Ten years ago this month when the announcement of commercial discovery of crude oil in Ghana was made, the price of a barrel of crude oil was about $68 and on steady increase. The price increase...
Co-chair of the Ghana Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) Dr. Emmanuel Steve Asare Manteaw, who is also a member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), has said...
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has expressed disappointment over the poor execution of some projects funded with petroleum revenue in the Ashanti Region. Vice Chairman, Kwame...
Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah has poured cold water on talks of an impending cancellation of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation’s $3 million-a-year sponsorship of the senior national team,...
ACEP's Dr. Adam insults Ghana as they triple-dip and gorge on free UK money (1) From the point of view of taxpayers, that video is an example of a pointless vetting exercise by a largely ill-prepared...
Secret meetings, phone taps, Russian oil money and mysterious intelligence dossiers: the swirling scandal over Donald Trump's ties to Moscow has all the makings of a classic spy novel -- whose ending...
Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has served notice that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will not compromise the use of the country’s oil revenue in funding some key policies of...
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) says it needs to be vested with the authority to sanction government institutions that will misappropriate revenues generated from the...
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) says it needs to be vested with the authority to sanction government institutions that will misappropriate revenues generated from the...
Majority Leader in Parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has questioned the partnership agreement between state petroleum firm, Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) and the Ghana Football...
Majority leader in parliament Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has condemned the state’s petroleum firm GNPC over their use of a 30% of the national kitty on sponsorship to the football sector. The...
The 2017 budget statement read to Parliament by Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta on 02 March, 2017 was a very competent one. It was also quite transparent. It conveyed a clear balance of payments message. The...
The 2017 budget statement read to Parliament by Mr Ken Ofori Atta on 02 March 2017 was a very competent one. It was also quite transparent. It conveyed a clear balance of payments message. The...
‘Value for money’ featured prominently in a presidential inaugural speech. On hearing heritage fund could rescue education from underfunding, my initial thinking was value for money. Education is...
Policy think tank, National Media Center for Social Justice has commended steps being taken to ensure the Free-SHS promise by the New Patriotic Party administration is realised. The centre in a press...
The Government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must scrap some social intervention programmes and replace them with the free senior high school programme, the National Media Centre for Social and...
The Akufo-Addo government has been urged not to shy away from imposing a tax to fund free education following a raging debate over the funding source for the 2016 campaign promise. A pro-social...
Using the Heritage Fund to invest in government’s free Senior High School policy would be in line with the purpose for setting up the fund, the Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid has said. The...
Using the Heritage Fund to invest in government’s free Senior High School policy would be in line with the purpose for setting up the fund, the Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid has said. The...
Some political parties have kicked against Senior Minister Osafo-Maafo’s suggestion for government to consider using the Heritage Fund for the implementation of the free SHS policy this year. The...