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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed the Majority Leader and Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin as the new board Chairman of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). This was contained in a letter signed by the President’s Secretary Ambassador Nana Asante Bediatuo. The Majority Leader replaces Herbert Krapa who is now the … Read more
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has categorically denied the sale or lease of certain state lands to cronies of the Akufo-Addo administration. The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, raised alarm about the sale of state lands, accusing the current government of selling lands belonging to institutions such as the … Read more
The Parliament of Ghana has announced the formation of several key committees, with Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, appointed as the Chair of the Assurance Committee. The Assurance Committee, chaired by Ablakwa, is tasked with ensuring that government promises and commitments made to Parliament and the public are fulfilled. The … Read more
The Auditor-General’s (A-G) report has uncovered that the Electricity Company of Ghana’s (ECG) procurement of meters, which exceeded $145 million, violated the Public Procurement Act. The report also revealed that ECG was unable to fully recover the excess of GH53.9 million identified through monitoring and did not take legal action against customers involved in electricity … Read more
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has called on the government to provide free sanitary pads to all basic and senior high school girls and subsidise the cost for tertiary institution students. This call comes after the Eastern Regional chapter of the GBA discovered that some individuals are exploiting the high cost of sanitary pads to … Read more
The Ghana Police Service has arrested Nana Poku Piesie alias Kwabena, who bragged about defiling a minor in a viral video. The man had shared explicit details on Sompa FM about his encounters with the 14-year-old girl, from her sixth-grade year until she completed high school at Kumasi Academy. This sparked widespread outrage and calls … Read more
The 2022 Auditor-General’s report has disclosed that an amount of GH¢831,776.00 realised from the sale of forms for the selection of caterers for the Ghana School Feeding Programme for the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 academic years has not been accounted for. The report uncovered that 21,880 application forms were sold at GH¢50 each, which brought in … Read more
The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah, has officially withdrawn the controversial Legislative Instrument (L.I.) on behalf of the Minister for Transport. This L.I. sought to grant Members of Parliament (MPs), Judges, and Ministers the privilege to use sirens and exempt them from speed limits while performing their official duties. … Read more
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has denied knowledge of a Legislative Instrument before the House seeking to amend the Road Traffic Regulations. The L.I on Road Traffic Regulations Amendment offers lawmakers, among other state officials, the opportunity to use sirens and be exempted from speed limits. The L.I. has received backlash, with the minority … Read more
A performance audit conducted by the Auditor-General on the management of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has uncovered that about GH¢2.3 million has been overpaid to caterers. The Auditor-General carried out the audit from August to October 2022 at the GSFP National Secretariat in Accra, Ashanti, Eastern, Greater Accra, Upper East, and Western Regional … Read more