POLITICS

Leader of the NDC caucus in Parliament Haruna Iddrisu says his side has no difficulties sitting on the Minority side of the chamber. According to him, the caucus is confident that when the courts decide on the various challenges against some parliamentary seats, they will form the majority without controversies. “The Ghanaian people want Parliament to work for them and ...

The Supreme Court has granted NDC Flagbearer Dramani Mahama leave to amend the errors in his Election Petition. Lawyers for both the President and Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) opposed the motion for the amendment. The Apex Court, however, held that the amendment will not in any way affect the Election Petition and accordingly granted it. The Supreme Court ordered ...

Your most trusted news website MyNewsGh.com has authoritatively confirmed that the next Minister for Youth and Sports in the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia administration goes to Member of Parliament for Yagaba Kubore, Mustapha Yussif while former Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame has been elevated to full minister. Until his ministerial appointment, Mustapha Yussif was the Executive Secretary of the National Service Scheme. ...

The NPP Member of Parliament for Suame and the Majority Leader for the 7th Parliament has outrightly dismissed suggestions that he conspired with Tema West MP Carlos Ahenkorah to snatch ballot papers during the election of the Speaker of Parliament. During the election of the Speaker of Parliament on January 7, Mr Ahenkorah marred the process by snatching uncounted ballot ...

The Independent MP for Fomena and second deputy speaker Andrew Asiamah Amoako has officially written to the Speaker informing him that he will be doing business with the NPP caucus in parliament. This comes as the two sides engaged in endless debates over who has the majority and is entitled to sit on the right side of the Speaker. The ...

The hearing on the presidential election petition filed by Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama begins today. The petitioner, Mr. Mahama, is seeking a rerun of the December 7, 2020 elections between himself and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) because he believes both leading candidates did not obtain 50 percent of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo performed abysmally in his first term in office due to the poor performance of his appointees, the Head of History and Political Science Department at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (KNUST) Dr. Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, has said. He explained that the expectations of the public from Mr Akufo-Addo’s government were not met, an ...

The Jomoro Constituency is one of eight parliamentary seats being contested by the New Patriotic Party. According to the Deputy General Secretary of the party, Nana Obiri Boahen, the party has filed a suit at the Sekondi High Court seeking to prevent Dorcas Afo Toffey of the NDC from holding herself as Member of Parliament. The NPP’s stance is premised on two ...

In the coming days, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to release his list of ministerial nominees who will then go through vetting before getting approval to start their mandate. Typical of a political party that is heading into its second term, a few former appointees may have had various brushes with either the law, opposition party members, the ...

Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency and Leader of NPP caucus in the 8th Parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, is brimming with rage at attempts to link him to the infamous ballot paper snatching incident that rocked the House nearly a week ago. To him, only “sick minds” will blame him for the Hon. Carlos Ahenkorah’s episode that played ...