As the story unfolds, here are 10 points to keep note of, including the fact that uniBank failed to comply with a directive of the Bank of Ghana to stop granting new loans, and that the bank deliberately concealed some liabilities from its balance sheet.

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The Special Prosecutor nominee responded to over 180 questions from all members of the committee in the over 7-hour long session.

The National Democratic Congres (NDC) minority asked the most questions; 75% of all questions asked, with the caucus’ leader, Haruna Iddrisu, being individual who asked the most number of questions.

Most of the questions focused on past statements and articles Martin Amidu had written.

See details in the infographic below:

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While some of the facilities have been completed yet not in use, others have stalled for many years with no immediate sign work on them will resume soon.

Among the projects is the $217 million University of Ghana Medica Center, an ultra-modern teaching hospital that is not operating due to a tussle over the management of the facility between the University and the Ministry of Heath.

Find details in the infographic below:

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Figures from players in the housing sector show Ghana’s housing deficit ranges from 1.7 million to 2 million.

Despite moves by successive Governments and the private sector to reduce the deficit, it appears the multiplicity of the problem makes it difficult to find solutions.

In the first of our new series dubbed ”Ghana’s housing crisis” which focuses on the industry’s problems and how they can be solved, we examine the increasing cost of acquiring land and its availability in the Greater Accra region.

The infographic below has more.

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See them below:

1. Mahama’s retirement package:

Following his election defeat, the Presidential Emoluments Committee on the conditions of Article 71 officeholders, made the above recommendations on the package to be given to John Mahama for his retirement.

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2. A House of teachers and lawyers

A quick analysis of the professions of all 275 Members of the seventh Parliament of the 4th Republic, showed that the House had majority of its members being teachers and bankers; 43 each.

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3. Government size: Nana Addo vs. Mahama

President Akufo-Addo is the first head of state in the 4th Republic to have more than a hundred (100) ministers serve in his government.

He has beaten his predecessor, John Mahama, by 26 appointees. John Mahama had 84 ministers – deputies included.

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4. State of the Nation: Akufo-Add vs. Mahama

President Akufo-Addo accused the John Mahama administration of increasing the country’s debt stock to about $122 billion from $9.5 billion in 2009.

The President while speaking in Parliament during his first State of the Nation Address further noted that, he inherited a $2.4 billion indebted power sector from the previous government.

The two’s key statements from their statements were compared.

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5. Teachers, drivers impregnate 977 teenagers

Teachers and drivers according to a performance review of 2016 by Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Central Region were the worse culprits noted to be impregnating teenage girls.

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6. Galamsey fight timeline

Following the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources’ declaration of a 21-day ultimatum to all illegal miners to cease their operations and surrender their equipment, a number of significant actions took place, including arrests of some defiant illegal miners.

The anti-galamsey fight which has been championed by Citi FM achieved other positive results [not captured in this infographic] and some key government actions, although the problem of illegal mining still persists in some parts of the country.

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7. Outrageous prices at which state vehicles were sold   

The Ministry for Food and Agriculture blatantly flouted all of the country’s laws regarding the disposal of government vehicles by auctioning some state vehicles for as low as GHc 1,000.00.

A Nissan Patrol S/W with registration number GV 1285 U, was auctioned for GHc4,000, while a Nissan double cabin pick-up with registration number GV 1481 U, was also sold for just GH¢2,000.

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8. Major Mahama lynched 

Ghanaians were greeted in May with the gruesome murder of army officer, Captain [poshumously promoted to Major] Maxwell Mahama at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region.

His death put the nation in great grief. Following his death and burial, government has instituted a trust fund for him, and some suspects alleged to be involved in his murder have been freed while a few others are still before court.

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9. Government secures $19 billion from China

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, led Ghana to secure a $19 billion commitment from China to be invested in various sectors of the economy.

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10. How many schools are in Ghana?

The infographic shows the widening gap in the availability of educational infrastructure as one moves up the academic ladder between Kindergarten and Secondary education.

While there are over 22,000 Kindergartens across the country, there are only about 800 Senior High Schools in the country.

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11. Regional distribution of schools in Ghana

The infographic shows the uneven distribution of schools across the country. The Ashanti Region tops the chart as the region with the highest number of Senior High Schools in Ghana. The Upper West Region has the least number of Senior High Schools, 30, with 26 being public SHSs.

Of the 872 SHSs in Ghana, 66% are government-managed while the remainder is privately owned.

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12. BOST’s sale of contaminated fuel

The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) came under criticism for selling 5 million litres of contaminated fuel to two unlicensed companies; Movepiina and Zup Oil, making Ghana lose about GHc 7 million in revenue.

The infographic captures the major stakeholders in the sector and their reaction to the news.

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13. Highlights of 27 mid-year budget review

The infographic presents a summary of the review of key economic targets by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta in July, 2017.

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14. $72 million SSNIT software saga

The controversial SSNIT software saga generated a lot of public buzzes after it was revealed that the original contract of $34 million shot up to $66 million an eventually $72 million. The above, according to managers of the project, accounted for the exponential increase in cost.

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15. Ghana wins landmark ITLOS dispute

The Special Chamber of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), has ruled in favor of Ghana in a three-year-long maritime dispute with Côte d’Ivoire.

The Chamber in a unanimous decision on Saturday, September 23, 2017, ruled that there has not been any violation on the part of Ghana on Côte d’Ivoire’s maritime boundary.

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16. 131 radio stations sanctioned by NCA

Some 131 radio stations were sanctions by the National Communications Authority (NCA) for various infractions against their operating guidelines.

Their offenses included operating without license and failure to renew operation license.

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17. 57 cheating fuel stations sanctioned

The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), has sanctioned 57 fuel stations in Accra found to have engaged in infractions detrimental to the interest of consumers.

They were fined a total of ¢261,000 for serving customers with lower volumes of fuel, using non-approved GSA seals, and breaking GSA seals meant to stop cheating at the pumps.

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18. How 2018 budget slashed some ministerial allocations

The Roads and Highways ministry had its budget slashed by at least 80% from GHS444 million to GHS77 million.

The Youth and Sports Ministry also had its budget cut by about 20% from GHS47 million to GHS33 million.

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The LI seeks to also carve some municipalities from other assemblies, and also elevate some existing districts to municipality status.

The infographics below capture features of a Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies, as specified in Ghana’s Local Government Act.

In terms of population, for instance, a Metropolitan Assembly is expected to have over 250, 000 people living within its jurisdiction.

Municipalities are supposed to have a population size of about 95,000, whilst about 75,000 are expected within a district.

A Metropolitan, which is the biggest among the assemblies, also has 16 departments, Municipal, 13 and districts 11.

Below are the infographics summarizing the features of the MMDAs:

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The LI, which will mature in the next 21 sitting days, seeks to also carve some municipalities from other assemblies, and also elevate some existing districts to municipality status.

Speaking to journalists after presenting the LI, the Local Government Minister, Hajia Alima Mahama, said the move is to deepen Ghana’s democratic processes as well as the decentralization system.

“We’ve decided that we need to deepen our democratic process and decentralization system. There are some districts that have grown. We started district assemblies in 1988, the population of some of the district assemblies have even doubled. And the essence of our local government system is to ensure that all persons in the district participate in the governance system and feel part of the governance system. So we’ve decided to increase the number of districts, the districts that are big, divide them into other districts,” she added.

She however clarified that the new districts will not necessarily warrant the creation of new constituencies.

“For instance, you have Savelugu municipal assembly which includes Savelugu constituency and Nantong constituency. So that you have Nantong at its district, and Savelugu will remain a municipality. But in doing that, we have to come with an LI for Savelugu because you are changing its boundaries and an LI for Nantong, so that’s why the LIs look many,” she added.

Below is an infographic of the new districts and municipal assemblies as well as the elevated districts:

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The Roads and Highways ministry had its budget slashed by at least 80% from GHS444 million to GHS77 million.

The Youth and Sports Ministries also had its budget cut by about 20% from GHS47 million to GHS33 million.

Ministries such as the Gender, Children and Social Protection, Food and Agriculture, as well as Communications, also saw a cut in their allocation for 2018.

Other Ministries, however experienced an increase in their allocation.

They include the Education, Aviation, Defence and the Employment and Labour Relations Ministries.

The infographic below highlights the changes between the 2017 and 2018 budgetary allocations.

NB: The ministries are grouped into sectors; Social, Infrastructure, Economic and Public safety.

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34 radio stations have already had their licenses revoked by the National Communication Authority (NCA), for not renewing their licenses even after several notices, while others have been fined.

NCA said it took the decision after conducting “spectrum audit” into the radio space.

“The National Communications Authority (NCA), has sanctioned a total of 131 FM Authorization Holders found to have committed various infractions pertaining to their authorizations to operate as contained in Section 13 of the Electronics Communications Act (2009), Act 775,” NCA said in a statement.

About 26 radio stations in the Western Region were sanctioned by the NCA for various infractions.

This was followed by Greater Accra and Volta Regions which had 16 each stations affected.

Ashanti and Northern Regions also followed with 15 stations each being sanctioned, Eastern 13, Central, 11, Brong, 11, Upper East, 4 and Upper West 4.

Below is an infographic summarizing how much radio stations in each region are to cough up:

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34 of them who are said to be operating illegally in the country following the expiration of their license have had their licenses revoked.

Some of the radio stations according to the NCA, have refused to renew their license for close to 17 years. But it is unclear why the NCA has allowed these illegalities to persist for years.

NCA said it took the decision after conducting a “spectrum audit” into the radio space.

“The National Communications Authority (NCA) has sanctioned a total of 131 FM Authorisation Holders found to have committed various infractions pertaining to their authorisations to operate as contained in Section 13 of the Electronics Communications Act (2009), Act 775,” NCA said in a statement.

The NCA aside revoking the license of 34 radio stations, also fined others to the tune of GHc1.24 billion.

According to the Authority, per laws governing the media space, an amount of GHc10,000  is charged daily on radio stations that refuse to renew their license after its expiration.

Below is an infographic of the 131 radio stations sanctioned and their offences:

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