The Ghana Police Service says it has served criminal summons on the Member of Parliament for Madina constituency in Accra, Francis-Xavier Sosu. The police say Francis Sosu will be arraigned before court on November 8, to face the charges of unlawfully blocking a public road as well as the destruction of public property after he joined […]
The Bill initiated by some six Members of Parliament seeking to criminalise lesbianism and gayism in Ghana has been kicked against by a group of 18 concerned Ghanaians. The “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill,” which is currently before Parliament, according to the group, which has kicked against it, when […]
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 […]
The Chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament Joseph Osei Wusu has said the committee was satisfied with the answers provided by the Special Prosecutor nominee Kissi Agyebeng. To that end, he said the Committee has by a consensus approved Mr Agyebeng after his successful vetting on Thursday July 22. The report is expected to be laid […]
Parliament’s Appointments Committee will, today, Thursday, vet Kissi Agyebeng for the position of Special Prosecutor. The vetting process chaired by Chairman Joseph Osei Owusu is scheduled for 10 am at Parliament’s Committee rooms 1&2 on the administration block. According to JoyNews’ Parliamentary correspondent, Joseph Opoku Gakpo, the Committee’s agenda is “to consider the President’s nomination […]
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 […]
