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Radio Ada journalist on trial over publication of fake news about McDan is dead

September 21, 2023

General News

IPEP abandoned projects: Contractors call for revaluation, payment

September 20, 2023

Health

How a health regulator, TMPC, licensed fake herbal medicine practitioner, again

September 18, 2023

General News

Lighthouse loses court case again

September 18, 2023

Opinions

Ghana’s ‘erected-Parliamentary’ Committee, the Techiman 8, and Ghana at crossroads

September 18, 2023

General News

From Canada to Ghana: Stolen cars tracked as EOCO calls for enhanced surveillance

This investigative report exposes the criminal activities of car stealing syndicates in both Canada and Ghana --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) in Ghana...

Senior Police Officer linked to IGP-overthrow plot supervised violent Ayawaso West Wuogon election

Commissioner of Police (COP) Alex George Mensah, one of the senior police officers at the centre of the alleged plot to oust the Inspector-General...

Rejoinder: Finance Committee Chairman sends third rejoinder on 1D1F hotel story

The Chairman of the Finance Committee of Parliament, Kwaku Kwarteng, has sent a third rejoinder. In keeping with our editorial policy, we publish unedited. In...

1D1F Hotel: Finance Commitee Chair omits facts on The Fourth Estate’s interview request

The Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Kwaku Kwarteng, was not transparent with facts when he claimed that The Fourth Estate failed to reveal specific...

Anti-Corruption

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Parliament calls for cancellation of Zoomlion contract

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has recommended the cancellation of the fumigation contracts between waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, and the metropolitan, municipal,...

Parliament to punish officers who pay Zoomlion for fumigation

A member of Parliament’s Public Finance Committee (PAC), Rockson Dafeamekpor, says officials of assemblies and the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) who defy Parliament’s...

Evans Aziamor-Mensah

Ex-PPA board chair slips through CHRAJ ban: chairs Minerals Fund almost two years

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in February 2022, banned a former Board Chair of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Prof....

Health

Dangerous endorsements: Exposé on herbal medicine advertising in Ghana

At about a quarter to 10 a.m. on May 21, 2022, a phone rang in the office of The Fourth Estate. I have low sexual...

How hospitals, NGOs lost funding after free Childhood Cancer treatment announcement

In the first part of our publication, The Fourth Estate chronicled the story of parents who continue to pay for the cost of treatment...

Free Childhood Cancer treatment: Patients still paying despite government’s promise

In this investigative report, The Fourth Estate details how desperate parents are forced to choose between their children's lives and the ruin of their...

The Fourth Estate uncovers 144 sachet water companies in Accra producing without FDA licence

When a 23-year-old journalist, Thelma Amedeku, sought medical attention at the Legon Hospital in January 2023, she tested positive for typhoid. Haruna Ibrahim Sadik, the...

Human Rights

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Abduction, rape and impregnation: the story of child brides

For fear of victimization, the names of the victims and their parents have been changed Before primary class six pupil Agartha make sense of what...

Radio Ada journalist released after a week in remand over ‘’false news’’

The Tema Circuit Court has granted the Deputy Station Coordinator of Radio Ada, Noah Narh Dameh, a GHC60,000 bail. Noah was released on April 6,...

Philip Teye Agbove

The boy called ‘no one cares’: How police rescued nine trafficked children in Dambai

It is 12 a.m. at Adakope, a fishing community in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti region. Dark police boots take crunchy steps into...

Health

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Quack midwife: How regulatory bodies failed patients of South Odorkor clinics

In parts one and two of this story, we chronicled how The Fourth Estate uncovered an unlicensed midwife whose 30-year history of practice has...

FULL VIDEO: The Quack Midwife

After 18 months of investigations at a private health facility in Accra, The Fourth Estate has uncovered a frightening case of ‘Matron Gaga’, an...

Evans Aziamor-Mensah,Seth J. Bokpe

30 years of deception: quack midwife’s shocking trail of deaths and malpractice exposed

After 18 months of investigative reporting at a private health facility in Accra, The Fourth Estate has uncovered a frightening case of ‘Matron Gaga’,...

Environment

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ILLEGAL MINING: Communities threatened by devastating effects

When President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo redirected national focus towards the canker by making a bold pledge to tackle illegal mining, popularly called galamsey,...

Illegal miners strike again: 75-Year-old widow scammed in farmland for 3-bedroom house deal

Frustrated, depressed, regrets, and disappointment are a few of the emotions one can visibly tell from the face and demeanour of Grace Konadu, a...

Philip Teye Agbove

A mixed bag: Akufo-Addo’s words and deeds on climate change

“What we do in Ghana affects the people of Nepal or Mozambique or Austria. That is why we need concerted global action to tackle...

Opinions

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Why President Akufo-Addo will not fall for the grand plot against IGP Dampare

In the last two days, the name, Dampare, has been trending on both mainstream and social media. This follows public conversations about the content...

Accra as the world book capital : All Ghana a stage

With titillating titles like "The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born," "Dilemma of a Ghost," and "The Marriage of Anansewa," our illustrious literary elders...

Samira Bawumia

Why the courts need to block SLAPPs to protect our frail democracy

The last thing our fledgling democracy needs at this crucial moment is the use of legal manoeuvrings to stifle public participation. Nonetheless, there have been...