The National Association of Local Authorities Ghana (NALAG) has called on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to strategise and focus more on harnessing human, financial and natural resources through public private partnerships (PPPs) to create jobs and reduce poverty within their respective assemblies.
As Parliament prepares to resume sitting on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, it is our hope that this new year would mark a new beginning where consensus-building would replace the usual winner-takes-all politics in the House.
A Former Constituency Communications Officer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Abirem Constituency, Mr George Krobea Asante, has called on members of the party to unite in their pursuit to break the eight-year power cycle.
The Chief of Shukura, Alhaji Hamidu Ibrahim Dantani, has urged the Majority and Minority caucuses of Parliament to work together in the collective interest of Ghanaians.
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Mr Kojo Bonsu, has declared his intention to contest the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearership for the 2024 election.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Kwesimintsim, Dr Prince Hamid Armah, has donated 100 bags of cement to the Apremdo community in his constituency.
A former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has called on former President John Dramani Mahama to express his condolences on the death of his brother, Emmanuel Adam Mahama.
A youth activist and President of World Youth Opportunity (WYO), Nafis Quaye has bemoaned the misdirection of the energies of the youth in unproductive and destructive endeavours.
The Forum of Former Members of Parliament (FFMPs) has called on the Ministers of Defence and National Security, as well as the Ghana Armed Forces to regularise the reposting of withdrawn officers meant to compliment the security detail of the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Bagbin.
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has appealed to the President of the Republic to use his authority to cause the restoration of the licence of GN Bank.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the Effutu Constituency in the Central Region, Mr Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has handed over two major projects worth GHȻ2 million to the Winneba Vocational Institute to enhance teaching and learning in the school.
The National Identification Authority (NIA) says it is fully committed to the ongoing SIM card re-registration exercise using the Ghana card as a form of verification.
The Forum for Former Members of Parliament has called for restraint and calm on the part of all interested parties in the ongoing public discussion of the security detail for the Speaker of Parliament.
I am pursuing senior civil servants and engineers in my ministry, who have set up road construction companies and have been awarding road contracts to themselves over the years, the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwasi Amoako Atta has said.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the withdrawal of the military guards that formed part of the security details of the Speaker of Parliament, Rt Hon Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin as unfair treatment as the reasons provided were not tangible.
The chiefs and people of Wassa Akropong in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality of the Western Region have called on the government to empower the municipal assembly and traditional authorities to regulate mining activities in the area.
The Bishop of the Koforidua Diocese of the Methodist Church Ghana, Rt Rev. Dr Emmanuel Asare-Kusi, has called on people in leadership positions to serve rather than thinking of their parochial interest.
What the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II said in relation to recent historical narratives by the Dormaahene, Oseadeyo Agyeman Badu II, and the paying of allegiance to Asanteman and the Golden Stool by various chiefs in Bono East, Bono and Ahafo Regions has been published in the video below.
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin has 12 police guards in addition to the four soldiers who were recently withdrawn by the Ghana Armed Forces, the Majority caucus in Parliament has stated.
The Accra High Court hearing the GH¢217 million financial loss case against the former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr Stephen Opuni, and two others, has adjourned the case to January 31 this year following a latest application filed by Dr Opuni to bar the trial judge from further hearing the case.
A former Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has denied media reports that he was given military protection when he was the Speaker of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Klottey Korle, Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, has urged the aged to help shape the mindset of the youth to maintain a peaceful and stable nation.
A finance and economic policy analyst, Mr Senyo Hosi, has repeated calls for state funding of political parties to help deepen the country’s democracy.
The Ministry of National Security has explained that the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin still has security protection and that reports creating the impression that his security protection has been withdrawn is a "misinterpretation."
The office of the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has described the withdrawal of military persons assigned to offer protection to him as an "attempt to strip him of security protection".
A senior lecturer at the Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Samuel Adu Gyamfi, has reiterated the need for the government not to impose projects on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies.
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has called for a stronger partnership with government and civil society in promoting accountability during Parliament’s second year of his tenure.
