POLITICS

Member of Parliament (MP) for Bantama Constituency in the Ashanti Region and a Member of Finance Committee in Parliament, Mr Daniel Okyem Aboagye aka Wofa Atta has admitted the ‘luxury tax’ government is charging car owners is overly expensive saying the lawmakers themselves cried whiles passing it into law. “Whiles we the parliamentarians were passing this law, we were crying ...

The Spanish Ambassador to Ghana Alicia Rico has downplayed claims that former President John Mahama “painted Ghana black” to diplomats in the country when he met them over the violence that characterized the Ayawaso West-Wuogon by-election in January. Mr. Mahama came under heavy criticism from the government and other critics after he met the diplomats and showed them videos of ...

Under fire member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Joseph Yamin has clarified his association with the dreaded vigilante group associated with the NDC, the Hawks. Speaking to Starr Today’s Naa Dedei Tetteh, the former Deputy Minister rejected claims that he founded the group but instead, he is a member. “That’s misinformation. I’m not a key member in the formation ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has accused the Church of Pentecost of being the cause of all the problems in Ghana. According to him, the Church of Pentecost is noted for making unnecessary ‘noise’ during their prayer sessions and praying in tongues makes it very annoying. He observed that the numerous small and new churches disturbing ...

There has been a shake-up in the leadership of some of the Select Committees of Ghana’s parliament. The Chairman of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee, Mr Mahama Ayariga and the Ranking Member of the Health Committee, Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, have lost their leadership positions as a result of the shake-up. According to Class91.3FM’s parliamentary correspondent, Ekow Annan the changes were ...

It is emerging that an estimated amount of GH?5.6million revenue belonging to the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) was embezzled during the tenure of former Metropolitan Chief Executive (TMA), Isaac Ashai Odamtten. Documents available to DAILY GUIDE revealed how a private revenue collector allegedly diverted 30 percent of the assembly’s revenue into a private account at the now defunct First Capital ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has in another letter to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo insisted that third parties such as the UN, AU and ECOWAS mediate talks between their party and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in disbanding militia groups affiliated to both parties. President Akufo-Addo in a response to a letter by the National Chairman of the ...

A lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, Alhassan Salifu Bawa, has described as empty threats of impeachment against the Vice Chancellor of the University Rev. Father Afful-Broni. Accordingly to him, the threats and calls by Member of Parliament for Effutu Constituency Alexander Afenyo Markin for the resignation of the Vice Chancellor are misplaced since the VC has committed no ...

A former National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Kwabena Adjei, has passed. He died Tuesday morning at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, formerly Ridge hospital, a highly placed source at the party confirmed to myjoyonline.com. The politician who was the chairman when the NDC won power in 2008 had been battling with a protracted sickness first ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has said that there are some members within the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) that will prefer to lick the ‘faeces’ of astute journalist and editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr. According to him, he has been warning his party folks that Kweku Baako is the ...