When the Bank of Ghana stopped financing the national budget, it marked more than a technical adjustment in public accounting. It signalled a structural reorientation of how Ghana manages the relationship between its central bank and its treasury, a relationship…
Ghana’s government has initiated procurement procedures for consultancy and feasibility studies on a proposed Green Digital City, a planned urban development intended to redistribute administrative and economic functions away from Accra. The central question this project raises is not whether…
The Bundled Product Model: A Governance and Market Structure Question A quiet but structurally significant shift is reordering retail financial services across sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, insurers are collapsing the traditional boundaries between savings vehicles, investment instruments and insurance protection…
What exactly has the Dangote refinery achieved, and why does it matter beyond Nigeria? In August 2025, a tanker loaded with 300,000 barrels of finished gasoline departed the Lekki port complex in Lagos and sailed to the United States. The…
The Infrastructure Deficit Beneath the Policy Ambition Ghana cannot industrialise on rhetoric alone. At the 2nd Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE)–Professor Douglas Boateng Lecture Series held in Accra, Ing Edward E. Obeng-Kenzo, Chief Executive of the Volta River Authority (VRA),…
A Crime Hidden in Plain Sight Walk through Accra’s Makola Market on any given morning and the evidence is everywhere: branded pharmaceuticals sold loose from unmarked packaging, software loaded onto devices without licenses, consumer electronics bearing logos that bear only…
The Tema Oil Refinery’s receipt of one million barrels of Jubilee Medium Sweet Crude on 15 July 2026 poses a precise governance question: can Ghana’s sole state-owned refinery convert consistent upstream supply into a structurally competitive downstream operation, or will…
Ghana’s macroeconomic stabilisation since its 2022 sovereign debt crisis has drawn qualified praise from departing Swiss Ambassador Simone Giger, who served in Accra through the full arc of the country’s financial collapse and IMF-backed recovery. Her assessment, delivered on 9…
Ghana’s headline inflation reached 5.3 percent in June 2026, its third consecutive monthly increase, and analysts at Databank Research now project it could retreat to between 4.6 percent and 5.0 percent in July. That forecast raises a sharper question than…
When Ghana’s Tema–Mpakadan railway line was commissioned, it was presented as a milestone in the country’s long-deferred infrastructure modernisation. What a forensic audit later revealed was something considerably less triumphant: a corridor put into service without functional signalling, without operational…
