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The government of Ghana has firmly reaffirmed its commitment to responsible drug control, public health, safety, and economic development through the enactment of the Laboratories Control Act (Act 1100) and MLI 2475. These laws establish a comprehensive framework for regulating, cultivating, and managing cannabis for industrial and medicinal purposes. Interior minister, Mohammed Muntaka Muabarak, addressing the media in Accra stated that, Ghana is leveraging the economic potential of medicinal and industrial cannabis while prioritizing public health and national security through strict regulations, LI 2475, which grants 11 license categories, including cultivation, processing, breeding, laboratory testing, storage, transportation, importation, and exportation,…

The Oil Palm Development Association of Ghana (OPDAG) calling on the government to empower the Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA) to establish a robust monitoring system to track the importation of oil palm produce into the country. This move aims to identify and prevent illicit imports, as the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) appears unable to effectively address the issue. According to the association, granting the TCDA regulatory powers would help curb the smuggling of oil palm produce, which is allegedly facilitated by GRA and customs officials. The association’s president, Paul Amaning, claims that Ghana loses over 80 million cedis in…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has successfully convened a homecoming presentation session in Accra for Ghanaian government officials who studied in Japan under the “Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship” (JDS). JICA also organized a seminar titled “Japan’s Diplomacy toward Africa and the Current State of Japanese Corporate Investment,” delivered by Professor SHIRATO Keiichi of Ritsumeikan University as part of its ongoing efforts to deepen Japan–Ghana cooperation. A Decade of Investing in Ghana’s Human Capital. Funded by the Government of Japan, the JDS program supports promising young Ghanaian civil servants to pursue graduate degrees in Japan, equipping them with…

A revealing tale of how an embattled Spy Agency Chief’s Lamborghini ended up with Shatta Wale By Prince Ahenkorah The yellow Lamborghini Urus that dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has fought to keep is not merely a celebrity status symbol caught in an international fraud net. Court documents and investigative sources now link the vehicle to Kwabena Adu Boahene, the embattled former Director General of the National Signal Bureau, who is already facing trial in Ghana on multiple corruption charges.The connection transforms the case from a simple asset forfeiture into a web of alleged fraud, political connections, and what accusers describe…

By Gifty Boateng The forensic audit report that was supposed to expose how $195 million was spent on the 2023 African Games has missed its deadline and no one in authority seems to know why.President John Dramani Mahama ordered a “comprehensive forensic audit” of the Games in November 2025, following a damning National Intelligence Bureau report on the event’s organisation under the previous administration. The Auditor-General was given until the second week of December 2025 to submit his findings.More than two months later, the report remains outstanding.What the Audit Was Meant to UncoverWhen Ghana hosted the African Games for the…

-GH¢26.5 BILLION VANISHED -BOAHEN AIDOO WALKS FREE -RANDY ABEY HELPLESS The contrast could not be starker. On one side, the Dr. Randy Abbey led management team at Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) lays bare the financial wreckage of eight years billions in debt, phantom rehabilitation projects, and contracts signed with no apparent regard for payment timelines. On the other, the man who presided over it all, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, walks free, uncharged, uninvestigated, and publicly silent.President John Dramani Mahama has ordered the Attorney General to investigate. Current CEO Randy Abbey has provided the dossier detailed, specific, and damning. Yet as the…

By Prince Ahenkorah A new poll from Global InfoAnalytics has dropped a grenade into Ghana’s cocoa politics, revealing that a majority of farmers actually accept the government’s steep producer price cut even as opposition figures denounce it as a betrayal of the rural heartland.The numbers are stark. When the government slashed the price of a 64kg bag of cocoa from GH¢3,625 to GH¢2,587 a reduction of GH¢1,038 per bag the public outcry was predictable. Opposition parties framed it as an attack on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Civil society groups warned of political repercussions in cocoa-growing regions.But the poll, shared…

…revives NACOB, FBI marriageBy Prince Ahenkorah Socialite Frederick Kumi, better known as Abu Trica, finds himself back in familiar surroundings. The Gbese District Court yesterday declined to grant him bail, remanding the flamboyant businessman in police custody until 18 March 2026 a development that raises fresh questions about the coordination between Ghanaian law enforcement and their American counterparts. The remand follows Abu Trica’s re-arrest by the National Anti-Corruption Coalition (NACOC), months after the same court had discharged him alongside his co-accused. That earlier discharge, sources close to the case suggest, caught US authorities by surprise and may have strained relations…

By Nelson Ayivor Ghana and Burkina Faso have taken a significant step toward deepening bilateral cooperation following the signing of seven major agreements aimed at strengthening security, cross border governance, disaster management, and regional integration. The agreements were concluded at the end of a two day official visit by Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to Burkina Faso, marking a renewed phase of engagement between the two neighbouring countries. The signed agreements span multiple sectors critical to regional integration and governance. They include arrangements on the mutual recognition of national driver’s licenses and on transport and road transit,…

By Nelson Ayivor Ghana’s Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has moved to shut down a suspected transit diversion racket after customs officers intercepted 18 articulated trucks hauling cooking oil and other goods declared for landlocked Niger, but travelling without the mandatory customs escorts that Ghana’s transit regulations require, exposing the state to a revenue loss the minister has placed at over GH¢85 million. Dr. Forson disclosed the operation in a Facebook post on Friday, February 20, 2026, describing it as evidence of both systemic control failures and deliberate human complicity within the customs system. Subsequently, he directed the Ghana…