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. ...

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 ...

After her third failed attempt to become a lawmaker in the country, Victoria Lakshmi Hamah has finally come to the conclusion that only the greedy and ignorant succeed in politics in Ghana. According to her, this, however, does not represent the ways of God for which reason she has vowed never to chart that path even if it means she ...

  Former Minister of State in charge of Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Collins Dauda is doubting the effectiveness of a new mining law that will ensure convicted illegal miners face at least 15 years in prison. Mr. Dauda who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Asutifi South believes the laws intended to fight illegal mining (galamsey) may ...

  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 ...

The Council of State has described President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo as a listening President who takes his advisors seriously. This, according to the Council of State is based on the expeditious manner in which the President accepted and implemented the recommendation for a downward review of the tariff regime at the country’s port of entry. The Council said ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the amended illegal mining law has had to take away some discretions of judges because they have not been helpful to the fight against galamsey. At a meeting with the Council of State on Monday, 19 August 2019, the President said he gave his assent to the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, 2019. The Act ...