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Two MPs file Private Members Bill against car loan

Two Members of Parliament (MPs) have sponsored a bi-partisan Private Members Bill against the $28million loan requested by the Finance Ministry to procure 275...

Paying 60% car loan for MPs will trigger mass industrial action – Dr Thomas Buabeng warns gov’t

The government has been advised to backtracked plans to absorbed 60 per cent car loan for 275 Members of Parliament and 31 Council of...

MPs car loan saga: Okudzeto Ablakwa proffers solution

North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP), Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has called on other MPs to advocate for the discontinuation of the purchase of vehicles...

Akufo-Addo, Boakye Agyarko, others mourn with popular MP [Photos]

President Nana Akufo-Addo, Former Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, among others, have commiserated with Bantama Member of Parliament (MP), Francis Asenso Boakye.This was on Saturday,...

Parliament sets up 9-member Ad hoc committee to probe procurement of Sputnik-V vaccines

Parliament has constituted a nine-member Special Ad hoc Committee to investigate government’s procurement of Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccines.The nine-Member Committee is chaired by the Deputy...

Meet PC Appiah Ofori’s daughter who is a renowned pastor

Founder of Faithway International Chapel, Pastor Selina Baidoo, the daughter of anti-corruption crusader, Paul Collins (PC) Appiah Ofori, has spoken highly of how her...

Diana Asamoah, Kwaku Gyasi, others surprise Agona East MP [Photos]

Agona East Member of Parliament (MP), Queenstar Maame Pokua Sawyerr, has been celebrated by gospel singers, Diana Asamoah and Kwaku Gyasi at a special...

Govt to pay 60% of car loan for 275 MPs and 31 Council of State Members

The Government of Ghana will pay 60% of the loan facility tabled before Parliament for the purchases of vehicles for Members of the 8th...

$28m loan to procure vehicles for MPs not free – Parliament

The Public Affairs Directorate of Parliament has defended the House’s decision to accept a request from the Finance Ministry to obtain a $28 million...

Why Fire Service personnel arrived in taxi to douse flames at Akyem Begoro [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ambrose Dery reveals why Fire Service personnel arrived in taxi to douse flames at Akyem BegoroInterior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has justified why...

Some MPs opposed salaries for First and Second ladies – Jinapor reveals

JoyNews/AdomNews · John Jinapor reacts to salaries of First and Second ladiesIt has emerged that some Members of Parliament (MPs) opposed the decision to...

MP asks colleagues to reject $28m car loan

Vice-Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Patrick Yaw Boamah, has said if he had his way, members of the House will reject a $28 million...

Minority heads to Supreme Court over salaries for Rebecca and Samira [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Minority heads to Supreme Court over salaries for Rebecca and SamiraThe Minority in Parliament says they are heading to the Supreme Court...

Asempa FM’s ‘Ekosii Sen’ lists best first time MPs

Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen, in a list, has named best first time Members of Parliament (MPs) in the eighth Parliament.The late afternoon political programme made...

Parliament to probe hike in prices of building materials

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu, has ordered three committees to probe the recent hikes in prices of building materials.According to reports,...

Covid-19: Parliament approves additional $200 million loan

Parliament has approved an amount of US$200 dollars as additional financing for the Ghana COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Project.The Financing Agreement is between...

March For Justice: Majority and Minority Leaders receive NDC’s petition to Parliament

The National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) youth wing presented its petition to Parliament on Tuesday, July 6.Both the Majority and Minority Leaders; Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and...

Covid-19: Delta variant has been in Ghanaian communities for months – NDC challenges govt’s claims

The Minority in Parliament says the government’s claim that the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 was detected in a Ghanaian community on July 2, 2021,...

Speaker petitioned over conduct of Tema West MP

The Speaker of Parliament, Rt Hon Alban Bagbin, has received a petition to set up an enquiry into the conduct of the Member of...

Sad news hits Okudzeto Ablakwa

North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP), Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has lost his father aged 74.Senior Ablakwa is said to have passed on within the...

Kennedy Agyapong to lead probe in Wa Military brutality

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu, has directed the Defence and Interior Committee to probe the circumstances that led to Military...

Family announces burial date for former Minister [Photos]

The final funeral rites of a former Central Regional Minister, John Ernest Ekuban, has been scheduled for September 16 to 18, 2021, in Cape...

We’ll move motion to remove Finance Minister if… – Okudzeto Ablakwa

Ranking Member on Parliament’s (MP) Foreign Affairs Committee has served notice that the Minority will move a vote of censure to remove the Finance...

Parliament approves ¢1.4bn for GETFund [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Parliament approved ¢1.4 billion for GETFundParliament has approved an amount of ¢1.4 billion for the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).According to a...

LGBTQI+ practices worse than COVID-19 – Speaker

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has described activities and practices of LGBTQI+ as worse than the COVID-19 pandemic.He made the remarks at the...

MPs hold fervent prayers as they lay anti-LGBTQI+ bill [Photos+Video]

Eight Members of Parliament (MPs) were captured in fervent prayers ahead of the introduction of a Private Members’ Bill to criminalise LGBTQI+ and its...

How Joe Wise met his wife in a truck as a driver’s mate

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament has revealed that he met his wife for the first time in a commercial bus (Trotro) while working...

Produce unaccounted GH¢627,490 payment vouchers or … – PAC to NITA

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has given officials of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) a five-day ultimatum to produce payment vouchers amounting to...

Public Accounts Committee surcharges Works and Roads Ministries

JoyNews/AdomNews · Public Accounts Committee surcharges the Works and Roads MinistriesThe Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has surcharged the Ministry of Works and Housing as...

Sputnik vaccines: Minority files motion for probe into deal

The Minority in Parliament has filed a motion for a bipartisan probe into the procurement of Sputnik V vaccines from Russia through middlemen.Ghana, through...

NPP MP files urgent question over cost of Mahama’s chartered flights from 2013 to 2016

Dormaa East Member of Parliament (MP) has filed an urgent question, asking for the cost of chartered flights used by former President John Mahama...

Parliament to pass stringent law against LGBTQI+ in Ghana

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, says urgent actions are being taken to pass a stringent law to nib the activities LGBTQI+ and other groups...

Minority MPs boycott approval of 4 Deputy ministers-designate

Minority Members of Parliament (MP) boycotted approval of four deputy ministers-designate as the House approves them through voice votes.The nominees were Deputy Minister-Designate for...

1964 Kulungugu bomb attack victim’s family officially informs Speaker about her demise [Photos]

The family of the late Elizabeth Asantewaa, victim of 1964 Kulungugu bomb attack, has paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of Parliament, Alban...

Fantana, mother turn heads after posing with Okudzeto Ablakwa

A photo of musician Fantana and her mum, Jomoro Member of Parliament (MP), Doris Affo Toffey with Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has popped up and...

Bawumia, Bagbin, Asiedu Nketia, others mourn with Kyei Mensah-Bonsu [Photos]

A sister of Majority Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) for Suame, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has been laid to rest.She is said to have passed...

The other side of Abu Jinapor [Photos]

Member of Parliament for Damongo, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has warmed the hearts of many Ghanaians following a reunion with his constituents.This was after...

Akufo-Addo’s travels: Afenyo-Markin defends Ofori-Atta’s request for more time

The Majority Caucus in Parliament has rejected accusations that the Akufo-Addo led administration is evading accountability with regard to his recent foreign trip.This was...

Minority files motion for probe into Covid-19 vaccine procurement

Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Caucus in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has disclosed that his side has filed a motion for a bipartisan...

Telenovelas corrupting our women – Speaker of Parliament

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has cautioned Ghanaians against indiscriminate patronage of foreign telenovelas.According to him, these telenovelas being shown on networks in the...