POLITICS

The Deputy General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Obiri Boahen has implored the rank and file of the party not to gloat over calls to have the party’s Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Sarah Adwoa Safo removed from Parliament. According to him, the decision to have the embattled MP removed is an uphill task. Mr Obiri ...

The Economic Fighters League (EFL) will on Monday, 28 February 2022, stage a protest to demand the release of the FixTheCountry Movement convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor who is currently in Police custody. The protest is dubbed Y’ani Abre March.’ Supporters of the group will converge at the Accra High Court. The convener, who has been charged with treason felony by the ...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has questioned the rationale behind the Chief of Staff (CoS), Madam Akosua Frema Osei-Opare paying an amount of GHS120,000 to the embattled Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Sarah Adwoa Safo as alleged by Kennedy Agyapong, MP for Assin Central. “We demand to know the purpose for ...

A security coordinator at the Metro Mass Transit Company Limited Lawal Fuseina has been sentenced to serve a 10-year prison term for blackmailing his former Managing Director (MD) Mr Bennet Aboagye. The Circuit Court in Accra convicted and sentenced him after he was found guilty for charges including unlawful entry and extortion after full trial. The convict was said to ...

Former COCOBOD Chief Executive, Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni failed again to get trial Judge, Clemence Honyenuga JSC removed from his case as the Supreme Court dismissed his plea. Dr. Opuni filed a two-legged application at the apex court seeking to quash some decisions of the trial Judge who is sitting as an additional High Court Judge and to prohibit him ...

First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has rejected a motion by the Minority for a thorough investigations into the use of Covid-19 funds. The motion was moved by Ranking Member for the Finance Committee, Cassiel Ato Forson who prayed the house to constitute a bi-partisan Parliamentary Committee to be chaired by a member of the Minority Caucus. The Committee ...

A political analyst, Jonathan Asante Okyere, has explained that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has allowed its fixation with the passage of the controversial E-levy to cloud the judgement of the leadership of the party over the saga of the Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency in the Greater Accra Region. The analyst noted that the party’s desire to ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has cautioned the leadership of both Majority and Minority groups in Parliament to desist from unduly delaying works of some Committees of Parliament. According to him, the development had stalled a number of parliamentary businesses and made it difficult for the House to perform its oversight role. “While it is the duty of all ...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday, 22 February 2022 announced the appointment of Ghana’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Serwaa Tetteh, as his Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa. She succeeds Parfait Onanga-Anyanga of Gabon, to whom the Secretary-General reiterated his deep gratitude and appreciation for his dedicated service. Ms. Tetteh brings to the position decades of experience at ...

Outspoken lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong has claimed Chief of Staff Frema Osei Opare gave him GHC120,000 to deposit in the bank account of Dome-Kwabenya MP Adwoa Safo following her demands on the party. “I have vowed not to insult like I will blast her today. Adwoa Safo, Chief of Staff called me, I went there and [she] said now this is ...