The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

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Gov't sole-sources $12.5m contract for blood distribution drones

Government has engaged a US-based firm through sole-sourcing for the design, installation and operation of an unmanned aerial vehicles (drones). The firm, Messrs. Zipline International Inc, is e...

Dec. 3, 2018

Amewu admits return of dumsor

Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu has admitted that the country is currently faced with challenges in the power sector. John Peter Amewu, who had earlier debunked assertions that Ghana is returning...

Nov. 26, 2018

GES orders headteachers to line pupils on street to welcome Akufo-Addo

The District Chief Executive of Asuogyaman in a letter addressed to the District Director of education asked the headteachers of the schools to release some students to line up along the principal ...

Nov. 21, 2018

Minority resists increase in presidential staffers from 998 to 1,614

The Minority in Parliament has expressed worry over government’s intention to increase the number of presidential staffers from 998 to 1,614. This is said to have been captured in Appendix 7 of the...

Nov. 21, 2018

Tourism Ministry to spend $14m on capacity building and branding

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

EOCO suspends Regional Director for ‘advising’ Akufo-Addo to prosecute his corrupt officials

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

Financial & Insurance sector grows negative 24 months in a row

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

Govt Has No Policy Document On Job Creation – NYA Boss

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

PMMC board adjusts allowances upwards

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 travels with largest delegation to UN conference

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

Gov’t engages Singaporean master-planner to ‘redevelop Accra’

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

Gov’t accused of giving expired food products to flood victims

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 ranked among countries with worst government integrity

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

Government to yield DTT to China's StarTimes

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

Over 600,000 litres of BOST’s contaminated fuel disappears

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

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