Edward Doe Adjaho was elected Speaker of Parliament in 2012 and served until the 6th of Jan., 2017 Vice President of policy think thank, IMANI Ghana has lashed out at the outgoing Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, describing him as the ‘worst performing Speaker’ in the country’s history. Kofi Bentil speaking on GHOne Television … Read more
Parliament has suspended sitting for legislators to be reconvened at 10 am at the Black Star Square Saturday for the investiture of President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Joe Osei Wusu, Alban Bagbin elected as Parliament’s Deputy Speakers. The seventh Parliament has unanimously elected Bekwai Member of Parliament (MP), Joseph Osei Owusu as First Deputy Speaker … Read more
The Minority in the seventh parliament under the Fourth Republic has called on the incoming Speaker, Prof. Mike Ocquaye to eschew partisanship in steering the affairs of the House. Prof Ocquaye who served as the second Deputy Speaker of the House between 2009 and 2013 was Thursday elevated to the speakership position. He takes over … Read more
It is 12:00 midnight! The life of the sixth Parliament of the 4th Republic has ended. President John Mahama’s tenure as president has effectively ended too even though he had an eventful afternoon commissioning another project, the new WAEC hall. It was his last commissioning ceremony. The MPs of the old Parliament are also no … Read more
Minority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu is not too impressed about the performance of the sixth parliament of the fourth republic whose tenure will be coming to an end at 12 midnight Friday. In his closing remarks Friday, barely 12 hours to the end of the sixth Parliament, led by Speaker Edward Doe Adjaho, the leader … Read more
The Minority in the seventh parliament under the Fourth Republic has called on the incoming Speaker, Prof. Mike Ocquaye to eschew partisanship in steering the affairs of the House. Prof Ocquaye who served as the second Deputy Speaker of the House between 2009 and 2013 was Thursday elevated to the speakership position. He takes over … Read more
Folks, you may already have heard in the news what Maxwell Kofi Jumah said in condemning the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) for demanding that the NPP under Akufo-Addo should fulfill its electioneering campaign promise of restoring teacher-trainee allowances within 100 days in office. He was later reported to have apologized for his scathing verbal … Read more
The process to elect a new Speaker of Parliament begins Monday as all the newly elected 275 legislators register to vote on names put forward. The president-elect is expected to nominate two persons for the position of Speaker and First Deputy Speaker, whiles the National Democratic Congress (NDC) minority will select their choice for the … Read more
Ms Gloria Akuffo, a member of the incoming government’s transition team responsible for legal affairs, says the Mahama-led government presided over many wrongs, posing a daunting task for the NPP government to surmount. Many Ghanaians reposed high confidence in the Akufo-Addo-led government to deliver on their many promises. But assessing the performance of the outgoing … Read more
Ms Gloria Akuffo, a member of the incoming government’s transition team responsible for legal affairs, says the Mahama-led government presided over many wrongs, posing a daunting task for the NPP government to surmount. Many Ghanaians reposed a high confidence in the Akufo-Addo-led government to deliver on their many promises. But assessing the performance of the outgoing government, … Read more
The 2016 Campaign Manager of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Peter Mac Manu has dismissed reports mentioning certain names as people who have been selected for Ministerial positions in the in-coming government of Nana Akufo-Addo. According to him, the buck, when it came to Ministerial appointments, stopped with the President-elect and he would not … Read more
A former Deputy Speaker of Parliament,, has slammed the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) for alleging he, in connivance with some officials of the Electoral Commission planned rigging the forthcoming elections. The National Organiser of the NDC, Kofi Adams, at a press conference on Monday disclosed that the party had uncovered a secret audio recording … Read more
The ruling National Democratic Congress has accused some top members of the opposition New Patriotic Party of attempting to influence some members of the Electoral Commission to rig the upcoming elections in favour of the NPP. At a press conference held Monday at the head office of the NDC, alleged voice clips of Mike Ocquaye … Read more
There is a spirited but subtle attempt to discredit the prestigious Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice given to New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in Mumbai, India recently. The organizers are being inundated with e-mails from Ghana, enquiring about the authenticity of the award for political purposes. It is … Read more
The statement I published last week, as I expected, generated much interest and discussion here at home and within the Ghanaian Diaspora. After all, democracy and discourse go hand in hand. I am therefore quite happy that in my own way, I have been able to shine some light on the thorny issue of ethnicity … Read more
The statement I published last week, as I expected, generated much interest and discussion here at home and within the Ghanaian Diaspora. After all, democracy and discourse go hand in hand. I am therefore quite happy that in my own way, I have been able to shine some light on the thorny issue of ethnicity … Read more
Ghana’s Ambassador to Namibia and Botswana, Haruna Attah has dared the flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, to swear on the bible to prove he (Mr Akufo-Addo) never had a discussion with him (Haruna Attah) at which event he (Mr Akufo-Addo) said the NPP will never allow a non-Akan to … Read more
President John Mahama is corrupt to the extent that stalwarts of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), including party founder and former President Jerry John Rawlings, do not find it wise to associate with him, former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Prof Mike Ocquaye has said in an article titled: “Mahama, Fix Your ‘Silently’ Divided … Read more
It would be illegal for the Chair of the Electoral Commission to use her discretion to withhold and recount results of the December 7 presidential election should a first count show the results to be too close to call, a former Deputy Second Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Ocquaye, has said. According to the former … Read more
For adding new errors to the originally detected one, the Electoral Commission will lose in court if sued by any of the political parties that has been given up to 5pm Tuesday, 8 November to correct mistakes made on the nomination forms of their flag bearers, former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Prof Mike Ocquaye … Read more