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Parliament on Friday approved a $150 million loan agreement between the government and the World Bank's International Development Association to improve Accra's economic resilience.
Ghana's parliament on Tuesday voted to abolish the death penalty, making the country the latest of several African nations that have moved to repeal capital punishment in recent years. No one has ...
Less than 15% of Ghana's 275-member parliament are women, below the 30% target set out by the United Nations for all countries. The country was ranked 119th in a June report on the global gender ...
In January 2024, he contested and won the NPP parliamentary primaries for New Juaben North (Ghana parliament constituency) in the Eastern Region of Ghana. In December 2024, he contested the 2024 Ghanaian general election and won with 17,390 votes beating his closest contender,National Democratic Congress (Ghana)'s candidate, Samuel Adongo who polled 10,600 votes.
The Gold Coast was renamed to Ghana and granted independence on Wednesday, 6 March 1957, while retaining the British monarch as head of state. The Legislative Assembly was renamed National Assembly. After the approval of a new Republican constitution, Ghana officially became a republic on 1 July 1960 with Kwame Nkrumah as its President .
The number of women elected to parliament was 40, the same as in the previous election (2020), which means that the percentage of women members of parliament in Ghana remains at 15%, a level lower than the average in the sub-region West Africa (18%), the continental African average (27%) and the global world average (also 27%). [9]
Ghana’s parliament on Wednesday unanimously passed a controversial anti-homosexuality bill that has drawn international condemnation. “After three long years, we have finally passed the Human ...
Parliamentary Press Corps are an association of journalists who sit in the Press gallery and report proceedings of Parliament of Ghana to the media. Instituted in the fourth republic, the Parliamentary Press Corps is made up of a seven-member leadership headed by Abdulai Gariba as of 2003.