Education must become the country’s most urgent national project in the next 10 years. These are tough times in a nation’s life when its education system fails to turn out stellar performance, while politicians argue over the obvious. I want to run Project SURGE for the sake of our children and I wish the entire […] The post Re-Imagine Ghana with Dr. H. Aku KWAPONG: Project surge

Countries such as South Korea, Japan, Greece, Mexico, and Croatia are struggling to control the high influx of tourists flooding their countries because of the environmental degradation and the negative impact it has on their ecosystems. It’s sad to note that we in Ghana, especially those of us living along the banks of the Volta … The post Sand Winning in

Sixty-five (65) years after its passage, Ghana’s Coroners Act, 1960 (Act 18), stands as one of the country’s oldest surviving legal instruments from the immediate post-independence period. Enacted and assented to on December 15, 1960, to consolidate and amend the law on coroners, the Act was inherited almost wholesale from the British colonial legal tradition … The post Ghana’s

Residents of Kofi Ayim in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region have expressed joy and relief following the handover of two fully installed Power Up units by Betway Ghana, providing a reliable source of electricity after decades without power. The initiative, undertaken as part of Betway Ghana’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts, reinforces the … The post Betway

Monitoring and reporting of suspicious transactions is key to Anti-Money Laundering, Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Countering Proliferation Financing (AML/CFT/CPF) effectiveness and compliance, a report released by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has said. Accountable Institutions (AIs) are, therefore, required to put in place effective and efficient transaction monitoring programmes to facilitate the process, […]

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah, has urged journalists to uphold ethical standards in reporting on issues surrounding illegal mining activities. That, he explained, was the only way the devastating nature of the illegal activity could be clearly understood by communities for them to take collective action against the menace. The … The post Journalists

The President of the Ghana Football Association, Mr Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku, has paid a working visit to Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States, Mr Victor Emmanuel Smith, as part of ongoing preparations for Ghana’s participation in the 2026 FIFA World Cup to be hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico. The engagement focused on … The post GFA Pres Okraku, Ghana’s

ASANTE Kotoko’s Kwame Opoku proved to be the club’s ‘super substitute’ when he came off the bench to score the only goal to break a stubborn Dreams FC side in their Ghana Premier League match played at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium yesterday. Dreams FC Coach, Winfred Dormon, described the defeat as heartbreaking and rightly … The post Kotoko overcome Dreams FC appeared first on Ghanaian

ACCRA Hearts of Oak recorded their sixth win of the season following a hard fought 1-0 victory over visiting Nations FC in their Ghana Premier League Match day 14 game played at the University of Ghana Stadium in Legon on Saturday. A 76th minute header by Hamza Issah proved to be the decisive goal to … The post Hearts pip Nations FC to end losing run appeared first on Ghanaian

THE Vice President of Colombia, Francia Elena Márquez Mina, on Friday, led a high-level business delegation to the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) as part of efforts to explore investment opportunities and deepen bilateral trade relations between Colombia and Ghana. The delegation was received on behalf of the Director-General of the Ghana Ports and … The post Colombian

The government has expressed its readiness to deepen collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited to make environmental cleanliness, climate resilience, innovation, and sustainable job creation an everyday reality for Ghanaians. The Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Mr Ibrahim Ahmed, made this pronouncement on Friday, as the Guest of Honour at the climax of … The post Govt,

The government, through the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee (IMCC) Secretariat, has convened the maiden meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee (IMCC) on Decentralisation in Accra, under the chairmanship of the Vice President, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang. The meeting brought together Ministers, Institutional Heads, and key stakeholders mandated under the Local Governance Act, 2016 (Act 936) to … The post Decentralisation

The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, has reaffirmed the Service’s commitment to strengthening Port Health operations, improving staff welfare and building capacity to ensure effective disease surveillance and protection of public health at Ghana’s borders. He stressed the need for Port Health operations to move beyond routine activities to … The post GHS

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr. Mahama Ayariga, has said that he will reconsider his decision on the withdrawal of a Private Members Bill that he and the Majority Chief Whip, Mr. Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, had drafted seeking the repeal of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), following a request by President John Dramani Mahama. … The post Majority Leader

The first poll for the Kpandai re-run, conducted by Global InfoAnalytics , released on Monday, December 15, has shown that the New Patriotic Party’s Matthew Nyindam holds a 4-point lead over the National Democratic Congress’s Daniel Wakpal. This means the race is statistically tied as the margin of error is 3.9%, Global InfoAnalytics said. Nyindam 50% […]

Yesterday, I read the “exposure draft” of the Bank of Ghana’s Guideline for the Regulation and Supervision of Non-Interest Banking. The first thing that struck me is that the central bank’s strategic decision to rebrand “Islamic Banking” as “Non-Interest Banking” (NIB), while understandable as a bid to avoid the kind of needless controversy sparked in Nigeria in 2011 when […]

President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and 2nd Vice-President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku, has paid a working visit to the Office of the Governor of the State of Maryland as part of ongoing high-level engagements ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America.During the visit, President Simeon-Okraku held productive discussions with the Honourable Aruna Miller, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Maryland, and Chief of Staff

TELECEL Group has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations to support the government’s flagship One Million Coders Programme, a national digital skills initiative launched by President John Mahama earlier this year. The partnership formalises Telecel’s commitment to providing free access to its Startocode platform to … The post Telecel

Dennis Miracles Aboagye, spokesperson of former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, believes that there is something wrong with the economic numbers being churned out by the Mahama administration. For instance, he says it is strange for the inflation rate to hit 6.3% cent yet the prices of goods and services keep rising. Inflation fell to […]