POLITICS

Members of Parliament are demanding an increase in their emoluments and are also pushing for salaries to be pegged with that of an Appeals Court Judge. The move follows controversy surrounding the end of service benefits for MPs. Parliament rejected a report on the executive from the committee on emoluments demanding changes to their own packages which is approved by ...

The NDC Member of Parliament-elect for Assin North James Gyakye Quayson has been injuncted from being sworn in as an MP. This means that the NDC will lose one MP as the country’s parliament prepares to transition to the 8th parliament. The court injunction makes the National Democratic Congress(NDC) able to swear in 136 MPs-elect as against New Patriotic Party(NPP)’s ...

The Minority in Parliament has called out President Akufo-Addo accusing him of all talk without commensurate action in attempts to build consensus in Parliament. The President in his final State of the Nation address reiterated that the results of the December 7 elections shows Ghanaians want the two main political parties – NDC and NPP – to work together in ...

John Peter Amewu, the Member of Parliament-elect for the Hohoe Constituency can now be sworn-in as a lawmaker after being cleared by the Supreme Court. The Apex court on Tuesday, January 5 quashed an earlier ruling by the Ho High Court which barred Amewu from partaking in the swearing-in of MP’s on January 6. It was a unanimous decision by ...

Members of the National Democratic Congress in Parliament have nominated experienced lawmaker and current Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin as Speaker in the 8th Parliament which begins Thursday. The Nadowli Kaleo lawmaker will come against his current boss Speaker Mike Oquaye as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has settled on him. Both parties have equal numbers in the ...

With controversies already surrounding the eighth Parliament and the fact that both NPP and NDC have 137 seats in the legislative house, Professor Ransford Gyampo, a Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana has advised Majority Leader of the 7th Parliament, Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu to be mindful with his choice of words when dealing with Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu. According to ...

The Supreme Court has unanimously granted the Attorney General’s application to set aside the Ho High Court injunction on Hohoe MP-elect Peter Amewu. The unanimous decision of the apex court presided over by Justice Yaw Appau in granting the application said the interested parties did not say anything for the justification of the orders of injunction that was granted. The ...

President Akufo-Addo has commended former President John Mahama for choosing to go to court over his concerns on the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary polls. President said the Supreme Court challenge by the NDC flagbearer is healthy for the country. “I recognize my main opponent in the election has gone to the Supreme Court to seek their intervention over his concerns ...

A five-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justice Yaw Appau will today, Tuesday, January 5, 2021, deliver its ruling on the application challenging a High Court jurisdiction in granting an injunction against Peter Amewu’s gazette as Member of Parliament for Hohoe. The ruling is expected to be delivered at 12noon after the parties have argued the Cases ...

Member of Parliament for Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini has said that Ghana’s democracy is under attack. According to him, there is a never seen before security presence at the Parliament House ahead of the President’s delivery of the last State of the Nation Address Tuesday. To him, never in his life has he seen such deployment to Parliament ...