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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...

Public purse bleeds as RTI Commission fines 10 institutions GH¢920,000

 The Right to Information (RTI) Commission has fined 13 state institutions close to GH¢1 million for failing to release information...

Council of State Member denies attempting to influence High Court Judge

  The Talensi Traditional Council has denied that its president, Tongraan Kugbilsong Nanlebetang’s invitation to the Acting Upper East Regional Supervising...

Man who shot his pregnant wife in her sleep jailed 39 years

An Accra High Court has sentenced Effort Dankwa to 39 years imprisonment for attempted murder. Effort Dankwa shot his pregnant wife,...

These 1D1F factories can’t find raw materials, others are broke  

Shortage of raw materials and financial challenges are grounding a number of factories under the One District, One Factory(1D1F) policy,...

RTI Commission fines GES over refusal to give Covid-19 spraying information

  The Right to Information (RTI) Commission has fined the Ghana Education Service (GES) GHS50,000. The penalty was a result of...

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