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Member of Parliament-elect for Tema West Carlos Ahenkorah shocked his colleague incoming lawmakers when snatched ballot papers during counting in the controversial polls to elect a Speaker for the 8th Parliament. The MP-elect was however chased and seized from exiting the chamber with the snatched ballots by MPs from the NDC aisle of the House. The papers have since been ...

The former Member of Parliament for Nadowli-Kaleo, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has been elected as the new Speaker of the 8th Parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. Mr Bagbin polled 138 votes as against 136 for former Speaker Professor Mike Oquaye. The election of Mr Bagbin sent shockwaves across the aisle where NPP members of Parliament were sitting. After ...

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako-Atta, has advised persons who have encroached the Tema Motorway reservations to remove unauthorized structures from the area or face demolition. He revealed that owners of the properties found along the said location have turned deaf ears to several calls to remove their properties to allow for the reconstruction of the Tema motorway ...

Members of Parliament are demanding an increase in their emoluments and are also pushing for salaries to be pegged with that of an Appeals Court Judge. The move follows controversy surrounding the end of service benefits for MPs. Parliament rejected a report on the executive from the committee on emoluments demanding changes to their own packages which is approved by ...

The NDC Member of Parliament-elect for Assin North James Gyakye Quayson has been injuncted from being sworn in as an MP. This means that the NDC will lose one MP as the country’s parliament prepares to transition to the 8th parliament. The court injunction makes the National Democratic Congress(NDC) able to swear in 136 MPs-elect as against New Patriotic Party(NPP)’s ...

The Minority in Parliament has called out President Akufo-Addo accusing him of all talk without commensurate action in attempts to build consensus in Parliament. The President in his final State of the Nation address reiterated that the results of the December 7 elections shows Ghanaians want the two main political parties – NDC and NPP – to work together in ...

A Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana Dr. Ebo Turkson has appealed to President Akufo-Addo to review the Free SHS policy so that well-to-do parents can pay for their children. This, he said, will save the policy from the high cost which threatens to collapse it in future. “ In the second term of ...

John Peter Amewu, the Member of Parliament-elect for the Hohoe Constituency can now be sworn-in as a lawmaker after being cleared by the Supreme Court. The Apex court on Tuesday, January 5 quashed an earlier ruling by the Ho High Court which barred Amewu from partaking in the swearing-in of MP’s on January 6. It was a unanimous decision by ...

Members of the National Democratic Congress in Parliament have nominated experienced lawmaker and current Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin as Speaker in the 8th Parliament which begins Thursday. The Nadowli Kaleo lawmaker will come against his current boss Speaker Mike Oquaye as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has settled on him. Both parties have equal numbers in the ...

A 35-year-old man Samuel Gyekye has allegedly shot his wife to death at Nkronso -Abessim in the Abuakwa South Municipality of the Eastern Region. The body of the deceased, 42-year-old Abena Owusua, has been retrieved and deposited at the Suhum government Hospital morgue. The incident occurred January 4, 2021 at about 2021. According to the acting Public Relations Officer of ...