The Chamber of Oil Marketing Companies has accused Bulk Distribution Companies of raising fuel prices too soon. They say that the ongoing conflict in the Middle East should not yet affect the price of oil products in Ghana. Riverson Oppong, the Chief Executive Officer of COMAC, said on Citi FM on March 9 that the…
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…
Yussif Sulemana, a technical advisor at the Ministry of Energy and Green Transition, has told Ghanaians that the country is not in danger of running out of fuel right away. This is despite worries about rising tensions in the Middle East and the global oil market’s instability, with crude prices going over $100 per barrel….
Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, Ghana’s Minister of Health, said that the government paid GH¢2.6 billion to the National Health Insurance Scheme in 2025 to settle unpaid claims and debts owed to healthcare providers. This cleared up debts that had built up over the years and restored providers’ trust. He also said in Parliament that the Ghana…
The 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City from March 9 to 19, 2026. Agnes Naa Momo Lartey, Ghana’s Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection, will lead the country’s official delegation. The UN’s main global intergovernmental platform for…
President John Dramani Mahama has said that rising tensions between the US, Israel, and Iran could have big effects on Africa’s economy. He said the Middle East was the “epicenter of global oil supplies” at a meeting with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Arusha on March 2, 2026. He also warned that rising crude…
Ernest Brogya Genfi, the Deputy Minister for Defense, told Parliament’s Joint Committee on Defense, Interior, Foreign Affairs, and National Security about steps being taken to improve national security after the recent terrorist attack in Burkina Faso that killed eight Ghanaian tomato traders and hurt three others. He led a delegation from the Ministry of Defence…
The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has called an emergency meeting with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) after many news reports and complaints from the public about how quickly prepaid electricity units are running out after the recent tariff change under the Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO). The Commission wrote a letter on February 25,…
John Mahama has broken ground on a $250 million float glass factory in Shama, which is in the Western Region. He has also opened a sanitary ware plant and Phase Five of the tile line by KEDA (Ghana) Ceramics Company Limited. He said that the glass plant, which is supposed to be able to make…
