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Imposition and Restrictions Bill similar to Preventive Detention Act – Kwaku Azaar

Lawyer and Professor of Accounting, Stephen Kwaku Asare, popularly called Kwaku Azaar, has likened President Nana Akufo-Addo’s Imposition and Restrictions Bill currently before Parliament...

Listen: Two MPs ordered to self-quarantine

Parliament has ordered two Members of Parliament (MPs) and some parliamentary staff to self-quarantine, Adomonline.com can report.ALSO READ:Former WHO Director to lead Ghana’s Coronavirus...

Covid-19: Minority has declined to support bill under certificate of emergency – Oppong Nkrumah laments

The Minority Caucus in Parliament is not in favour of the 'emergency status' ascribed to the Impositions and Restrictions Bill put before Parliament by...

Coronavirus: Impositions and Restrictions Bill laid in Parliament

The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, Gloria Akufo has laid before Parliament, the Impositions and Restrictions Bill, 2020.ALSO READ:Coronavirus: 381 contacts traced test negativeCoronavirus:...

Coronavirus: People in trouble for stealing hand sanitisers in Parliament [audio]

The Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has expressed concern about some individuals siphoning sanitisers distributed in the House.He wants CCTV cameras...

Coronavirus restrictions: Dr Anyars rescues stranded students

Following the directive by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that all schools should be closed down including tertiary institutions to...

NDC MP demands ‘dumsor’ timetable

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP), Edward Bawa, has charged the government to cause the publication of a load shedding schedule “as...

Coronavirus: Parliament to pass new legislation to back measures

Parliament and the Executive have agreed to pass new legislation to back measures on coronavirus spread within 24 hours.A meeting on Monday March...

MPs ‘run’ from coronavirus

Some Members of Parliament (MP) are calling for a suspension of sitting after health authorities announced six cases of coronavirus in Ghana.They say every...

Pres. Akufo-Addo holds emergency meeting with Speaker of Parliament over coronavirus

President Akufo-Addo has called for an emergency meeting between himself and the Speaker of Parliament Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye.The meeting is scheduled to take...

Coronavirus: Zanetor Rawlings ties nose mask for Sam George [watch]

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Korle Klottey constituency, Dr Zanetor Rawlings, and MP for the Ningo Prampram Constituency, Samuel Nartey George seems...

Dr Ibrahim Anyars goes to the rescue of public hospitals in Tamale Central Constituency

Dr Ibrahim Imoro Anyars, Founder of Repairer Foundation and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2020 Parliamentary Candidate for the Tamale Central Constituency, has pledged to support Tamale West...

Coronavirus: Ras Mubarak wears nose mask in Parliament

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu Constituency is taking measures against the deadly coronavirus.ALSO READ:I am being vilified because of what I know...

Afenyo-Markin launches the ‘Efutu Dream’ for the development of Efutu

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Efutu Constituency, Honourable Alexander Afenyo-Markin has organised the first-ever youth conference for the youth of Efutu.The apolitical...

Coronavirus: Spend more money to protect us – MP to gov’t

Ranking Member of Defense and Interior Committee in Parliament, James Agalga, has appealed to government to invest more money to ensure the fast-spreading Coronavirus...

GJA condemns threat against parliamentary press corps

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has condemned statements by the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Ocquaye which threatened to revoke accreditation of the Parliamentary...

Bibiani NPP executive denies receiving Alfred Obeng-Boateng petition

The leadership of the New Patriotic Party in Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Constituency in the Western North Region, says it has not received a petition alleging misconduct...

Speaker cannot gag media – Parliament clarifies

Parliament has denied media reports that the Speaker of Parliament, Prof Aaron Mike Oquaye, is seeking to gag the press.ALSO READ:Parliament threatens to make...

Speaker of Parliament threatens Parliamentary Press Corps [listen]

Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye, has threatened to cause withdrawal of accreditation of the media in Parliament and sanction them for failing to...

Full List: All 49 successful applicants for NPP parliamentary primary contest in C/R by constituency

By close of day of Thursday, February 20, 2020, the date set by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as deadline for the submission of...

Minority fulfills pledge in SoNa boycott

Members of the Minority in Parliament on Thursday boycotted President Nana Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address (SoNA).The Minority’s boycott of the SoNA was...

SoNA 2020: Akufo-Addo catches cold while delivering address

President Akufo-Addo in his State of the Nation Address (SoNA) on the floor of parliament on Thursday manifested signs of a person who had...

Minority ‘plots’ to remove Foreign, Health Ministers

The Minority in Parliament says it will pass a vote of censure to seek the removal of Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu and...

Teacher Unions reject new pre-tertiary management structure

Four teacher unions have rejected a newly parliamentary proposed management structure of pre-tertiary education in the country.SEE THIS:NPP China branch warns Okudzeto Ablakwa, MinorityNDC...

Abronye DC fires back; gives Nogokpo elders two-hour ultimatum [Audio]

The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, has called the bluff of the family of a young man he...

Minority threatens to boycott State of the Nation Address, read why

Members of the Minority Caucus in Parliament have revealed their intention to boycott the State of the Nation Address (SONA) to be delivered by...

Kan Dapaah appears before Parliament

National Security Minster, Albert Kan Dapaah has appeared before Parliament on Wednesday.The Minster, whose video went viral lovey-doveying with a lady whom many have described...

Battle of Kwabenya: Speaker’s son contests Deputy Majority Leader

Dome Kwabenya Constituency in the Greater Accra Region is set to become the new political hotbed with the entry of Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament,...

Amendment of assets declaration law will help reduce corruption – Majority Leader

Parliament, through the amendment of the conduct of public officers law, seeks to enforce the assets declaration law binding public officials to publicly declare...

Speaker rejects Parliamentary inquiry into Airbus scandal

The Speaker of Parliament has declined a request to set up a committee to look into the Airbus bribery scandal.Rt. Hon. Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye...

MP calls for parliamentary inquiry into Airbus scandal

Member of Parliament for Assin South Constituency, John Ntim Fordjour, has asked for a parliamentary inquiry into the Airbus bribery scandal said to involve...

MP re-demands ‘appropriate’ national funeral as Parliament remembers JB Danquah

Parliament has been called upon to initiate a programme to give the late Dr Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah, a former legislator in the...

Coronavirus: Health Minister to brief Parliament Tuesday

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, is expected to appear before Parliament next week Tuesday, to brief members on what is being done to protect...

Avoid excessive partisan debates ahead of December polls – Speaker to MPs

Speaker of Ghana's Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, has urged Members of Parliament to refrain from excessive partisan debates in the run-up to the 2020...

Justice Anin-Yeboah approved

Chief Justice nominee, Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, was on Tuesday, December 24, 2019 approved by Parliament to replace Justice Sophia Akuffo as Ghana’s new Chief...

MPs approve GH¢443m for new Voters Register

Those in favour say ‘Aye’…and those against say ‘No’.“The Ayes have it,” the unmistakable voice of the Speaker, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, announced...

Audio: Parliament to get bulletproof glass curtains

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, has hinted of government's plans to provide a bulletproof glass curtain for Members of Parliament.According to...

Election year budget: Govt to blow GH¢98b in 2020

The legislative arm of government (Parliament) has approved some GH¢ 98 billion to cover all government expenses for the 2020 fiscal year.READ THIS:...