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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...

Supreme Court sets April 5 to rule on Assin North MP’s Application

The Supreme Court has set April 5, 2022, to deliver its ruling on an application filed by Assin North MP James Gyakye Quayson. This...

Supreme Court sets date to deliver judgement on Presidential spousal salary case

A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court has fixed June 29, 2022, to deliver judgment in the case in which Kwame Baffoe, popularly known...

Assin North MP files fresh application at Supreme Court

Lawyers for Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, have filed a fresh application at the Supreme Court. This brings to three, the applications by...

Parliament finally passes E-Levy bill

Parliament has approved the controversial Electronic Transactions (E-Levy) Bill this afternoon. This decision was reached after the Consideration Stage was completed by a Majority-sided House...

E-levy: Sick MP ‘wheeled’ to Parliament

Member of Parliament (MP) for Sekondi constituency, Andrew Egyapa Mercer, says there is nothing wrong with having his Ahanta West colleague, Ebenezer Kojo Kum,...

E-Levy moves to consideration Stage in Parliament after Minority stages walkout [video]

Parliament has completed the second reading of the Electronic Transfer (E-Levy) Bill. The move was adopted at the reduced rate of 1.5% from the initial...

Stop begging for Sinohydro funds – Jinapor to Bawumia

Ranking Member on Parliament’s Mines and Energy Committee, John Jinapor, has ruled out the possibility of the Chinese government releasing funds anytime soon under...

Akufo-Addo wants passage of E-levy Bill as birthday gift – NDC MP

Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, says President Nana Akufo-Addo wants to celebrate his 78th birthday with the passage of the “obnoxious”...

Drop proposal to wean public tertiary institutions off govt subventions – Apaak

The Deputy Ranking Member of the Education Committee of Parliament, Dr Clement Apaak, has said the proposal by the government to wean public tertiary...

Western North MP likely to lose his seat – NPP Regional Chairman

The Western North Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), William Assuah, has said his party member and Member of Parliament (MP)...

Govt hiding the damage it has done to the economy – Felix Kwakye Ofosu

Former Deputy Minister for Information, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, says the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has been leading deliberate attempts to conceal the damage government...

‘We are not interested in coup d’etat’ – NDC

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has denied harbouring any intentions to stage a coup d’etat. The National Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has assured...

Barker-Vormawor to lecture at Gimpa Law School

#FixTheCountry convener, Oliver Mawusi Barker-Vormawor, will be a guest lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law School this week.According...