GENERAL NEWS

Manasseh commends Akufo-Addo for his swift response to ‘Contract for Sale’ expose

Investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni has lauded the President for his quick response in dealing with Adjenim Boateng Adjei, CEO of the Public Procurement Authority fingered in the “Contract for Sale’ expose, ABC News can report. In a Facebook post sighted by ABC News, Manasseh Azure Awuni, backed the President’s …

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Government’s procurement successes will make sense after probe – Krapa

Government says it is early days yet to rubbish its robust procurement regime following the scandal that has hit the Public Procurement Authority. President Nana Akufo-Addo suspended the Chief Executive Officer of the PPA, A.B Adjei, over allegations of corruption and conflict of interest levelled against him in an investigative …

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Police raise GH¢350,000 from traffic offences

The Ghana Police Service has realised GH¢350,000 in fines from road traffic offenders in two months. The Police Headquarters Traffic Enforcement Team, set up on June 17, 2019, arrested and prosecuted 799 drivers who paid the fines that have been channelled into the Consolidated Fund. The road traffic offenders were …

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Contracts for sale exposé: I’ll expose Manasseh over GH¢1k bribe – Kennedy Agyapong

Whereas Ghanaians including some leading members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) praising investigative journalist, Manasseh Azuri Awuni for exposing the rot at the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), a controversial lawmaker for Assin Central is the odd one. The NPP firebrand has jumped on the journalist and vowed to …

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Controller and Accountant-General withholds salaries of 1,975 public servants

The Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) has withheld the salaries of some Public servants who have been affected by the closure of three banks recently. It is estimated that 1,975 public servants on the government payroll accessed their salaries through the GN Bank, First Allied Savings and Loans Co …

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#OFOR Campaign: Kumasi-Ejisu road to be completed before Christmas- MCE assures

The Municipal Chief Executive of Ejisu municipality; Madam Serwaah Derkye has assured motorists and other road users that the Kumasi-Ejisu road will be in December 2019. Speaking  on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, with  our  reporter Isaac Nsiah Foster on Otec FM’s new programme ‘Asanteman Nkwan’,  a project called ‘Operation Fix Our Roads’ (#OFOR), on the morning show …

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Akufo-Addo suspends PPA Boss after Manasseh’s expose

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has suspended from office, with immediate effect, the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Mr. AB Adjei, according to a statement by Communications Director of the Presidency Eugene Arhin. This follows the broadcast of allegations made against him in an investigative documentary …

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Family perishes in gory accident

Three persons from the same family were killed last Sunday when the motorcycle on which they were riding was knocked down by an articulated truck at Apemanim, near Agona-Nkwanta in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region. The three – a husband, a pregnant wife and a son – …

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Akufo-Addo appoints second female Brigadier General of the Ghana Armed Forces

For the second time, the Ghana Armed Forces has had a female Brigadier General in the person of Felicia Twum-Barima. Having served in the army for 29-years, Brigadier General Felicia Twum-Barima was promoted by President Akufo-Addo on recommendations of the Armed Forces Council. Brigadier General Felicia Twum-Barima has had a …

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Police retrieve phone of Otumfuo’s Asamponhene

The mobile phone of the late Asamponhene of Otumfuo Osei Tutu, Oheneba Kwadwo Afodour, which was retrieved from his vehicle at the crime scene is giving the Ashanti Regional police a clue which will help them close in on the perpetrators of the heinous crime. The police began investigations into …

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