Indexing government scandals one at a time
Ghana has for the second successive year dropped on the annual Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders. The country’s ranking fell from 60th place last year to 62nd place in 20...
May 3, 2023
The Energy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has revealed that crude condensate worth $2.5m has gone missing from the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR). Dr. Prempeh stated that the deal he secured for ...
April 20, 2023
A bombshell report authored by former Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has found itself in the public domain indicting several New P...
April 20, 2023
A Canadian man who smuggles $40 million worth of gold from Ghana every month has disclosed the kind of close relationship he has with Ghana’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Alistair Mathia...
April 16, 2023
Minister of Communication and Digitalisation Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has come under criticism for naming a library and tech hub after her mother. The Christiana Akua Brago Diawuo Library and Tech Hu...
April 3, 2023
Mr James Keck Osei who works at the Office of the Vice President as Director of Administration, is being investigated by the Special Prosecutor for addressing an unauthorised letter to the Commissi...
Feb. 14, 2023
A fraudulent payment made for the placement of a student into a category “A” school in 2022 was traced to the login access of the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum. This is contained ...
Feb. 9, 2023
The Auditor-General has disclosed that the government spent ¢10 billion of monies mobilised for Covid-19 activities on budget support. According to the A-G, a total of ¢21,844,189,185.24 was mob...
Jan. 23, 2023
Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has presented what he describes as “unimpeachable” and “incontrovertible” evidence against the Secretary to the Board of Tr...
Jan. 16, 2023
Ghana has suspended payments on most of its external debt, effectively defaulting as the country struggles to plug its cavernous balance of payments deficit. The finance ministry said that it wi...
Dec. 20, 2022
Ghana’s cedi slumped to become the world’s worst-performing currency this year as investors continued to squeeze foreign capital to the west African country before a deal with the International Mon...
Oct. 17, 2022
An amount of US$2 million Ghana paid in 2019 as premium to acquire ordinary shares for the development of the Accra Sky Train Project has been reported as a net liability. This is contained in ...
Sept. 2, 2022
A total of ¢17.4 billion in financial irregularities have been flagged by the Auditor-General in its latest report submitted to parliament for the 2021 financial year. This represents a 36% rise co...
Aug. 30, 2022
The Auditor-General has indicted the Judicial Service for an unapproved auction of vehicles to judges and has ordered the retrieval of the 19 vehicles. The list of beneficiaries of the auctioned...
Aug. 30, 2022
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has recovered GH¢1.074 million from Labianca Company Limited, owned by a member of the Council of State, Ms Eunice Jacqueline Buah Asomah-Hinneh. The amo...
Aug. 8, 2022