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The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has described LGBTQI+ as an abomination that will never be accepted. His comments come after the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory Andrews urged Ghana’s Parliament not to pass any legislation that will discriminate against the rights of the LGBTQI+ community. The Australian …

  Alban Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament and the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, have again clashed, this time, over the appointment of Johnson Asiedu Nketia onto the Parliamentary Service Board. Asiedu Nketia was on Monday, March 29 confirmed as part of the six-member board which is chaired by the Speaker of Parliament. …

Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress has been selected to serve as a member of the Parliamentary Service Board. Asiedu Nketia’s appointment was made known by Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin who read a report by a special advisory committee on the floor of Parliament on March 29, 2021. The …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has increased the budgetary allocation for the parliamentary service and parliament by over 180 million cedis. The sudden u-turn by the presidency comes weeks after the Executive slashed the budget estimates of the legislature by over 190 million cedis. The move was met with a …

Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs has disclosed the cause of his stand-off with Alban Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. The two men, believed to be very good friends, exchanged heated words as they both tried to establish their authority and assert themselves. Bagbin, …

Mr Alban Bagbin has told Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu that he (the Suame MP) had been his friend until he (Bagbin) became the Speaker of Parliament. “Hon. Majority Leader, your powers have not reached that. Hon. Majority Leader, resume your seat. You don’t lead Parliament. You lead the business of …

Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has indicated that the Speaker of Parliament does not have any power under the law to reject the budget. Speaker Alban Bagbin has threatened to reject the budget because there has been a slash in the budget for the Legislative and Judicial arms of government. In an interview monitored by GhanaWeb, the …

Speaker of Ghana’s 8th Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin is special guest on today’s edition of Class FM’s Class Morning Show. Mr Bagbin has an enviable history as an accomplished politician having served in all 7 previous parliaments as a Member representing the people of Nadowli West Constituency. He …

Speaker Alban Bagbin has told Class Media Group’s Accra100.5FM, Class91.3FM and CTV in an interaction scheduled for simultaneous airing on Monday, March 15, 2021 on all three channels that he does not belong to any political party now that he occupies the position of the third-most powerful person in Ghana. The longest-serving …

Though a member of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Alban Bagbin is more of a New Patriotic Party (NPP) Speaker, a former Municipal Chief Executive for Akuapem North, Mr Dennis Aboagye has said. The member of the governing NPP’s communication team made the comment during a discussion …