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…
The Minister for Labour, Jobs, and Employment, Dr. Rashid Pelpuo, said that the government is going to launch a Labour Market Information System. This is a digital platform that will connect job seekers with job openings across the country. The system will be a central place where people can find job openings in both the…
The secondary bond market stayed small, with turnover rising 0.35% week-on-week to GH¢1.59 billion. This was mostly because of the February 2027 benchmark, which saw its volumes rise 57.7% to GH¢824.61 million. The 2027–2030 segment saw the most trading, with 70.2% of volumes and a weighted-average yield of 15.06%. The 2031–2034 segment saw 21.3% of…
On January 11, 2026, the Tema Regional Police Command stopped 1,613 packages of suspected drugs along the Akosombo-Tema road. This was part of a coordinated operation after they got a tip on January 10 that drugs were being moved from the Volta Region to Tema. Surveillance at Agomeda Junction led to the arrest of 33-year-old…
Jonelle Ocloo, a US immigration lawyer, says that Ken Ofori-Atta, the former finance minister, may be able to stay in the US even though Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has him in custody. He is being held because there are questions about his legal status, but his lawyers say he is fully cooperating with ICE…
On Monday, Dr. Johnson Pandit Asiama, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, called for a unified national response to the losses from the Gold-for-Reserves (G4R) program. He stressed that the program is still important for building reserves, even though it has lost a lot of money since 2021. He told the Public Accounts Committee…
