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...
John Dumelo sends message to Ayawaso West MP over robbery attacks at Achimota-GIMPA
Actor cum politician, John Dumelo, has taken to social media to share his sentiment after several robbery attacks at the Achimota-GIMPA stretch in Accra.The...
We’ve been left behind; let’s do better – Okudzeto Ablakwa
The Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has bemoaned the gender imbalance on the list of President Nana Akufo-Addo's Cabinet...
NDC MPs on Appointments Committee boycott vetting of Martin Korsah
The Minority Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Appointments Committee have boycotted the vetting of Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development nominee,...
Why Suhuyini will vote against Deputy Education Minister-Designate
The Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, has revealed he will vote against the approval of Gifty Twum-Ampofo as Deputy Minister-designate for...
Kan-Dapaah missing from Akufo-Addo’s list of Cabinet Ministers
President Nana Akufo-Addo has submitted a list of nineteen (19) ministers to Parliament as his cabinet ministers for the second term.The submission of the...
BoG declines Parliament’s invitation over revocation of banking licenses
The Bank of Ghana has declined an invitation to appear before Parliament to assist it with investigations over the revocation of the banking licenses...
Former Minister passes on [Photos]
A former Central Regional Minister, John Ernest Ekuban, has reportedly passed on.Mr Ekuban was also the first Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast constituency on...
Assin North MP yet to be served a week after court’s order
The Assin North legislator, Joe Gyakye Quayson, is yet to be served a week after a High Court in Cape Coast ordered his service,...
Your immunity is not absolute – Speaker tells MPs
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has cautioned Members of Parliament that their immunity as contained in Articles 117 and 118 of the Constitution...
Appointments Committee unblocks Egyapa Mercer’s approval
JoyNews/AdomNews · Appointments Committee backtracks decision to defer Egyapa Mercer’s role as Deputy Energy MinisterParliament’s Appointment Committee has recommended the approval of Deputy Minister-designate...
COVID-19: Most MPs yet to get second vaccine jab
JoyNews/AdomNews · COVID-19: Most MP yet to get second vaccine jabIt has emerged that most Members of Parliament (MPs) have not taken their second...
Egyapa Mercer’s approval as Deputy Energy Minister in limbo
Parliament’s Appointments Committee has put on hold the approval of Andrew Egyapa Mercer as Deputy Minister for Energy.The Committee’s action follows Mr. Mercer’s strong...
Minority accuses govt of frustrating MPs
The Minority in Parliament has accused President Akufo-Addo and his Cabinet of deliberately frustrating the work of Members of Parliament and the development of...
Denmark envoy calls on Speaker of Parliament
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban S. K. Bagbin, will address a ceremony to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between Ghana and...
Parliament to summon Defence Minister over ‘£15,000 an hour Akufo-Addo aircraft’
Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, is to appear before Parliament to answer an urgent question on government’s decision to allegedly spend £15,000 an hour to...
Majority Leader ‘clashes’ with Haruna Iddrisu in Parliament
The Majority Leader, Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu 'clashed' with the Minority Leader over which political party has the competent men to steer the affairs of the...
New twist to Okudzeto Ablakwa’s resignation
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has disclosed it was not within his power to accept North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP), Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa's...
The honeymoon is over so be proactive – Speaker warns MPs
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has cautioned Members of Parliament (MPs) to be attentive and proactive in conducting the business of...
Appointment Committee sets date for Deputy Ministers vetting
The Appointments Committee of Parliament is to vet the President’s nominees for the positions of a Minister of State and 39 Deputy Ministers, from...
Speaker Alban Bagbin wades into SALL case
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban S.K. Bagbin, has urged members of the Joint Steering Committee of the Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lipke and Lolobi (SALL) Traditional...
Bagbin speaks on ‘fix the country’ campaign
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has waded into the many calls on the Akufo-Addo- led government to fix the country.To Mr Bagbin, majority...
I will resign from Parliament if… – Sam George
Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament (MP), Sam George, has said he will resign from Parliament should anyone prove that he ever promised to fix...
Parliament resumes sitting on this date…
The eighth Parliament is expected to reconvene on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at 10:am for the commencement of the second meeting for the first...