The Auditor-General’s report for 2021 has revealed that some academic programmes offered by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have not been accredited. The report dated June 1, 2022, is addressed to the Speaker of Parliament, Mr. Alban Bagbin. According to details of the report, “out of the 360 programmes run by […]
Parliament last Friday passed the Tax Exemptions Bill, 2022 to provide for a tax exemption regime in the country. The bill will set clear eligibility criteria for tax exemptions and provide for the monitoring, evaluation and enforcement of exemptions. When assented to by the President, it will strengthen the monitoring role of the Ministry of […]
Ghana will host the maiden delocalised committee meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament in Winneba, Central Region, from July 27 to July 31, 2021. The meeting will bring together 30 Members of Parliament (MPs) from three committees of the ECOWAS Parliament, namely Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Telecommunications and Information […]
Members of Parliament do not have absolute immunity and must therefore avail themselves in the law courts as and when they have cases that require their presence there. The Speaker of Parliament, the Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin who gave the directive to the Members of Parliament averred that they must oblige invitations to […]
The Paramount Chief of the Wala Traditional Area, Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV, has urged the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, to discharge his responsibilities above reproach. “Your sterling performance in Parliament ever since you took your seat in that august House has left no one in doubt about your suitability for […]
Second Deputy Speaker, Alban Bagbin is calling for the display of dead bodies resulting from COVID-19 on media platforms like Television to enforce the message that the disease is real. According to him, the call is backed by the feedback he has received from the public on the disease. Contributing to deliberations on the floor […]
The Member of Parliament of the Nadowli/Kaleo Constituency and second deputy speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban S.K Bagbin has donated a number of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), valued at about Seventy thousand Ghana cedis to the Nadowli/Kaleo District Health Directorate to augment the district’s preparedness and readiness in the fight against COVID-19. The PPEs […]
The Member of Parliament for the Nadowli-Kaleo Constituency in the Upper West Region, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin over the weekend introduced his successor to his constituents. Anthony Mwinikaara Sumah has been elected by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to take over from the longest serving Member of Parliament in Ghana, Mr. Bagbin who has […]
The Executive Secretary to the Inspector General of Police, Superintendent Peter Lanchene Toobu has resigned from the police service. He resigned to venture into full time politics and has announced plans to contest the Wa West Parliamentary seat on the ticket of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). Already, his posters are awash on social […]
At a time when constituencies across the country such as Suame, Tamale North, Tamale Central, Asawase, just to mention but few, are looking forward to consolidating their powers in the front lines of parliamentary democracy in Ghana’s Parliament, a group of young men in the Nadowli/Kaleo constituency who call themselves “Operation Movement for Positive Change”, […]
A pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) group in the Nadowli-Kaleo constituency of the Upper West Region has launched a campaign to prevent the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Alban S. K. Bagbin from seeking re-election. The campaign known as the operation Movement for Positive Change (OMPC) is to convince delegates of the party in […]
The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has lampooned the ruling New Patriotic Party government, saying Ghanaians have become discerning and enlightened and cannot be deceived again. According to the Nadowli/Kaleo lawmaker, the NPP then in opposition castigated and denigrated the NDC government, labeling it incompetent and therefore cannot turn around and […]
