Environment

Quarry blasts leave a trail of damage in Pwalugu

NDC boys rack up GHS 5million electricity debt at illegal mine despite anti-galamsey crackdown

Researchers sound alarm as galamsey contaminates Black, White and Red Voltas

Huge swathe of Dodowa Forest cleared to relocate traders, raising alarm among environmentalists

Plastic waste collectors struggle as questions raised over use of recycling levy

Gold rush: Galamsey boom sends communities in hunt for water

Ghana’s rubber industry under strain as raw exports drain value and threaten jobs

How Jospong Group was paid GHC1.48 billion to clean up the country, yet Ghana remains in filth and dirt

Billions in Sanitation Levy Collected, yet Deaths and Piles of Waste Mount

Chemicalised foods: FDA lacks resources to test for pesticide residue

Gold rush: 70% of sites in four main mining regions are illegal

Chief’s u-turn on galamsey angers and divides Anyinasin

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Mathematical Mix-up or Deliberate Duplication? Why the Presidency’s Big Push report doesn’t add up

The Fourth Estate’s investigations into the Mahama administration’s flagship construction project, The Big Push, generated a lot of public debate about the use and abuse of sole source procurement in the award of public contracts. In May 2026, in response to The Fourth Estate’s investigation, the presidency released a 72-page report which concluded that the Ministry of Roads and Highways did not abuse the sole source process in its award of contracts under the Big Push initiative. Interestingly, the number of Big Push contracts used to arrive at that conclusion differed from those obtained by The Fourth Estate through a Right to Information (RTI) request from the Roads Ministry. While the presidency’s response sought to dispute the number of sole-sourced contracts awarded under the initiative, it however, did not dispute the cost per project contained in The Fourth Estate’s report. So what did the presidency miss in its own review of contracts awarded under its flagship project? Kwaku Krobea Asante joins us to break down the figures and point out where they fall short.