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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…

-Mahama cites quorum doubts, Bagbin blindsided by ‘surprise’ passage assent still far off The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025 better known as the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that has divided Ghanaian society for half a decade has entered a new phase of uncertainty. President John Dramani Mahama told an audience at Chatham House on Monday that the bill “still has quite a while to go” before becoming law, while Speaker Alban Bagbin disclosed he was shocked that Parliament passed the measure in his absence and has summoned leadership to review what he called “procedural irregularities”.The twin disclosures suggest that…

By London CorrespondentFormer President John Mahama has unveiled a sweeping UK-Ghana Growth Partnership, signed on the sidelines of the Ghana-UK Investment Summit in London. Touted as a “roadmap for 2026–2028,” the deal centres on £215 million worth of private-sector led projects, infrastructure upgrades, and youth skills training.Yet for seasoned observers of Ghana’s patronage-fuelled politics, the announcement raises the usual question: will these headline-grabbing figures survive the gap between London press release and Accra tarmac?The centrepiece is a £101 million UK-backed initiative to build the Gulf of Guinea’s first commercial-scale ship repair and dry-docking facility in Takoradi. Proponents claim 430 direct…

By Leo Nelson A broken lift at a cinema. A disabled parking space given to the highest bidder. A sink out of order for months in a five-star hotel’s accessible toilet.These are not mere inconveniences. They are the architecture of exclusion.For Ghana’s estimated 8% of the population living with disabilities, everyday infrastructure failures amount to a systemic barrier to economic life. And for those trying to run a business, the message is clear: the system is not designed for you.Ghana’s Persons with Disability Act (2006) mandates accessible public spaces. Nearly two decades on, compliance remains a joke. The Ghana Federation…

By Leo Nelson The bank counter is losing its grip. For thousands of young Ghanaian entrepreneurs, the new lender lives inside a smartphone.A quiet revolution is under way. Traders, food vendors, tailors and online sellers – locked out of the formal credit system by collateral demands and paperwork – are turning to mobile-based fintech platforms for business loans. The shift is less a choice than a necessity.Traditional banks classify most young borrowers as high-risk: no fixed assets, no formal records, no long operating history. The result is that a generation creating its own jobs cannot access mainstream finance.Data from the…

By Leo Nelson Africa’s legacy as a raw material supplier is not just outdated. It is a threat to sovereignty. That was the blunt message from Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang at the Accelerate Africa’s Growth Connect (AAGC) 2026 conference in Accra.“We are not content to export raw materials while others manufacture finished goods and sell them back to us at a premium,” she declared. “That model has not served us, and we will not sustain it.”The timing, Africa Day and venue, University of Ghana underscored the gov’t’s push to position itself as the administrative heart of the African Continental…