Source: GNA - Parliament will reconvene on Tuesday December 20, 2016 to wrap up the Third and final meeting of the fourth and final session of the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth republic.

The House, which went on recess before the 2016 general elections, is expected to sit for three days during which outstanding Bills and issues, as well constitutional provisions leading to the dissolution of the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic will be deliberated.

Source: starrfmonline. com - The President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo will today present his list of potential ministerial appointees to the national executive committee of the New Patriotic Party.

This is the first time Nana Addo is meeting the party leadership following his victory in last week’s presidential elections.

Source: classfmonline. com - All governments so far in the Fourth Republic should be blamed for the problems that have characterised the transfer of power from one government to the other, following their failure to resource the office of the Administrator General to ensure a smooth transition, Dr Edward Brenya, a political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has said.

Source: myjoyfmonline. com - President John Mahama is set to address Parliament for the last time next week Thursday in what is likely to be his final official engagement as president.

It will be an address on the state of nation, after serving a four year term as president.

Source: myjoyonline. com - The Electoral Commission has said its results transmitted electronically were tampered with leading to a delay in the release of presidential results of last week's election.

According to a Deputy Chairperson of the Commission, Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, the figures kept changing anytime they were keyed into the system.

Source: classfmonline. com - Fritz Baffour, the outgoing Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma South, has indicated that the blame game within the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is appropriate as it will help the party identify its shortcomings.
He has, however, admonished party faithful to be guarded in their speech and conduct in criticising one another.

Source: myjoyonline. com - The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described as misleading claims by New Patriotic Party (NPP) that government is giving out last minute appointments and contracts to cronies.

“The law that governs the Transition [Presidential Transition Act 845, 2012] does not state that a government which is about to leave power should not continue giving jobs to others,” Member of NDC legal team, Abraham Amaliba has said.