POLITICS

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) paid three individuals a total of GH1,112,895.96 in salary from January 2020 to December 2021 despite the fact that they were not employees of the Ministry, according to the Auditor General. A Principal Spending Officer of a covered entity is required to ensure that only …

According to the 2021 Auditor-report, General’s 88 former Ministry of Education employees received a total of GH 1,082,455.02 in “unearned pay” after they “left” from the organization. The report stated, “We noted that 88 staff members who left their respective institutions received unearned salaries totaling GH1,082,455.02.” “We recommended that the …

According to 13,721 selected tax files from 21 Domestic Tax Revenue Offices of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in the Greater Accra Region, 6,856 businesses, legal entities, and people owed GH111,652,263.00 in corporate and individual income taxes for the assessment years of 2019, 2020, and 2021, according to the Auditor-Report …

Workers in the public sector have received a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) payment from the government in the sum of GHc485,000,000.00 (four hundred and eighty-five million Ghana Cedis). The Controller and Accountant-Department General’s (CAGD) released a statement containing this information on August 29, 2022. According to the press release, …

Colonel (Ret.) Kwadwo Damoah has been fired from his position as commissioner of the Ghana Revenue Authority’s(GRA) customs division by President Nana Akufo-Addo. The rule becomes operative on Friday, August 26, 2022. The instruction was stated in a letter from the Presidency that was signed by Nana Bediatuo Asante, the …

Justice Isaac Douse, a retired Court of Appeal judge, has warned former president John Dramani Mahama not to damage the Supreme Court’s reputation since doing so could endanger the nation’s democracy and have an impact on all Ghanaians. On Sunday, August 28, 2022, Mr. Mahama lamented that the court had …

Mahama worries that the perception of the Supreme Court as a “Unanimous FC” poses a threat to democracy. The National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) 2020 presidential candidate and former president John Dramani Mahama has issued a warning against the pervasive idea that the judiciary is politically biased. He contends that the …

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM1, of the defunct gold-trading company Menzgold Ghana Limited, has denied holding a service passport, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. This comes after media reports that the former Menzgold CEO may possess a Service …

The deadline set to the government to address its concern, according to the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) Trainees Association of Ghana, has passed. As a result, the trainees have declared that they will picket the Jubilee House once more on September 6, 2022, until the government pays the arrears on …

The Deputy Director General of the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), Engineer Peter Antwi Boasiako, has disclosed that the current New Patriotic Party government has invested almost $8 billion dollars in TVET infrastructure and training alone between 2017 and 2021. According to Mr. Peter Antwi Boasiako, …