The Minority in Parliament claims that the upcoming 2018 Budget to be presented by the Finance Minister on Wednesday, 15th November,2017 is expected to contain a tax on mobile money transactions.
According to the spokesperson for Minority on Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson, government has the intention to tax mobile...
Okor Waves, a non-governmental welfare group of Ada East, are saddened by the unwarranted attack, by a group of people purported to be members of the Invisible Forces, on the Hon. Assembly Members of the Ada East Assembly, who were in the process of undertaking their legally mandated duty...
The Zongo Development Fund Bill and the Northern Development Authority (NDA) Bill, have been passed by Parliament on Friday.
The Zongo Development Fund bill seeks to establish the legal framework for the implementation of the Zongo Development Fund.
Muslim students are expected to benefit from scholarship packages under the Zongo Development Fund.
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First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu has directed the Interior Minister to appear before the house on or before 22nd November, 2017 to brief members on circumstances leading to the untimely death of two suspects in Police custody at Kumasi.
The directive follows a concern raised by the Member of...
The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has commended the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs for submitting its report on the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to Parliament but has called for transparency and competitiveness in the appointment of the Special Prosecutor.
With the submission of the...
Scores of petty traders and hawkers operating at unauthorised points in and around the major trading centers of the Kumasi Metropolis have been moved to other satellite markets in the city ahead of the yuletide and the late Asantehemaa’s funeral.
The development has significantly eased commuting and vehicular movement in...
Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, Kennedy Nyarko Osei, has been approved by Parliament after facing the Appointments Committee last Thursday.
The Akyim Swedru Member of Parliament was nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to replace William Agyapong Quaitoo, who resigned the post in August. Mr Quaitoo, also...
The Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Femi Michael Abikoye, has said Ghana and Nigeria will continue to deepen its relationship - a move that will see an increase in the number of Nigerian businesses operating in the country.
According to him, Ghana and Nigeria have enjoyed a positive bilateral relationship...
Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is urging Parliament to intervene in ending the maltreatment that are meted out to Ghanaian visa applicants by the various embassies in the country.
He wants the legislature to play a frontline role in...
Government has began a processes to set up a Trust Fund that will cater for the welfare of the family of slain soldier, Major Maxwell Adams Mahama.
The Major Mahama Trust Fund Bill, 2017 was introduced in Parliament Tuesday, after Cabinet sanctioned it.
The soldier was murdered in May after residents...