tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70414428336972798182012-01-26T06:24:56.797ZNDC CORRUPTIONExposing and fighting corruption in the NDC and Ghana.Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.comBlogger3671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-15016065938398037092012-01-26T06:24:00.000Z2012-01-26T06:24:56.802ZTullow Oil launches $6 million Scholarship Scheme
Tullow Oil has launched a scholarship scheme worth more than $6million to support 110 young scholars from nine developing countries including 50 from Ghana.
The Tullow Group Scholarship Scheme would benefit university graduates with second class upper or first class degrees, and HND holders with distinction drawn from Ghana, Uganda, Gabon, Cote D’Ivoire, Kenya, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-92085085937983280352012-01-25T17:13:00.001Z2012-01-25T17:13:55.766ZAllotey Jacobs: Woyome scandal stinks, it’s an albatross on our neck
Allotey Jacobs
Central Regional Communication Director of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, says the Woyome scandal is an albatross on the neck of government.
Describing the controversial payment of GHS58 million judgment debt to the NDC financier as stinking, Mr Jacobs admitted: “It has become an albatross on our neck as a party and as a government…”
He Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-37610950683424564642012-01-25T16:50:00.000Z2012-01-25T16:50:14.703ZTrue NDC members should back off Woyome saga – Sam Pee Yarley
A leading member of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and a public interest lawyer, Sam Pee Yaley, has admonished all “true” members of the party to stay off the controversial Wayome judgement debt scandal.
He said members and supporters of the party should not necessarily have to back Albert Agbesi Woyome because he is supposedly a member of the NDC.
The businessman and NDC Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-75972117605344469282012-01-25T16:19:00.001Z2012-01-25T16:52:14.522ZBetty Mould resigned because of poor handling of the Woyome scandal-AyarigaDeputy Education Minister Mahama Ayariga says his former boss, Mrs Betty Mould Iddrisu resigned from her post because the incessant discussions on the the controversial Woyome judgement debt payment had become an unbearable distraction.
He said the former Attorney-General who authorised the payments to Mr Woyome having entered into an agreement on the basis of which the NDC financier procured Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-86354871775428155042012-01-25T16:16:00.000Z2012-01-25T16:16:15.480ZAnti-corruption coalition wants gov't to deal with Woyome case
Rev. Fred Deegbe
PRESS RELEASE
GOVERNMENT MUST DEMONSTRATE STRONG COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN THE WOYOME JUDGEMENT DEBT CASE
The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition has followed with concern the unfolding controversies and confusion related to the Woyome Judgement Debt Case. The confusion has been worsened by the events leading to dismissal of the now former Attorney General, Honourable Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-84927793471051248942012-01-24T03:46:00.000Z2012-01-24T03:46:35.864ZECG to reply Anas over revelation of deep seated corruption in the companyThe Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is preparing a response to the latest investigative piece exposing alleged acts of corruption in the company.
The documentary was put together by ace Investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
The undercover investigations reveal the indebtedness of the companies accounts for the ECG’s inability to deliver efficient service.
The defaulters include Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-50119659797869307902012-01-24T03:36:00.000Z2012-01-24T03:36:55.266ZBetty Mould-Iddrisu resigns over Wayome payments sagaEducation Minister, Betty Mould-Iddrisu has resigned from office over developments associated with the Alfred Woyome judgment debt saga.Mrs. Mould-Iddrisu who confirmed her decision to Joy News’ presidential correspondent, Seth Kwame Boateng, fell short of explaining her decision but promised to make it public later tomorrow (Tuesday).She presented her letter of resignation to the Office of the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0Accra, Ghana5.555717 -0.19630600000004965.478495499999999 -0.3156965000000496 5.6329385 -0.07691550000004961tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-37053212476140993502012-01-17T03:56:00.002Z2012-01-17T03:56:54.862ZRawlings: Africa has failed its people
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Ghana’s former President and African Union High Representative for Somalia, Flt Lt Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-20452471194104549102012-01-17T03:52:00.000Z2012-01-17T03:52:16.993ZBetty to speak on Woyome saga
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Betty Mould Iddrisu, Minister of Education
Information reaching The Chronicle from unimpeachable source indicates that the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Betty Mould Iddrisu would Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-3190666229712844882012-01-17T03:44:00.002Z2012-01-17T03:44:38.396ZMartin Amidu has done nothing wrong to be sacked – P.C. Appiah Ofori
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P.C Appiah Ofori
NPP Member of Parliament for Asikuma Odoben-Brakwa in the Central Region, Paul Collins Appiah Ofori has jumped to the defense of embattled Attorney General and Minister ofGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-89769502593834551652012-01-17T03:30:00.002Z2012-01-17T03:30:37.625ZDishonest Auditor General must resign – Osei Kwame Prempeh
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Osei Kwame Prempeh
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Subsidiary Legislation has accused the Auditor General, Richard Q. Quartey, of denigrating his office and must therefore, resign.
Osei Kwame Prempeh said the conduct of Mr. Quartey in the ongoing Woyome saga is reprehensible and must be forcedGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-257949459259905912012-01-16T20:37:00.002Z2012-01-16T20:37:44.338ZWoyome has no contract with government - A-G reveals
From: Ghana|Myjoyonline.com| Nathan Gadugah Last Updated: January 16, 2012, 8:30 pm
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Posters of the former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings advertising her presidential bid has surfaced nationwide.
The posters have a Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-48610107386200785702012-01-16T13:26:00.000Z2012-01-16T13:26:05.708ZWoyome is falling on his own daggar - Kofi Adams
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Mr Kofi Adams
Mr Kofi Adams, spokesperson of former president Jerry John Rawlings, has advised National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier Alfred Agbesi Woyome to stop Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-6844920108878000552012-01-16T13:23:00.002Z2012-01-16T13:23:51.575ZAG makes u-turn; files suit against Woyome
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The Attorney General has filed a suit at the Commercial Court, Wednesday challenging the ¢51 million payment made to NDC financier Alfred Woyome.
The payment according to the suit was not Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-91219291846551165252012-01-16T13:22:00.002Z2012-01-16T13:22:56.766ZMills' response on Woyome payment disgraceful - Abu Jinapor
From: Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | Benedicta Anane Last Updated: January 11, 2012, 10:00 am
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Samuel Abu Jinapor
Samuel Abu Jinapor, spokesperson for the New Patriotic Party’s presidential flagbearer, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has described as shameful and disgraceful Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-16929358533540928212012-01-16T13:20:00.002Z2012-01-16T13:20:19.107ZMartin Amidu: I never begged to be A-G; Kobby Fiagbe says he is even unfit for the office
From: Ghana l Malik Abass Daabu/Myjoyonline.com Last Updated: January 14, 2012, 11:30 am
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A-G, Martin Amidu
Editor of pro-NDC newspaper, the Ghanaian Lens, Mr Kobby Fiagbe, says Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr Martin Amidu is unfit for the office of A-GGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-18715823990586117022012-01-16T13:05:00.002Z2012-01-16T13:05:36.758ZAuditor General, Parliament clash over Woyome
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The Auditor General and the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament are on collision course over the controversial payment of GH¢58 million judgement debt to NDC financier Alfred Agbesi Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-16460558472444489032012-01-16T12:59:00.000Z2012-01-16T12:59:02.392ZKennedy Agyapong accuses Woyome of causing Ghana to lose GHS1.3 trillion
From: Ghana | Adom News | Cynthia Akuamoah Boateng Last Updated: December 22, 2011, 9:30 am
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Kennedy Ohene Agyapong
The outspoken NPP Member of Parliament for Assin North, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong says Alfred Agbesi Woyome has caused Ghana up to GHS1.3 trillion and Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-58306223253067658022012-01-16T12:57:00.000Z2012-01-16T12:57:02.495ZWoyome’s accounts frozen
From: Ghana/myjoyonline.com/Dorcas Efe Mensah Last Updated: December 27, 2011, 8:00 am
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Alfred Woyome
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has directed the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to freeze the accounts of National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier, Alfred Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-48655427258238185042012-01-16T12:55:00.002Z2012-01-16T12:55:29.409ZParliament rather should investigate Woyome's GHS42m controversy - Prof. Attafuah
Prof. Ken Attafuah
Human rights lawyer and criminologist, Prof. Ken Attafuah says Parliament rather than the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) should investigate the Woyome judgement debt award and others as directed by President Mills.
President J.E.A. Mills tasked EOCO early on this week to investigate the circumstances that led to the state paying GHS42 million to Alfred AGbesi Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-32045042445605016972012-01-16T12:53:00.002Z2012-01-16T12:53:52.703ZMalik Baako smells Woyome, Waterville conspiracy to dupe Ghana, as inept AG slept on the job
Kweku Baako Jnr
Editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper Malik Kweku Baako is smelling conspiracy between a financier of the NDC, Alfred Woyome and private contractor, Waterville to dupe the nation.
Woyome has been paid a total of ¢42 Million in judgement debt for a contract he claimed was abrogated by the erstwhile New Patriotic Party.
The payment has generated a swirl of Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-2573260118094018632012-01-16T12:44:00.002Z2012-01-16T12:44:15.943ZCourt adjourns Woyome’s judgement debt case
From: Ghana|Myjoyonline.com Last Updated: January 16, 2012, 12:30 pm
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NPP will only cooperate if Woyome saga is investigated Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-80165055835055089672012-01-16T12:43:00.000Z2012-01-16T12:43:00.144ZWoyome’s ‘1.2bn euro mirage’
From: Ghana | New Crusading Guide Last Updated: January 16, 2012, 12:22 pm
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Alfred Woyome
…No ‘Escrow Account’, No ‘Special Purpose Company’ (SPC), No Binding Offer Of Funds From Bank Austria!
Tongues are wagging over Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome’s wild claim that he “Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-83613416252068985822011-12-14T13:20:00.000Z2011-12-14T13:20:03.125ZStory on school felling trees for charcoal to buy computers attracts donations
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KT Hammond
The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa and some other philanthropists have pledged to provide some computers to the Volta region school that is planning some drastic measures to improve ICT education.
The donation follows a Joy News report about the Adidokpoe Methodist School in Battor in the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-16297103603322906442011-12-14T12:31:00.000Z2011-12-14T12:31:20.056ZGhana: CID investigates how cocaine turned into sodium bicarbonate
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Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) says it will investigate how cocaine kept in the exhibit room at its headquarters turned into sodium bicarbonate.
This had led to the court acquitting the man who was accused of possessing the narcotic substance.
A circuit court judge has therefore directed Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-15529720890830455642011-12-14T00:47:00.002Z2011-12-14T00:47:55.263ZCorruption in public institutions
It is official. The Police Service is the most corrupt public institution in Ghana. Surely, it is not a record our peace officers would be proud of. But the conduct of the men and women in black, throughout the country, leaves no one in doubt that the average policeman and woman may not pass the integrity test.According to a research conducted by the Ghana Integrity Initiative, the Ghana chapterGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-61026486828579015882011-12-12T13:45:00.002Z2011-12-12T13:45:24.163ZGreed is causing division in NDC – Senior Cadre
From: Ghana | Daily Guide Last Updated: December 12, 2011, 1:30 pm
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A frontline member of the United Cadre Front of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Upper East region has said excessive greed is causing disaffection within the party and could plunge it toGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-51622937976738019622011-12-12T13:44:00.002Z2011-12-12T13:44:23.175ZNDC denies building new headquarters
From: Ghana | Cynthia Akuamoah Boateng/Adom News Last Updated: December 12, 2011, 1:30 pm
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The Deputy National Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joshua Akamba says the NDC is not putting up any new party headquarters.
“The NDC has not Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-63152066722576666232011-12-12T13:43:00.000Z2011-12-12T13:43:12.690ZSekou - I rejected NDC's car and cash bribe
From: Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | Adwoa Gyasiwaa Last Updated: December 8, 2011, 7:00 am
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From: The Statesman Last Updated: November 25, 2011, 10:30 pm
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Over 4.58 million barrels of crude oil produced from the Jubilee fields are unaccounted for as Kwabena Duffuor, Finance Minister under the ruling National Democratic Congress, and Tullow Oil have on Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-137012196501075052011-12-12T13:38:00.002Z2011-12-12T13:38:58.472ZPoliticians are certainly not the most corrupt– Hackman, Rashid Pelpuo
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Deputy Majority Leader, Rashid Pelpuo
Leading MPs have vehemently disagreed with the Ghana Integrity Initiative’s Voice of The Peoplesurvey which indicates politicians have overtaken the police as the most corrupt in Ghana.
Former Works and Housing Minister Hackman Owusu Agyemang and Deputy Majority Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-16970961323621951692011-11-24T22:16:00.000Z2011-11-24T22:16:34.737Z4.5 million barrels of oil ‘missing’ - Danquah Institute
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Over 4.58 million barrels of crude oil produced from the Jubilee fields are unaccounted for as Kwabena Duffuor, Finance Minister under the ruling National Democratic Congress, and Tullow Oil have on separate occasions stated different production figures for the same period under review.
Using the average Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-41589043023481660092011-10-22T23:57:00.000Z2011-10-22T23:57:29.509ZNDC CHAIR IN KICK-BACK SCANDAL
From Samuel Agbewode, HoAt a time the government is struggling to reduce the number of basic schools under trees, some few individuals are also feeding fat on the little resources allocated for such projects.The Ho-West Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Charles Senyo Nyame-Coker, is at the centre of a controversy surrounding the construction of a six-unit Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-88616553197316162272011-09-05T16:28:00.000Z2011-09-05T16:28:23.736ZJoe Gidisu for court over luxury Chinese BMW
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Roads and Highways Minister Joe Gidisu
Roads Minister Joe Gidisu is considering going to court over reports he has received a luxury BMW saloon car from a Chinese construction firm working on the Achimota-Ofankor highway.
The vehicle has been widely reported as a gift which President Atta Mills has ordered him to Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-60271126767830539322011-08-31T19:15:00.000Z2011-08-31T19:15:38.358ZMinister's Luxury BMW impounded by Castle
BMW saloon car cost a total amount (Price + VAT) = $166,000Information picked by the Republic newspaper reveals how the President, John Evans Atta Mills cracked the whip on Minister Joe Gidisu, Minister for Road and Highways and Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Tongu constituency to disrupt the Minister’s fast growing taste for luxuries.The revelation, the Republic learnt, has become the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-77793651961078827972011-05-29T23:20:00.000Z2011-05-29T23:20:36.494ZBIG Corruption Scandal Under Mills: TAQA Paid $1m To Govt Officials - CEO Confesses
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In 2009, barely a year into the 4-year term of the Mills-Mahama National Democratic Congress, functionaries of the NDC allegedly received at least US$1 million dollars in bribery payments from TAQA, the United Arab Emirates based majority shareholder of the Aboadze thermal plant.
Moreover, Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-89743404158139509492011-04-27T17:01:00.002Z2011-04-27T17:01:32.655ZAFAG exposes ‘chop-chop’ at forestry commission running into GH¢3 million
Pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has accused some top board members of the Forestry Commission of awarding a contract at the cost of GH¢3 million to a company, it said, had not yet fulfilled its part of the contract.
AFAG expressed utter dismay as to why the Forestry Commission and its board, totally disregarded the laid down rules of procurement Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-83096917022782391212011-04-27T10:45:00.000Z2011-04-27T10:45:07.975ZNPP smells corruption in road, school contracts; demands probe
Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is demanding a probe into some road and school building contracts awarded since coming into office of the Mills-administration.
It alleged that 90 per cent of the contracts were awarded without tender.
General Secretary of the party, Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie, said the president must institute the probe if he is Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-39591159099899449872011-02-22T22:09:00.000Z2011-02-22T22:09:23.552ZNDC Must Explain 1.5 Million Dollars On 50 Achievement BooksThe NPP UK and Ireland is calling on Parliament and the Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice to investigate the circumstances where 1.5 million dollars was spent on publishing the Green Book of 50 achievements by the Mills-Mahama administration. We humbly request the Minister of finance Dr Kwabena Duffuor, his deputies Mr Fiifi Kwetey, and Dr Seth Tekper, the Minister of Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-48168851435034471532011-02-17T12:45:00.000Z2011-02-17T12:45:25.654ZBui City Project: Asiedu Nketiah is being irresponsible or mischievous- NPP
Fred Oware, First Vice Chairman of the NPP explaining issues to the media
The former Chief Executive Officer of the Bui Power Authority, Mr. Fred Oware has described comments by Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), who has threatened to haul former President John Agyekum Kufuor before the Bui Power Authority to Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-486457689994961822011-02-17T12:42:00.000Z2011-02-17T12:42:31.120ZAsiedu Nketia admits selling blocks to Bui contractors but rejects conflict of interest allegations
Raping Ghana Asiedu Nketiah*s way
Asiedu Nketia
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress has rejected conflict of interest allegations made against him over the construction of the Bui Dam project.
Johnson Asiedu Nketia, who is also a member of the Board of the Bui Authority is said to be a major supplier of blocks used in the construction of the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-54069414932806633332011-02-05T09:47:00.007Z2011-02-06T05:43:16.753ZCEPS and Corruption in Ghana: Where Does the Buck Stop?Recent revelations by Anas Amereyaw Anas showing how the Tema harbour has been turned into a house of thieves is no news to many Ghanaians. The only people who seem to have no idea is President Mills and his ministers who are paid with the tax payers' money to protect and defend the country and yet have failed to lead the country and act decisively when it comes to matters of national importance.Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-59876473848590886032011-02-05T09:26:00.000Z2011-02-05T09:26:16.166ZGovernment seeking advice to review operations at Tema Harbour - Duffuor
Dr Kwabena Duffuor
The Government is seeking legal and administrative advice to review operations of Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) and the Destination Inspection Companies including GCNET.
Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, announced this in a statement issued in reaction to the "Enemies of the Nation" video by Mr Anas Aremeyaw Anas, anGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-56963951235588319342011-02-05T09:22:00.000Z2011-02-05T09:22:20.660ZMills charges Judiciary to help ‘crush Enemies of the Nation’
President J.E.A. Mills
President John Evans Atta Mills has paid a surprise visit to the Tema Harbour, in apparent response to the latest investigative documentary by journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
The documentary details widespread corruption at the Tema Harbour, frustrating a lot of importers.
Interacting with officials, President Mills condemned the corruption and urged Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-80094210338594370082011-02-05T09:15:00.000Z2011-02-05T09:15:58.813Z15 'corrupt' harbour officers to be sacked, prosecuted
Koku Anyidoho, Director of
Communications at the Presidency
Fifteen officials at the Tema Harbour caught on camera ripping the country off in 'bribe takings' face summary dismissal.
That, according to the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho, is the first line of punitive measures being taken against the corrupt officials.
They will then be hauled Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-60282757076307602322011-02-04T07:05:00.001Z2011-02-04T07:10:19.782ZEnemies of the Nation: The dark secrets of Tema Harbour
By Anas Aremeyaw Anas
A veritable commercial beehive; the economic nerve centre of Ghana, sits on the shores of the Atlantic and overlooks the bubbling big blue sea. The sea breeze seems to have been directed purposely to produce a calming effect on the crammed and torrid atmosphere and on the bristling pace of business. The national flag, the Customs flag, and that of the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-61914494713533818002011-02-04T06:48:00.002Z2011-02-04T06:48:57.380ZGov’t vows to 'crush' “Enemies of the Nation”
Dr Kwabena Duffour, Minister of Finance
and Economic Planning
The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Kwabena Duffour has commended investigative journalists, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, for his latest expose of graft, pilfering and plain stealing going on at the Tema Port.
He has promised to “use all the necessary administrative and legal means to retrieve every pesewa lost to Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-39594064665361171612011-02-04T06:45:00.000Z2011-02-04T06:45:05.172ZNana Konadu declares she will challenge Mills in 2012 - Daily Guide
Nana Konadu
Sixty-two-year old Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has told the Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that she wants to be a candidate for the Party’s 2012 presidential election, reports the Daily Guide newspaper.
Mrs. Rawlings is reported to have officially declared her presidential ambition at a meeting of the NDC Council of Elders held in Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-81322748844299369432011-01-22T12:34:00.000Z2011-01-22T12:34:00.042ZNDC party executives are busily amassing wealth - MP
Michael Teye Nyaunu, MP for Lower Manya Krobo
National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Lower Manya Krobo, Michael Teye Nyaunu, has expressed strong fears that his party could lose the 2012 general elections.
He told Citi News Parliamentary Correspondent Richard Sky, that instead of running the affairs of the party, many executives of the NDC – from the national to Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-83786175185695604342010-12-27T02:44:00.002Z2010-12-27T02:44:36.539ZWikileaks report: Mills rejects oil bribe
President Atta Mills
It is gradually emerging that President John Evans Atta Mills may, after all, not be immune to bribery and corruption as some corporate bodies troop to the Castle, Osu, the seat of government, attempting to bribe the president.
Latest in the series of leaked cables from the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks, is an open admission by President Mills thatGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-46780253288443571532010-12-27T02:38:00.000Z2010-12-27T02:38:24.702ZPower sharing: An ugly Paradigm shift in African Politics; Gbagbo must be removed by force
Gbagbo must be removed by forceLord Aikins Adusei*By Lord Aikins Adusei
Dangerous precedents
The year was 2008. The countries: Kenya and Zimbabwe. The subject matter was presidential elections between the then incumbents Mwai Kibaki of Kenya and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and their challengers Raila Odinga and Morgan Tsvangirai respectively. Both elections had similar things in common. The Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-72104349776245024502010-12-16T09:34:00.000Z2010-12-16T09:34:01.792ZWikiLeaks cables: Ghanaian police 'helped drug smugglers evade security'
African anti-narcotics operation funded with £1m from UK thwarted by corrupt officials at airport, US embassy cables say
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Robert Booth
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 December 2010 21.29 GMT
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Security guards on duty at Kotoka airport in Accra, Ghana. Some unidentified airport police are corrupt, according to the US embassy cables. Photograph: Tugela Ridley/AFP/Getty ImagesAGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-14033212910276392412010-12-16T09:29:00.000Z2010-12-16T09:29:00.960ZPresident Mills suspects drug traffickers in his own government?
The troubled yet troublesome Wikileaks cables rummaging nations across the globe has its snowballing damnations hitting Ghana as the Guardian goes public with a detailed account of how security operatives engaged in the fight against drug trafficking are tipping off “couriers” with information of when it is “safe” to board flights to avoid being arrested.
President John Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-47758638788655887482010-11-29T14:48:00.000Z2010-11-29T14:48:40.185ZI did not receive a cedi from Francis Poku -- Vice President John MahamaVice President John Mahama has denied allegations by some NDC members that he received any money from former National Security advisor, Francis Poku, during the erstwhile Kufour administration.
Mr. Mahama who was speaking at the national conference of the Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the NDC at the Winneba University College in the Central Region, and told the student Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-69140245684604659122010-11-25T10:56:00.000Z2010-11-25T10:56:52.139ZGovernment denies ordering fresh probe into Muntaka's $20,000 sagaCommunication’s Director at the seat of government, Koku Anyidoho has categorically denied that President Mills ordered the Civil Service Council to commence fresh investigations into the $20,000 which Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka was alleged to have allocated to himself whiles in office.
Koku Anyidoho told Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah on the Super Morning Show Thursday morning that the Daily Guide's report Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-64605379599882003332010-11-19T06:54:00.000Z2010-11-19T06:54:51.559ZNational Democratic Congress is allegedly stealing materials meant for the building of the Bui dam, NDC gives Fox FM three days ultimatum
A Kumasi based radio station, Fox FM has been given three days to name officials of the ruling National Democratic Congress it allegedly accused of stealing materials for the building of the Bui dam.
The ultimatum was given by the Ashanti Regional General Secretary of the NDC, Joseph Yasmeen in an interview with Joy News on Wednesday.
The station is alleged to have Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-36953140790022054812010-11-08T05:38:00.000Z2010-11-08T05:38:41.477ZWhat have I done to Ghanaians? –Sports Minister questions critics' about world cup expenditure
Minister of Youth and Sports, Akua Sena Dansua
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Akua Sena Dansua has expressed disgust at suspicions and allegations cast in her direction in relation to expenses said to have been incurred by the nation over the Black Stars' participation in the 2010 World Cup.
She was in Parliament Thursday to answer a question on how much it cost the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-45198695557052208032010-11-08T05:32:00.002Z2010-11-08T05:32:38.814ZMinister Took Driver, House-Help And Bodyguard To World Cup
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Akua Sena Dansua has expressed disgust at suspicions and allegations cast in her direction in relation to expenses said to have been incurred by the nation over the Black Stars’ participation in the 2010 World Cup.She was in Parliament on Thursday to answer a question on how much it cost the nation to engage in the World Cup.Responding to the issues on Asempa Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-69357977855989403302010-11-08T05:30:00.002Z2010-11-08T05:30:45.431ZSena Dansua clashes with Asiamah, OB Amoah over World Cup expenses
Youth and Sports Minister, Akua Sena Dansua is unimpressed with what she says are mischievous attempts by Isaac Asiamah, the New Patriotic Party’s ranking member on Youth and Sports to provoke a needless controversy over the 2010 World Cup expenditure.The Minister in an answer to a question on Wednesday presented itemized expenditure incurred during Ghana’s participation in the football Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-42714593407936734622010-11-08T05:29:00.002Z2010-11-08T05:29:34.940Z$7.2m Blown At World CupEven before the players of the senior National Soccer Team, the Black Stars are given their full bonuses, an amount of $7.2 million has been spent by government on per diem, protocol and souvenirs for Ghana’s participation in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.The Minority in Parliament has described the expenditure as outrageous and profligate, calling on government to give a full disclosure on Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-21235706652264247182010-10-26T03:02:00.002Z2010-10-26T03:02:54.878ZKufuor Grabs 1.4 Acre Government Land For GH¢4,000
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A man of power is usually ruined by power, a man of money is ruined by money and of pleasure is ruined by pleasure, But former President John Agyekum Kufuor, appears to have been ruined by money, power and pleasure.
In an act which could easily pass as the ultimate political heist in our country’s history, former President Kufuor allocated to himself, a Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-42219834905175160082010-09-30T20:37:00.002Z2010-09-30T20:37:46.737ZCID questions ex-minister over 'dubious deal'
Dr Anthony Akoto Osei
Ex-Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei was yesterday invited by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service and subjected to rigorous interrogations in respect of his alleged involvement in the bizarre sale of government's interest in Ghana Oil Palm Development Company (GOPDC).
According to an Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-91076049356320364142010-09-30T20:34:00.001Z2010-09-30T20:34:36.320ZKweku Baako: Government must probe NPP for "chopping" Eurobond cash
Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading
Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako
The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has challenged the government to probe and sanction past officials believed to have squandered the Eurobond cash if there is evidence to that effect.
The erstwhile Kufuor administration has been accused of squandering a $750 million it Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-60502252111204966472010-09-30T20:32:00.001Z2010-09-30T20:32:18.858ZKweku Baako: Government must probe NPP for "chopping" Eurobond cash
Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading
Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako
The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has challenged the government to probe and sanction past officials believed to have squandered the Eurobond cash if there is evidence to that effect.
The erstwhile Kufuor administration has been accused of squandering a $750 million it Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-50291605035394588052010-09-16T19:58:00.001Z2010-09-16T19:58:55.702ZExcerpts from Craig Murray’s book; NDC tried to shut down Joy FM, took Afari Gyan’s family hostage
Former British Diplomat, Craig Murray
Former British Diplomat, Craig Murray has in a new book dissected Ghana's election 2000, revealing the NDC government's attempts to, shut down Joy FM, get the military to take over as well as take Afari-Gyan's family hostage.
The book also reveals How Indian Ink was brought in on a chartered private jet for the run-off!
… Recalls how he and two Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-45121091528991370382010-09-14T22:23:00.000Z2010-09-14T22:23:13.923ZStatement: Ministry of Information reacts to ¢1.6bn story
Stanislav Xoese Dogbe
The Ministry of Information wishes to state that the report in Tuesday’s Daily Guide newspaper which claimed among others that Mr. Stanislav Xoese Dogbe, a Presidential Aide attached to the Government Communications Team, has not accounted for an amount of GH¢169,000 meant for Public Education Campaign on the 2010 Budget is false.
The allegations are Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-72885002408572413882010-08-19T18:40:00.000Z2010-08-19T18:40:13.198ZWAEC releases results of 2010 BECEWAEC releases results of 2010 BECESource: GNA
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Accra, Aug. 2, GNA - The West African Examination Council (WAEC), on Monday said it had released provisional results of the April 2010 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).A statement issued in Accra and signed by Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, Principal Public Affairs Officer of WAEC, said that the results of various schools would beGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-87295274031827425142010-08-17T16:25:00.000Z2010-08-17T16:25:07.207ZEx- President Kufuor to be hauled before Bui Power AuthorityBy Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie/Citifmonline.com | Mon 16th August, 2010Ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor may soon be hauled before the Bui Power Authority to account for his stewardship as the past Board Chairman of the authority.
General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress Johnson Asiedu Nketsia made this known to Citi News in an interview.
According to Mr. Asiedu Nketsia, the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-50284584858471157132010-08-17T16:18:00.000Z2010-08-17T16:18:24.817ZCastle fraud…INTERPOL impounded cars mssingSource : Today/Ghana | Tue 17th August, 2010Today has uncovered a vehicle-stealing syndicate currently operating at the Castle, the seat of the Ghana government. The cars, this paper established, were impounded at the Tema Port by the Ghana section of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL).
INTERPOL officials went on a virtual goose chase at the Castle recently when they Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-90815334008433010922010-08-16T21:10:00.000Z2010-08-16T21:10:38.250ZNDC Minister Denies Grabbing Billionaire Mansion
The Eastern Regional Minister, Hon. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, is threatening legal action against the Editor of the Searchlight newspaper for a publication that the Minister says defames him.
The Daily Searchlight in a publication on Thursday August 12, reports that "at a time when Ghanaians are struggling to make ends meet, amidst strong protests of suffering from all quarters, officials of the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-65928412922610687932010-08-15T17:31:00.003Z2010-08-15T17:36:18.694ZMan of God is NPP activist - Ablakwa
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Ablakwa: Does not agree with
Rev. Asante-Antwi's positioning
Deputy Information Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has expressed surprise at the blatant self-identification with partisan politics by a minister of the Gospel of Christ, Rev. Samuel Asante-Antwi of the Methodist Church in Ghana.
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A former President of the Methodist Church in Ghana, Rev. Samuel Asante Antwi has endorsed the candidature of NPP flagbearer Nana Akufo-Addo as the best to win the 2012 presidential elections, saying Mills has failed.
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Chairman of the assembly’s executive committee, Ayim Bisa says the DCE took the decision without Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-89654300597352824042010-07-28T19:08:00.000Z2010-07-28T19:08:46.299Z$37m for secondhand Germany naval ships
A naval ship
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The house also approved an amount of 100 million dollars for the procurement of Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-55022316752857934872010-07-28T19:05:00.000Z2010-07-28T19:05:05.746ZNPP&NDC must be blamed for collapse of GIA - Ato Conduah
A former Management Consultant to the Senior Staff Association of the defunct Ghana Airways, Mr. Ato Conduah says neither the NDC nor NPP governments can escape blame for the woes of Ghana International Airlines.
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Paul Collins Appiah-Ofori
Anti-corruption crusader PC Appiah-Ofori has urged his colleagues in Parliament to reject a proposal to purchase 50 new buses for the Metro Mass Transit Company (MMT).
The buses are to augment the company’s fleet, but Mr. Appiah-Ofori kicked against it, arguing that the company has refused to account for the numerous buses purchased for them under Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-57279717248124875422010-07-27T13:55:00.002Z2010-07-27T13:55:26.537ZTsikata’s Corrupt Practices To Delay First Oil?World Bank Launches Investigations!!!!!!By Betty Dadzie (Takoradi, Ghana), Charles Quaye (London) Upstream GhanaThe inordinate greed of one person who has single handedly caused more harm to Ghana than any living individual has been exposed, with monumental consequences to Ghana’s economy. Ghanaians may now have to wait until 2012 before the oil starts flowing because of Tsatsu Tsikata’s alleged Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-18877102147341245212010-07-27T12:53:00.000Z2010-07-27T12:53:00.529ZEx-Minister In US$86,500 Fraud CaseProf. Christopher Ameyae-Ekumfi named »
By Larry-Alans Dogbey & Kingsley DogbeyAn Accra Circuit Court, presided over by His Lordship, C.A. Wilson, has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a 30-year-old woman, Gertrude Fitnat Selasi Bedzo, who claims to be a mistress of Prof. Christopher Ameyaw-Ekumfi with whom she has a secret daughter, for defrauding a Holland-based Ghanaian the sum of USGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-18720595149071292842010-07-26T16:52:00.000Z2010-07-26T16:52:22.290ZTony Aidoo: NPP blew $10m over policy and evaluation
Dr. Tony Aidoo
Head of Policy, Monitoring and Evaluation team at the presidency, Dr Tony Aidoo has accused the erstwhile New Patriotic Party of misappropriating $10 million being cash for the establishment of a database and policy evaluation outfit.
According to Dr Aidoo, the opposition party had nothing to show for the amount provided by the UNDP and DFID except traces of Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-12013750021369558702010-07-26T08:15:00.002Z2010-07-26T08:15:47.632ZEllembelle Organiser of NDC slams party faithful
The Ellembelle Constituency Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kwame Amossah has advised party faithful not to take advantage of the democratic dispensation of the country to denigrate people in authority.
He therefore asked them to channel their grievances to the appropriate structures of the party for redress.
Mr Amossah who gave the advice in an interview with Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-40418211465943064462010-07-26T08:14:00.002Z2010-07-26T08:14:44.339ZIrate NDC youth in Tamale demand restart of auction process
A meeting between the Tamale Metropolitan Security Council and leaders of an irate NDC group has ended abruptly.
The meeting was called after the Gbewah youth disrupted the Assembly’s auctioning exercise on two occasions and towed away some vehicles.
They claim the Assembly did not follow due procedures in auctioning the said vehicles.
Contrary to police initial reports Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-87898883696582288912010-07-26T08:07:00.000Z2010-07-26T08:07:29.957ZNDC youth lock out Sissala East DCE
Supporters of the Sissala East constituency chairman of the National Democracy Congress (NDC) are said to have locked the DCE out of office on Sunday.
They accuse her of allocating tractors meant for use by the assembly to her cronies including husband, but Madam Alijata Sulemana has denied the allegation.
She insists only those who registered and paid for the haulage of Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-17884874965174736002010-07-23T06:30:00.000Z2010-07-23T06:30:27.421ZJohn Mahama's mess and the STX Bribery Saga!
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Advertize Here for $8 a day to reach over 20,000 peopleMoneyGram Send Money To Ghana For Just £4.99Call Ghana for one dollar with Pingo pre-paid calling. Sign up and start calling now!Nigerian Voice gives daily news updates Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-48061207832024264422010-07-22T19:24:00.002Z2010-07-22T19:24:51.437ZKoku Anyidoho: Media Must Be Called To Order
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The Communications Director at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho, says the country is suffering from the tyranny of the media because journalists are holding Ghanaians to ransom.
He said due to the nation’s quest to broaden the frontiers of free speech, some journalists and media houses have taken undue advantage to peddle untruth about Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-12513409121468266962010-07-22T18:53:00.000Z2010-07-22T18:53:07.130ZPresident Mills Must Be A Worried Man
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President Atta Mills must be a worried man after he was yesterday hooted at, at Nima, a densely populated part of Accra soon before his arch-rival, Nana Akufo-Addo, was ushered into the area amidst a jamboree and street carnival that ended up in a mammoth rally.
While the president was given a cold reception, a red carpet was virtually rolled out for Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-65236751957804152612010-07-22T08:29:00.000Z2010-07-22T08:29:39.003ZFraud all over disbursement & utilisation of Capitation Grant
A survey by the Centre for Democratic Development, Ghana (CDD-Ghana) has seriously indicted officials of the Ghana Education Service (GES), especially head teachers, for leaks in the disbursement and utilisation of the Capitation Grant, thereby defeating the purpose for which the grant was introduced.
The survey exposed the deliberate inflation of enrolment figures by the Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-42139169729947063252010-07-22T08:27:00.000Z2010-07-22T08:27:18.976ZGHS, Accuser in standoff
The Ghana Health Service is demanding a retraction from Yaa Bosomtwi
The Ghana Health Service is fending off damaging allegations of collusion with an international team of researchers accused of exploiting the ignorance of women in the Upper East Region.
The team from the Colombia University which was conducting a family planning experiment in Navrongo is accused of Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-27950356667721506922010-07-22T08:03:00.002Z2010-07-22T08:03:36.742ZMedia Commission, GJA, others shocked at arrest of Ato Kwamena Dadzie
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The Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Mr Kabral Blay-Amihere has expressed disquiet about the charging of Ato Kwamena Dadzie.
The Joy FM Acting news editor has been charged under section 208 of the criminal code for false publication intended to cause fear and harm.
But the NMC Chairman Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-50730319620624168552010-07-22T07:27:00.002Z2010-07-22T07:27:57.051ZIGP removes INTERPOL-Ghana boss from officeIGP MOVES INTO ACTION…removes INTERPOL-Ghana boss from office while investigations into the sharing of US$49,000 continue
By Aaron OkyereUnlike his predecessor P.K. Acheampong, the Inspector General of Police, Paul Tawiah Quaye, has indicated in practical terms that he would not cover-up for police personnel involved in one form of professional misconduct or the other. As a result, he has orderedGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-29434843999001257522010-07-17T21:13:00.002Z2010-07-17T21:13:54.699ZDid P.C Appiah-Ofori influence STX withdrawal?
Paul Collins Appiah-Ofori
Government’s decision to withdraw the controversial STX loan agreement from Parliament may have been influenced by advice offered by anti-corruption campaigner P.C. Appiah-Ofori.
The debate on the agreement was suspended last Wednesday after the Minority demanded that government furnishes members with some key documents. The MPs argued they would Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-5808823507618149522010-07-15T16:44:00.002Z2010-07-15T16:44:48.799ZSekou Nkrumah sacked!
Dr. Sekou Nkrumah
Dr. Sekou Nkrumah has been sacked as coordinator of the National Youth Council after criticising the leadership style of President Mills.
This was confirmed by the deputy Sports Minister Nii Nortey Duah who signed the dismissal letter.
The chairman of the Board of the National Youth Council Esther Cobbah, told Joy News the Board took a unanimous decision Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-52532677779245532802010-07-15T12:58:00.000Z2010-07-15T12:58:04.438ZAlbert Abongo admits accepting gifts from STX but says they were not bribes
Former Works and Housing Minister, Albert Abongo
The former Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Albert Abongo has denied media reports that a 12-member government delegation that endorsed the STX Korea housing deal on behalf of the country in 2009 were bribed with US$2,600 by the Korean company.
Mr. Albert Abongo said members of the delegation merely received Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-40519787361094647102010-07-13T17:27:00.000Z2010-07-13T17:27:32.697ZNDC FIGHTS OVER ¢2BN DONOR’S CASH
… Konadu’s name pops upBy Simmons Yusif Kewura & Daniel Nonor
Mrs. RawlingsTHE alleged claim by the Wayome brothers (Alfred and Kobby Wayome) and Herbert Mensah, a football administrator, that they financed the last batch of supporters who were airlifted to South Africa to cheer the Black Stars to the tune of $1.5 million, has incurred the wrath of the national leadership of the National Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-58420443859837768982010-07-13T17:20:00.000Z2010-07-13T17:20:20.457ZAGYEMANG KONADU BACKS RAWLINGS
“I really should not come and sit here and decide who is justified or who is not, but my husband has run this country for 18 years and he can see when something is going down the hill. He can feel it,”.By Bismark Bebli & Daniel NonorEx-president Jerry Rawlings (left), President Atta Mills (middle), Mrs. Rawlings (right)THE FORMER First lady, Mrs. Konadu Agyemang Rawlings has mounted a strong Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-35719533097217053262010-07-13T17:12:00.002Z2010-07-13T17:12:23.889ZGIVE US CONTRACTS OR FORGET 2012“Judging by the actions of the government and its officials, we are contemplating withdrawing our financial support base for the party, unless our problems are addressed. The period where the baboon dey work, and the monkey dey chop, is over.”By: Bismark BebliTHE financiers of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) have threatened to withdraw support for the party in the 2012 elections, ifGhana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-25662592974629833592010-07-13T17:08:00.002Z2010-07-13T17:08:46.241ZGOV’T EXPOSES KONADU
… As she and husband turned down two offersBy Bismark BebliaThe gated private residence of Mr. Rawlings at Adjiringano, East legon, AccraThe assertion made by the former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings about government’s ineptitude in providing them with accommodation after fire gutted their residence five months ago, might not entirely be true.According to government sources, two Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7041442833697279818.post-49075432296667544112010-07-13T16:55:00.000Z2010-07-13T16:55:42.325ZBritish Duped Ghana Millions Of Dollars In Bauxite Sale To Chinese*Wanton Negligence and Grand Conflict Of Interest At Play In Officialdom *
Months of investigation has revealed traces of negligence and conflict of interest on the part of officialdom resulting in Ghana losing millions of US dollars over the sale of the Ghana Bauxite Company Limited (GBCL) to Bosai Minerals Group; a Chinese company.The Chinese are already in the Western Region with their ships Ghana Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16548470991025400281noreply@blogger.com0