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

The Deputy Station Coordinator of Radio Ada, Noah Narh Dameh, who was on trial for allegedly publishing false news about businessman Daniel McKorley (McDan),...

IPEP abandoned projects: Contractors call for revaluation, payment

Contractors involved in government projects that have stalled under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) want the projects' costs reviewed. According to them, this...

Lighthouse loses court case again

A former bishop of the Lighthouse Chapel International (LCI), Larry Odonkor, on Friday walked out of an Accra Circuit court a free man after...

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...

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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...

The Fourth Estate’s response to Finance Committees’ rejoinder on $4m tax waiver under 1D1F

Despite incontrovertible evidence that the ongoing Airport City Le Meridien hotel project owned by 4-Mac benefitted from a $4 million tax exemption under the...

Health

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

  The Traditional Medicine Practice Council (TMPC), a health regulator under the Ministry of Health, has for the second time been caught in an investigation...

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...

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,...

Husband of pregnant woman shot in her sleep found guilty of attempted murder

A seven-member jury has found Effort Dankwa guilty of attempted murder for shooting his pregnant wife in her sleep. Benita Dankwa woke up on August...

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Husband of pregnant woman shot in her sleep found guilty of attempted murder

A seven-member jury has found Effort Dankwa guilty of attempted murder for shooting his pregnant wife in her sleep. Benita Dankwa woke up on August...

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