Indexing government scandals one at a time
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) is in the news again, this time over the disappearance of about 600,000 litres of its contaminated fuel. A five-member committee set up by the current...
Sept. 14, 2018
Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo, has petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to stop the “manipulation” of procurement processes in his office. Mr Domelevo is accusing his Board Chairman, Prof. Edwar...
Sept. 12, 2018
Government’s flagship agriculture programme, Planting for Food and Jobs has suffered a major setback following the destruction of over 10,000 hectares of farmland in the Upper East Region. The s...
Sept. 11, 2018
Executives of the New Patriotic Party in Sawla in the Northern Region are demanding the removal of their District Chief Executive, Lawal Tamimu. At a press briefing in Sawla, the party executive...
Sept. 5, 2018
The Centre for Socioeconomic Studies (CSS) has said over one million Ghanaians have lost their jobs since 2017. “The CSS, from its study of the situation, found that over a million individuals w...
Aug. 31, 2018