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Be Prudent In The RTI Law Implementation – Coalition Calls On Government
In pursuant to ensure the necessary tools for deepening governance, promoting transparency and accountability and improving the delivery of social services and the welfare...
NCCE Praises Ghana’s Parliament for Passing the RTI Bill
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has praised Parliament for its efforts in passing the Right to Information (RTI) Bill into law.
The Commission...
Allotey Jacobs Caution Ministers with girlfriends over RTI bill
Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and a now Social Commentator, Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has advised officials in general and...
Ghana passes RTI bill Amid controversial clause
The Media Coalition on the Right to Information Bill still has some reservations despite the monumental passing of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill...
Ghana’s Right to Information Bill finally approved
Parliament has finally approved the Right to Information (RTI) Bill after two decades.
The Bill which was passed after its third reading at 8:30 pm...
President Akufo- Addo Excited About RTI Bill
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he will, happily, assent to the Right To Information (RTI) Bill as soon as it is brought to...
Media Practitioners Charged To Mobilize Public Support For The Passage Of RTI Bill –...
The Right to Information Bill (RTI) has since February 5, 2010, suffered series of gimmicks to be passed. Successive governments have deliberately taken...
Ghana’s parliament advised to pass RTI Bill
A University lecturer has tasked parliament to pass the Right to Information (RTI) Bill as an ideal way of demonstrating its commitment towards transparency...
Ghana’s Parliament revisits RTI Bill
Parliament on Thursday evening concurred that further work by the House on the Right to Information (RTI) Bill should not be done under a...
NGO implores government to pass RTI Bill
Teere, a local Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has joined the campaign for the passage of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill.
The delay in passing the...
RE: Release RTI Bill (2018) on website and social media platforms of Parliament and...
Odekro has taken notice of the call for memoranda on the Right To Information (RTI) Bill, 2018. The call was made in a statement...
RTI Bill Lays Before Parliament Now
The Right to Information Bill (RTI) was finally laid on Friday in Parliament.
Deputy Attorney General Joseph Kpemka Dindiok, laid the bill on Friday morning,...
Anti Corruption Measure: Lay RTI Bill Before Parliament Now!
The Right to Information (RTI) Coalition, Ghana notes, with utmost disappointment, the latest in the litany of promises and pledges made by officials of...
RTI Bill Passage Will Ensure Accountability and Transparency’
The founders of iWatch Africa Project say the project has highlighted the critical need for the passage of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill...
We Need Our RTI Bill Passed Now
The Coalition on the Right to Information (RTI Coalition) welcomes, with cautious optimism, the declaration by H.E President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, at the...
Parliament Refusal To Pass RTI Bill Is A Big Lost To Ghana
The age-long Right to Information (RTI) Bill, which has been described by many as the oldest Bill in Parliament, suffered a major defeat when...
RTI coalition pleads with President for a speedy pass of the RTI Bill this...
The Right to Information Coalition (RTI) of Ghana has begun moves to hold government on its promise to pass the Right to Information bill...
RTI bill: What is parliament and government waiting for?
After years of strenuous struggles to get the bill on the Right to Information (RTI) passed into law, to sanitize public spending and...
RTI Bill and Questions it brings to the speaker and Parliamentarians
1. Is the RTI Bill still a priority for Parliament?
The Speaker of Parliament on May 17th 2016 singled...
RTI Bill Before Parliament For Consideration
The Bill, which was laid before the House in 2013, is expected to set the legal parameters on the disclosure of information and how...
MPs Commit To Be Champions Of RTI Bill
The Bill has been on Parliament’s agenda for consideration since October 2015 but is yet to be considered.
The Coalition thanked the participating MPs including...
RTI bill will soon be passed – Bagbin
MR Francis Ameyibor who reports for the Ghana News Agency dropped this good news from the Parliament of Ghana and circulated widely to all...
RTI Bill Reaches Consideration Stage
Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, the Majority Leader in Parliament, on Friday gave the assurance that the House was committed to working on the...
How Right to Information can enhance governance in Africa
Honorable Alban Kingsford Bagbin, leader of parliament who believes in the RTI bill is leading the current parliament to consider amendments on the bill...
Government asked to incorporate maximum disclosure in RTI Bill
By Catherine Adjeley Aubyn
Government has been asked to incorporate maximum disclosure of information clauses into the Right to Information Bill, which is currently before...
Coalition expresses confidence in Ghana?s parliament to pass RTI Bill
From Alhaji Alhasan Abdulai
The Coalition for the Right to Information expresses confidence in Ghana?s parliament to pass the Right to Information Bill currently before...
Be firm on MPs to facilitate the passage of the RTI Bill – Ghanaians...
?Madam Mena Mensah, the Africa Regional Coordinator of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), a Non-Governmental Organisation, on Tuesday, urged Ghanaians to be adamant...
Certain Clauses Of RTI Bill Must Be Amended-Owoahene
Nana Owoahene Acheampong, General Manager of Royals FM, a Wenchi-based local radio station on Thursday, appealed to Ghanaians to join the campaign for the...