Inusah Fuseini who is the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, has called for the scrapping of the Independence Day celebration. He opines that Ghana is going through lots of challenges and the money used in the celebration could be used in other areas which will affect the lives of citizens positively. Mr Fuseini who is also ...

A failed presidential aspirant of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Stephen Atubiga, has threatened that there will be chaos in Ghana if any institution invites Mahama to answer to queries about his involvement in the Airbus saga. “It is a decision taken by the party that Mahama will not honor any invitation on Airbus, put me on record” Atubiga warned ...

The Minister of State in charge of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has said even though she received a Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) scholarship for a training programme at Harvard Kennedy School, the “tone” of media publications on the matter, “smacks of an attempt to smear” her reputation as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome Kwabenya. Apart from ...

Former Vice President of the Ashanti Regional Chapter of the Ghana Bar Association, Anthony Mmieh, has filed his nomination to contest the impending New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in the Odotobiri Constituency of the Ashanti Region. The legal practitioner, who will run against incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Emmanuel Akwasi Gyamfi who has occupied the seat for four consecutive ...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has alleged that former President John Dramani Mahama together with former Finance Minister Seth Terkper and then GIPC boss distributed tax waivers worth millions of dollars to a chunk of Ghanaian companies without prior approval from parliament while in power. According to him, these companies from 2015 to date enjoy free access to the port ...

Dr Affail Monney, the President of the Ghana Journalists Association, has cautioned journalists to abide by the ethics of the profession and avoid intemperate language that could derail the country’s peace ahead of the December polls. “We dare not misbehave as journalists in the discharge of our duties or face the wrath of God. If we ‘talk by heart’ on ...

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), has denied awarding scholarships meant for brilliant but needy students to some ministers, government appointees as well as Members of Parliament (MP). According to GETFund, in a statement cited by GhanaWeb, the scholarship fund is not limited to brilliant but needy students. “We wish to categorically state that the award of scholarships by GETFund ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has directed that Hansard records the walkout of the Minority caucus during proceedings in the House in Accra on Thursday. The Hansard is the official transcript of Parliamentary proceedings. Prof. Oquaye’s directive followed a concern raised by a Deputy Majority Whip, Matthew Nyindam, who during the correction of votes and proceedings at ...

Following his election as the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2019, former president John Mahama, is facing perhaps his biggest test in politics, as time appears not to be on his side in naming his running mate for the 2020 general elections. President Akufo-Addo, who by filing his nomination as the only presidential aspirant for ...

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Scholarship scheme audited for the period 2012 to 2018 has revealed appointees in the NPP administration taking state cash to go to school. The disgraced appointees – Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, Education Minister, Sarah Adwoa Safo, Procurement Minister and Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, Employment and Labour Relations Minister, as well as other ...