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Former President John Dramani Mahama has admonished the current government not to buy tractors for farmers in the country, saying that was a major mistake his administration made. He explained that as part of efforts to boost agriculture, his administration bought tractors for farmers across the country but realized the equipment became dormant because the farmers couldn’t maintain them. According ...

Parliament’s Trade, Industry and Tourism Committee says it will investigate the bribery allegations against a former Director-General of the Ghana Standards Authority. The Committee said it will interrogate the relevant people in connection with the $1.2 million kickback allegedly received by Dr George Crentsil from a contractor. Committee Chairman, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover told Adom FM Wednesday, he will summon ...

Government says it will soon revoke all diplomatic passports still in the hands of former appointees of the John Mahama administration. Foreign Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey says those still holding on to the passports risk being embarrassed if they fail to return them. “I don’t want a colleague just because he is a former government appointee to go through such ...

The Greater Accra Police Command has given clearance for the upcoming demonstration against corruption. The demonstration which is being organized by Adom FM, a brand in leading media brand in Ghana, Multimedia Group, is meant to raise awareness on the high rate of corruption in the country especially among state actors. Host of the station’s Morning Show, ‘Dwaso Nsɛm’, Captain ...

The Member of Parliament for Manso Adubea in the Ashanti region Yaw Frimpong has apologized to the former Defence Minister over his allegations that Dr. Benjamin Kumbuor ordered military personnel to guard illegal mining concessions. Hon. Frimpong made the claim after concerns were raised by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister John Peter Amewu over the presence of some soldiers ...

Former Power minister Kwabena Donkor has rubbished reports that some helicopters belonging to the Ghana Gas company have gone missing. He says the choppers costing $150m are “securely parked in the hangars of the Ghana Airforce at the Air force base in Accra”. It was a leading member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee Dr. Steve Manteaw who went ...

Ghana is set to become the first country in Africa to get a Spaceship Launch pad, following a partnership deal between KESHE Foundation Ghana and BONADES Limited, a Ghanaian-owned Construction Engineering Management (CEM) company. The two companies are combining their expertise for the development and construction of the first-of-its-kind Spaceship Research Centre in Ghana. The agreement comes after the completion ...

The deputy Minister of Health, Tina Mensah, has assured the pregnant nurses who spoke against decision to bar them from taking their exams due to their conditions will not be victimised. The Nursing and Midwifery Council Tuesday ordered principals of nursing schools to allow pregnant students and nursing mothers to write their examinations. Over the last months, principals of two ...

The former deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapor, believes opponents of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are deliberately behind the saga of the missing three helicopters to make the party unpopular. Speaking in an interview with Morning Starr host Francis Abban on Wednesday, Mr. Jinapor said critics of former president John Mahama are bent on “denigrating him” but their scheme ...

The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) is investigating some top officials of the John Mahama administration for allegedly taking $4 million from the accounts of the National Communications Authority (NCA) and failing to account for it. Disclosing this in an exclusive interview with Joy FM’s Super Morning Show host Kojo Yankson, Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid said the three officials – ...