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4 days ago | 
shorturl.at | Seth Bokpe
Since its introduction in 2017, the free senior high school (SHS) policy, championed by former President Nana Akufo-Addo, has consistently been hailed by his government as a transformative milestone in Ghana’s educational system. While the policy earned praise for significantly increasing access to secondary education, critics argued that the government prioritized quantity over quality.
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1 week ago | 
shorturl.at | Seth Bokpe |Philip Teye Agbove
President John Dramani Mahama has given his appointees until close of business today to declare their assets and liabilities in conformity with Article 286 or consider themselves automatically fired. This followed The Fourth Estate’s revelation that more than 50 of the President’s appointees, including ministers, presidential staffers, and heads of state institutions, have failed to do their declaration by the March 31, 2025, deadline set by the President.
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1 week ago | 
thefourthestategh.com | Seth Bokpe |Philip Teye Agbove
President John Dramani Mahama’s appointees who defied his directives to declare their assets and liabilities before March 31, 2025, will lose three months’ salary as punishment. The President has also given these defaulting ministers a new lifeline: May 7, 2025, to comply or be fired.
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2 weeks ago | 
shorturl.at | Seth Bokpe |Philip Teye Agbove
Fifty-five appointees in the John Mahama administration have defied the president’s ultimatum to declare their assets and liabilities by March 31, 2025. An analysis by The Fourth Estate reveals that eight out of 55 ministers and deputy ministers have failed to comply with the law and the president’s directive.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefourthestategh.com | Seth Bokpe |Philip Teye Agbove
Fifty-six appointees in the John Mahama administration have defied the president’s ultimatum to declare their assets and liabilities by March 31, 2025. An analysis reveals that out of 56 ministers and deputy ministers, 10 have failed to comply with the law and the president’s directive. Similarly, nine out of 32 presidential staffers and 37 of the 84 heads of state institutions appointed between January 15 and March 18 have yet to meet the president’s anti-graft directive as of April 17, 2024.
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1 month ago | 
fact-checkghana.com | Seth Bokpe
Claims have surfaced online suggesting that the US court case in which investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas sued former Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong, for defamation did not result in an $18 million damages award to the plaintiff (Anas). Instead, the claims suggest the case ended in a mistrial.
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2 months ago | 
thefourthestategh.com | Seth Bokpe |Edmund Agyemang Boateng
It remains to be seen, what steps the government will take after the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, publicly lamented that illegal miners had overran a gold prospecting concession belonging to him. He revealed that unauthorized mining was taking place on the concession without his knowledge, raising serious questions about who is responsible for the environmental destruction from the illegal mining operations which have devastated the banks of the Tano River.
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2 months ago | 
thefourthestategh.com | Seth Bokpe |Kwaku Krobea Asante
When Joel Nunifant graduated from Bagabaga College of Education in 2017, national service was not compulsory for teachers. He never enrolled and so it came to him as a shock when he discovered that his identity, including his college ID number, had been stolen and altered for the registration of other people under the National Service Scheme (NSS). The fraudulent entry, revealed by an investigation by The Fourth Estate, did more than just make illegal use of his ID number.
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2 months ago | 
thefourthestategh.com | Seth Bokpe |Kwaku Krobea Asante
Officials at the National Service Authority (NSA) circumvented mandatory validation processes for payments of allowances to national service personnel, enabling thousands of nonexistent names to be added to the payroll. This made it easy to use the ghost names to drain the public purse of millions of Ghana cedis in allowances intended for national service personnel.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
thefourthestategh.com | Seth Bokpe |Kwaku Asante
In February 2022 when former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia visited the National Service Authority (NSA), its management led by the Director-General, Osei Assibey Antwi, claimed they had implemented a digitalization process that had saved the country GHC 112 million.
