POLITICS

The Founder and Leader of the Parliament House Chapel, Prophet Francis Amoako-Atta has labelled Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong as ‘someone who is more than a prophet’. According to him, the controversial Legislator has been making several comments which later come to pass hence must be taken seriously. One of these prophecies, the man of God ...

A spokesperson for the NDC legal team Alex Segbefia says the Electoral Commission deliberately decided to cut off some communities from the Hohoe constituency so that Peter Amewu could win the seat. According to him, the claim that the disenfranchised people of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi (SALL) fall under the Buem constituency is baseless. “Hohoe was split so Amewu ...

The Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has called on the Speaker of Parliament to declare the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the majority side in the eighth parliament. According to Mr Afenyo-Markin, the NPP side together with the independent member of parliament for Fomena, Andrew Amoako Asiamah who has indicated his willingness to sit with the NPP constitute ...

Some youth in Tema West say they have happened a petition book to collect names of constituents who support the removal of their member of parliament Carlos Ahenkorah following the ballot snatching incident in Parliament. The lawmaker has come under massive criticism after he snatched ballot papers during the Speaker of Parliament election on Thursday. He said he did it ...

President Akufo-Addo has asked all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief executives who were in office before his inauguration to continue to stay in office until further notice. In a statement signed by the Chief of Staff, the President however instructed the Chief Executives to desist from taking policy decisions. The development comes in the wake of the legitimacy or otherwise ...

Political Scientist Dr. Richard Amoako Baah says the NDC caucus in Parliament went into the Speakership election in Parliament on Thursday with a strategy. According to him, the NPP caucus in the House was late in realising the strategy of their opponents and therefore could not counter it hence the election of the NDC nominee Alban Bagbin as Speaker. “The ...

The late President Jerry John Rawlings will be laid in state at the foyer of the Accra International Conference Centre from January 24 to January 26, 2021, the Foreign Affairs Ministry has said in a circular to foreign missions. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana presents its compliments to all Diplomatic Missions, International ...

Christopher Beyere Baasongti, the NDC’s parliamentary candidate for Techiman South is challenging the parliamentary results of his constituency which the Electoral Commission (EC) declared in favour of Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah, the New Patriotic Party’s candidate. In that regard, Christopher Beyere Baasongti has sued Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah who now sits in Parliament, the Electoral Commission, and the Clerk to Parliament. In a suit filed ...

The National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) has urged Parliament to apologise to Ghanaians over the chaos that engulfed the House in the wake of the Speakership election on January 7. In a statement, the NCCE said the happenings in Parliament on the day was “unconstitutional, disgraceful, detestable and smacks of indiscipline.”. “The NCCE urges Parliament to purge itself from ...

Builsa South lawmaker Clement Apaak has disclosed that former President John Mahama played a major role in the decision by the NDC caucus in Parliament to nominate Alban Bagbin as Speaker. It comes on the back of claims by some members of the governing NPP that the new Speaker is independent-minded and will not allow the former President or the ...