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Laud Nartey is a current affairs editor with the MG News team at Media General, serving TV3 Ghana, 3News, Onua TV and more platforms.
Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, is attributing the country's ability to conserve foreign exchange and achieve significant gold-backed inflows to the efficient operations of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod). According to him, the state-run agency, tasked with regulating and promoting the coun
The allocation to parliament for its oversight role has been increased to GHS1.6 billion in the 2026 budget from the GHS1.1 billion in the 2025 budget statement, Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga has said. He made the point that the government was committed to resourcing parliament to enable it to play
The contents of the 2026 budget statement presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister have made it clear that the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration was the worst case study of bad economic management. They said the NPP was bad in government and even worse in opposition The Majori
The Majority Leader, Mahama Ayariga, has refuted the view of the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, that the 2026 budget statement was full of lamentations. Mahama Ayariga said it is not lamentations, but rather the continued unearthing of the bad economic management of the previous New Patri
The 2026 budget statement presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, was full of lamentations, Minority Leader Alrxnader Afenyo-Markin has said. He described the document as 'Part II of the lamentations'. Speaking in parliament after the budget presentation on Thursday,
The Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has asked about the whereabouts of the jobs that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) promised to create under the 24-Hour Economy idea. He made the observation that the youth are crying for jobs and asking what has been made of the 24-Hour Economy pro
The Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has said the 2026 budget statement presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister failed to take into account the works of Parliament. He made the observation that the budget allocated a paltry sum to the House, which is supposed to play an oversight ro
The Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has said that the 2026 budget statement presented by the Finance Minister failed to account for critical issues. For instance, he said, the budget failed to account for the GHS 20,000 that the Director of Operations at the Presidency, Mustapha Gbande, sa
Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Governance (CDD Ghana), Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh, has welcomed the directive to all schools to exclusively purchase local rice, maize, chicken, and eggs. He makes the point that the government must use its immense purchasing power discriminatin
Parliament has, through a head count, approved the nomination of Justice Paul Baffoe Bonnie as the Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana. Parliament approved him on Thursday, November 13. 163 members of the Majority were counted while the Minority recorded 69 members. "I urge the nominee to take al
The Majority Leader, Mahaam Ayariga, has said that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has always coexisted peacefully with Chief Justices appointed by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration. Referring to former Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, who was appointed by Former President Joh
The Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has pushed for a secret ballot for the approval or otherwise of the Chief Justice nominee, Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie. He made the point that there are some members of the Majority who even have problems with the nomination of Baffoe-Bonniee, so they wil
The Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has said that the fact that the prima facie case against the former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo remains unpublished by the government is a concern to the Minority. Afenyo-Markin said this is one of the reasons the Minority cannot support the nominat
The National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), formerly Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), conducted a thorough background search into the life of the Chief Justice nominee Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, the Attorney-General and Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga East, Dr Dominic Ayine, has said. Accor
The Attorney-General, Dr Dominic Ayine, has said that President John Dramani Mahama appointed the right person, Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, to the position of the Chief Justice of Ghana. Dr Ayine said that Justice Baffoe-Bonnie is more than qualified for the position. "We have no doubt that the Pres
