “It was fantastic,” he told journalists,...
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South Africa To Target ‘illegal Immigrants’
South African officials will carry out inspections at workplaces to see whether firms are employing undocumented foreigners, Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba has said. He added that more than...
Kabul To Set Penalties For Subculture of Boy Sex Slaves
Afghanistan is finally set to outlaw the sick 'bacha bazi' practice that sees young boys dressed up as women and sexually abused. Heavy penalties are set to be laid out for the first time in a...
Israeli Parliament Takes Closer Look At Staffers’ Skirts
Israel's parliament will retain a contentious dress code banning short skirts, but will make its enforcement and sanctions against offenders gradual, a committee of MPs and parliamentary staff ruled....
Kabul To Set Penalties For Subculture of Boy Sex Slaves
Afghanistan is set to lay out stringent penalties for "bacha bazi" -- sexual slavery and abuse of boys -- for the first time, officials say, in a landmark move against the deeply entrenched practice....
“Mahama Ayariga Is Telling the Truth” — Ayariga’s Opponent Declares
We are it again! People have sworn by the Almighty God in order to make them appear believable. And it doesn’t seem the current probe being undertaken by a parliamentary committee to ascertain...
Parliament Distorts Opposition To Plant Breeders’ Bill!
Latest: “Food Sovereignty appeared before our committee and we gave them the opportunity to prove that the bill is about GMO. They couldn’t. They actually apologized and withdrew. And yet the day...
Bribery Committee Stops Okudzeto From Giving Further Oral Evidence
Parliament’s 5-member ad-hoc committee investigating the alleged bribery scandal involving members of the Appointments Committee, today , stopped MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, from...
Bribery Committee Stops Okudzeto From Giving Further Oral Evidence
Parliament’s 5-member ad-hoc committee investigating the alleged bribery scandal involving members of the Appointments Committee, today , stopped MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, from...
Minority Scared of Free SHS
Legislators of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will resist every attempt by the Akufo-Addo government to implement social intervention programmes such as Free Senior High School because...
Tony Blair Calls For People To ‘rise Up’ Against Brexit
Tony Blair is to announce his "mission" to persuade Britons' to "rise up" and change their minds on Brexit. The former prime minister will say in a speech later that people voted in the referendum...
Zuma Worried That MPs Treat Parliament ‘like Something Worse Than A Beer Hall’
South African President, Jacob Zuma, has bemoaned what he described as ‘unbecoming behaviour’ displayed by some Members of Parliament (MPs) in the country’s legislature. He said the shocking...
I Couldn’t Look At People’s Faces After Bribery Allegation
The Chairman of Parliament’s Appointments Committee says he had been uneasy and could not maintain eye contact with his members a day after he was implicated in a bribery allegation. Joseph...
Ghanaians Have Contributed Massively To UK – Boris Johnson
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has lauded the contribution of Ghanaians to the success of the UK as he paid a courtesy call on President Nana Akufo-Addo. “As you know I used to be mayor of...
Okudzeto Admitted Bribery Scandal Was Cooked Up – Osei-Owusu
Chairman of Parliament’s Appointments Committee, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has said he refused to push for investigations into the alleged bribery scandal involving Energy Minister, Boakye Ayarko, because...
I Wasn’t Myself After Ayariga’s Bribery Allegation – Joe Osei-Owusu
The Chairman of Parliament’s Appointments Committee says he had been uneasy and could not maintain eye contact with his members a day after he was implicated in a bribery allegation. Joseph...
Joe Osei-Owusu To Be First Witness Today As Public Hearing of Bribery Probe Starts
Joseph Osei-Owusu will Wednesday be the first witness at a public hearing into allegations of bribery that has hit Parliament. At least three MPs and a minister are alleged to have bribed members of...
NPP Plotted Dr Agyarko’s Bribery Saga
Even as he is being accused of blowing the lid off the Boakye Agyarko bribery scandal, self-acclaimed financier of the governing New Patriotic Party, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, is also pointing accusing...
Why I Now Support Free SHS
I was one of the critics who felt that Ghana didn’t need free Senior High School education, when President Nana Akufo-Addo, then Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in opposition, started...
MPs Clash Over Wesley Girls
A statement made in parliament yesterday by Abena Osei-Asare, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Atiwa East in the Eastern Region, on the 180th anniversary of Wesley Girls’...