2017 Budget Statement In Snapshots
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has presented the 2017 budget statement in Parliament. He said, among other things in his address that government is ready to fix the economy. Below are some of the...
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Akufo-Addo Has Not Reduced Anything Yet
The Minority in Parliament have asked government to provide definite answers on when the tax reliefs announced in the 2017 budget statement would take effect. The Finance Minister, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta...
Finance Minister Presents 2017 Budget Statement
Finance Minister Ken Ofori Attah is presenting the budget and economic planning statement for the year 2017 to the house in Parliament. The budget which is the first to be delivered under the...
Minority Slams Gov’t For Rash Sacking of MMDCEs, Other Appointees
The Minority in Parliament has criticized government’s approach to the removal of some heads of government institutions barely a few days before the new administration took over. According to the...
PPC New Executives Take Office
SEVEN-member Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Press Corps (PPC), an umbrella body of journalists reporting from Ghana’s Parliament, has been sworn into office. The committee has a two-year...
No Placards At Budget, MPs Told
The Majority and Minority, together with the leadership of parliament, have agreed to ban the display of placards during the presentation of this year’s budget by the Finance Minister on Thursday,...
Muntaka Is ‘untruthful’- Constituents
The trust in the Minority Chief Whip Mohammed Muntanka Mubarak is fast diminishing in the face of Asawase constituents as many believe their Member of Parliament (MP) was economical with the truth...
We Want Independent Press Corps In Parliament – Press Dean
The outgoing dean of the Parliamentary Press Corps, Andrew Edwin Arthur has called for the total independence of the press corps to ensure that it doesn’t operate directly under the Public Affairs...
Nana Addo Didn’t Err In Creating New Ministries – Afenyo-Markin
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Effutu Constituency, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has rubbished claims that President Nana Addo breached the law in the creation and realignment of some...
Nana Addo Didn’t Err In Creating New Ministries
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Effutu Constituency, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has rubbished claims that President Nana Addo breached the law in the creation and realignment of some...
Is Parliament Being A Judge In Its Own Court?
In recent times, public trust in Ghana’s Parliament is gradually diminishing at a fast pace, after several allegations have been levelled against the House by no less mean than both sitting and...
Looks Like You Have A Problem With Facts
President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday endured what could aptly be described as a ‘baptism of taunts’ when he appeared before Parliament to deliver his first State of the Nation Address since...
Justice Atuguba Is Acting Chief Justice
Justice William Atuguba is the acting Chief Justice in the absence of Justice Georgina Theodora Woode. Justice Georgina Theodora Woode has taken her leave prior to her retirement. The Speaker of...
William Atuguba Is Acting Chief Justice
Justice William Atuguba, a member of Ghana’s Supreme Court, is the acting Chief Justice in the absence of Justice Georgina Theodora Woode, who has taken her leave prior to her retirement. The...
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...
Ayariga Presents ‘no Direct Evidence’; Sticks To His ‘facts’
Embattled Bawku Central MP failed to present any 'direct evidence' to back his claims that MPs were paid monies intended to influence the approval of then Energy minister-designate Boakye Ayarko. At...
I Have No Direct Evidence To Back Bribery Claims
Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga has said he has no direct evidence which will prove that members of Parliament's Appointment Committee received a bribe from the then Minister of...
Ayariga Faces Bribery Probe Committee
Bawku Central Member of Parliament Mahama Ayariga will begin to walk his talk on allegations of bribery when he appears before the Joe Ghartey committee Thursday. He takes an oath to speak the truth...
Bribery Scandal: Ayariga, Agyarko, Others Face Ghartey Committee Today
The parliamentary ad hoc committee probing the bribery scandal that has hit the appointments committee will resume sitting today, Monday February 20. The committee suspended sitting last Friday...
Parliament’s Bribery Investigation Much Ado About Nothing – Journalist
A freelance journalist who petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) over the recent bribery allegation in Parliament is unhappy with the response given him....