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Mahama to investigate Songhor Salt Electrochem deal if elected

MFWA trains over 30 journalists on Reserve-Based Lending and Illicit Financial Flows

The Fourth Estate petitions OSP to investigate GHS84m Wi-Fi contract

1D1W: Govt warehouses decay while farmers store produce in living rooms

Frustration: Websites of govt institutions fall short in providing information to public

Stalled for 20 years: MP urges political parties to fund abandoned performing arts facility

SML sues The Fourth Estate, Manasseh Azure Awuni, demands GHS 10 million damages

$3.9-million tax waiver for hotel: MFWA petitions Speaker of Parliament

Ada chiefs, former PIAC Chairman file lawsuits to stop Electrochem salt project

Next NDC gov’t will not accept any SML agreement – John Mahama

Akufo-Addo rejects GRA’s request to continue using SML system

Landlords using electricity for free frustrated because of ECG’s failure to bill them

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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.