Henry Nana Boakye, the National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), also known as Nana B, said that former Environment Minister Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng must be held accountable for calling the NPP a “fake party” during an interview on The Point of View on Channel One TV on Monday, January 12. He said that…
According to Bank of Ghana Governor Dr. Johnson Asiama, the Gold-for-Oil (G4O) program, which started in late 2022 to cut down on the use of foreign currency for fuel imports and keep domestic fuel prices stable, ended in May 2025. He said, “We had to shut down the Gold4Oil Program in May last year, but…
Dominic Nitiwul, a former defense minister, has warned that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) cannot afford to lose the 2028 elections. He said that losing would be bad for the party. He said on Joy News’ PM Express on Tuesday, “And the hard part for NPP is that we should never lose in 2028 because…
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has announced that owners of vehicles registered before 2023 will be required to pay GH¢25 to update their records onto the Authority’s digital system, a process Director of Driver Training, Testing and Licensing, Kafui Semevo, said is intended to verify ownership of manually registered vehicles and prevent uncustomed…
Dr. Kwame Asah-Asante, a political scientist, has told the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to accept criticism and follow the rules of the party. He says that having different opinions is important for democracy. He said on JoyNews’s The Pulse show, “I know that political parties are run by rules and regulations, and that every member…
The detention of Ghana’s former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta in Washington, D.C., has evolved into a complex legal and diplomatic crisis after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended him at about 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 6, with the FBI also involved, indicating the matter goes beyond a routine visa issue, as he now…
Ghana’s much-needed industrial transformation is collapsing before our eyes, not because the idea was weak, but because the current NDC administration has quietly dismantled one of the country’s most promising economic engines, which is the One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative. Instead of strengthening a productive national policy that created jobs and spread industrial growth,…
Ghana’s mineral sovereignty is under threat. What should be a transparent process for leveraging Ghana’s lithium, a critical mineral at the heart of the global green economy, has instead become a secretive negotiation table, restricted to elites with political connections, while ordinary Ghanaians and affected communities are kept in the dark. This is not governance;…
The Supreme Court will decide on January 28, 2026, whether to overturn the High Court’s decision that threw out the 2024 parliamentary result for Kpandai in the Northern Region. Justices Gabriel Pwamang, Omoro Tanko, Yonny Kulendi, Samuel Asiedu, and Henry Anthony Kwof made up a five-member panel that heard an application asking the Court to…
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has confirmed that it has put $10 billion into the economy since 2025 to stabilize the exchange rate and build up foreign reserves. This has mostly been done through payments to Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and bondholders. On Monday, January 12, Nii Sowah Ahorlu, Head of Financial Marketing at the…
