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 Constituents of Kwabre East in the Ashanti Region express hostility  and anger against their MP over poor roads. Despite the important contribution of Kwabre East constituency, which is in terms of casting votes for the ruling party NPP, has got the most deplorable roads. Aside the main Kumasi-Mampongten and Kumasi-Kenyase roads, the entire Kwabre East...

The Programmes Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Mary Awelana Addah, has observed that hospitals and health centers, in general, have become places where bribes exchange hands in Ghana. She said though the Ghana Police Service ranks high among institutions perceived most corrupt, the health sector is also becoming known for the canker. Ms...

Bakers in Nigeria are turning off their ovens at midnight in a row over the rising cost of wheat flour and other products like diesel that are having an impact on their profits. Members of one of the bakers’ unions are demanding government subsidies. Emmanuel Onuarah, the president of the Premium Bread Makers Association, told...

The Executive Director of think tank group, Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has questioned the propriety of spending huge sums of money feeding boarders at the senior high level while many schools across the country still lack basic infrastructure. The Education Minister reported to Parliament on Wednesday that the food crisis across senior high schools...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has tasked the newly elected National Executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to work hard to ensure that the party wins the 2024 elections. Nana Akufo-Addo says ‘breaking the eight’ should be the ultimate objective of the new leadership. Speaking at a meeting with the new executives led by...

A latest survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service with other stakeholders in the fight against corruption has ranked the Ghana Police Service as the most corrupt institution among 23 other institutions sampled. The aim of the survey is to unearth corrupt institutions and make available data that will guide the formulation of policies that...

A survey by the Ghana Statistical Service and its partners has revealed that an estimated amount of GH¢5 billion was paid as bribes in the year 2021. The report dubbed ‘2021 Ghana Integrity of Public Services Survey’ indicates that 26.7% public sector officials and 9.1% private sector players engaged in bribery acts. The survey was...

Parliament has approved a $750 million loan agreement to finance capital and growth-related expenditures in the 2022 budget. The facility forms part of the government’s international capital market programme (ICMP) aimed at raising funds to finance critical infrastructure projects in sectors such as roads, energy, railways and health, as captured in the 2022 budget. Proceeds...

ALL excavators in mining concessions will be tracked electronically as part of major measures to clamp down on illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has disclosed. Already, he said, the Minerals Commission had set up a control room for the effective rollout of the initiative...

The South Dayi MP has asked the Founder of the Atta-Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, to desist from peddling what he sees as falsehoods about the state of the tomb of former President John Evans Atta Mills. According to Rockson Dafeamekpor, the grave of the late statesman is made of marble stone which is contrary to...