The Minister for Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has ordered a comprehensive audit of all health facilities in the Oti Region to strengthen service delivery and safeguard patient safety, directing the Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Health, Dr. Korku Awoonor, to form a technical working group to assess the structural integrity, operational capacity and overall…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
