Indexing government scandals one at a time
The Public Procurement Authority (PPA), has approved a whopping GH¢3,993,930.36 male condoms supply contract the Ministry of Health awarded to an Indian-owned company. The decision to award the co…
March 30, 2019
President Akufo-Addo has been criticized for appointing Dr Alexander Y. Adusei Jr as the Director of the non-existent Keta Port. The appointment is unnecessary and a willful rape on the country’s mea…
March 29, 2019
The Ministry of Finance led by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta has organized a party to celebrate what it calls Ghana's hat-trick; the successful raising of an eurobond, completion of IMF-ECF…
March 22, 2019
Despite the President’s rhetoric on peace and security, Joy News investigations have found, his former personal bodyguard leads a pro-government militia group. The explosive documentary aired on J…
March 7, 2019
A presidential staffer and Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Mr. Charles Cromwell Bissue, has been caught as the foremost turncoat against efforts to weed out il…
Feb. 27, 2019
Just days after the President indicated in his 2019 State of the Nation Address that sanitation in the country had improved significantly since he promised to make Accra the cleanest city, there are …
Feb. 25, 2019
The cedi has weakened 8.6 percent this year, the most among more than 140 currencies tracked by Bloomberg, after the central bank unexpectedly cut its benchmark rate in January. The cedi declined …
Feb. 22, 2019
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Authority (GNPC) Dr. K.K Sarpong has accused the board chair of the firm Freddie Blay of undermining his authority. In a statement addre…
Feb. 16, 2019
The European Commission has added Ghana to a list of 23 countries with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks. Ghana and her West African …
Feb. 14, 2019
The Executive Secretary of Narcotic Control Board has allegedly bought a single office chair for GH¢10,267. According to a receipt going viral on social media, the chair which cost actually costs GH¢…
Feb. 14, 2019
The Government has started the process of recruiting New Patriotic Party (NPP) boys who are to be trained as election security team. The main job on the line for this election security team is to …
Feb. 8, 2019
In a ruling of the committee on Legal & Administrative review of the PPA Board issued at its 6th meeting held on Wednesday 13th March 2019, the PPA ruled that the decision by the Ministry of Health t…
Feb. 8, 2019
Some macho men in National Security branded t-shirts who are suspected to be members of the governing party, NPP's vigilante group attacked some voters at the La-Bawaleshie Presby JHS polling station…
Jan. 31, 2019
Ghana has recorded a score of 41 out of 100 according to the 2018 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). This performance is still worse than the country's score of 43 in 2016 under the former administra…
Jan. 29, 2019
The Ghana chapter of international human rights campaigner, Amnesty International, has urged security agencies to swiftly clampdown on the recent wave of seeming arranged killings in the country. …
Jan. 17, 2019