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The Speaker is not an elected member of parliament though must be qualified to stand for election as such. There are a total of 276 constituencies in Ghana. The 9th Parliament first convened on 7 January 2025 to elect a Speaker and Deputy Speakers as well as for the administration of oaths to the Speaker and Members of Parliament.
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 .
Gideon Boako currently serves on Ghana's Economic Management Team (EMT) as a technical advisor at the Office of the president and as the spokesperson to the vice president of Ghana. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and currently the member of parliament -elect for the Tano North (Ghana parliament constituency) in the Ahafo ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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]
He served as the Member of Parliament for Nadowli West constituency in the Upper West Region of Ghana in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th parliaments of the 4th republic of Ghana. [7] He contested for the presidential candidate slot of the National Democratic Congress in 2019, but lost to former President John Dramani Mahama. [8]