The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced a shift towards a more customer-centric and collaborative approach to revenue collection, as part of its efforts to meet national revenue targets.
The Vision for Alternative Development, Ghana (VALD Ghana) and other civil society organizations are in solidarity for the protection of public health, in support for the Food and Drugs Authority's position on banning alcohol advertisements by celebrities.
The Deputy Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for the Ellembele constituency, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah has slammed the President Akufo Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for signing two new Take-or-Pay Power Pact Agreements (PPAs) seeking to increase the country’s power generation capacity when they criticized such a decision as reckless when they were in opposition.
The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has bemoaned what seems to be sharp contrasting views over the work of Members of Parliament and the Parliament of Ghana as an institution.
The 2024 Budget touched on various sectors of the economy and the various policies and interventions outlined for the final lap of his tenure, including highlights of interventions by the Government in the past which, according to the Minister, have impacted positively on the lives of the people in every sector.
Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken OforiAtta has asserted that President Akufo Addo’s Government has positively impacted every sector of national life in the past seven years.
The government has no immediate plans for the resettlement of the people displaced by the controlled spillage of excess water from the Akosombo and Kpong Hydro Electric Dams.
The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has urged Parliament to assist the National Media Commission (NMC) in holding the investigative, prosecutorial, and judicial agencies accountable for reported incidents of attacks on journalists in the country.
The Private Newspapers and Online News Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG) has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing press freedom, protecting journalists, and promoting responsible journalism as part of its commemorative message on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.
The Majority Leader and Leader of Government Business, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has laid a new Constitutional Instrument on behalf of the Electoral Commission of Ghana for the creation of a new constituency to be known as the Guan constituency in the Oti Region.
The Majority Leader in Ghana’s Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, is concerned about the effect of the Akosombo Dam spillage in the lower Volta area on the economy of Ghana, saying it will exacerbate the current food inflation in the country as a result of farmlands being washed away among others.
This article is meant to highlight the unfortunate omission of the media, and for that matter, the Parliamentary Press Corps (PPC) from the activities mapped out for the celebration and the failure of the organizers to acknowledge the PPC as an important stakeholder that has contributed immensely to the stability of the country’s democracy. We cannot belabor the point that journalists played an integral role in shaping the destiny of the country’s Parliamentary Democracy which milestone is being celebrated today.
The Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana and the President of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has called on the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association member countries to take a deep introspection into the cause of the incessant cause of reversal of the democratic process on the continent of Africa, especially in the West Africa region.