The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has asked the Minority in Parliament not to mislead Ghanaians regarding the approval of the 2022 budget statement. He said on the floor of the House on Wednesday December 1 that “Nobody should attempt to throw dusts into the eyes of Ghanaians.” This was after the Minority had argued that the ...

Hearts of Oak coach Samuel Boadu has named 23-man for the CAF Confederation Cup second leg meeting with JS Saoura. The Phobians will travel to Algeria on Wednesday. The match is scheduled for Sunday, December 5 and will be played at the 20,000 capacity 20 August 1955 Stadium in Bechar. Hearts have the advantage in the play-offs tie following a ...

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Wusu (Joewise) has justified the approval of the 2022 budget statement. During deliberations in the House on Wednesday December, 1 he stated that a Deputy Speaker could not be described as a Speaker hence, arguments being against the number of MPs in the chamber as of the time of the approval of ...

The new variant of the COVID-19 pandemic, Omicron, has been detected in a passenger at the Kotoka International Airport. This was disclosed by the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, on Wednesday, 1 December 2021 at the lauch of the COVID-19 vaccination month. According to the GHS Director-General, the virus was detected in a Nigerian traveller ...

The Dome-Kwabenya arm of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed scepticism about the identity of a lady MP who took part in Tuesday’s vote on the budget as Adwoa Safo, the MP for Dome-Kwabenya. Ms Safo has not been seen in public for months. Her leave was extended by President Nana Akufo-Addo some weeks ago. In her absence, ...

A private citizen Richard Sky has filed a writ at the Supreme Court challenging the Speaker of Parliament’s decision to allow 137 members of parliament vote to reject the 2022 budget. Last Friday, Speaker Alban Bagbin allowed 137 Minority MPs to vote on the budget. The MPs voted to reject the budget but many including the Majority said what the ...

A former Member of Parliament for the Tamale Central Constituency in the Northern Region has stressed the need for parliament to live above the manipulation of numbers on the floor. According to Mr. Inusah Fuseini, “Ghana’s democracy stands to suffer if the manipulation of numbers on the floor continues to play out during proceedings in the house”. The former opposition ...

A former Deputy Minister of Information, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has asked Ghanaians to prepare for extreme hardships following the approval of the 2022 budget by Parliament without the Minority. In a Facebook post reacting to the approval of the budget, he said “If you are a Ghanaian, the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government, with the help of their MPs, has given you the ...

The founder of Danquah Institute (DI), Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko says the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Joe Osei-Owusu did not partake in the voting to approve the 2022 budget on Tuesday, 30 November 2021. According to Mr Otchere-Darko, Mr Osei-Owusu was only counted as present in the House in his capacity as MP for Bekwai and did not need ...

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta is scheduled to hold a press conference today to explain how the concerns raised by the Minority and other Ghanaians against aspects of the 2022 budget statement are going to be addressed. The press conference will take place at the Ministry of Information auditorium at 3PM. The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta had assured the Minority that all the ...