The EC wants to rip out a system worth $60 million, of which value at least $40 million has accumulated since just 2016, and spend $150 million (plus contingency) constructing a new one. A careful analysis of best practice in procuring biometric technology for elections in Africa shows that the EC’s proposed spending plans are inflated by about 60%. In ...
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Read More »uniBank collapse: I won’t honour your invitation – Duffuor to SIT
Former Finance Minister Dr Kwabena Duffuor has said he will not honour the invitation of the Special Investigative Team (SIT) which is probing the collapse of uniBank – which he founded. The former Governor of the Bank of Ghana has also asked the head of the SIT, COP Edward Tabriri, to stop threatening to cause his arrest, detention and hurried ...
Read More »Persol Systems Ltd not for Jean Mensa’s husband – EC clears air
The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has dismissed reports that the award of a contract to Persol Systems Limited to construct a data centre for the commission was as a result of links with the Chairperson, Jean Mensa. According to the reports, the data management company is owned by the husband of the EC Chair. “This is an outrageous lie since ...
Read More »Economic Watch Africa takes on govt over US$100m GEXIM credit facility
Ghana’s export and industrialization drive is likely to experience major setbacks in the wake of the government decision to borrow US$100 million credit facility from offshore investors to support the operations of Ghana Exim bank, (GEXIM). According to the Economic Watch Africa, the government would mortgage the country’s industrialization, especially the One District, One factory if it fails to suspend ...
Read More »You couldn’t arrest the cedi with your 170 questions after all? – ‘Cedi police’ Bawumia ‘mocked’
It was challenge after challenge to the National Democratic Congress, from the camp of the New Patriotic Party. Under the Mahama administration and with the late Kwesi Ammissah Arthur as Vice President and Former Governor of the Central Bank, then Economist, and running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia threw some 170 questions about the economy after a lecture on the state ...
Read More »Ghana Card: Central &Western regions registration to start January 27
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has announced its readiness to commence the registration of eligible Ghanaians in the Central, Western North and Western Regions of Ghana. The exercise, according to the authority would start from January 27,2020 and expected to end on Tuesday February 18, 2020 and will run simultaneously in all the 48 districts of the three regions from ...
Read More »‘Your spouse, children, parents, friends could be those selling you out’ – Agyinasare
Bishop Charles Agyinasare has cautioned Christians to be wary of people close to them because they can be the very people who turn to sell them out. Preaching on the topic: “Dealing with Household Enemies,” on Sunday, 5 January 2020, the founder of Perez Chapel International said household enemies are usually people “close to you” and “know your secret”. “Normally, ...
Read More »Suggesting that current database is useless can’t be true – CSOs
Senior Vice President of IMANI Ghana, Kofi Bentil, has shot down explanations by the Electoral Commission that existing database of electorates in the country cannot be used for the upcoming election 2020. The EC has argued amongst other things that the need to go through the painstaking processes to compile a new voters’ register is because, the existing register which ...
Read More »Ignore fake corruption ranking on Ghana – GII
The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), the Local Chapter of Transparency International, says a corruption ranking published by some media houses which ranks Ghana as the 3rd most corrupt country across the world by perception is fake and should be ignored. A statement issued in Accra on Friday 17th January 2020 and signed by the Executive Director of GII, Linda Ofori-Kwafo, ...
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