The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

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Akufo-Addo appoints 3 CEOs with 10 deputies for 3 Dev’t Authorities

President Akufo-Addo has appointed three persons to act as chief executives and 10 others as deputy chief executives for three of the development authorities created by his government to advance th...

April 13, 2018

Bugri Naabu: I sanctioned attack on ‘NDC’ contractor

The Northern regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Alhaji Bugri Naabu has confirmed that he sanctioned the attack on a local contractor Tuesday afternoon and warned that equipment of the co...

April 10, 2018

Rev Owusu Bempah gets government appointment

Controversial preacher and Founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry, Isaac Owusu Bempah, has been appointed to the Cancer Board of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. Owusu Be...

April 9, 2018

Sports Ministry involved in visa racketeering

The Sports Ministry and the National Sports Authority (NSA) have been accused of facilitating the acquisition of visas for 50 'Journalists' who have been deported from Australia. They had trave...

April 3, 2018

Kennedy Agyapong's wife gets GHC100.2m sole sourced streetlight contract

NPP Member of Parliament for Assin Central Honourable Kennedy Agyapong has gone all out in defense of his wife’s 100,260,000 million cedis sole-sourced contract from the Energy Ministry, saying tha...

March 28, 2018

Foreign Minister calls for help to log on to her Ministry’s website

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey at an event to launch an Information Communication Technology (ICT) and community centre, funded by the People’...

March 23, 2018

Akufo-Addo Approves Agreement For US Military Base In Ghana

The Government of Ghana has approved an agreement with the United States of America to set up a military base in Ghana and also allow unrestricted access to a host of facilities and wide-ranging ta...

March 20, 2018

Sister-in-law to NLA boss gets 11 contracts in one day

Eleven contracts awarded to the sister-in-law of the Chief Executive of the National Lotteries Authority Kofi Osei Ameyaw has raised questions of conflict of interest. The CEO approved the contr...

March 14, 2018

Procurement Minister to face Parliament over GHC28.8m MASLOC sole sourcing

Parliament is set to question the Procurement Minister over claims Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) CEO failed to go through due process in the award of a GH¢28.8 million contract. A...

March 13, 2018

Handling of traders around Nana Addo’s home ‘reckless’ – IDEG Boss

The Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG), Emmanuel Akwetey, has criticised government’s handling of the eviction of traders around President Nana Akufo-Addo’s Nima re...

March 10, 2018

Ghana at 60 committee orders Ghana flags from China

The Ghana at 60 Committee Chairman Ken Amankwah has defended the decision of the Ghana at 60 Committee to order Ghana flags from China. Speaking on CitiFM’s Point Blank on Eyewitness news, he sa...

March 8, 2018

Alarm over 1 million cedis MIT program for heads of Youth agencies

The Minority is demanding an audit into what it claims to be frivolous expenses and a possible case of causing financial loss to the state by the Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh in a one mi...

March 1, 2018

Presidency gifted NPP GH¢5 million for Cape Coast Conference-Obiri Boahen

Details emerging from an audio recording which captures the voice believed to be that of that Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen reveals that the Presiden...

Feb. 27, 2018

Ghana records worst corruption performance in six years

Ghana has recorded its worst performance in the last six years in its fight against corruption, the latest corruption perception index (CPI) has revealed. The country dropped three points from i...

Feb. 22, 2018

Sanitation Minister justifies threats against TV3 journalist

Sanitation minister, Kofi Adda has justified death threats against TV3/3FM journalist, Kwakye Afreh-Nuamah, accusing him of being bribed to run him down. An NPP activist, Hajia Boya called up Afreh...

Feb. 20, 2018

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