Ghana’s Companies Act has been amended to make room for the beneficial ownership regime in the country, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said. A beneficial owner is a person who enjoys the...
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We’ll Pass RTI Bill This Year
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has promised that government will facilitate the passage of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill this year. He said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is...
Persons Engaged In Corruption Must Not Be Spared
Professor Stephen Adei, a former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has stated that politicians, political office holders and persons who had been involved...
Televise Proceedings of Bribery Allegation Committee
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has asked for the sittings of the ad hoc committee of Parliament constituted to investigate the allegation of bribery made against...
Ghana Is More Corrupt Than It Was 4 Years Ago
Ghana has dropped its lowest in corruption rating for the past four years, according to the latest Corruption Perception Index. Sponsored by the Transparency International, the index indicates that...
Ghana Drops Further In 2016 Corruption Ranking
Ghana has dropped four percentage points in its 2016 corruption perception index, scoring 43 out of a clean score of 100. This is according to the latest Corruption Perception Index released by...
Ghana’s Corruption Perception Worsens
The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) has dropped Ghana’s ranking in Africa from 6th position in 2015 to 9th after scoring 47 points out of 100 in 2016. Globally, the country placed 70 out of 176...
Stop This Legal Corruption, Now! (1)
“I am inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa because all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not...
Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President On Trial In France
Equatorial Guinea’s flamboyant vice-president has gone trial in absentia in France on charges of corruption after he failed to stop the landmark case. Teodorin Obiang Nguema is accused of buying a...
Petroleum Exploration And Production Law (2016) Act 919
‘’Imagine what Africa will look like when it has fully tapped into its potential‘,’ he said citing opportunities in agriculture, manufacturing and intra-African trade. ‘’But Africa and...
Corruption Is A Sin Against the People – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama says no government must condone corrupt practices as they amount to “a sin against the people”. He said his government therefore has put in place several measures...
I’ll Make Corruption Unattractive In My Next Term In Office – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated his pledge to tackle the menace of corruption like never before in his next term in office when given the mandate to govern the country. In a letter to...
The Pooling Effect
"...until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens...
How Magufuli’s No-Nonsense Leadership Is Changing Tanzania
President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Tanzanian counterpart John Pombe Magufuli at State House, Nairobi Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has been turning heads in the region being not travelling...
Setup Independent Prosecutor Office If You Want To Fight Corruption – MP To Gov’t
The Vice Chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says a proposal by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to set up the office of Director of Public Prosecutions Unit to...
NPP Rates Mahama ‘F’ In Fight Against Corruption
President Mahama has been rated ‘F’ in his attempts at fighting corruption in the country by the New Patriotic Party (NPP). A US-based policy think tank, The Heritage Foundation in its 2016...
Fighting Corruption Would Be Made An Urgent Priority
Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, Standard-bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), has vowed to wage relentless war on corruption, to save more money to bring progress to the people. He said if given...
Gov’t’s Fight Against Graft Not Enough – Emile Short
The former Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short has shot down government’s claim that it has done enough to fight corruption....
Ghana Must Fight Corruption In Order To Progress
Governance and Corruption Adviser to the President Daniel Batidam has suggested to Ghanaians to fight corruption if they want the country to move progressively. This, he suggested to politicians to...
President Mahama Deserves A Second Term
Governance and Corruption Adviser to the president Daniel Batidam has made a case for a second term for the president John Dramani Mahama. According to Mr. Batidam, the President and the National...