Indexing government scandals one at a time
The Ministry of Tourism has tabled a motion before Parliament for the approval of a sum of $14 million to be used for branding and capacity building of its staff. The said amount is expected to be ...
Nov. 14, 2018
The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), has suspended its Eastern Regional Director, Fred Dzeny for asking President Akufo-Addo to show leadership in the fight against corruption by prosecu...
Nov. 5, 2018
The Director General of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Kwame Owusu, has defended the renovation of his 2-bedroom official Cantonments residence at the cost of GHc 1 million, despite concerns the amo...
Nov. 1, 2018
The Director-General of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Mr. Kwame Owusu blew GH₵135,125 (the old Ghana cedis equivalent of ₵1,351,250,000) one night on food and GH₵10,652 on another occasion on food ...
Oct. 24, 2018
An investigation by Corruption Watch has uncovered that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sunk, at least, GHS1.5 million into questionable contracts. Two of the EPA’s last three Executiv...
Oct. 24, 2018
For the past two years – since first-quarter of 2017 – the financial and insurance sector of the economy, which are jointly assessed, has experienced contracted growth consecutively; with the lates...
Oct. 19, 2018
The Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority (NYA) Emmanuel Asigri has disclosed the Akufo-Addo government has no strategic plan for creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youth in...
Oct. 18, 2018
The Ministry of Trade, under the supervision of the Minister, Alan Kyeremanteng has awarded a 10-year sole sourced contract to Nick Danso’s Ghana Link Network Services Limited with its overseas par...
Oct. 11, 2018
Ghana seems to have chalked a rather negative record feat at the United Nations Assembly after presenting a twenty two-man delegation led by Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to the world body’s ...
Oct. 10, 2018
There has been an upward adjustments in allowances for the chairman and the board members of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC) Limited. In one instance, the increase was over 700 per c...
Oct. 10, 2018
The government’s plan to engage a foreign national to design a master redevelopment plan for the nation’s capital, Accra has angered key professionals who have described the move as an insult to th...
Oct. 7, 2018
It has emerged that some food items recently supplied by Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to flood victims in the Upper West Region had expired, resulting in some beneficiaries becoming ill afte...
Sept. 25, 2018
Ghana has been ranked among countries with the lowest government integrity. According to the 2018 Index of Economic Freedom released by the Heritage Foundation, loose fiscal policy and political fa...
Sept. 21, 2018
The Asuogyaman district assembly in the Eastern region has been hit with a massive price inflation scandal that has angered residents of the district. Documents sighted by Starr News reveal pric...
Sept. 18, 2018
Ghana’s attempt to transition from analogue to digital is set to meet another major snag. This is because the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has rolled up its sleeves to resis...
Sept. 18, 2018