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“No Ghana Card, no NSS” – National Service Authority cracks down on ghost names

The Acting Director General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Felix Gyamfi, has announced sweeping reforms to eliminate ghost names from the authority’s payroll. He...

Tell Ghanaians what you know about NSS ghost names scandal – A-G dares A...

The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has challenged Gomoa Central MP, Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A Plus, to...

A-G set to file criminal charges in Sky Train, NSS ‘ghost names’ scandals

The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has announced plans to file criminal charges in two high-profile scandals by next week.This...

NSA boss gives update on ghost names scandal [Listen]

The Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Felix Gyamfi, has provided an update regarding the ongoing investigation into the ghost names scandal.He confirmed...

Name the MP paid to kill NSA “ghost names” scandal – Martin Kpebu to...

Private legal practitioner and member of the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) team, Martin Kpebu, has called on the Attorney General and Minister of...

Former NSA boss paid MP to kill ghost names scandal – AG

The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has revealed that a former Chief Executive of the National Service Scheme (NSS) paid...

NIB questions former NSA boss over ghost names scandal

The former Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA), Osei Assibey Antwi, is the latest to be questioned by the National Investigations Bureau...

We will get to the bottom of NSS ghost names scandal – Opare Addo

The Minister for Youth Development and Empowerment, George Opare-Addo, has assured Ghanaians that the government remains committed to uncovering the full extent of the...

The Fourth Estate exposes key NSA figures in ghost names scandal

Investigative journalist Kwaku Krobea Asante of The Fourth Estate has revealed the officials who oversaw the National Service Authority (NSA) during former President Akufo-Addo’s...

NSA boss urges caution in ‘ghost names’ investigation

The Director General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Felix Gyamfi, has called on The Fourth Estate to allow state agencies to complete their...

You won’t hear of ghost names again under my watch – NSA boss assures

The Acting Director of the National Service Authority (NSS), Felix Gyamfi, has assured Ghanaians that the issue of ghost names will be a thing...
President Mahama

Mahama orders probe into National Service ghost names scandal

President John Dramani Mahama has directed the National Investigations Bureau (NIB) to probe the operations of the National Service Authority following the discovery of...

ORAL team receives dossier on National Service ‘ghost names’ scandal

The Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) team, led by its chairman Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has received a comprehensive dossier detailing the National Service ghost...

Team ORAL receives full dossier on National Service ghost names scandal

The Team Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL) has today, Friday, December 20, received the comprehensive dossier on the National Service ghost names scandal.This was...

National Service Authority denies ‘ghost names’ and payroll fraud allegations

The National Service Authority (NSA) has denied recent media reports alleging payroll fraud and the inclusion of “ghost names” in its system.In a press...

‘Ghost Names’ removed from government payroll thanks to Ghana Card – Bawumia

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to addressing the persistent issue of “ghost names” on the...
Tamale Teaching Hospital

Tamale Teaching Hospital denies paying ‘ghost names’

The Tamale Teaching Hospital has refuted claims of disbursing salaries to non-existent staff also known as 'ghost names.'This follows an investigation by the Office...

GNAT bares teeth at OSP, CAGD over ‘ghost names’ investigation

The President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has criticised the approach taken in the conduct of the recent report alleging ‘ghost...

‘Ghost names’ in Northern Region paid GH₵2.8m in salaries – OSP, CADG Report

A new report has uncovered nearly three million cedis in salaries earned by individuals who were deceased, retired, no longer in their positions, also...
Executive Secretary of CLOGSAG, Mr Isaac Bampoe Addo addressing the press conference

Politicians behind ‘ghost names’ on govt payroll – CLOGSAG

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association Ghana (CLOGSAG) has accused politicians of being behind the incidence of 'ghost names' and the ballooning public...

3 ‘ghost names’ at Finance Ministry get GH¢1.1m as salaries

The 2021 Auditor-General’s report on Ministries, Departments and Agencies has raised concerns over salary payments to the sum of GH¢1,112,896.00 made at the Finance...
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia

Ghost names uncovered by Controller and Accountant General’s department – Bawumia announces

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced that government has uncovered hundreds of ghost names on its payroll.This includes duplicates, a phenomenon that is...

GES detects ‘ghost names’ in ‘one teacher one laptop’ project list

The Ashanti Regional Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has detected ghost names on the one-teacher one laptop project list.Thie situation, according to management,...

SSNIT clears 11,000 ‘ghost names’ on payroll [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · SSNIT clears 11,000 'ghost names' on payrollThe Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has eliminated over 11,000 ‘ghost’ names from its...

Corruption Watch: Auditor-General blames HR heads of MDAs for ghost names

George Swanzy Winful, Deputy Auditor-General of the Ghana Audit Service has blamed the heads of Human Resource (HR) Departments of the various Ministries, Departments...
Dr Serebuor Quaicoe

Revealed: 1 million ‘ghost names’ in Voters Register

The Electoral Commission (EC) has revealed there are over one million ghost names in the current Voters Register.The campaign for a new electoral...

SSNIT saves GH¢18.1m after deleting 8,366 ghost names from pension payroll

Measures introduced by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) in February 2018 to delete ghost names from the pension payroll have yielded...

Ghost names syndrome – Auditor General’s Dept. reveals common enemy

Deputy Auditor General, George Winful, says exercise by the Ghana Audit Service to eliminate ghost names from the public sector payroll is set to...

Audio: Publish and arrest ‘ghost names’ – Baba Jamal dares YEA

Former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Akwatia has condemned the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) for deleting a total of 16,839 ghost...

NSS Scandal: How officials bypassed validation process to stuff payroll with ‘ghost’ names

Officials at the National Service Authority (NSA) circumvented mandatory validation processes for payments of allowances to national service personnel, enabling thousands of nonexistent names...

OSP chases ‘ghost’ names, others on govt payroll system

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) says it has commenced an investigation into ghost names on the government’s payroll system.The investigations seeks...

We saved GH¢519m from cleaning ‘ghost pensioners’ on payroll – SSNIT DG

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) says it saved GH¢519 million by “deactivating” names of “ghost pensioners” from its payroll.Mr Kofi Osafo-Maafo,...

Linking gov’t workers to Ghana card stopped payment of ‘ghost salaries’ – Bawumia

Vice President and flagbearer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said that linking all government workers to their Ghana...

Ghosts don’t have fingerprints – Bawumia justifies linkage of payrolls to Ghana Cards

Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has emphasized the significance of requiring new public sector employees and staff to undergo a biometric identification process.According to...
Police officers

Danchira now a ghost town after clash with landguards – Assembly member pleads with...

The Assembly member for Danchira Ballagonnor, in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, says his community has turned into a ghost...

NPP decides: Names of some delegates allegedly missing in Awutu Senya East

Some New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates in the Awutu Senya East constituency are alleging the altercation of the album for the presidential primary.Over...

Sarkodie replies Shatta Wale over ‘Bob Marley ghost’ troll [Audio]

Award-winning rapper, Sarkodie, says he has received an outpour of love and support from industry players since his collaboration with Bob Marley was released.Industry...

Shatta Wale’s interesting reaction to Sarkodie’s collaboration with a ‘ghost’

Dancehall King Shatta Wale is back with his usual gimmicks and this time it is targeted at the self-acclaimed Ghana Music Industry landlord, Sarkodie.A...
Parliament

Ghosts invade Parliament

Parliamentarians present in the Chamber last week were left in shock, following names and votes of their colleagues who were absent that day but...