As part of activities to mark the year long celebration of Ghana 60 years on, the Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye, has been penciled down to deliver a lecture on the political history of...
Civil Society Group, Odekro has reiterated calls for a re-examination of Article 78 which compels the President to appoint majority of Ministers from Parliament. The group stands by its earlier...
Former Minister of State at the Presidency, Rashid Pelpuo, is warning government against the use of the three development authorities as a tool for needless politicking. According to him, the...
He argued in a Facebook post Friday that while contempt of parliament is for good reasons, those “certainly do not include using it to curtail the people’s right to free speech and expression”...
The Member of Parliament for Wa West, Joseph Yieleh Chireh has suggested that the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu was unprepared when he appeared before Parliament on Thursday to respond to...
Outspoken anti-corruption campaigner and leading member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely-Hayford is likely to be in hot waters as he has been cited for a possible contempt of...
Drama unfolded on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, when two Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Majority side in open defiance, challenged the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu on the...
Members of the Kenyan Parliament who will be elected to the 12th Parliament will not benefit from the Sh5,000 allowance their predecessors enjoyed for sittings. This is after the Salaries and...
Latest: Using ‘imperfect scale to balance ‘imperfect system – The case of Ghana’s Constitution Pressure on IGP to arrest killers of Ardeyman chief Let’s not toy with the future of our...
Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency in the Central Region, Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has described as disgraceful for the Finance Committee of the 6th Parliament to have...
A governance expert at the University of Professional Studies says claims of corruption against Ghana’s parliament could cause the people to question the credibility of the work members of...
Have you ever heard this tale of Two Road Ministers? Well, one was from Ogyakrom; the other from Anago. They met at one of these numerous konom-tea (committee) meetings at an international forum....
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...
Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, who is also the Member of Parliament for Akuapem South in the Eastern Region, Mr. O. B. Amoah, says Parliament will be forced to invite the...
Lawmakers in Parliament could face sanctions from the Speaker if they refuse to furnish the House with reports of sponsored trips. The Majority Leader, Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, speaking on the floor...
Ghana’s Parliament under the Fourth Republican Constitution (1992) is a hybrid system of government, parliamentary and presidential system, in which the Executive President has majority of his...
Irene Naa Torshie Addo, the President’s nominee for the position of Common Fund Administrator, is proposing new measures including borrowing from banks to end the perennial challenge of the delay...
Parliament has been admonished to desist from slashing budget allocated to the judiciary. The nominee for the position as Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo made the appeal when she appeared before...
The Minority in Parliament has bemoaned government’s decision to reduce allocation to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) by 21%. According to the Minority, the reduction would affect project...
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...
