It is difficult if not impossible to arrest sitting Members of Parliament in Ghana, a law lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has said.

“The only time in my opinion that you can easily arrest an MP without much difficulty is when Parliament is in recession, otherwise you would have to establish the fact that the MP is not on his way to Parliament, the MP is not on his way from Parliament or that the MP is not attending to business in Pa ...

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A Presidential Aide has served notice that the ruling party will not countenance any communist inferior tactics by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) that threatens to indeed undermine the peace of the country, especially in the Odododiodio constituency.

Nii Lantey Vanderpuije, who is also the NDC Parliamentary Candidate elect for the Odododiodio Constituency warned that any form of violent action or intimidatory tactics by the NPP will be crushed.

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Minister of Communications Haruna Iddrisu is counseling the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) that hanging on to the Woyome saga would not win them the 2012 elections.

He said it would be in the interest of the NPP to get over the “Woyome jaundice” they are suffering from, saying the earlier NPP wean themselves from it, the better it would be for them.

Speaking on Joy FM’s flagship programme, Newsfile hosted by Matilda Asante-Asiedu Sa ...

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Aspiring presidential candidate of the newly founded Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, last Tuesday became the toast of market women, traders and hawkers who ply their businesses at the Tema Station in Accra.

Dr. Nduom was invited by the leadership of the market women at Tema Station to enlighten them on their basic human rights.

Addressing the traders, Dr. Nduom seized the opportunity to commend Nana Oye-Lithur, a human ri ...

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A former deputy Speaker of Parliament, Freddy Blay, has given President John Evans Atta Mills a very poor mark in his last State of the Nation Address of his first term.

The former MP commended the President for touching on relevant issues bedeviling the country, but pointed out that he was boring in his an hour-and-half address to Parliament on Thursday.

“On his delivery he was persistent and stuck to the issues,” Mr. Blay, popularly known as Ellembele Mu ...

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The Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea says the wrangling in the Mills-led administration is casting a slur on the integrity and reputation of the nation.

According to him, government’s communication machinery should desist from fingering the NPP flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the bearer of bad news about the country to the rest of the world and rather solve their problems.

The NPP MP for th ...

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Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has described an official correspondence written by National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Adjei to President John Evans Atta Mills as “a string of lamentations”.

Dr. Kwabena Adjei, on January 10th, wrote a letter marked “very urgent”, summoning President John Evans Atta Mills to schedule an emergency meeting within a week to address issues he says has the potential o ...

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Miss Memuna Abubekr-Saddique, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Tafo-Pankrono, says she would cause a major political upset by capturing the constituency seat from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

“I am going to surprise many come the December elections”, she said during an interview with the GNA in Kumasi.

The constituency, carved out of Suame in 2004, is considered a safe seat for the NPP, but Miss Abubekr-Saddiq ...

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The Bank of Ghana is taking steps to continually improve its regulatory and supervisory responsibilities to ensure that only strong and well-managed banks operate in the country, Central Bank Governor Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has said.

Speaking on “The Role of the Banking Sector in Developing the Ghanaian Capital Market,” at the ongoing Euromoney Conference, Mr Amissah-Arthur said the re-capitalization policy provided a much-needed boost to the economy with the near quad ...

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Embattled former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Mrs. Betty Mould-Iddrisu is to submit voluntary statement to police to aid Woyome judgment debt investigations.

Mrs. Mould-Iddrisu has come under intense pressure to establish the role she played as Attorney-General and Minister of Justice which led to the payment of the judgment debt to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome tenure.

Her lawyer Nana Ato Dadzie told Joy News' Dzifa Bampoh that his clie ...

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