POLITICS

Speaker Alban Bagbin has said MPs do not get overpaid on purpose. Addressing the house after it resumed sitting on Tuesday, 24 May 2022, Mr Bagbin said: “It is important for us to erase the perception of the public on these matters of an overpayment which is politically called double salaries”. “It is a weakness in the system”, he observed, ...

The embattled Dome Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has been scheduled to appear before the Privileges Committee of Parliament on Friday, May 27. The Member of Parliament for Ayawaso Central, Henry Quartey and Assin North MP, Kennedy Agyapong are also supposed to appear before the Committee on May 26 and May 31 respectively. The three NPP MPs will face the ...

The Minority in parliament is demanding a public enquiry into the Achimota Forest controversy. Government has through the minister for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor assure the public the reserve is intact. Lands For Sale In Acres at Aburi Amanfrom, Watch the video Below; The leaked will of the late CEO for the Forestry Commission Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie ...

State Transport Corporation (STC) Managing Director, Nana Akomea, has sent a word of advice to the Regional executive aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the party’s regional elections on Saturday, 28th May, 2022. Speaking on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” programme, Nana Akomea, an experienced politician who’s held various positions in government, from being a Member of Parliament, Deputy Tourism Minister ...

When President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo signed an executive instrument declassifying parts of the Achimota Forest as a forest reserve, many Ghanaians greeted the decision with an outpour of outrage. Many took to social media and accused the political elite of attempts to sell the lands to themselves and their cronies. The government has denied the accusations, saying it was ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has kickstarted its internal elections as it gears up for the 2024 general elections. The party has held its constituency elections and will on Saturday, May 28, have elections at the Regional level where the delegates will elect Regional executives. Lands For Sale In Acres at Aburi Amanfrom, Watch the video Below; The party’s ...

The alleged will of the late CEO of the Forestry Commission which has been widely circulated on social media in the past few days, is being contested in court, the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has found. The will became a public discussion after it was revealed that Mr Kojo Owusu Afriyie had bequeathed parcels of lands in the ...

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor has released further details on the Achimota Forest reserve. This time, the statement mentions Former President John Dramani Mahama and former sector Minister Innusah Fuseini. “On 20th March 2013 the Family again petitioned the ten President of the Republic HE John Dramani Mahama for the release of the portions of the land,” ...

Governance Expert, Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah has said that the ‘will’ of the late former Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie (Sir John), if proven to be true, raises issues about how asset declarations by public office holders are carried out in the country. Speaking in an interview with TV3’s Komla Adom on the mid day news ...

A group sympathetic to the governing New Patriotic Party in the Eastern Region by the name of Concern Grassroot is calling for the security protection for Mr. Kwadow Boateng Agyemang also known as Chairman Cudjoe, the Eastern Regional Chairman hopeful of the party over a comment made an Accra-based journalist. According to the group, its attention has been drawn to ...