The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) says Ghana’s fight against corruption is insufficient and may not yield desired results if more targeted efforts are not made. Fundraising Manager, Michael Boadi said while there appears to be a lot of talk against the menace, the commitment needed to nip the menace in the bud is lacking. “We are not doing enough to ...

Women of Ntenanko, a farming community in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region have vowed to continue to starve their husbands from making love to them for fear of getting pregnant and not having a health facility to attend antenatal care. According to them, the only way they will rescind their decision is for their husbands to work towards ...

A lot of small business owners in Ghana are unaware of the existing tax laws in the country, the Chief Executive Officer of the Private Enterprises Federation (PEF), Nana Osei Bonsu, has said. The few who are aware, he said, don’t understand the laws and what it means to comply. He has therefore, called for more education on tax laws ...

Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Boamah Otokunor, is convinced defeated parliamentary aspirants complaining of machinations in the just ended primaries ‘were not prepared’. According to him, while it is painful losing an election, it is a fact that when one neglects his or her constituents, “they will vote against you”. ‘Monecracy’ is the system ...

Head of Local Government Service, Nana Ato Arthur has urged staff of the service who wish to contest for various political positions to resign. He warned that the staff of the service who do not resign before contesting political positions will be dismissed. “As I am speaking now we are meeting some staff of the service have openly declared their ...

t has emerged that the immediate past Chief Executive Officer for the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) Company, George Mensah Okley was actually forced to resign last Friday because he was found to have awarded haulage contracts to his own company. According to the Director of the Institute for Energy Security (IES) Mikdad Mohammed who made the revelation, Mr ...

President Akufo-Addo, on Thursday 22nd August, suspended from office, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Adjeinim Boateng Adjei, after he was unmasked in an exposé over the sale of juicy government contracts he had through the institution he heads, awarded himself and his brother in-law; Francis Arhin. But the suspension has left behind many unanswered ...

Ghana currently imports about 50,000 metric tonnes of palm oil annually. The country also spends between $600 and $800 to import a tonne of the commodity. This means that the country spends between $30 million and $40 million to import palm oil each year, depending on the price on the world market. Palm oil is used primarily in food products: ...

Justice Amoah, popularly known in the music circles as “Patapaa” is making significant strides across worldwide music landscape with his debut album. With over 10,000 streams on Boomplay in just a week, the “Pa2pa Scopatumanaa” album demonstrates the uniqueness of one of Ghana’s sensational music artistes. When sitting back and listening to the album consisting 16 tracks, there are so ...

Highlife musician, Lucky Mensah has threatened to beat up broadcaster Abeiku Aggrey Santana. In a video he shared on social media the ‘Come Back’ singer said Abeiku has lied on radio that he marketed his song for him in the U.S. “Do you know how to write music? Do you know how to produce a song? You are a thief. ...