The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

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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

Exton Cubic floors government in court

A High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Tawiah Ackaah-Boafo has ruled in favour of Exton Cubic Limited in a suit it filed challenging the revocation of their mining lease by the Lands and Na...

Feb. 8, 2018

Fisheries Minister kicks out Director from office

Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Elizabeth Naa Afoley Quaye has attacked the Ministry's Director of Finance and Administration, Cecilia Ezuah in a bid to forcibly remove from her position. ...

Jan. 29, 2018

Luxury cars valued at $3.2m seized from MCE's residence

Two luxurious Mercedes Benz vehicles, with the street value of $3.2 million, allegedly smuggled into the country through the Aflao border has been seized at the residence of MCE for Ketu South. ...

Jan. 22, 2018

Gov’t deal with Exxon Mobil unlawful

Co-Chair of the Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative, Dr. Steve Manteaw, has accused the government circumventing the law by signing an oil exploration deal with Exxon Mobil. Dr. Ma...

Jan. 20, 2018

Special Development Ministry to blow GHC800k on website

Parliament has approved a staggering amount of GHC800,000 for the development of a website for the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives. The figure was contained in the breakdown of the mini...

Dec. 21, 2017

Senior Minister office illegal, budgetary allocation rejected

An Executive Instrument (EI28) containing a list of ministries signed by President Nana Akufo-Addo and gazetted on 28th February, 2017 did not include the office of the Senior Minister as a ministr...

Dec. 18, 2017

Expats Charged $100k To Sit With Akufo-Addo

Expatriates who work in Ghana were recently charged $100, 000 to sit on the same table with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Member of Parliament for Asawase, Muntaka Mubarak has revealed...

Dec. 15, 2017

Conflict of interest? NLA boss takes $60K personal loan from service provider

NLA boss, Mr. Kofi Osei-Ameyaw took a $60K personal loan from service provider barely one month after he was appointed Director-General of the National Lottery Authority in March 2017. When Kofi...

Dec. 13, 2017

Gov’t spent over Gh¢100k to rename Tamale Stadium

Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide feels his outfit was modest in spending over GHC 100,000 to rename the Tamale Sports Stadium after late Vice President Aliu Mahama. Accordi...

Dec. 12, 2017

Akufo-Addo was wrong to have endorsed Jospong

Former Chair of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Francis Emile Short has said the President Nana AKufo-Addo made an error in endorsing the JOSPONG Group of...

Dec. 4, 2017

Over 200 instances of pre-mix fuel diversions recorded in 2017

There have been at least 200 cases of premix fuel diversions in the country since January 2017 costing the nation over 22 million cedis in the regulation of the petroleum sector. The phenomenon whi...

Nov. 27, 2017

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