POLITICS

Member of Parliament for Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini is demanding an apology from GhOne Television over what he believes to be unfair treatment meted out to him on the station’s Morning Show, ABC News Ghana can report. The MP, in a statement cited by ABC News Ghana, says he was unfairly treated by the producer and hostess of ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, has slammed the Political Science department of the University of Ghana after they released a poll ranking performance of MPs. According to the Speaker, the poll is seeking to incite electorates against lawmakers. The poll published on Monday stated over 186 MPs are likely to lose their seats. The Survey had 42.6% of ...

The Mahama administration left behind a public sector debt of GHS120 billion, not GHS122 billion as claimed by some communicators of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), a former deputy minister Mr Casiel Ato Forson, has said. The MP for Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam told journalists at a press conference on Tuesday, 11 June 2019 that the government is using the 2017 exchange ...

Information reaching DGN Online indicates that National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has been arrested. Police are said to have arrested him earlier this afternoon in Accra apparently in connection with alleged arson and kidnappings in Ghana. DGN Online is informed that Mr. Ofosu Ampofo had been hopping from hotel to hotel and has ...

The Finance Minister, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has been described as the worst minister Ghana has ever had. The Deputy Minority Chief Whip in Parliament and Member of Parliament (MP) for Banda constituency, Ahmed Ibrahim, believes Mr Ofori-Atta must be blamed for the poor performance of some MPs. To him, the Finance Minister has failed to discharge his duties by failing ...

One more voice has joined the debate between a High court judge and the Speaker of Parliament over the privileges of an MP facing criminal prosecution. Avid constitutional law adherent, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare (who prefers to be called Kwaku Azar), has argued the Speaker of Parliament “got it wrong” in his letter asserting the privileges of Bawku Central MP ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has challenged the capacity and qualification of the Special Prosecutor, Martin ABK Amidu, to investigate him. In an application filed at an Accra High Court, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP contended that the charges levelled against him by the Special Prosecutor do not fall within the powers conferred on ...

The Member of Parliament for Akim Swedru in the Eastern Region, Kennedy Osei Nyarko is among the top 10 best performing legislators in a latest survey conducted by the University of Ghana. Mr. Osei Nyarko who is also a deputy minister for food and Agriculture scored 8th out of the total list of legislators in the report released by the ...

About 49.5% of Ghanaians will vote out their Members of Parliament (MPs) over poor performance if elections were held today, a new survey report has revealed. The Survey conducted by the Political Science department at the University of Ghana had 42.6% of the respondents ready to retain their lawmakers with 7.9% of the respondents still undecided. Also, a majority of ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Asutifi South Constituency, Alhaji Collins Dauda has been adjudged the best Ghanaian MP per a research conducted by the Department of Political Science School of Social Sciences in collaboration with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. The study was conducted on the 275 constituencies by questioning 100 persons from each of the constituencies. 27,500 people were ...