Tag Archives: PARLIAMENT

KNUST SRC Parliament Council is set to probe further into the School Representative Council’s Executives trip to South Africa. The School’s Parliament Council was petitioned by leaders of Coalition of Concerned Students, KNUST, to provide immediate investigation into the SRC Executives travel to South Africa in somewhere July,2022. In a …

Member of Parliament for Ayawaso Central and Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, on Wednesday, 6 July 2022, appeared before the Privileges Committee of parliament, to respond to queries on his absence from Parliament without permission for 15 sitting days in the First Meeting of the Second Session of the …

Hundreds of Tollbooth Workers have stormed Parliament over the loss of jobs and unpaid arrears. The angry-looking workers carrying placards say they are hungry. The Workers Union made up of numerous disabled persons during the early hours of Tuesday, July 5, defiled the heavy downpour in the capital and walked …

Protesters have stormed Libya’s parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk and set fire to part of the building. Images posted online showed thick columns of smoke as the demonstrators burned tyres outside. There have been rallies in other Libyan cities against continuing power cuts, rising prices and political deadlock. …

The infrastructure footprints of China is a long drawn subject for analysts of geopolitics. It is widely believed that the Asian giant’s power and prowess on the continent is linked to the efforts it sinks into developing public and private infrastructure across the continent. China has in recent years, built …

North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has since 2021 been disclosing details of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s private jet charters. That dogged task has led to criticism especially from pro-government spokespersons. The latest is lawyer Kwame Adofo, who quizzed whether Ablakwa was voted into Parliament to police …

Omanhene Kwabena Asante, a journalist with Accra-based Adom TV has called on Parliament to discipline Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. His call comes on the back of the Minister’s failure last week to appear before Parliament to account for the use of COVID-19 funds. “I will beg Parliament to discipline the …

An Educationist, Samuel Zigah, has called for an independent investigation into the 38 million Ghana cedis printed Free Senior High School (FSHS) T-Shirts to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the initiative. Speaking to Starr News, the Educationist further demanded that the culprits in the printing scandal must be brought to book. “In the …

Government has withdrawn the Tax Exemptions Bill 2021, which seeks to prevent a significant loss of government revenue from Parliament. This is after Deputy Finance Minister John Kuma has sought the leave of the House to withdraw the bill and to re-laid it later in the House. The Exemptions Bill …

All parliamentary business concerning the finance ministry has been put on hold by Speaker Alban Bagbin over the minister’s failure to show up in parliament on Thursday, 16 June 2022 to brief the house on some issues within his ministry. Mr Ken Ofori-Atta was scheduled to answer 16 questions and deliver an important statement …