The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has suspended sittings for three weeks following an upsurge in COVID-19 cases among Members of Parliament (MPs) and Parliamentary Service staff. In a statement in Parliament Tuesday [February 9, 2021] the Speaker disclosed that some 17 MPs and 151 Parliamentary staff and ancillary workers in Parliament have tested positive for […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, deliver the last State of the Nation Address of his first term in office. This was made known in a press statement from the Public Affairs Directorate of Parliament. The event is scheduled for 10:00 am, January 5, 2020 at Parliament House. It is […]
Emmanuel Sowatey, a criminologist at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK, has indicated that the deployment of police officers cannot guarantee the safety and security of MPs. He argued that Ghana’s security services should rather look at another strategy to deal with armed robbers since they pose a threat to all persons living […]
The Minister of State at the Office of the Vice-President, Hon. Alhaji Boniface Abubakar Sadique has caused the arrest of an alleged fraudster who has cloned his picture and in the process, used it to defraud tens of unsuspecting Ghanaians under the pretext of securing jobs in the security agencies. The suspect, Hamza Fuseini, about […]
The Speaker of Parliament, Mike Oquaye, on Tuesday summoned the ministers for Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR) and Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) to answer questions regarding their delay in signing off-taker agreements with a number of waste management companies. These waste management companies are said to have invested over $1.5 billion in constructing […]
The appearance of a snake in Ondo State parliament forced the proceedings into an indefinite halt as the lawmakers run for their lives. A spokesperson for the lawmakers said; “WHEN WE WERE ABOUT TO ENTER INTO PLENARY, A BIG SNAKE JUST RAN OUT OF THE CHAMBER WHICH DISRUPTED OUR SITTING AND WE HAD TO HURRIEDLY […]
A new legislation that has rocked the Parliament of Ghana and meant to disband political party vigilante groups is proposing a 10-25-year prison term for anyone who participates in the activities of a political party vigilante group with an offensive weapon. Clause 3 of the legislation known as Vigilantism and Related Offences Bill, 2019, prohibits […]
The speaker of Parliament prof Aaron Mike Oquaye has directed that the house comes back on the April 29, 2019, to consider the passage of the vigilantism bill. The vigilantism and other related offences bill, 2019 will be taken through a certificate of urgency as determined by the committee on Constitution, legal and parliamentary affairs by […]
The Appointments Committee of Parliament will today, Thursday, 14 March 2019 begin the vetting of ministerial nominees for the six new regions. The Ministers-Designate were nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to fill the new vacancies created, following the creation of the six new regions. The nominees to be vetted include: Oti Region – […]
PETITION TO INVESTIGATE AND INTERVENE IN THE CAUSES OF MASSIVE FAILURE OF STUDENTS IN THE PROFESSIONAL LAW COURSE EXAMINATIONS Dear Sir, Introduction Since the establishment of the Independent Examinations Committee (IEC), formerly known as the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) to administer both Entrance and Professional Law Examinations at the Ghana School of Law, there have […]
The Right To Information, OcuppyGhana, and the Media Coalition on RTI have implored parliament to consider the immeasurable and enormous benefits of passing the Right To Information Bill into law, rather than keeping it on hold because of the high cost of implementing it. According to the groups, a document they sighted from the research […]
The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Nsawam Adoagyir in the Eastern Region, Frank Annor Dompreh has described as shameful, the banter and brawl between the NPP Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency in the Central Region Kennedy Ohene Agyapong and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for […]
