The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

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Akufo-Addo grants approval for development & possible sale of 92-year Achimota Forest Reserve land

President Akufo-Addo has granted Executive Approval for Achimota Forest Reserve land which has been classified as a protected National Forest Reserve since 1930 to be redeveloped and sold for other...

May 17, 2022

Free SHS students nationwide left hungry

Senior High Schools under the free SHS programme have threatened to shut down and students sent home if the food supply situation does not improve. This is a result of the poor food supply situa...

May 9, 2022

Ghana records worst press freedom ranking in 17 years

Ghana’s celebrated press freedom status has deteriorated, pushing the country down on the ladder of the league of countries with the freest media in the world. According to the 2022 Press Freedo...

May 3, 2022

$140,000 was used to fly Adwoa Safo for E-levy vote

Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has alleged that the cost of private jet hired to fly home Dome Kwabenya MP Sarah Adwoa Safo to partake in the controversial E-le...

March 1, 2022

MD of Ghana Airports Company sacked

The appointment of the Managing Director of the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL), Yaw Kwakwa, has been terminated. “His Excellency the President, per letter No. 0P S127/22/104, dated 31st Ja...

Feb. 9, 2022

PIAC Report Indicts GNPC Boss Over US$7.5 Million Building Transaction

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has in a report, indicted the management of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) over an acquisition of a residential property at ...

Jan. 21, 2022

Ghana Airports Company Limited spent GH₵118k on Xmas decorations

The Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Mr Paul Adom-Otchere has disclosed that the company spent GH₵118,000 on Christmas decorations at the Kotoka International Airport (K...

Jan. 7, 2022

The COVID-19 spraying scandal initiated by President Akufo-Addo

This investigative documentary provides compelling evidence of how the Covid-19 spraying projects in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the Ministry of Education ended up be...

Dec. 17, 2021

Fraud at Covid-19 Labs: Jubilee House Clinic Involved

The Fourth Estate has revealed how, by fraud, people who tested positive for COVID-19 obtained negative results at Frontiers Healthcare Services Limited and the Jubilee House Clinic. A health pr...

Dec. 13, 2021

Millions of passengers stranded as drivers' strike bite hard

A sit-down strike by commercial drivers across the country has left millions of Ghanaians stranded at various bus terminals. The nationwide strike is to protest the high cost of fuel prices in the ...

Dec. 6, 2021

Gov't slaps 1.75 Percent E-levy on MoMo, electronic transactions

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has announced a new 1.75 per cent tax called E-levy on mobile money and all electronic transactions in the country as a measure to “rope in the informal sector into ...

Nov. 17, 2021

Serwaa Broni: Prez Akufo-Addo's alleged sidechic claims he used National Security to rob her

A lady named Serwaa Broni has made serious allegations against President Nana Akufo-Addo. In a video, Serwaa claimed that Akufo-Addo had wanted to have an affair with her but she rejected him. Acco...

Oct. 29, 2021

105,927 liters of fuel disappears at TOR

The Interim Management Committee of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) says it has interdicted some staff for their involvement in the alleged theft of ¢10.4 million worth of cables. Describing it as unac...

Oct. 5, 2021

Akufo-Addo to buy new presidential jet

The government has started the process of acquiring a new state aircraft that will serve as the presidential jet among other functions, the Director of Communications at the Office of the President...

Sept. 28, 2021

Akufo Addo's nephew exposes corruption in his government

A supposed relative of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has exposed corruption in the Akufo-Addo government. In a 14-minute long video message posted on Facebook, the gentleman by name Angel N...

Aug. 7, 2021

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