The Government of Grenada has announced its intention to recruit Ghanaian nurses and allied health professionals to help address a critical shortage of health workers in the Caribbean nation. The move aligns with Ghana’s Work Abroad Programme aimed at creating more job opportunities for skilled professionals. This was disclosed during the inaugural Ghana–Grenada political consultation […]
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has announced that the Third Meeting of the First Session of the Ninth Parliament of the Fourth Republic will officially commence on Tuesday, October 21, 2025. According to a statement issued by the Office of the Speaker and signed by Speaker Bagbin, the meeting will begin at […]
The World Bank now expects Ghana’s economy to end 2025 with a growth rate of 4.3%, up from its earlier projection of 3.9%. This was contained in the October 2025 edition of the Africa’s Pulse Report released by the Bank in Washington, D.C., USA. The revised projection is slightly higher than the 4.4% growth target […]
Some Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have begun adjusting prices at the pumps, with GOIL leading the way. A litre of petrol is now selling at GH¢13.38, up from GH¢12.99 on September 2, 2025. Diesel has also increased to GH¢14.20 per litre, from GH¢13.90. GOIL, the second-largest player in the industry, is the first to adjust […]
The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has raised alarm over the escalating cost of contesting presidential elections, warning that democracy risks being captured by the wealthy elite. At an Open Society forum in Accra, the think tank’s Executive Director, Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh, revealed that it now requires an estimated $200 million to mount […]
The World Bank has disbursed $360 million from its International Development Association (IDA) for Ghana. The disbursement is coming under the Second Resilient Recovery Development Policy Financing operation, to support the Government of Ghana’s efforts to restore macroeconomic stability and reinforce the foundations for more sustainable and resilient economic growth for job creation. This was after the World […]
President John Mahama has declared the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) “technically dead” after the United States imposed fresh tariffs on African exports, including a 15% levy on Ghana’s goods. He made the remarks during his first presidential media encounter of his second term in office, warning that there is little hope of the […]
Ghana has been excluded from the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) list of candidate countries for the 2026 fiscal year. According to the MCC Candidate Country Report for Fiscal Year 2026, released in Washington in August 2025, Ghana is ineligible to receive U.S. foreign assistance under section 7012 of the Fiscal Year 2025 State, Foreign […]
The Chief Executive Officer of Serene Insurance Company Limited, a member of the First Sky Group, Mrs. Mercy Naa Koshie Boampong has been adjudged Insurance Personality for 2025 and Insurance Professional of the Year 2024 at two separate prestigious insurance industry events in August, 2025. Mercy was the recipient of the topmost award at the […]
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced the suspension of the remittance partnership of three Payment Service Providers for one-month, effective September 18. The institutions are Flutterwave, Celulant Ghana and Halges Financial Technologies The central bank, in the notice, stated that the action was due to breaches of its updated guidelines for inward remittance services […]
The cedi has had one of its most dramatic years in recent memory. It opened 2025 at GH₵14.7 to the dollar. By February it had weakened slightly to GH₵15.50 and held there until April, making it one of the longest periods of stability in more than a decade. Then came the surprise. Between April and […]
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, a draft report on the review of the 1992 Constitution will be presented to President John Dramani Mahama by the first week of October this year. The Secretary of the Constitution Review Committee’s (CRC’s), Dr Rainer Akumperigya, said: “We are working hard to finalise the draft report, and we expect to […]
