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Kwaku Krobea Asante
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Tax reliefs in Ghana: Here’s what you need to know about them
Ghana has been rocked by a cost-of-living crisis. According to the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), inflation reached 31.7% in July 2022. By January 2023,...
Here’s how ECOWAS has deployed military intervention during Coups since 1990
ECOWAS Heads of State have ordered the military leaders in the region to organize and deploy troops into Niger to restore constitutional rule and...
No, Death Penalty has not been completely struck out from Ghana’s laws
On July 25, 2023, several media reports ( here, here and here) suggested Ghana’s parliament had voted to abolish the death penalty from the...
NPP Deputy Communication Director’s claim about the tenure of IGPs false
On July 12, 2023, a Deputy Communication Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jennifer Queen, said on Accra-based Okay FM’s morning show that...
Explainer: How the Akufo-Addo government ‘over-collateralised’ Ghana’s revenue
Alarm at the government’s excessive debt collateralisation and revenue monetization of statutory funds continues to sound, even as fiscal prudence points to a catastrophic...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill: Sam George’s claim about Attorney-General, false
On Thursday, May 11, 2023, the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Samuel Nartey George, stated on Accra-based Joy FM that the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice...
Bawumia’s claim about the number of Immigration Service staff completely false
On Friday, April 28 2023, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia attended the passing out ceremony for the Narcotics Control Commission’s Cadet 7. The ceremony...
US State Department’s report – NPP Dep. General Secretary’s claim misleading
On Saturday, April 15, 2023, the Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko, appeared on Joy FM’s News File programme to...
Bossman Asare’s claim that guarantor system is ‘unique to Ghana’ is false
Deputy Commissioner of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Dr Bossman Asare, said on Upfront on Joy News, on March 1, 2023, that the guarantor system has...
NPP MP Stephen Amoah’s claim the whole country stopped work during COVID-19, false
On Saturday, March 11, 2023, the deputy minister-designate for Trade and Industry, Dr. Stephen Amoah, appeared on Joy FM’s News File programme to discuss...
NPP’s Dennis Miracles Aboagye’s claim that road tolls were never suspended is false
A member of the New Patriotic Party’s communication team, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, said on Citi TV’s news analysis programme, The Big Issue, on Saturday,...
False! The IEA and others recommended an ideal size of gov’t for Akufo-Addo
When President Nana Akufo-Addo formed the largest-ever government in the Fourth Republic in 2017, there was a barrage of criticism from the opposition and...
