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Ranking Member on the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament John Abdulai Jinapor says he has officially written to the Chairman of the Committee to have the Energy Minister summoned. If approved, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh will face the Committee over the recent power crisis that has hit the country. …

Executive Director for the Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah, says the Majority Leader is only thinking about how to win the next election and not the development of Ghana with his non-Akan argument. The Majority leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu in an interview on Accra-based Joy News said it will be unwise …

  It has emerged that some Minority (NDC) MPs led by Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka and Mahama Ayariga lured and encouraged Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu to contest for the position of Speaker of Parliament. “A group of NDC MPs led by the honourable Mahama Ayariga, some of our colleagues, and my able Whip, the honourable Muntaka …

Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has expressed dissatisfaction at the appointment of the General Secretary of the NDC Asiedu Nketia to the Parliamentary Service Board. He believes that Mr Asiedu Nketia’s inclusion might affect the integrity of Parliament. According to the majority leader, Asiedu Nketia still holding a position as a General Secretary of the NDC is a …

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has resigned from parliament’s Appointments Committee with immediate effect. The former deputy Education Minister in a letter to the Speaker of Parliament on Tuesday, March 30, said the decision was taken after careful consideration adding that it was on a …

  Johnson Asiedu Nketia has hinted that the opposition National Democratic Congress will be reconstituting the leadership of the Minority side in Parliament. According to him, this is a process of the party at the beginning of every new Parliament. “We haven’t done that yet because of the court case [election petition]…we …

  Parliament has by a consensus approved the nomination of Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister. This follows the recommendation for his approval by consensus by the appointments Committee following his two-day grilling. The decision by the NDC members of the committee to support Ofori-Atta’s approval has come as a surprise to some party …

Africa Confidential, a Pan-African news magazine, claims Ghanaian MPs granted tax holidays and other investment incentives worth US$832 million to Meridian Port Services (MPS) without knowing the contract. The incentives covered a period of 10 years. According to the report sighted by GhanaWeb, in March 2016, the Mahama administration asked …

Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori-Atta is finally facing the Appointments Committee of Parliament after his leave of absence due to medical reasons. Mr Ofori-Atta is expected to be subjected to intense grilling by the 26-member committee which has thirteen members from either side of the house. Among other things, the Finance Minister in Akufo-Addo’s first …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has increased the budgetary allocation for the parliamentary service and parliament by over 180 million cedis. The sudden u-turn by the presidency comes weeks after the Executive slashed the budget estimates of the legislature by over 190 million cedis. The move was met with a …