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Muntaka to challenge Bagbin’s decision to refer three MPs to Privileges Committee

JoyNews/AdomNews · Muntaka Serves Notice To Challenge Bagbin’s Decision To Refer Three MP’s To Privileges Committee Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, has vehemently disagreed with...

Confusion rocks CPP over interdiction of officers

There appears to be turmoil in the camp of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) following the alleged interdiction of three key officers of the...

Fate of Assin North MP to be determined on this date…

The Supreme Court has set April 13, 2022, to deliver its ruling on whether Assin North Member of Parliament (MP), James Gyakye Quayson, should...

Ghana’s economy is terrible – BBC’s Peter Okwoche tells Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said he does not know of any economy around the world that is doing well in the midst...

Assin North seat is automatically vacant, NDC has 136 MPs – Majority Leader asserts

The Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has stated emphatically that the Assin North Parliamentary seat held by the embattled NDC Member of Parliament,...

Adwoa Safo marked present in Parliament’s attendance register while absent for proceedings last Friday

There was controversy in Parliament on Monday when it came to light that the MP for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has been marked as...

Bagbin vows to crack whip on Akufo-Addo appointing MPs to boards [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Bagbin vows to crack whip on Akufo-Addo appointing MPs to boards Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, says he will not sit aloof for...

Why MD for Ghana Airports Company was dismissed – Transport Minister discloses

The Transport Minister, Kweku Ofori-Asiamah, has justified government’s decision in dismissing the former MD for Ghana Airports Company limited Mr. Yaw Kwakwa. According to...

Kojo Bonsu gets Yaa Naa, Northern Chiefs’ blessings over ambition to contest NDC flagbearership

Former Kumasi Mayor under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) regime, Kojo Bonsu, has received the blessings of the king of Dagbon, Yaa Naa...

Akufo-Addo was misled; it won’t be the first time – Sam George on 10,875km new roads claim

The Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Narety George, says President Nana Akufo-Addo was misled into believing his government has constructed 10,875km of new...

Stephen Amoah apologises for ‘economy is like a child with sickle cell’ comment

The Member of Parliament for the Nhyiaeso Constituency, Dr Stephen Amoah, has apologised for comparing the current state of the Ghanaian economy to a...

Tamale Metropolitan Assembly fails to elect presiding member, at risk of being dissolved

Members of the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly have been unable to elect a presiding member because the two contestants could not secure the required two-thirds...

CPP Central Committee interdicts Nana Yaa Jantuah, Osei Kofi Acquah and Onzy Nkrumah

The highest decision making body of the Convention People’s Party, the Central Committee (CC), has interdicted Nana Yaa Akyempim Jantuah, the General Secretary of...

E-levy: Minority told embattled Assin North MP not to enter the chamber – Afenyo-Markin

Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, says the Minority’s grievances over the passage of the Electronic Transaction levy (E-levy) are flawed particularly when they raise...

Why Okudzeto Ablakwa agrees with Akufo-Addo [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · The only thing Okudzeto Ablakwa agrees with Akufo-Addo on North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP), Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has joined calls by the...

E-levy passage: What Assin North MP’s lawyers told Minority [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · ABLAKWA ON ASSIN NORTH Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has shot down claims that embattled Assin North MP,...

When you hold yourself up like a leaf, any goat will eat you – Bagbin tells MPs [Audio]

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has revealed that, the leadership has not been happy about the way he shouts at the MPs. Explaining the matter...

Wheeling Ahanta West MP into Parliament was inhumane – Ablakwa [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Wheeling Ahanta West MP into Parliament was inhumane – Ablakwa Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has described as...

Minority’s E-levy walkout: Sammy Gyamfi sends strong message to critics [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Sammy Gyamfi sends strong message to critics National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has asked critics to stop...

E-levy: Speaker Bagbin makes revelation about sick MP [Listen]

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has revealed that the Chieftaincy Minister, Ebenezer Kojo Kum, was within the precincts of parliament during last Tuesdays proceedings. This...

Don’t tag Clerk as partisan; Speaker orders rectification of errors in attendance register

JoyNews/AdomNews · Don't tag Clerk as partisan; Speaker orders rectification of absenteeism errors Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Bagbin, has asked the Minority in Parliament...

E-levy: Speak truth to power – GRA, technical partners told over implementation

JoyNews/AdomNews · GRA must speak truth to authority over implementation of E-levy – Telecoms Chamber The Ghana Telecoms Chamber has urged the Ghana Revenue Authority...

Reduce the size of govt to protect public purse – Prof Agyeman-Duah to Akufo-Addo

A co-founder of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Professor Baffour Agyemang-Duah, has called for an immediate reduction in the size of the...

Partisan behaviour of parliamentary Clerk won’t be tolerated – Minority

Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, has cautioned against any display of political affiliation by the Clerk of Parliament. According to him, some National Democratic Congress...

E-levy passage: NPP ignored hardship, disaffection for e-levy – Duffuor

A former Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, has taken a swipe at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) following the passage of the...

Volta, Oti caucuses of NDC push Afaglo for 2024 elections

While the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is contemplating whether to retain former President John Dramani Mahama as presidential candidate or look for fresh...

E-levy: Let’s move on with our lives – Baba Jamal to Minority

JoyNews/AdomNews · Baba Jamal reacts to E Levy passage A leading member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Baba Jamal, is not in...

Tamale interchange: Sammy Gyamfi commends govt

JoyNews/AdomNews · Sammy Gyamfi on Tamale interchange National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has commended government for completing the...

Akufo-Addo should apologise to Ghanaians – Ada MP

Member of Parliament (MP) for Ada, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah, has requested the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to apologise to the citizens...

War in Ukraine: Russia launches new attacks after peace promise

The governor of Ukraine's Chernihiv region says there is no let-up in attacks by Russia, despite its pledge to reduce military activity there. The governor,...

You now have your E-levy; solve the problems – Asiedu Nketia tells govt

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Asiedu Nketia, has said that the approval of the E-levy is going to expose the...

What Bagbin said about Nana Konadu, Chief of Staff in Parliament [Listen]

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has lauded former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, for being at the forefront of women empowerment not...

SONA22: Russia-Ukraine war: Bombs may be dropping on cities but hitting pockets in Ghana – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that the Russia and Ukraine war has had a direct impact on the lives of Ghanaians as far as...

Full speech: Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address 2022

I hope you will forgive me if I begin by asking Members of the House to join me to salute the management, technical and...

E-levy passage: How Assin North MP ‘forced’ Minority to walk out [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · E-levy passage: How Assin North MP 'forced' Minority to walk out Member of Parliament (MP) for Ada, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah, has disclosed why...

Book on Boakye Djan launched

A book detailing the life of Major Kojo Boakye Djan (retd), one of the key architects of the June 4, 1979 revolution, was launched in...

Adwoa Safo trends after E-Levy passage

Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, who has been on leave in parliament for more than two months has been...

Ras Mubarak sends strong message to Minority over approval of E-Levy

Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu Constituency, Ras Mubarak, has blamed the leadership of the Minority in parliament for failing to deploy its...

By the Supreme Court’s decision, E-levy has not been passed – Ablakwa

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has dismissed reports about the passage of the controversial E-levy Bill on Tuesday, saying the...

Bagbin cautions MPs to desist from pulling surprises on him

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin has admonished the leadership of the House to desist from pulling surprises on him. His caution comes...