Economy
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Misleading! $147 oil price spike under Kufuor not caused by “The Gulf War”
Claim: Afia Pokuaa, a Facebook user, has said that “Under President Kufuor, Ghana suffered a crude oil price surge of…
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FALSE! Over 1m Ghanaians didn’t find employment between 2025 Q1 and Q3
Claim: Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama says over one million Ghanaians found employment between quarters 1 and 2 of 2025,…
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NPP’s Miracles Aboagye makes false claim about global cocoa prices in 2025
Claim: Member of the communications team of the New Patriotic Party, Dennis ‘Miracles’ Aboagye claims that cocoa prices soared to…
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Claim Ivory Coast paying cocoa farmers more than announced farmgate price, false
Claim: A Ghanaian opposition lawmaker and former Lands Minister, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor, alleges that neighbouring Ivory Coast is paying cocoa…
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FALSE! Côte d’Ivoire hasn’t reduced its farmgate price of cocoa due to international pressure
Claim: Ghana’s Deputy Trade Minister, Samson Ahi, says neighbouring Ivory Coast has reviewed its farmgate price of cocoa set at…
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Ghana’s Minority leader makes false claim about the country’s 2025 industrial sector growth
Claim: The leader of Ghana’s largest opposition political party in Parliament, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, alleges the country’s industrial sector did…
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Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu extradition hearing set for March 26: What more do we know?
A U.S. federal court in Nevada has set March 24, 2026, for the extradition hearing of former Microfinance and Small…
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False! Ghana has not exited the IMF
Claim: An X user @Joe_Bassey has claimed that Ghana has exited the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Verdict: False. Although President…
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ECG and PDS; explainer after the arbitration victory
Introduction The long and complex dispute between the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Power Distribution Services Ghana Limited (PDS)…
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Did government sell AT Ghana to Telecel? Here’s what official records indicate
Claim: The Minority in Parliament alleges that the government has secretly sold AT Ghana (formerly AirtelTigo) to Telecel Ghana, bypassing…
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