Kandifo Institute, a public policy and analytical research think tank, has launched a non-partisan election watch website to provide a one-stop-centre for election data analyses ahead of election 2020. The project dubbed ‘Ghana Election Watch’, seeks to serve as a platform that will provide historical electoral data, all election news,...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, 9th May, 2018, left Ghana for the United Kingdom on a week-long vacation, his first since being sworn-in as President on 7th January, 2017. He was accompanied by the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, his children and grandchildren. Whilst away, the President will honour...
The Member of Parliament for Upper West Akim in the Eastern Region, Derek Ohene Bekoe Asifo, has donated GH₵15,000.00 to fifteen freshly graduated fashion-designers in Adeiso. He had promised to give GH₵1,000.00 to each of the young ladies early this year, when he was invited to their graduation, as a...
Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah has announced that government has from January 2017 and March, 2018 has created over one million(1million) jobs in the formal sector. He made this assertion during the May Day celebrations in Kumasi on Tuesday. Mr. Baffour Awuah said the jobs, which are...
President Akufo-Addo has appointed Ms.Jane Cynthia Naa Korshie Lamptey as the Deputy Special Prosecutor. She was a former acting Director of Public Prosecution and has been a lawyer for more than 30 years. Speaker of Parliament, Mike Oquaye disclosed this following an emergency recall of Parliament in Accra on Thursday, to...
Officials of Assin North Senior High School have been given two weeks by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to purge themselves of perjury or cough up over GH₵61,000. According to the 2015 Auditor General's report, the school made payments of GH₵163,000 without receipts and invoices to verify the payments. Officials...
Officials from the Sefwi Akontombra Assembly in the Western region are yet to retrieve GH₵88,165.00, originally collected as stool lands revenue. The amount according to the Auditor-General’s report for 2015, has been diverted into private account and still remains unaccounted for. According to the Auditor-General’s report for 2015, Patrick Rudolf Aparik,...
Officials of the Twifo Lower Hemang Denkyira District Assembly have been asked to refund over GH₵19,000 covering money spent on fuel purchase with no proof of receipt. This was contained in the findings of the 2015 Auditor General's report where it was captured that there were no supervisory checks to...
The Auditor-General is yet to find records of payment back into state coffers after it emerged that the Gomoa East District Assembly has not presented documents to auditors to support the payment of GH₵81,000 which was spent on the funeral of a former District Chief Executive (DCE) of the...
The leadership of Parliament have given their blessings for full scale investigations into the alleged double-salary payments made to former Members of Parliament (MPs) who also served as Ministers of State under the John Mahama-led administration. Parliament, in a statement issued on April 18, 2018 and signed by its Acting...