The Auditor-General Daniel Yaw Domelevo has spent a whopping GH¢7.6 million to purchase 27 vehicles for the Audit Service without going through the right tender processes, DAILY GUIDE has learnt. The vehicles, which comprises five Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, one Toyota Land Cruiser V8 and 21 Toyota IMV Hilux Deluxe were purchased from the Audit Service’s 2017 budgetary allocation, as ...

The Executive Director of the Kumasi Institute of Technology, Energy and Environment (KITE) Ghana, Ishmael Agyekumhene has described the 350 million dollar Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal deal with China as a good agreement that will boost Ghana’s oil and gas industry. Mr. Agyekumhene is optimistic the deal will ultimately secure the supply of fuel to grow the energy sector. ...

Government has concluded the US$2billion bauxite deal with Sinohydro Group Limited after a meeting between President Nana Akufo Addo and China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing at the weekend. The barter trade deal will involve alumina processed from bauxite deposits in the country for a facility of US$2billion from Sinohydro Group Limited for infrastructural development. Sinohydro Group Limited is expected ...

A leading government official believes the shocking defeat of some key National Democratic Congress (NDC) personalities in Saturday’s regional elections, is a clear indication of how easily the ruling party, the New Patriotic Party [NPP] will garner more seats in Parliament, which will also invariably translate into a landslide victory in 2020. Deputy Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation, Patrick ...

Kweku Adoboli, a former trader convicted of fraud in 2012, is facing deportation to Ghana, after being detained by police in Scotland. He served four years of a seven-year sentence for a £1.4bn fraud at Swiss bank UBS and released in 2015. Foreign nationals sentenced to more than four years are automatically considered for deportation. But in an interview with ...

The Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo has submitted four audit reports to Parliament in accordance with the requirement of the Constitution. These are the performance audit report on management of health care waste, consolidated annual accounts for the 2017 financial year, public accounts – ministries, departments and agencies, and the District Assemblies Common Fund. This was contained in a press statement issued ...

The Offinso Traditional Area, in the Ashanti region, is set to benefit from three factories under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s famous One District, One Factory programme. The yet-to-be-established factories are likely to include tomatoes factory, starch factory and one another as it is intended to help create job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth. The Deputy Local Government ...

More than 2.8 million Ghanaians, representing about 10 per cent of the population are living in extreme poverty. The vast number are said to be living below the global poverty line of a $1.9 spending a day. According to the report by the World Poverty Clock, real-time data projections show that about 28 Ghanaians escape extreme poverty every hour, giving ...

The Editor of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, Ken Kuranchi, is of the view that former President John Dramani Mahama may not be able to contest again as President or flagbearer. He stated that according to Article 68 Clause 2 of the constitution, former presidents are not supposed to engage in any activities that provide profit or emolument. “When it comes ...

A group calling itself the Concerned NPP Women’s Group has begged former minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa-Djaba not to abandon the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP.) “We believe Mrs Otiko is a power broker who played instrumental role in the grassroot organization of the Women’s Wing and the formation of “Girls-Girls” that fueled the electoral fortunes ...