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Opts for Equity and Partnership, as CEO Sells Mahama’s Vision at Indaba The Minerals Income Investment Fund has completed its most assertive Indaba campaign to date, deploying its chief executive, board members and sector minister in a coordinated offensive to reposition the Fund from passive royalty collector to active co-investor.Across three days of high-level engagements, MIIF delivered a consistent and deliberately provocative message: the old extractive compact is dead. What remains contested is who assumes the risk of building what comes next.DAY ONE: STREAMING TALKS AND SOCIAL LICENCEThe Fund opened Monday with chief executive Justina Nelson leading term sheet discussions with…

Pianim, Jonah, Dufuor, Yamson, Afede Features in Economic Rescue SquadBy Prince Ahenkorah President John Dramani Mahama has turned to a clutch of seasoned technocrats, retired central bankers, and corporate heavyweights to navigate Ghana’s turbulent economic waters.The 12-member Presidential Advisory Group on the Economy, unveiled on Wednesday, reads like a who’s who of the country’s finance and policy establishment. Its mandate: diagnose the structural weaknesses, prescribe remedies, and perhaps most critically lend credibility to a government searching for a coherent recovery narrative.Vice President Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang sits on the committee, her presence signalling that this is no ornamental talking shop.…

The NPP Organiser Race Threatens to Consume Its Own By Gifty Boateng The New Patriotic Party’s impending national organiser contest is shaping up as a high-stakes elimination bout not between rival flagbearer camps, but within the house of Dr Mahamudu Bawumia himself.At least five declared aspirants, all bearing the 2028 presidential candidate’s political imprimatur, are preparing to slug it out for the party’s crucial mobilisation machinery. Incumbent Henry Nana Boakye is vacating the slot after a single term, seeking elevation to first national vice-chair.What should signal orderly succession is instead shaping up as fratricide.THE CONTENDERSDaniel Nii Kwatei Titus Glover arrives…

-Gov’t Races To Quell Farmer Revolt-Finance Minister to unveil emergency rescue package amid payment backlog, syndicated loan distressGhana’s cocoa sector is sliding towards its most severe liquidity crisis in a decade, forcing Cabinet into emergency session and setting the stage for a high-stakes national address by Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson Today, February 13th 2026.The minister is expected to announce an immediate intervention to clear unpaid farmer deliveries dating back to late 2025, alongside what officials describe as “comprehensive restructuring” of the debt-burdened Ghana Cocoa Board.Government Communications Minister Felix Kwakye Ofosu confirmed Tuesday night that Cabinet had concluded lengthy…

By Gifty Boateng Charles Nii Armah Mensah, better known as Shatta Wale, has thrown his weight and his wallet behind the government’s embattled poultry initiative, handing President John Dramani Mahama a publicity coup his ‘Nkonko Nketenkete’ programme badly needed.The dancehall star, who commands arguably the largest fan base in the country, paid a courtesy call on Gomoa Central MP Kwame Asare Obeng ‘A Plus’ to his fans at the constituency’s special economic zone headquarters, housed for now at Accra’s Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel. His message: he is officially in for poultry and meat processing.”Nkoko Nketenkete by H.E. John Dramani Mahama is…

—but only the suits need applyBy PrInce Ahenkorah NACOC, Ghana’s Narcotics regulator is moving to turn a formerly illicit plant into a licit commodity, unveiling a licensing regime for low-THC cannabis cultivation aimed squarely at industrialists and pharmaceutical players not farmers with ancestral claims to the crop.The Narcotics Control Commission will begin issuing permits for the growing and processing of cannabis containing no more than 0.3% tetrahydrocannabinol, following parliamentary approval of a tightly circumscribed regulatory framework. The plant, known locally as ‘Ntampe’ and long associated with underground use, is being formally rebranded as an economic asset.But officials are taking pains…

…as CEO engages Top Mining Investors Ghana’s Minerals Income Investment Fund launched an assertive campaign at this year’s Africa Mining Indaba on Monday, securing high-level talks with three of the country’s largest gold producers as it seeks to expand its streaming and royalty portfolio.The engagements, led by Chief Executive Justina Nelson, mark the Fund’s most visible presence yet at the continent’s premier mining investment conference. Meetings with Asanko Gold, AngloGold Ashanti and Gold Fields centred on streaming arrangements, foreign exchange volatility and post-extraction land restoration – a sign that Accra is pushing harder for downstream value capture.The 2026 Indaba, themed…

…Pivots From Collector to Investor, Seeks Value-Chain FootholdGhana is repositioning its minerals revenue architecture away from passive royalty collection towards active equity participation, Lands Minister Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah told the Africa Mining Indaba on Tuesday, signalling a strategic shift in how the state captures value from its resource endowment.Speaking on a continental integration panel, Buah framed the Minerals Income Investment Fund not as a treasury buffer but as a developmental investment vehicle – one designed to take direct stakes in mining assets, infrastructure and downstream ventures. The objective, he said, is to crowd in private capital while weaning the…

-Challenges Africa to Seeks New Mining ModelGhana’s Minerals Income Investment Fund used this year’s Indaba Ministerial Symposium to deliver a blunt diagnosis of African mining’s perennial ailment: plenty of global capital, precious few investable projects.Speaking on a CEO roundtable examining financing for a new project wave, MIIF Chief Executive Justina Nelson told policymakers and institutional investors that sovereign funds must shed their passive postures and assume early-stage risk if the continent is to move beyond exploration rhetoric.”There is no shortage of capital globally. What Africa needs are de-risked, feasibility-ready projects that investors can confidently support,” Nelson said.Her intervention, delivered alongside…

By Prince AAhenkorahThe government’s security cooperation with United States agencies faces a severe legal and political test following an explosive human rights lawsuit filed by a detainee in a major cyber fraud case. Frederick Kumi, the 27-year-old social media personality known as ‘Abu Trica’, has dragged the Interior Minister, the Attorney-General, and unprecedentedly the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) before the High Court. He alleges a coordinated operation involving torture, unlawful detention, and the plunder of his luxury assets, marking a direct challenge to the boundaries of foreign law enforcement activity in Ghana.Kumi’s motion, filed at the Human Rights…