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As Gunu Launches 180,000 chicks and a 24-hour bet against povertyThe Volta Region has launched an audacious bid to replace imported frozen chicken with backyard coops. Regional Minister James Gunu last week unveiled the Nkoko Nkitinkiti programme a locally branded poultry scheme under the national Feed Ghana framework that hopes to do what decades of policy have failed: slash Ghana’s crippling poultry import bill.Some 180,000 day-old chicks are being distributed through district assemblies, prioritising youth and women. The logic is culturally intuitive. Across Volta’s rural settlements, families have long kept a few birds as informal insurance against shocks school fees,…

Ghana’s stock exchange and its partners have launched a glossy youth investment programme. The ambition is genuine. The timing, however, raises questions.The Young Investors Network (YIN), together with the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) and Central Securities Depository (CSD), last week unveiled a National Youth Investment & Financial Literacy Programme. Officials say it will reach thousands of senior high school students with training on savings, capital markets, and wealth creation.On paper, the need is real. Inflation (officially 3.4% but felt far higher) has eroded household purchasing power. Many young graduates remain unemployed despite holding degrees. Financial illiteracy is widespread.Yet the initiative’s…

Santrokofi youth vow Justice, as Elders beg victims’ family Clemency Tensions are boiling in Santrokofi Benua following allegations that Cephas Togah, a 71-year-old linguist to the Paramount Chief, sexually assaulted his 13-year-old grandniece. The case, now before the courts, has sparked community outrage amid claims of intimidation and attempted cover-ups. What began as a private domestic issue has escalated into a full-blown community crisis, pitting traditional mediation against demands for criminal accountability. At the center of the storm is Cephas Togah, who stands accused of repeatedly inserting his fingers into the vagina of the young girl during a holiday visit…

President John Dramani Mahama has presented Ghana as one of Africa’s most attractive investment destinations, urging British and international investors to take advantage of the country’s improving economic conditions, political stability, and expanding opportunities across key sectors of the economy. Speaking at the Ghana-UK Investment Summit in London, the President said the gathering was taking place at a crucial moment for both Ghana and the African continent as businesses around the world reassess supply chains, diversify investment destinations, and search for resilient growth markets amid changing global economic conditions. He expressed appreciation to the organisers, including the Ghana High Commission…

Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched an initiative to secure employment opportunities for Ghanaians being evacuated from South Africa, as part of efforts to support their economic reintegration and reduce the financial pressures associated with return migration. The ministry announced that it has already secured 120 job opportunities through commitments from Ghanaian business owners and entrepreneurs, describing the intervention as a practical response to the employment and livelihood challenges that often confront returning citizens. In a public appeal, the ministry called on Ghanaian CEOs and entrepreneurs interested in offering employment opportunities to returning citizens from South Africa to engage…

as President Mahama unveils shipbuilding plans for western enclave as inflation falls to 3.4% President John Dramani Mahama used Monday morning’s Ghana-UK Investment Summit in London to announce a strategic shift in the country’s industrial geography, revealing plans for a shipbuilding industry that would transform what he called the “western enclave” of the West African nation.Speaking at the one-day summit hosted at a central London venue, Mahama told an audience of institutional investors, business leaders and policymakers that the time had come to “move westwards”, breaking with six decades of industrial concentration around the port city of Tema in the…

…But will power really leave the presidency?Cabinet has approved direct elections for district chief executives. On paper, this ends presidential appointment. In practice, the devil remains in the details.Dr Gameli Kewuribe Hoedoafia, executive secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation (IMCCoD), broke the news. The new National Decentralisation Policy and Strategic Framework (2026‑2030) will amend Article 243(1) of the 1992 Constitution.The change: MMDCEs will be “elected by the people”. No more presidential nominees seeking two‑thirds assembly approval. A clean break or so the government wants voters to believe.After consulting Afrobarometer data, the government has chosen a non‑partisan model. Local…

Food Packaging Prices to rise The Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement last week of a firm January 2027 ban on styrofoam food containers has been hailed as a bold environmental move. But a New Republic investigation reveals the policy could throw over 1,200 workers out of their jobs, strand equipment worth US$1.2 billion, and push food packaging prices up four‑fold all while leaving the real causes of Accra’s floods untouched.The EPA, headed by Professor Nana Ama Brown Klutse, issued a release on 25 May setting 1 January 2027 as the official date to prohibit the production, importation, distribution, sale and use…

The John Mahama administration is demanding compensation for Ghanaian-owned businesses torched or looted in South Africa’s latest wave of xenophobic attacks, and insists the remedy is non-negotiable.As two chartered flights prepare to bring home a further 610 evacuees, Ghana’s High Commissioner Benjamin Anani Quashie told TV3’s Keynote that Accra is pursuing “every channel available” diplomatic and legal to force the Ramaphosa government to pay up.”We are not negotiating that one,” Quashie said flatly. “We are going straight to tell them this is what we want to be done.”The hardline posture is being led by Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who…

– But Avoids The $97m Question Renowned architect defends ‘vision’ at KNUST lecture, yet critics demand answers on contract, payments, and why he waited until government changedFor the first time in years, Sir David Adjaye has spoken publicly about the abandoned National Cathedral project. But instead of providing the detailed accounting that many Ghanaians have demanded, the Ghanaian‑British architect offered an unsolicited explanation and carefully sidestepped the most painful questions about fees, procurement, and his political connections.Speaking at a public lecture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on Monday, Adjaye insisted that the stalled edifice was…