Politics

Akufo-Addo in the US on official businessTaxpayer has been saved GHc3.3million from Akufo-Addo's recent trip, OkudzetoAkufo-Addo did not do a 'Meet Me There' on a recent trip, Okudzeto Ablakwa The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has claimed that the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, seems to be succumbing...

Some of you may not know this but I loved and studied history all the way to university level and one of the books that absolutely enthralled me was a book titled “Makers of Civilisation.” In that book you will find many figures from the past – men and women...

After months of back and forths in parliament with regards to the controversial Electronic Transactions Levy (E-Levy), parliament has passed the bill. This was after the House considered the bill after its third reading, with the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, in the seat. Earlier, the Minority in Parliament staged a walkout...

Parliament approved the second reading of the Electronic Transactions Levy, albeit without the final participation of the minority side, who staged a walkout right before the question was put before the house. The Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, moved a motion in parliament asking the house...

There are suspicions that the Member of Parliament for Ahanta West, Ebenezer Kojo, has been conveyed to parliament as the house considers the controversial E-Levy today. This suspicion is a result of the arrival of an ambulance in parliament. The scene that was captured on video shows a paramedic readying a...

A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court has granted an application exparte for substituted service in the case involving Assin North Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) James Gyakye Quayson. Michael Ankomah Nimfah, a member of the New Patriotic Party is seeking an interlocutory injunction against the MP from performing his...

Govt wants to impose a 1.75% tax on GhanaiansThe bill is yet to be re-laid in ParliamentMany have criticized the govt over the E-levy The governing NPP is finding it difficult to get the controversial Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy) bill passed into law. This is because the Majority is finding it difficult...

A former Deputy Minister of Information, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has said the move to injunct the Assin North Member of Parliament is intended to get the E-Levy passed. He said this move will suffer spectacular failure. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Tuesday, February 1 went to the Supreme Court of...

The injunction application was granted by the Supreme CourtSeven Justices granted the applicationThe application was against the Assin North MP A seven-member Supreme Court Justices granted an injunction application against the Assin North NDC MP, James Gyakye Quayson after a member of the governing NPP prayed to the Court to...

This will comprise an Office of the Regulator of Political Parties (ORPP) responsible for the registration and regulation of political parties and an Electoral Commission (EC) responsible for the conduct of Presidential, Parliamentary, District Assembly, and Unit Committee and other public elections and referenda. The suggestion forms part of the...