Tag Archives: PARLIAMENT

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has advanced the view that there are currently 274 Members of Parliament in the lawmaking chamber. According to him, the people of Assin North Constituency in the Central Region are without a representative after the courts asked their Member of Parliament, …

When Parliament commenced business on Monday, April 4, 2022, a concern raised by the Adentan Member of Parliament, Mohammed Adamu Ramadan, led to a moment of controversy. The MP, during the process of correcting Votes and Proceedings, pointed out that Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, per the …

President Nana Dankwa Addo Akufo-Addo, in accordance with Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, delivered the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. President Akufo-Addo was originally supposed to deliver SONA on March 3, 2022, however, the Business Committee in Parliament postponed the presentation. Akufo-Addo outlined …

On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, as the Majority MPs prepared to pass the Electronic Transfer (E-Levy) Bill, an ambulance was spotted within the premises of the Parliament of Ghana. The ambulance was not at Parliament because there had been some emergency and the attention of paramedics were needed but rather, it had allegedly …

Gravely ill Chieftaincy Minister, Alexander Kojo-Kum has been ferried to parliament in an ambulance to assist in passing the controversial Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. The Majority in the House has had challenges with numbers to pass the E-levy. The Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabeyan, Sara …

Parliament approved the second reading of the Electronic Transactions Levy, albeit without the final participation of the minority side, who staged a walkout right before the question was put before the house. The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, moved a motion in parliament asking the house …

Members of Ghana’s eighth Parliament return to the House to continue their work on bills and other documents before it. This will be the 37th Sitting of the 1st Meeting of the 2nd Session of the 8th Parliament The Speak of Parliament, Alban Bagbin is expected to be back from his travel to Dubai for medical …

Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi II, the President of the National House of Chiefs, has advised that Parliamentarians need to respect the recent Supreme Court’s judgment on the voting rights of Deputy Speakers who chair proceedings in the absence of the Speaker. Speaking during a meeting in Kumasi, he advanced that if …

There was some drama in Parliament as the Majority attempted to remove embattled Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, from the floor of the House during Parliamentary proceedings insisting that Parliament must adhere to an order from the High Court that prevented James Gyekye Quayson from holding himself as an MP. …

Spokesperson for the Vice President of Ghana, Dr. Gideon Boako dreads Ghana may suffer worse currency depreciation and economic woes should the Members of Parliament continue to conflict themselves. As an economist, Dr. Gideon Boako held that the persistent misbehaviour of the Parliamentarians give little to no hope to investors …