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Foreign Ministry cancels 10 Service Passports and interdicts two officers. Its own list dates 4 to 2023 and 6 to 2026
The ministry says the alleged scheme predates the current administration. By its own dates, four passports were issued under the NPP government and six under President Mahama's NDC government. Nobody has been charged.
Education's report card: 122 NDC promises checked, four done, the teacher still waiting
First-year fees are being paid, GETFund is uncapped and a scholarships law has passed. The 20% rural allowance is unpaid, double-track has no fixed end date and SHS food buying went the opposite way to the promise.
“An attack on all of us”: Ghanaians killed abroad, and who has been arrested
Five days after Javits Frimpong, 15, was shot in the Bronx, no one has been arrested. QMS checked how the cases of other Ghanaians killed abroad stand. In the cases Ghana's government spoke loudest about, no arrests have been reported; in the cases where no government statement could be found, police abroad made arrests.
Sam George’s “clean slate”: QMS checked every claim from his off-script remarks at the MFWA forum
The Communications Minister read a pledge not to shut down media houses, then said he would shut every political and religiously affiliated station "if you leave me". Three of his claims stand up. The law he cited does not exist, and the GJA story he told is not on the record.
Bring the document: QMS checked all 42 claims from Monday's heated Good Morning Ghana panel
The NDC's Julius Kwame Anthony and the NPP's Kwesi Botchway Jnr clashed on Metro TV over the South Africa evacuation bill, service passports, cocaine cases and history. Each man got some numbers right, and each made claims the record does not support.
Kofi Bentil says galamsey and Ghana's rivers are "worse" under the NDC. At one plant on the River Pra the readings back him; nationally, no one publishes them
On TV3's The Key Points, the IMANI Africa vice president also repeated the claim that NDC figures carried bottles of river water around the country in opposition. QMS News checked the record of both governments: the 2024 anger, the 120-day promise, the forest law, and the water readings that are public.
Four men face down by the Offin at Subin-Akwaboso. The record shows arrests, rarely prosecutions
JoyNews and Adom TV filmed an anti-galamsey operation where soldiers took firing positions and four men were arrested. QMS could find no official account of it. In the same town, 15 excavators were seized in September and no owner has been named.
NAIMOS destroyed 61 machines on the Tano. Three days later, the miners were back
NAIMOS says changfans on the River Tano have greatly reduced. Its own reports show miners returned within three days of a raid, and two trucks carrying 65 brand-new machines were stopped in a single week, after bans by two governments.
Wontumi's prison reform list, and the record behind it
After 100 days at Nsawam, the jailed former NPP Ashanti chairman wants a prison hospital and private family visits. Most of his list has been asked for before, some of it since 2008.
Mahama thanked Putin in Moscow. The word "ceasefire" never came up
In his full speech at the Russia–Africa Summit, Ghana's president praised Russia as "a true and selfless friend of Africa". The same day, Ghana signed a jobs deal with Russia's Alabuga industrial zone.
Minority wants Ablakwa out over evacuation payments. What JoyNews found, and what it didn't
Ten days after saying it was not accusing the Foreign Minister of wrongdoing, the Minority now wants him to resign, be sacked or face censure. JoyNews Research's check of the payment sheets found real gaps, but on a smaller scale than the Minority's ₵16.4 million.
Kufuor backs five-year presidential terms: "Election year anywhere on earth is mad year"
The former president told JoyNews four years is too short for a young country. The Constitution Review Committee recommended five-year terms and the government accepted. His own party, the NPP, rejected the change in September.
Mahama talks nuclear in Moscow. Ghana already picked America and China, and still has no contract
At the Russia-Africa Summit the President said Ghana is "even looking at nuclear". In 1964 a Soviet reactor at Kwabenya never switched on, and the 2025 vendor picks still have no signed contract and no funding for site studies.
Health's report card: 17 NDC promises checked, one done, none of the new builds started
The NHIS levy was uncapped and free primary healthcare is in 135 districts. Agenda 111 has no working hospital, and the promised children's, trauma and northern hospitals have no site or contract yet.
KalyJay's Agenda 111 idea is the government's own offer, 20 months on
A viral post told young investors to finish an abandoned hospital and run it for profit. President Mahama made the same invitation in February 2025, and no signed deal has been made public since.
Police run with ballot box as NDC constituency elections turn rowdy in Odododiodioo
Counting was suspended in Accra, shots were reported in the Western North and delegates were arrested for photographing ballots on day one of the NDC's internal elections.
Adwoa Safo will run for Dome-Kwabenya again, 19 months after she said she wouldn't
The former MP and minister says she will seek the NPP ticket for 2028. Her own record in the seat is the first thing voters will look at.
Mahama tells FT Africa Summit Ghana is "friends to all, enemies to none"
Opening the Financial Times Africa Summit in London, President John Dramani Mahama set out a non-aligned Ghana that welcomes every investor but wants more of its gold, cocoa and minerals processed at home.
How the NPP's six claims on the South Africa evacuation bill check out
The NPP has given Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa seven days to publish the paperwork behind the ₵49.72 million evacuation bill. We ran its numbers against the Ministry's own figures.