The Minority Caucus in Parliament has outlined five demands they want considered before they give support for the 2022 budget. It comes after they rejected the budget last Friday following long hours of disagreement between them and the Majority. Among others, the Minority is asking the government to suspend the controversial E-levy and also withdraw the Agyapa deal from the ...

The African Foundation for Educational Development (AFFED), a non-governmental organization (NGO) has asked the government to cancel the payment of trainee allowances. According to AFFED, the government is struggling to pay the allowance after accumulating arrears for six months. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in 2017 restored the teacher trainee allowances after his processor, John Dramani Mahama cancelled the arrangement. ...

The Inspector-General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, on Sunday, November 28, 2021, visited Police officers on admission at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua after they were involved in a near-fatal accident. The IGP dashed to the hospital to sympathize with five police officers -a female and four males – still on admission. He subsequently visited those discharged in ...

The General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has revealed that his timely presence in Parliament during the crucial debate on the 2022 budget on the floor of the house inspired the 137 Minority Members of Parliament. Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia made this revelation in an interview with Kwame Appiah Kubi, host of the ‘Ghana Yensom’ morning ...

An Accra-based constitutional lawyer has chided the Majority leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu for some of his belligerent actions on the floor and outside of the floor of Parliament. According to the constitutional lawyer, the Majority leader since the beginning of the eighth Parliament under the leadership of Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has been misbehaving towards the authority of the Speaker. The ...

The Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central Isaac Adongo has charged President Akufo-Addo to show leadership in the midst of the Economic uncertainties occasioned by the rejection of the 2022 budget statement and economic policy of government. The minority MPs voted to reject the budget after the majority boycotted proceedings last Friday. The NDC MPs have been demanding the suspension ...

The leader of the Minority group in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has asked the government to change aspects of the 2022 budget statement and resubmit to Parliament for approval. Until those changes are made, he said, the budget which has been thrown out would not be revisited in the same form in which it came. A statement he issued on Monday ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama is 63 years today, Monday, 29 November 2021. The 2020 flagbearer of the biggest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) was born on this day in 1958 at Damango, capital of the West Gonja District, to an affluent teacher, rice farmer and politician. His father, Emmanuel Adama Mahama, was the first Member of Parliament for West ...

The Minority in Parliament has urged Ghanaians to disregard the barrage of accusations being levelled against the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin on the rejection of the 2022 Budget. In a statement issued on Sunday 28th November 2022, the Minority stated that Parliament is governed by the 1992 Constitution and the Standing Orders of Parliament and not the imagination and thinking ...

Bolgatanga Central MP Isaac Adongo has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to show leadership by halting the use of offensive words by the majority caucus and rather building consensus around the points of disagreement in the 2022 budget that has been rejected by parliament. Parliament rejected the 2022 budget on Friday after the Majority side walked out in ...