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“I Was Surprised As The Only NPP MP Elect In Upper East Region” - Abanga

  Some residents of Garu in the Upper East Region have decried the spate of accidents caused by Tri-cycles, popularly called ‘motor king’ and called for the proper regulation of the riders who are mostly teenage boys. They said the boys were inexperienced and rode recklessly. Mr Christian Alalba a resident and teacher by profession confirmed the situation to the Ghana News Agency in an interview and said the services of ‘motor king’ caused more harm than good. He said the large number ...

  The Member of Parliament of Bawku Central, Mr. Mahama Ayariga, has asked the Administrator-General to provide Parliament with the handover notes of past ministers in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s first term to enable members of the Appointments Committee to do a thorough job on vetting ministerial nominees. He said while the Presidential Transition Act provided that during the transition there should be handover notes which must be given to Parliament, the House was yet to receiv...

NPP Understands Difficulties Of Tertiary Students And Has Better Plans To Address Them By Prince Hamid Armah, PhD LISTEN FEB 5, 2021 After several postponements and contestations over the wording and competence of it, a private members motion in the name of Honourable Mahama Ayariga, Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, was finally debated and put to a vote on Thursday, January 28, 2021. The final motion that was debated was, in the words of the mover himself, “materially different” f...

According to him, the committee will be doing Ghanaians a great disservice if they do not demand the best from the nominees. In an interview on Accra based Joy News, he said this years vetting will not be business as usual. “You would have to justify your nomination by the president, and I think that is good for Ghana. We will be failing Ghanaians if you come and you are not up to standard and we just pass you,” he said on Wednesday. “I don’t think that the tax payer’s money, or with ...

  The Member of Parliament of Bawku Central, Mr. Mahama Ayariga, has asked the Administrator-General to provide Parliament with the handover notes of past ministers in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s first term to enable members of the Appointments Committee to do a thorough job on vetting ministerial nominees. He said while the Presidential Transition Act provided that during the transition there should be handover notes which must be given to Parliament, the House was yet to receiv...

Graphic Online BY: Rodneys Potpourri 705 This week, my guest columnist is the freshly-minted Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwesimintsim, Dr Prince H. Armah, who is also the immediate past Director-General of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA). He writes on a recent debate in Parliament on support for students in the tertiary education space. After several postponements and contestations over the wording and competence of it, a private member’s motion in the name of Mr...

Mahama Influenced Ayarigas Mischief-Driven University Fee Waiver - Mireku Duker Reveals

Why are you quiet when your MPs are denying us government support? - TEIN member quizzes TESCON By Ibn Wahid Musah Listen to article A member of the communication team for Kpandai Constituency and also a Communication Officer Hopeful for TEIN - UEW, Mr. Musah Ibn Wahid has queried the Tertiary Education Students Confederacy of New Patriotic Party (TESCON) Executives why they are too quiet over the terrible abortion of such a favorable intervention proposed by Hon. Mahama Ayariga. Musah Ibn Wah...

Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, has labelled his colleagues from the New Patriotic Party as insensitive following the rejection of his motion for the fees of tertiary students to be absorbed for the 2020/2021 academic year. Mr. Ayariga wanted President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to absorb tertiary fees as part of interventions from the government to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on Ghanaians. Although the Minorit...