POLITICS

The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament Rt, Hon, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin says Parliament will take immediate action to ensure the scrapping of the law that imposes tax on sanitary pads and is cardinal sin to tax sanitary pads. Alban Bagbin raised concerns over the issue when he acknowledged reciept of a petition …

The Speaker of Parliament, Rt, Hon. Alban Sumana Bagbin has directed the Minister of Works and Housing Hon. Francis Asenso Boakye and Minister for Finance Hon. Ken Ofori Atta to appear before the House to brief them on steps taken to address the perenial floods across the country. The Minority …

In his description of the legal action brought against James Gyakye Quayson, the beleaguered National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate in the Assin North by-election, former president John Mahama used an unprintable word. Mr. Mahama, who has a habit of fiercely criticizing Supreme Court (SC) decisions against former government appointees …

Over sixty (62) social media communicators known as serial callers with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region have received equipment to prosecute the party’s agenda. Ahead of the 2024 polls, the party is poised to ‘break the 8’, hence, former Constituency Treasurer for Bosomtwe, Hon. Joseph Asante …

Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, a former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), has declared himself eligible to run in the party’s presidential primary elections. On Wednesday, June 21, Mr. Agyapong filed at the party’s headquarters. Shortly after filing, he spoke to the media and urged the party to stop using …

Kennedy Agyapong, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, has submitted his nomination to run for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer position. Despite the rain on Wednesday at the party headquarters in Accra, the legislator was surrounded by a multitude of fans. Along with certain lawmakers and close …

On Wednesday, June 21, 2023, Charles Bissue, the former secretary of the disbanded Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), voluntarily presented himself at the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). Bissue was detained around 11:45 GMT, according to a statement from the OSP, and then he was questioned by staff members …

James Gyakye Quayson, a candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the impending by-election in the Assin North Constituency, has been given permission to skip the Friday, June 23, court session. After hearing arguments on his application to modify the court’s instructions to conduct his criminal case daily, the …

The ranking member for Finance Committee in Parliament and Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Hon Isaac Adongo has told the vice president Dr, Mahamadu Bawumia to stop contemplating to become a president of the Republic of Ghana if he had any iota of credibility after taking the country’s …

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor has reiterated government’s commitment to preserve and protect the nation’s forest cover. The Minister said the government has employed a two-pronged approach to clamp down on illegal mining activities that is degrading the integrity of the vegetative cover across …