The Ministry of Finance has put an end to what it called “systemic abuse of public funds” after the Ghana Audit Service found GH¢8.1 billion in problems in its report on arrears and payables as of the end of 2024. Deputy Finance Minister Thomas Nyarko Ampem spoke on behalf of Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson…
Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Minority Leader and Effutu MP, has asked for a review of the aptitude tests based on artificial intelligence that are being used to hire new people for Ghana’s security services. He says that many applicants are having trouble with them. On March 10, 2026, he spoke in the Parliament of Ghana and…
Felix Kwakye Ofosu has said that about GH¢50 million that belongs to Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, has been frozen as part of ongoing investigations into financial crimes. He told PM Express on Joy News that the Economic and Organized Crime Office took the action to protect money that…
Felix Kwakye Ofosu says that the Cabinet has agreed to bring back special tribunals to speed up cases of corruption and illegal wealth. This is meant to cut down on delays in the judicial system and make it easier to handle cases related to the government’s Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) initiative. The Abura Asebu-Kwamankese…
Felix Kwakye Ofosu, a government spokesperson, has turned down calls for the government to pressure the courts to speed up prosecutions under the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) initiative. He said that the government will not interfere with the courts. Kwakye Ofosu said on PM Express on Joy News that the government’s job is only…
The Minority in Parliament has said that Ghana could lose up to a million jobs if the Minerals and Mining Royalty Regulations, 2025, are passed. These rules set up a sliding-scale royalty system that changes rates based on international commodity prices. Patrick Boamah, the head of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee, warned that higher royalties could…
To make border controls stricter, stop the flow of money, and protect government revenue, the Ghanaian government has banned the land transit of nine goods: cooking oil, rice, sugar, frozen goods, textiles, flour, canned tomatoes, pasta/spaghetti, and pharmaceuticals. Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, the Minister of Finance, announced the directive during a meeting with Aaron Akanor,…
Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has asked the Commonwealth of Nations to speak out against the recent attack on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and support the removal of tariffs and trade barriers between member states to improve economic cooperation. At the 26th Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting in London, he talked about…
Public assets are sacred. They are procured with taxpayers’ money for public development, not for private enrichment. Any attempt to convert state-owned equipment into personal income streams is a betrayal of trust and a direct assault on accountability. Under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Mahamudu Bawumia, significant…
President John Dramani Mahama has announced plans to use Ghana’s gold resources to create a “economic war chest” that will protect the country from future financial shocks and help it become more prosperous in the long term. He said in his State of the Nation Address that high global gold prices that last for a…
