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The Auditor-General has cited nine assemblies in the Brong Ahafo Region that spent about GH¢500,000 of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund (DACF) on goods and services but cannot provide receipts. The 2017 Auditor-General’s report has blamed the irregularity on poor supervision by the Finance Officers and has demanded that the District Coordinating Directors and Finance Officers at the assemblies refund ...

The Auditor General has charged the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) for breaching the constitution as well as the public financial management Act. According to the 2016 Auditor General’s report on Consolidated Funds, EOCO kept GH¢1,168,998.37 it recovered from individuals and organizations in 2015 in contravention of article 176 of the constitution. The Auditor General further stated that it ...

The Government of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has employed some twenty thousand (20,000) young men and women across the country to help manage the country’s forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss. Speaking at the launch of the Youth in Afforestation Programme, on Monday, 13th August, 2018, at Jubilee Park, ...

Former Head of E-Banking at the now-defunct Capital Bank, Raymond Addai-Danquah, has said he is selling his uncompleted building to pay his rent, which is due next month, as a result of hardship due to the loss of his job after the bank collapsed. He noted that the collapse of five local banks which were fused to form the Consolidated ...

A popular National Democratic Congress (NDC) serial caller, Frank Kwaku Appiah, also known as Appiah Stadium, has revealed his intention to spill secrets about the party. According to a report by MyNewsGH.com, he stated that those who dare to stand against Former President John Mahama in the upcoming party primaries, should get ready for his revelations. Speaking on Kasapa FM, ...

Lawyer Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri who doubles as the Founding Editor of GhanaCelebrities.Com has described Christians sympathising with Dr. Mensa Otabil as stupid. In a long Facebook post which was also shared on his website under the heading Ghana’s 610 Million Cedis, the Man of God Called Dr Mensa Otabil and the Stupid Christians Who Stand With Him, Chris-Vincent said Otabil ...

The Controller and Accountant General, Eugene Ofosuhene has confirmed that businessman Alfred Agbsei Woyome has paid ¢4.6 million of the debt owed the State. The revelation was made at Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee sitting where the 2016 Auditor General’s report on the Consolidated Fund was scrutinised. Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Committee wanted to know the progress made so ...

The Auditor General has indicted the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for fudging loan receivable balance in its 2016 financial statements. The 2016 financial statement reported an amount of GH¢1, 988,361,506 as the total loan recoverable balance. The Auditor General’s review of the schedule on loans recoverable, however, disclosed that loans totalling GH¢97,485,166, granted to some 170 companies and SOEs  (State ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Saturday, 11 August 2018 joined hundreds of mourners to bid farewell to the late Alhaji Gado Sulemana, a leading member of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at a ceremony in Asawase, Kumasi. Alhaji Gado Sulemana, until his demise on 23 July 2018, played various roles in the NDC, including being Asawase Constituency ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Tamale Teaching hospital in the Northern region Dr David Zaawumya Kolbila has allegedly been assaulted by members of an NPP affiliated vigilante group Kandahar Boys after they stormed the hospital. The incident occurred Monday morning, Starr News’ Northern regional correspondent Eliasu Tanko reported. The CEO’s office has been locked and the key taken away ...