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Caught Drawling Salaries From 3 Sources The Executive Secretary of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), has been smoked out for drawing monthly salaries from three different institutions. Isaac Bampoe Addo, per information intercepted by The New Republic is currently under serious investigations. The serial striker and protestor has the monumental task to explain to authorities why this is the case. The implicated institutions are CLOGSAG, the Controller and Accountant General Department (CAGD) and Hedge Pensions Trust Limited. The Executive Secretary, who recently led his members to a nationwide strike before his appointment as CLOGSAG boss, was an employee…

Us Judge Orders Release from Ice CageFormer Finance Minister rejoins family in America but Ghana’s Special Prosecutor still wants his headBy Gifty BoatengHe was labelled an “illegal alien.” He was locked up in America’s immigration detention system. His name was on the wanted list of Ghana’s Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). And for three long months, Ken Ofori‑Atta Ghana’s most wanted former finance minister sat in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cell.A judicial order signed on April 8, 2026, has sprung Ofori‑Atta from custody. His legal team broke the news in a statement, confirming that the former…

By Prince Ahenkorah Fitch Solutions has projected that Ghana’s economy is likely to remain largely insulated from the effects of the ongoing US- Isreal and Iran conflict, due to high gold prices and strong foreign exchange inflows from exports. In its latest report, the global research and credit rating firm highlighted that despite a 14% drop in gold prices worldwide since the conflict erupted in late February 2026, caused by rising US yields, tighter monetary policy expectations, and a stronger US dollar, the March 27 spot price of US$4,413 per ounce is still nearly three times the average price between…

The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA) has hit back hard at recent media reports alleging massive under-invoicing in raw rubber exports. In a detailed rejoinder, the Authority calls the coverage “misleading, unverified” and most provocatively “paid propaganda.”The target is a trifecta of publications: the Daily Graphic (31 March), The New Republic (2 April), and MyJoyOnline (1 April). Their headlines spoke of vanishing millions $70 million, even $700 million unaccounted for. TCDA says the numbers are fiction.First, timing. TCDA notes that a permit system for raw rubber exports was only introduced on 2 May 2025. Comparing 2024 export data when no…

Five nurses vanished. Two army captains shook hands. And a nation still waits for answers. By Gifty Boateng More than five years after former President Jerry John Rawlings died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, a founding father of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dropped a bombshell that threatens to tear open one of Ghana’s most sensitive political mysteries.Dr Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe, a statesman and retired military officer, is no longer whispering. He is declaring: Rawlings did not die a natural death.In a viral interview, Tamakloe laid out a chilling sequence of events that he says points to a well-planned elimination…

…as alarm blows on Extortions, Conspiracy and Stealing at Ghana’s Premier HospitalBy Phillip Antoh More than ten months after a fire gutted the mammography unit at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital’s Radiology Department, newly obtained CCTV footage has blown open questions that management would rather keep buried. The footage, seen by The New Republic, suggests that a female staff member, a national service personnel detected the blaze a full 30 minutes before the inferno raged out of control. Yet instead of raising the alarm, she made a phone call, locked the room, handed the keys to security, and drove off with a…

Business Captains Descend, Answers stay up the Hills By Prince AhenkorahThe annual Easter homecoming in Kwahu has become a stage for grand economic visions. This year, the Ghana Export-Import Bank (GEXIM) announced it has approved funding for three local enterprises Perfect End Logistics, Nobi Farms, and Rockmar Pharmaceutical. President John Dramani Mahama outlined a three-pivot strategy to transform Ghana’s economy. And the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, issued a blunt demand: young people need jobs, not motivational speeches.But beneath the polished statements and applause lines, the same structural fractures that have long hobbled Ghana’s industrial ambitions remain unhealed. The funding…

By Prince Ahenkorah Ghana’s former president turned comeback leader, John Dramani Mahama, touched down in France on Monday (6 April) for a three-day official visit that casts him as a co-star alongside Emmanuel Macron. The French president has invited Mahama to co-chair the high-level segment of the One Health Summit in Lyon a rare diplomatic nod that elevates Accra’s profile in global health governance.Mahama’s spokesperson, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, confirmed the trip, which also includes bilateral talks at the Élysée Palace on Wednesday. But the real spotlight is Lyon. Today, Mahama will share the podium with Macron and WHO chief Tedros…

By Prince Ahenkorah The government has rushed to block a proposed hike in sachet water prices, but the move has done little to stop some retailers from already selling at ₵1 a bag double the usual rate. The intervention, announced on Monday (6 April) by the Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, offers consumers only fleeting relief.Behind the scenes, producers had been pushing for a sharp increase. The National Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers (NASPAWAP) cited a global polymer shortage, worsened by geopolitical tensions involving Iran, and wanted factory prices at GH¢8 and retail up to GH¢15. The…

By Philip Antoh The Mallam Market in Ablekuma North was once a bustling but ordinary trading hub. Not anymore. By day, it sells vegetables and cloth. By night, it sells sex and synthetic drugs and the two have become dangerously entangled.Traders arriving at dawn have grown used to sweeping up used condoms, empty packets of tramadol, and discarded boxes of sexual enhancers like Dragon and Mr. Q. The prostitutes and drug peddlers who take full control after dusk do not bother to hide their trade. The market, locals say, operates a double shift: legitimate commerce by sunlight, illicit enterprise by…