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Parliament has approved US$20 million Financing Agreement between the Government of Ghana and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to finance the Emergency Support to Rural Livelihood and Food Systems (ESRF). The ESRF was established as one of government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic with a primary goal to protect the livelihood, …

Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo, has cautioned that the precedent of spouses succeeding their deceased husbands/wives as parliamentary candidates and members of parliament has the potential to make some unscrupulous persons plot murder as a means of getting selected to parliament. Prof. Gyampo was …

The leadership of Parliament has pledged support for the government’s efforts to deal with the threats of secession in the Volta Region. The Majority and Minority Leaders while making statements on the Floor of Parliament on Tuesday said the government must employ all means to quell the threats of the secessionist groups. …

Parliament of Ghana is today, Tuesday, October 6, 2020 resuming sitting after almost two months of break. The Third Meeting of the Fourth Session of the Seventh Parliament will be the final meeting of the year before the House is dissolved on the 6th of January 2021. Members of Parliament will sit for the next …

A delegation from Parliament led by Speaker, Prof Mike Ocquaye paid a courtesy call on former President Rawlings and his family to commensurate with them. This follows the demise of his mother, Madam Victoria Agbotui on Thursday, September 24, 2020, aged 101. Late Madam Agbotui The speaker during the visit extended his …

Kenya’s Chief Justice David Maraga has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to dissolve parliament because it does not have enough female MPs. In a letter to Mr Kenyatta, the chief justice said the failure to have more female MPs was in breach of the constitution, and tantamount to discrimination against women. …

Deputy President David Mabuza has written to National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise informing her that he is unable to attend to his scheduled parliamentary obligations. Mabuza told Modise that his medical team had extended his time off. He was scheduled to appear before the National Assembly on Thursday to answer …

The Chairman of the Finance Committee of Parliament Mark Asibbey-Yeboah says there is nothing sinister about the change of name of Agyapa Royalties limited – the company which will manage royalties from Ghana’s minerals – in the coming years. The company was formerly called Asaase royalties sparking speculations over the …

Parliament on Monday passed the University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development Bill that would give legal backing to the proposed conversion of the Kumasi Campus of the University of Education, Winneba, after late industrialist, Akenten Appiah-Menka. The suggestion to name the university after the late Appiah-Menka is because of his …

Parliament has approved GH¢11.896 billion as supplementary estimates for the 2020 financial year to meet government expenditure. The approval followed the request made by government in the Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review of the 2020 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament pursuant to Section 28 of the Public Financial Management …