The Majority caucus in Parliament has no plans to change their leadership, the Member of Parliament for Bekwai in the Ashanti Region, Joe Osei Owusu, who also doubles as the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament has said. Mr Osei Owusu has therefore asked the public to disregard any such claims in the media that there […]
The Supreme Court has dismissed a review application against its decision that Deputy Speakers presiding over proceedings in Parliament can vote. In a unanimous decision today, a nine-member review panel of the court held that the review application had no merit as it failed to meet the threshold for review. The applicant, Justice Abdulai, had […]
First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has revealed that Dome-Kwabenya MP told Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, not to call her phone again. According to him, the MP has indicated she prefers to be communicated to through text messages instead. The Bekwai MP stated that this came up when he last enquired about his colleague but did not disclose […]
The First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu has indicated that the Majority Caucus does not factor Dome-Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo, into its deliberations in Parliament. According to the Bekwai MP, all avenues to get the absentee MP to return to the House have proved futile. As a result, the Majority in Parliament has resolved to […]
Leader of the Minority in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu (NDC, Tamale South) is expected to move a motion on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 in the house which if successful, will reopen the debate on the legitimacy of the process that approved the 2022 Budget. The Minority on Friday, November 26, 2021, rejected the Budget in a […]
The opposition Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Mr Alhassan Suhuyini, was ordered to leave the floor of parliament on Wednesday, 6 February 2019 by First Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei-Owusu. Accra100.5FM’s parliamentary correspondent, Richard Appiah Sarpong, who was in parliament when the incident happened, reported that Mr Alhassan Suhuyini was disrupting proceedings of the house […]
Deputy National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Joshua Hamidu Akamba has described President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a kakai who continuously put fear in his appointees, particularly those from the Ashanti Region.
The Ashanti Regional Minister is taking government’s 1 District 1 Factory initiative to another level as he has been selling the idea to prospective investors beyond the shores of the country. Simon Osei Mensah has been impressing upon Ghanaians, particularly indigenes of the Ashanti Region to take advantage of the initiative by returning home to […]
