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Government paid spousal allowance for scholarship beneficiary – Final list of beneficiaries for 2019 and 2020

  The Scholarships Secretariat paid the wife of a scholarship beneficiary more than £6,000 as spousal allowance in 2019. Desmond Asare received £25,480 (GHS430,612) for tuition...

Former Miss Ghana on government scholarship: Beneficiaries list – Part 2

A former beauty queen is on a list of scholarship beneficiaries obtained by The Fourth Estate in response to a Right to Information request. Giusepina...

Scholarships Bonanza: Full list of Foreign Scholarships beneficiaries – Part 1

The Fourth Estate in 2021 obtained data on Ghanaians who had received sponsorship for their education from the Scholarships Secretariat in the 2018/2019 and...

Market stalls abandoned in Ada for 3 years despite 6-month completion timeline

Traders at a major Ada market in the Greater Accra region are struggling to do business on the small parcel...

Repeal ‘repressive’ laws that criminalise free speech – stakeholders in Ghana’s media sector to Akufo-Addo

  A coalition of stakeholders in Ghana’s media is demanding the repeal of two “repressive” laws that criminalise free speech in...

Ghana’s 2023 district-level elections: who cares?

In the last few weeks, several national issues have dominated media headlines and public discourse. From the visit of the...

Journalist in custody for publishing “false news” about McDan

  The Tema Circuit Court has remanded the Deputy Station Coordinator of Radio Ada, Noah Dameh, for publishing "false news" about...

Newly built 1D1F factories abandoned, some employing far less than the government claims

  In the first part of our  One District, One Factory (1D1F) series, we focussed on the shortage of raw materials...

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