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Forced to resign BOST CEO had awarded contracts to himself – IES

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 ...

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Government’s procurement rots split opened

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 ...

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Ghana imports 50,000 tonnes of palm oil

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: ...

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Album Review: Patapaa shines on debut album

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 ...

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‘You’ve gone from being an imbecile to mentally unstable’ – Ernest Owusu Bempah tears Kevin Taylor apart

Ernest Owusu Bempah has labelled Kevin Taylor a psychopath for calling Former president Rawlings a “puppet on a midget’s Lab” because he (Rawlings)has been ‘hesitant’ in commenting on the ongoing corruption in the current government. The Director of Communications for Ghana Gas Company Limited descended heavily on Kevin Taylor for what he termed as ‘verbally attacking’ the former president on ...

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Nana blasts BoG for 30 rotten banks

  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the Bank of Ghana (BoG) should take part of the blame for sitting down unconcerned for the country to suffer the current banking sector predicament. He said if the Central Bank in years past had acted ‘responsibly’, the country would not have faced a situation where about 15 banks are going out of ...

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