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The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA) has hit back hard at recent media reports alleging massive under-invoicing in raw rubber exports. In a detailed rejoinder, the Authority calls the coverage “misleading, unverified” and most provocatively “paid propaganda.”The target is a trifecta of publications: the Daily Graphic (31 March), The New Republic (2 April), and MyJoyOnline (1 April). Their headlines spoke of vanishing millions $70 million, even $700 million unaccounted for. TCDA says the numbers are fiction.First, timing. TCDA notes that a permit system for raw rubber exports was only introduced on 2 May 2025. Comparing 2024 export data when no…

Five nurses vanished. Two army captains shook hands. And a nation still waits for answers. By Gifty Boateng More than five years after former President Jerry John Rawlings died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, a founding father of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dropped a bombshell that threatens to tear open one of Ghana’s most sensitive political mysteries.Dr Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe, a statesman and retired military officer, is no longer whispering. He is declaring: Rawlings did not die a natural death.In a viral interview, Tamakloe laid out a chilling sequence of events that he says points to a well-planned elimination…

…as alarm blows on Extortions, Conspiracy and Stealing at Ghana’s Premier HospitalBy Phillip Antoh More than ten months after a fire gutted the mammography unit at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital’s Radiology Department, newly obtained CCTV footage has blown open questions that management would rather keep buried. The footage, seen by The New Republic, suggests that a female staff member, a national service personnel detected the blaze a full 30 minutes before the inferno raged out of control. Yet instead of raising the alarm, she made a phone call, locked the room, handed the keys to security, and drove off with a…

Business Captains Descend, Answers stay up the Hills By Prince AhenkorahThe annual Easter homecoming in Kwahu has become a stage for grand economic visions. This year, the Ghana Export-Import Bank (GEXIM) announced it has approved funding for three local enterprises Perfect End Logistics, Nobi Farms, and Rockmar Pharmaceutical. President John Dramani Mahama outlined a three-pivot strategy to transform Ghana’s economy. And the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, issued a blunt demand: young people need jobs, not motivational speeches.But beneath the polished statements and applause lines, the same structural fractures that have long hobbled Ghana’s industrial ambitions remain unhealed. The funding…

By Prince Ahenkorah Ghana’s former president turned comeback leader, John Dramani Mahama, touched down in France on Monday (6 April) for a three-day official visit that casts him as a co-star alongside Emmanuel Macron. The French president has invited Mahama to co-chair the high-level segment of the One Health Summit in Lyon a rare diplomatic nod that elevates Accra’s profile in global health governance.Mahama’s spokesperson, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, confirmed the trip, which also includes bilateral talks at the Élysée Palace on Wednesday. But the real spotlight is Lyon. Today, Mahama will share the podium with Macron and WHO chief Tedros…

By Prince Ahenkorah The government has rushed to block a proposed hike in sachet water prices, but the move has done little to stop some retailers from already selling at ₵1 a bag double the usual rate. The intervention, announced on Monday (6 April) by the Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, offers consumers only fleeting relief.Behind the scenes, producers had been pushing for a sharp increase. The National Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers (NASPAWAP) cited a global polymer shortage, worsened by geopolitical tensions involving Iran, and wanted factory prices at GH¢8 and retail up to GH¢15. The…

By Philip Antoh The Mallam Market in Ablekuma North was once a bustling but ordinary trading hub. Not anymore. By day, it sells vegetables and cloth. By night, it sells sex and synthetic drugs and the two have become dangerously entangled.Traders arriving at dawn have grown used to sweeping up used condoms, empty packets of tramadol, and discarded boxes of sexual enhancers like Dragon and Mr. Q. The prostitutes and drug peddlers who take full control after dusk do not bother to hide their trade. The market, locals say, operates a double shift: legitimate commerce by sunlight, illicit enterprise by…

By Leo Nelson The Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, has stressed that Ghana’s youth require concrete employment opportunities and not merely words of encouragement, as the nation grapples with rising unemployment among young people. Speaking at the Kwahu Business Forum, Debrah said the country must shift from rhetoric to practical economic interventions that create sustainable jobs and empower the youth to contribute meaningfully to national development. “Our young people need employment opportunities, not just motivational speeches,” he stated, explaining that while inspirational talks had their place in shaping mindsets and aspirations, they could not replace the urgent need for jobs,…

By Leo Nelson The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) says its initiative to simplify tax compliance for small businesses is beginning to improve participation among informal sector operators, as the authority intensifies implementation of its Modified Taxation Scheme. Speaking at a tax clinic held on the sidelines of the Kwahu Business Forum, Technical Advisor to the Commissioner-General of the GRA, Elsie Appau-Klu, said the initiative is designed to make tax registration and payment “very efficient, very simple” for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), many of which have historically remained outside the formal tax net. According to her, the scheme, backed…

By Leo Nelson President John Dramani Mahama says Ghana’s business environment has improved over the past year, pointing to declining interest rates, stabilising inflation and reduced government borrowing as key factors supporting a recovery in private sector activity. Speaking at the Kwahu Business Forum, Mahama said the government’s reduced reliance on domestic debt markets has eased pressure on bank liquidity, allowing lenders to redirect credit toward businesses. He noted that borrowing costs, which stood above 30% in 2024, have fallen sharply, with some firms now accessing financing at single-digit rates. The president also cited currency stability as a critical development,…