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Rwandan president Paul Kagame over the weekend had cause to slam the police for not taking action on a Member of Parliament, MP, who was involved in a drink-driving offence. According to local media reports, the MP was not arrested because he enjoyed ‘immunity,’ as a lawmaker. MP Gamariel Mbonimana, …

There has been an incessant increase in petroleum products – petrol and diesel in recent times amidst the high inflation in the country. Commercial vehicle drivers, following the sharp increase in fuel prices, reviewed transport fares higher. Some private car drivers have parked their cars to join public transport because …

Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu, has urged Ghanaians to change their perceptions that politics is an avenue for making riches. According to him, that is a wrong perception, saying that politics is rather a platform to serve the people. The MP observed that a lot …

Habib Iddrisu, the Member of Parliament for Tolon, has been sued by Yaw Brogya Genfi, an aspirant National Youth Organiser for the opposition NDC. In the writ of summons available to GhanaWeb, the plaintiff is seeking the Supreme Court to annul the 2020 parliamentary polls which returned the Nw Patriotic …

NDC National Youth Organizer aspirant, Brogya Genfi, has filed a writ at the Supreme Court for the annulment of the election of the NPP MP for Tolon Constituency, Habibu Iddrisu, on grounds that the MP has been convicted of fraud and forgery in Australia. In the writ, the plaintiff indicated …

A sitting of the French Parliament was suspended after a Black lawmaker was asked by another to “return to Africa.” NUPES MP Carlos Martens Bilongo was on his feet making a submission when the yet-to-be-identified colleague said to be of the far-right bloc yelled at him. A visibly shocked Bilongo, …

Former NDC Member of Parliament for Walewale constituency in the North East Region, Alidu Zakari, has been chased away by delegates in the party’s constituency elections held at the Walewale L/A Junior High School. The embarrassment poured on the former MP comes at a time he entered the voting center …

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Jomoro, Dorcas Affo-Toffey, was made to sweat under cross-examination yesterday over her renunciation documents presented to the court. This was when counsel for the petitioner, Bright Agyekum, attempted to expose her. The lawyer pointed out to the court that documents alluded to by …

A chief in the Western Region has alleged that the regional minister, a Member of Parliament and a Municipal Chief Executive in his jurisdiction are into illegal small-scale mining, galamsey. Nana Nyonwah Panyin IV, the Dompim-Pepesa chief, told the media on Monday, October 10, 2022, that he had incontrovertible evidence …

A British Member of Parliament (MP) from the Labour Party, Rupa Huq, publicly apologized to Ghanaian-born British MP, Kwasi Kwarteng, who also doubles as the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister). According to news.sky.com, the party suspended Rupa Huq for describing Kwasi Kwarteng as a “superficially” black man. Huq …