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After a dramatic last five days in parliament, with the Majority having their way and approving the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy with only half of the House in attendance, it is almost another full House today. The House, on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, was presided over by the …

Parliament has voted to approve government’s 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy. This comes after the Second Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu sitting in for Alban Bagbin supervised an election to overturn the rejection of the budget by the house last Friday. A one-sided minority house of parliament on Friday, November 26, 2021, voted …

Majority Leader and Minister of Presidential Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has stated that Ghana’s legislature has more lawmakers than required in his opinion. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu adds that the country can do with 200 Members of Parliament lamenting how increments of the numbers have been tainted with political considerations. He was responding to a question …

Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has bemoaned the embarrassing manner in which the Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin ordered Finance Minister Ken Ofori -Atta out of the parliamentary chamber. He likens it to an order given to a lamb stating that under the standing orders, the finance minister is a member of …

I didn’t break any law by sitting in the public gallery, Asiedu Nketia Majority stages walkout because of Asiedu Nketia‘s presence Ken-Ofori Atta begs to engage leadership of parliament before budget approval voting General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has explained why he refused to walk out of the chamber …

Private legal practitioner, Samson Lardy Anyenini has slammed Members of Parliamentfor being overly partisan on issues that should ordinarily be clear-cut. He avers that the recent back and forth around the Speaker of Parliament’s directive to the Roads and Transport Minister is needless and “shameless.” “The basic principle of law is …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Adentan constituency, Adamu Ramadan, broke down in tears before the House when he recalled the horrific death of a seven-year-old boy in the area. The boy, identified as Prince Wisdom Mawuena, was a class one pupil and the only child of his mother. Young …

Malawi’s Parliament on Monday welcomed the country’s first ever elected albino lawmaker when it reconvened after months of recess. The presence of Overstone Kondowe in Malawi’s national assembly, is seen as a victory for albinos who have faced attacks in this southern African country since 2014. Until last Thursday, when …

• The name Serwaa Broni has been trending on social media for weeks •A Canadian-based woman claims to have had engagement with some politicians and has been hitting out at them •Edward Bawa mentioned name as an example in a statement on the floor of Parliament Serwaa Broni, a name which …

Parliament has issued a statement saying that the Police Service should have secured a certificate from the Speaker that the Member of Parliament for Madina Francis-Xavier Sosu was attending to Parliament before they could effect their arrest. The statement said anything short of that would not be entertained. Parliament also …