The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

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Excluding NACOB from port checks disturbing – Aning

Security analyst Dr. Kwesi Aning has described as disturbing the decision by government to exclude the Narcotics Control Board and the National security from inspection agencies at the ports. Vi...

June 14, 2018

EC boss, Charlotte Osei, two others removed

The President Nana Akufo-Addo has removed the Electoral Commissioner Charlotte Osei and her two deputies from office for “misbehaviour and incompetence.” The removal is on the recommendation of a c...

June 13, 2018

Sammi Awuku’s Wife Grabs Juicy Feeding Contract At Free Zones Board

Ghana Palaver has reported that a lucrative feeding contract has been packaged by the Executive Secretary of the Ghana Free Zones Authority, Michael Okyere Baafi, for a company owned by Mary Awuku,...

June 12, 2018

Sell ‘cocaine’ if you can’t withstand economic hardship – Minister to traders

Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah has asked petty traders in the Kumasi metropolis to venture into the sale of cocaine if they cannot withstand the economic hardship in the country. H...

June 6, 2018

Presidency, GRA, national security in GHC1.88bn petroleum revenue loss

The government has lost GHC1.88bn in petroleum revenue leakages through nefarious actors within the Ghana Revenue Authority, the presidency and national security, the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Dist...

May 29, 2018

Prez Akufo-Addo prints Presidential Diaries, another thing he criticized in the past

President Nana Akufo-Addo, then flagbearer of the opposition NPP in 2015 alleged at an International Conference of the party's at the NH Grand in Amsterdam that President John Mahama’s administrati...

May 19, 2018

Government interfering with civil service structure

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), has raised concerns over what it calls government’s interference in the structure of the Civil Service. CLOGSAG complained ab...

April 30, 2018

Akufo-Addo submits 998 presidential staffers to Parliament

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has forwarded a list of 998 current staffers and ministers of state at the presidency to Parliament. The publication of the list of presidential staffers fr...

April 20, 2018

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

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

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

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