Tag Archives: PARLIAMENTARY

Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, a former deputy Finance Minister, has alleged that government through the Bank of Government (BoG) has printed an amount of GH¢22 billion in new currency notes without Parliamentary approval. According to him, the new notes were printed between January and June 2022 on the orders of the government …

Lawyers for the embattled Assin North Member of Parliament, James Gyakye Quayson on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, filed a supplement to their statement of the case in the Supreme Court following the order of the court on Tuesday. The Assin North MP had been given 14 days to file a …

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, is not the Member of Parliament for Assin North. This comes after a citizen of Assin Bereku, by name of Michael Ankomah Nimfah, on January 27, 2022, filed an interlocutory injunction against the MP from performing his parliamentary …

• Aggrieved customers of Menzgold want Parliament to investigate the closure of the company • They indicated that there is a lack of governments commitment to pay their locked up funds • They made this known to the press in Accra Menzgold customers want Parliament to investigate the closure of the company …

Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress has been selected to serve as a member of the Parliamentary Service Board. Asiedu Nketia’s appointment was made known by Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin who read a report by a special advisory committee on the floor of Parliament on March 29, 2021. The …

  The decision by the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to insist on the removal of the capping of the budget of the legislature by the executive has paid off with the government forced to reverse its decision to slash the budget allocation of government. Bagbin, it would be recalled, had threatened …

Paramount Chief of the Bongo Traditional Area in the Upper East Bonaba Baba Salifu Lemyaarum is advocating for a second Chamber in Parliament where Chiefs will contribute their knowledge to the development of the country. According to him, Chief in recent times are knowledgeable and can play key roles in the …

President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will next Thursday, January 7, 2020 be sworn-in as President for a second term in a parliamentary tent created at the Parliament House, in Accra. He will, however, deliver the State of the Nation Address, in the chamber of parliament, in Osu-Accra, tomorrow, Tuesday, January 5, 2021. …

The Electoral Commission (EC) has confirmed that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has won 137 Parliamentary seats as against 136 by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) out of the total 274 seats declared as of now. The EC is a press release said the Sene West Parliamentary results were outstanding …

With counting underway, the Electoral Commission has begun releasing the list of the elected parliamentary candidates. Some NPP MPs retained their seats while others including Yaw Buaben Asamoa, Babara Oteng Gyasi, and others lost their seats to the NDC.