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It is emerging that controversial musician and a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Asare Obeng widely known as A Plus, rakes in a whooping sum of GHc12,000 every month from his BOST contract. The musician turned politician, is the man currently handling contract for hauling oil for the state owned company, Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST ...

Deputy Sports Minister Pius Enam Hadzide has said government is committed to fulfilling their promise of completing the University of Ghana stadium. He revealed to Joy Sports that a whopping 10 million Ghana cedis have been released for the completion of the 30,000 capacity structure. Construction of the multi-million dollar stadium was started in 2004 by CONSAR Limited under the ...

Agro chemical dealers have called on the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) to sit up and clamp down on dealers in fake and expired products to protect farmers and consumers. They are worried the prevalence of such products on the market could endanger consumers and cause farmers to lose confidence in the use of chemicals. Fredrick Boampong, Programmes Manager ...

The Ghana Stock Exchange has lifted suspension of trading activities on two firms out of the five that were sanctioned for not complying with regulations of the GSE, Starr Business has gathered. The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) last week suspended the five companies from trading in shares effective today, August 29, 2017. The affected companies are African Champion Industry Limited, ...

Some people at the presidency and within the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are charging $20,000 from private individuals who want to gain access to President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House, Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong has said. Mr Agyapong, who has been sounding the alarm bells within his own government, told Adom TV’s Badwam programme on Tuesday, 29 August ...

Wrongdoings are difficult to detect and expose where systems are not transparent. Too often, officials use public office to create undue favors for family and friends, and undermining the integrity of governance. Where there are transparent systems to detect and check abuses of power and privileges, such abuses are reduced for the benefit of society. In troubled countries such as ...

Two issues have been in the news lately – the AMERI Energy Deal and the Mandatory Towing Levy- and they have triggered a fair measure of public rumblings. Both are legacies from the previous political regime. Both involve pre-commitment of fiscal obligations of some sort for many years to come. Article 35(7) of the 1992 Constitution, under The Directive Principles ...

The battle for the legalisation of homosexuality in Ghana wages on as a member of parliament for Assin South, Mr.John Ntim Fordjour has hit hard on some Ghanaian gay activists calling for the rights of the LGBT community to be respected. Earlier,a group of gay activists in Canada have secured 1000s of signatures from top politicians of Canada in favour ...

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyepong, has backed claims that some appointees at the Flagstaff House take money from people seeking to meet the President. “Abu Jinapor and Asenso-Boakye are not the only two alleged to be involved in corrupt activities at the presidency, they are many others as well. When I started complaining about the president ...

Musician Kwame A Plus has said he is writing to the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) company limited to cancel a contract he has with the state oil firm following criticisms against him by supporters of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) that he bagging contract after contract right after the party won power after the December 2016 elections. ...