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Gov’t punishing Ghanaians with 28% power tariff increase – Minority

Minority NPP in Parliament demands immediate reversal of Ghana’s 28% electricity tariff hikes, calling them malicious and unjust. Warns of SME collapse, job losses, and rising utility poverty.

Afenyo-Markin lists gov’t failures on Farmers Day: Premix shortages, unsold grain, galamsey

The Minority in Parliament has criticised the government for failing farmers and fishers on Farmers’ Day 2025, citing grain market collapse, premix fuel shortages, illegal mining, smuggled imports

‘Somebody must go to jail,’ – Afenyo-Markin ‘smells’ GH¢9.4m scandal

Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has accused the Ministry of Transport of a GH¢9.4 million budget scandal, alleging the ministry spent far beyond its approved 2025 allocation and calling for a full-scale investigation into the alleged financial irregularity

Sanitary pad saga deepens: Old Tafo MP exposes ‘shifting figures and inflated costs’

Old Tafo MP Vincent Ekow Assafuah has challenged the government’s explanation for the cost of sanitary pads in the national budget, alleging inflated prices, conflicting figures

Nitiwul bits back: Kennedy Agyapong propaganda video is from 2023, stop misleading Ghanaians

Dominic Nitiwul refutes claims by Kennedy Agyapong that he engaged in tribal politics, insisting a 2023 video is being misrepresented as new

Budget showdown: Oppong Nkrumah fires warning on Roads Ministry’s GH¢5bn allocation

MP Kojo Oppong Nkrumah strongly objected to the GH¢5 billion budget request for the Ministry of Roads and Highways, citing "significant discrepancies" in the Ministry of Finance's reporting on the Big Push programme

Finish the dualisation first – Former Roads Minister questions proposal for Accra-Kumasi expressway

Former Roads Minister Francis Asenso-Boakye has appealed to President Mahama to reconsider the proposed new Accra–Kumasi expressway and rather concentrate on the dualisation project