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By Leo Nelson  A growing number of Ghanaians are expressing confidence in the government’s efforts to combat corruption, with new polling data showing that 60 percent believe the administration of President John Dramani Mahama is doing enough to address the issue. The findings, analysed by Mussa Dankwa, Executive Director of Global InfoAnalytics, are based on a national tracking poll conducted in December 2025. The data reflects a slight increase in public approval compared to October 2025, when 58 percent of respondents shared the same view. “I woke up this morning and saw a lot of posts on ORAL failures which…

How Mahama’s Team turned Gh850m Deficit into Gh1.5bn Assets in just one year By Prince AhenkorahOn paper, the National Investment Bank was already dead.By early 2024, its capital adequacy ratio had plunged to negative 47%. A GH¢850 million hole sat where its capital should have been. Staff morale was so low that employees were quietly updating their CVs, preparing to abandon the 62-year-old institution. The bank’s total assets stood at just 5.8 million cedis a fraction of what a functioning development bank should hold.The Akufo-Addo administration had a solution: get rid of it.What happened next, according to multiple sources with…

Shows Desperation after Cocoa Propaganda FailsBy Prince AhenkorahThe optics were striking. A contingent of Minority MPs, led by Chief Whip Frank Annor-Dompreh, descending on cocoa farms in the Ashanti Region the NPP’s electoral fortress singing, dancing, and hurling insults at President John Dramani Mahama. The occasion? A government decision to reduce the cocoa producer price in the face of collapsing global prices.But beneath the choreographed merriment lies a political class struggling to find its footing against an administration making tough economic choices.In a video that has since circulated widely, Annor-Dompreh crossed lines that even his parliamentary colleagues have occasionally warned…

A former trade minister threatens legal action after being named in the Auditor-General’s special report on the One District One Factory programme. But the banks aren’t confirming the payments either.K.T. Hammond, the combative former Trade Minister, is preparing for a legal showdown with the Auditor-General and the Finance Minister. At stake is his reputation and the credibility of the special audit into the flagship One District One Factory (1D1F) programme.The report, published in 2024, flagged approximately GH¢90.4 million in unpaid interest claims that participating banks could not confirm. Auditors sent confirmation requests to 15 partner banks; only seven responded. Of…

Gov’t long-awaited National Agribusiness Policy heads to Cabinet, promising to end decades of fragmented planning. The hard part translating framework into on-farm reality is only just beginning.Trade Minister Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare used last week’s AgroTech Fair to confirm what investors have been waiting to hear: Ghana’s first standalone National Agribusiness Policy is finally cabinet-ready. The announcement, delivered against the backdrop of local machinery exhibits and start-up pitches, signals the clearest attempt yet to impose coherence on a sector long characterised by disjointed programmes and competing ministerial mandates.The policy, once approved, will reposition the Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry (MoTAI) as…

Says Days of Political Cover For Illicit Gold Are Over’ By Leo Nelson In a moment of startling candour that cut through the usual political platitudes, President John Dramani Mahama has admitted that the fight against illegal mining, the environmental scourge, known as galamsey is complicated by the fact that actors within his own political network are complicit. Addressing a delegation from Organised Labour at the Jubilee House on Tuesday, the President laid bare the uncomfortable reality of a clandestine economy that adapts and survives by purchasing protection from whichever party holds power.“And so I don’t kid myself that we…

as Ghana Nears IMF ExitBy Gifty Boateng President John Dramani Mahama has served notice that Ghana’s impending departure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme will be a low-key affair, pointedly distancing his administration from the celebratory excesses of the past. Addressing a presidential dialogue with Organised Labour on Tuesday, Mahama stated that the exit, expected around June, would be marked with nothing more than a formal announcement.In remarks laden with subtext for his own team, the President cautioned against any triumphalism, joking that emerging from a Fund programme should not be equated with completing a prison sentence. “We are…

The Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), Alex Mould, has raised serious concerns about neglected agricultural infrastructure assets across Ghana’s Middle Belt following a week-long field assessment tour of key farming zones. Mr. Mould made the remarks during a seven-day field assessment mission of key farming areas, which covered parts of the Ashanti, Bono, Ahafo, and Bono East Regions, where the MiDA team evaluated water resources, irrigation potential, agricultural value chains, and institutional coordination mechanisms to identify areas for strategic investment. The MiDA team engaged traditional authorities, regional and district officials, and private agribusiness operators, while also…

By Philip Antoh The political landscape in the Central Region is tilting. In a move that underscores the volatile realignments taking place nationally, Joseph Kofi Nyarko-Damptey, a perennial thorn in the side of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Assin South, has defected to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) with a claimed entourage of over 15,000 supporters. The defection, formalised at the party’s constituency office at Assin Ngresi, is being hailed by the ruling party as a tangible dividend of President John Dramani Mahama’s first-year performance, but it speaks to deeper, more intricate currents of local power struggles.Nyarko-Damptey is no…

By Prince Ahenkorah A high-level encounter between Ghana’s finance minister and a top World Bank official has underscored the lender’s growing confidence in the Mahama administration’s economic management, even as Accra grapples with persistent structural challenges. When Paschal Donohoe, the World Bank’s Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer, sat down with Ghana’s Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson in Washington last week, the conversation marked more than a routine diplomatic exchange. It signalled a significant shift in the international financial institutions’ perception of Ghana’s post-crisis trajectory. Donohoe, a seasoned Irish finance politician who now holds one of the Bank’s most…