Author: TNRgh

By Prince Ahenkorah The Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association, has assured the public that spare parts prices will remain stable despite the recent surge in global petroleum prices triggered by escalating tensions in the Middle East. The assurance comes at a time when global crude oil prices are experiencing volatility due to renewed geopolitical instability in the region, a development that has placed upward pressure on fuel prices on the global market. However, the Association says it will not be compelled into immediate price increments, insisting that dealers are committed to cushioning consumers from sudden market shocks. According to…

The world’s two largest cocoa producers are navigating the sharpest market downturn in a generation, but their trajectories have sharply diverged. Ivory Coast’s dramatic 60 per cent cut to its farmgate price on 4 March stands in stark contrast to Ghana’s more modest 30 per cent reduction three weeks earlier. The divergence exposes the fragile foundations of a decade-old alliance and lays bare the structural vulnerabilities of economies built on a single commodity.Agriculture Minister Bruno Kone delivered the news Ivorian farmers had dreaded: from March, the price would fall to 1,200 CFA francs per kilogramme, down from the record 2,800…

By Philip AntohIt was a day of glittering honours and sobering truths at the Accra International Conference Centre, where Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the Vice President, decorated 52 exceptional teenagers with the nation’s most prestigious academic prize for basic education.The 69th Presidential Awards Ceremony, a fixture on Ghana’s calendar since 1993, celebrated the top performers in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) but the Vice President used the occasion to deliver a message that transcended test scores.”This award scheme shows what we as Ghanaians value in education dedication to learning, respect for excellence, and belief in our children’s potential,” she…

Mahama’s Jet and the Gaps in the StateWhen Ibrahim Mahama’s newly acquired Bombardier Global 6500 touched down at Accra International Airport, it was not merely the arrival of another luxury asset for Ghana’s wealthy elite. The founder of Engineers & Planners immediately sought to redefine the jet’s purpose, announcing that the aircraft and its predecessor would be placed at the service of the nation as an emergency air ambulance.Standing on the tarmac, Mahama framed the move as a civic intervention. “My old plane is now an air ambulance. It is an emergency aircraft for every Ghanaian, not just for myself.”…

By Prince Ahenkorah The Government Statistician’s latest bulletin makes for extraordinary reading. Ghana’s year-on-year inflation has collapsed to 3.3% as of February 2026, a dizzying drop from the 23.1% recorded just twelve months prior. It is the 14th consecutive month of decline and the lowest reading since the CPI was rebased in 2021, offering a powerful statistical vindication for the government’s economic management ahead of a crucial election year.The headline figure, released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), shows the Consumer Price Index (CPI) settling at 264.4. The steep descent from the peaks of 2025 appears, on the surface, to…

Details 118 Flashes of a Troubled TenureIn the cold light of electoral defeat, the ledger of the Akufo-Addo administration (2017–2024) is being reopened. Not by the his successor alone, but by the accumulating weight of audit reports, parliamentary records, and investigative journalism. What emerges is not a simple narrative of alleged malfeasance, but a sprawling atlas of governance failures, some confirmed, others contested, many simply left hanging in the air like dust over a galamsey pit. In a brutal epistle fired by anti-corruption pundit, Kay Cudjoe on his hot social media handles, a no bar holding description of the immediate…

Challenges Mahama Gov’t to Public Trial Over ‘Tribe Net’ Recruitment SagaBy Gifty Boateng In the high-stakes theatre of Ghana’s Parliament, the Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin is playing a long game. The Effutu MP has accepted a referral to the Privileges and Immunities Committee after levelling explosive allegations of corruption against the Interior Minister, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, over the ongoing recruitment into the country’s security services. For an administration that has, since its inception, prided itself on a scandal-free record, the challenge represents the first serious parliamentary offensive from the opposition benches.The confrontation, which unfolded across two sittings, carries all the hallmarks…

President John Mahama has secured a powerful ally in his campaign to have the transatlantic slave trade recognised as the gravest crime against humanity. Dr Terrance Michael Drew, Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis and current chair of CARICOM, has pledged to rally the entire Caribbean bloc behind Ghana’s African Union-backed resolution, scheduled for presentation to the UN General Assembly this month.Speaking at Jubilee House on Wednesday, 4 March, during a state visit heavy with symbolism and substance, Dr Drew left no doubt about his commitment. “I am a leader of CARICOM, which are all of the countries in…

By Philip AntohIn a high-stakes diplomatic rescue mission, the Mahama administration has quietly extracted former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, his wife Samira, and their entourage from the embattled state of Qatar as the Middle East teeters on the brink of all-out war.The New Republic has gathered that the NPP’s newly-crowned 2028 flagbearer had travelled to Doha for a post-leadership race breather with his family only to find themselves caught in the crosshairs of escalating US-Israeli bombing campaigns rocking the region.But what could have become a national embarrassment was transformed into a swift rescue operation by Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel…

Okyehene’s Scribe Throws In the Towel, Accuses Police of Daily ‘Collections’ and poisoning Birim River as Landlord Gabby Distances Self By Prince Ahenkorah The fight against illegal mining (galamsey) in Ghana has always been a theatre of shadows, where political connections and local complicity blur the lines of enforcement. The latest drama unfolding on a 35-acre plot at Akyem Asikam in the Eastern Region threatens to expose just how close to the centre of power that theatre operates. The land belongs to Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a prominent lawyer and cousin to former President Nana Akufo-Addo, but he insists the picks…