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Ghana’s Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo, has pledged to recover every penny siphoned from the State’s coffers. This comes after a seven-member panel of the Supreme Court (SC) ruled Wednesday ordering him to immediately initiate process of surcharging any person found to have misappropriated State funds. Also, the panel headed by Ghana’s Chief Justice nominee, Justice Sophia Akuffo directed that where ...

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has dared the interdicted police officers in the $1.3 million gold scam to sue the police as threatened. Embattled DSP Emmanuel Basintale, and some other interdicted officers have threatened to seek legal redress following their interdiction. But commenting on the issue in an interaction with the media after the Interior Minister paid ...

The Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, says new Members of Parliament (MPs) from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are struggling to find their feet in the House. In his assessment of the performance of the new MPs, Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu indicated that contributions by the NDC new entrants have usually been fraught with errors, fuelled by emotions, something he ...

The Tepa Divisional Police Command has invited the principal of the Tepa Nursing and Midwifery Training College to appear before it today, Thursday, June 15, 2017 to answer questions of fraud allegations leveled against her. Victoria Amoah and an accountant of the college Asamoah Richard were cited in an alleged GHS10 million fraud. The two administrative members allegedly used fake ...

Education Minister, Mathew Opoku-Prempeh, is expected in Parliament Thursday to respond to an urgent question on the closure of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) and its satellite campuses across the country. Ranking member on the Education Committee of Parliament, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe, who filed the urgent question said the closure of the University is in bad taste and wants an ...

President of the Ghana Union of Professional Students, Bismark Gyamfi has commended the intervention of President Nana Akufo-Addo in the re-opening of the Ghana School of Survey and Mapping. Lands Minister, John Peter Amewu has directed the closure of the School of Survey and Mapping (GSSM) following students’ vandalism some few weeks ago. Some students of GSSM went on rampage ...

The controversy that erupted when Afriwave Telecom Ghana Limited was awarded a 10-year contract to build and operate an Interconnect Clearing House contract (ICH) seem to be resurfacing as industry players are calling on the National Communication Authority to with immediate effect, review the contract and if possible abrogate since “it is a needless enterprise”. “Apart from the flat rate ...

The lawyer for the plaintiff who is challenging the legitimacy of the University of Education Winneba (UEW)’s council says the court order issued Tuesday did not amount to the closure of the school. Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin says he does not understand the link between the order of the court and the closure of the university. “I can say on good ...

A Post-UK election analysis by the Financial Times suggests that better educated people tend to vote for leftwing or centrist causes, while those who never went to university are more likely to vote for rightwing or populist parties. It concludes that Tories made heavy forays into working class territories previously considered the exclusive domain of the Labour Party, even though, ...

One-time flag bearer hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, has said he is committed to the restructuring of the party for the moment despite his perceived interest in leading the party into the 2020 general election. He said it was only when the party was fixed again following its removal from power at the 2016 general ...