Sources inside Jubilee House tell the Daily Statesman that President Akufo-Addo is set against moves by Parliament’s leadership and other senior figures in the House to embark on building a new debating chamber for MPs. The proposed chamber, which parliamentary leaders hoped to build within three years, was expected to cost US$200 million. They argued that the present chamber in ...

The Minister for foreign affairs and Member of Parliament for Anyaa-Sowutuom Shirley Ayorkor Botchway has obtained leave from the high court presided over by justice Samuel Asiedu to issue and serve notice of a writ of summon out of the jurisdiction on Africawatch magazine over a defamatory publication accusing her of inflating over 16 million dollars in the Oslo scandal. ...

President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday opened the Ghana Diaspora Celebration and Third Homecoming Summit, with an assurance that the government would soon place before Parliament a bill that would allow Ghanaians with dual citizenship to hold public office. “The question of the political rights of dual citizens is a matter for Parliament and an opportunity is going to be ...

The United Kingdom High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Iain Walker, has pledged the UK government’s support to the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to make Kumasi a leading industrial hub of West Africa. He said Kumasi occupied a very important place in Ghana’s development for which reason the UK would continue to put the city’s development in focus. Mr Walker said ...

Parliament has appealed to citizens to be mindful of the rules and regulations governing the conduct of the public in its gallery, even as they express their grievances over the planned construction of the luxurious $200 million Chamber for lawmakers. The House made the appeal in a statement signed by its Acting Director of Public Affairs, Kate Addo, in reaction ...

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) is calling for criminal charges against former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Betty Mould Iddrisu, for her involvement in the payment of GH¢51.2 million as judgment debt to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome. The party also wants some other former appointees of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who, somehow, facilitated the erroneous payment to ...

Some 180 girls from selected Basic Schools in the Kotei community, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, have been exposed to the study of science-based courses at the tertiary level. They were also taken through basic scientific experiments to understand the theories they learnt in school. The two-day seminar was organised by DANIDA Alumni Network Ghana (DAN-G), in collaboration with the ...

MP for Suhum, Frederick Opare-Ansah, is to replace MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, as Chairman of Parliament’s Committee on Communications, the Committee of Selection of Parliament has announced. Mr Agyapong will now head the Committee on Local Government. The changes, which are part of a re-composition of the Select and Standing Committees of the House, according to a ...

Ghana is to soon sign onto the Council of Europe’s Convention 108+ – also known as Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data – Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced. The Vice President, in a speech read on his behalf by the Minister for Planning, Prof. George Gyan-Baffour at the 1st Africa ...

Deputy Attorney General and Minster for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has disclosed that Alfred Agbesi Woyome faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty of the criminal charges against him in court. According to him, it is a second degree felony and a perjury which if found guilty will end up in jail for more than 10 years. ...