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By Gifty Boateng The children of Asiukrow in the Upper West Akim Municipality are still balancing on peril. More than a year after President John Dramani Mahama personally intervened to order the construction of a footbridge over the stream that separates them from their school, the crossing remains as deadly as ever. One child has already paid the ultimate price. According to residents, a pupil attempting to cross alone two months after the presidential directive drowned a death that might have been prevented had the promised bridge materialised. The President’s attention was first drawn to the community’s plight in February…

By Divine Mawuli Akwensivie (PhD, MCIM) The National Democratic Congress (NDC) recently conducted parliamentary primaries to elect a suitable candidate for an impending by-election following the death of the incumbent Member of Parliament. While the exercise was expected to be conducted with solemnity and strategic foresight, it instead generated significant controversy. The parliamentary primary was marked by widespread allegations of vote buying, voter manipulation, and inducement, practices that have frequently been reported in previous internal and national elections across the political divide. In the aftermath of the widely publicized allegations surrounding the victory of Hon. Baba Jamal, the, the party…

By Prince AhenkorahThe Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is charting unfamiliar legal waters in its pursuit of a Russian national accused of circulating private images of young Ghanaian women without their consent. Minister Agnes Naa Momo Lartey has confirmed that extradition is “one of the key options on the table” as government seeks to hold the perpetrator accountable across international boundaries.In an interview with the BBC, Lartey struck a careful balance between denouncing the act and protecting the victims from secondary stigmatization a recognition that in cases of image-based abuse, public discourse often compounds the harm.”Firstly, let me…

By Prince Ahenkorah A catastrophic fire on the Accra-Nsawam Highway has left six people dead and seven fighting for their lives after a petrol tanker became the epicentre of a deadly explosion early on Saturday morning. The incident, which occurred near Okanta, has laid bare the extreme risks posed by the informal economy of fuel scavenging that festers around major road accidents.The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) received the distress call at 4:45 a.m. By the time crews arrived, the scene was one of total conflagration. A tanker carrying a staggering 54,000 litres of fuel had become a molten core,…

By Nana Appiah When workers on Ghana’s offshore rigs and mining sites break for meals, the tomatoes, yams, and peppers on their plates tell a story that transcends hospitality. They are not imported. They are the harvest of Ghanaian smallholder farmers who now have a guaranteed buyer, thanks to a supply chain revolution engineered by Atlantic Catering & Logistics Ltd.The woman behind it, Founder and CEO Maud Lindsay-Gamrat, operates on a simple but radical premise: successful business and economic development are not trade-offs. They are mutually reinforcing. A decade into building Atlantic Catering, she has the balance sheet to prove…

Front-desk report Is Kennedy Agyapong preparing to burn the last bridge? Whispers emanating from the New Patriotic Party’s war room suggest the volatile but influential MP has finally cut ties with the party he has both defended and embarrassed in equal measure over two decades. While his spokesman dances around the question, a cold-eyed look at the political arithmetic suggests the rumour, if true, may be less an act of folly than a calculated gamble by a man running out of time.Political analyst Ralphael Ofori-Adineran, a German-based Ghanaian journalist and political analyst, has offered a stark demographic and electoral projection…

Thanksgiving Blunder, Empty Seats, and Missing Dons Open Wounds By Gifty Boateng The new NPP flagbearer’s attempt to frame his primary victory as a triumph over internal persecution has deepened party fissures, triggering a conspicuous boycott by his main rivals and raising questions about his unifying credentials.The Party’s much-touted “National Thanksgiving Service” held on Sunday at the UPSA auditorium was meant to be a coronation of unity a glossy photocall of a party healing after a bruising presidential primary. Instead, the empty seats where Kennedy Agyapong and Bryan Acheampong should have been sitting told a more accurate story of a…

As Ghana Capitalizes on social media Storm to Drive Textile Exports to Zambia By Gifty BoatengA diplomatic gaffe has become a trade windfall. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is orchestrating an aggressive export push for Ghana’s iconic fugu and kente textiles, capitalising on the unexpected buzz generated by President John Dramani Mahama’s recent state visit to Zambia.Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has announced that government will mark the 69th Independence Day celebrations with a series of fairs showcasing the indigenous apparel first in Zambia, where the frenzy began, and subsequently at Ghanaian missions worldwide.The move transforms what started as social…

as Mahama Draws Red Line on Public LandsBy Philip AntohThe Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has drawn a line in the sand. Following a comprehensive audit of public land transactions conducted between 2017 and 2024, the government has announced a raft of reforms that centralise approval authority with the Minister and establish a dedicated task force to combat encroachment.Addressing the media yesterday, Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah revealed the scale of the review: 8,160 applications for public land leases have been scrutinised following President John Dramani Mahama’s directive of January 10, 2025, which imposed a temporary freeze on all public…

President Mahama’s Cabinet convened an emergency session on Wednesday to confront a deepening crisis in the cocoa sector, with Ghana’s beans now unsellable on the world market and the state marketing board effectively held hostage by a failed financing model, the Africa Confidential can reveal. At the heart of the malaise: COCOBOD cannot afford to hold its own crop. With buyers walking away because Ghana’s producer price is no longer competitive, and liquidity so constrained that stock-holding for hedging is impossible, the industry now faces its most perilous season in decades. The 2025/26 crop year began in August with a…