Documents sighted by The Finder indicate that the government has successfully secured a nine-floor Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) building at Ridge to house the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). A memo from the Chief Director at Jubilee House addressed to the Chief of Staff, dated August 18, 2020, detailed efforts the government has made to provide decent accommodation ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has taken exception to allegations by the Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Amidu, in his resignation letter, that he and his deputy, Jane Cynthia Naa Korshie Lamptey, have not been paid since taking office. “Your office received more than a sufficient budgetary allocation to assist it in its anti-corruption fight,” a letter from the Office of ...

Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu did not inform the board of his resignation, Board Chairperson Mrs. Linda Ofori-Kwafo of the not for profit Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has said. According to Mrs. Ofori-Kwafo, the board got to know of Mr. Amidu’s resignation through the media. She stated, therefore, that the board will meet to discuss the plethora of concerns Mr. Amidu ...

In his resignation letter to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu, directly told the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces that he could not direct him about as far as his handling of the corruption and anti-corruption assessment report of the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal was concerned, and refused to “bargain” with the President, who insisted ...

The Secretary-General of the African Development Bank Group, Professor Vincent Nmehielle has described as scary the $150 dollars being charged for COVID-19 testing at the Kotoka International Airport. Prof. Nmehielle is calling on the government to review the amount and reduce it adding that the charge is a disincentive for the business community and tourists who are interested in traveling ...

The arrest of four persons conducting research for the oppositionNational Democratic Congress, NDC, in the Upper Manya Krobo Constituency of the Eastern Region has heightened political tension in the area. The four were arrested Saturday, November 14, 2020, by armed Police officers led by the District Police Commander John Yeboah while in a community administering questionnaires. They were, however, granted ...

Emma Mitchell says she resigned as a Minister under Rawlings’s administration because of “a very strong difference” she had with the late former President. Speaking to Joy News on Sunday, the former Trade and Industry Minister disclosed that the late Jerry John Rawlings had his own challenges as a leader, something that soiled a good relationship they had and not ...

Koku Anyidoho, the former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress has lost his daughter, Allotey Jacobs, the former Central Regional Chairman of the party has confirmed. The 8-year-old girl who is known as Sitsofe reportedly died in an accident while travelling with her mother. Allotey Jacobs made this disclosure when he spoke on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen program ...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates who sat for the WASSCE in 2020 in Ghana, showing a massive improvement as compared to the 2019 batch. “The provisional results indicate that there were improvements in the performance of candidates at Grades A1 to C6 in English language and Mathematics (Core) in 2020 as compared to ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings was diagnosed with COVID-19before his death on Thursday, November 12, Joy News’ Head of Health Desk Fred Smith has confirmed. According to Fred Smith who was reporting from the premises of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital where the former President died earlier today, doctors are not able to confirm if the virus was what eventually killed ...