A Shipment That Exposed Institutional Gaps When 3.9 tonnes of cocaine surfaced in a shipment linked to Ghana, the immediate question was not simply one of law enforcement. It was a question of institutional architecture: which agencies were responsible, how…
A Recurring Institutional Failure Picture a road project in the Bono Region, freshly commissioned after years of construction and public borrowing. The ribbon is cut, the photographs are taken, and then — nothing. No complementary investment in the logistics corridors…
President John Dramani Mahama told an international audience in New York on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly that his administration is actively restructuring Ghana’s public financial management systems, with a direct focus on curbing the diversion…
At a commemorative gathering in Nkroful, the birthplace of Ghana’s founding president, a pointed rebuttal was issued against one of the most persistent misreadings of twentieth-century African political thought. A Contested Legacy, Revisited in Nkroful On the occasion of what…
When French customs officers at the Port of Dunkirk intercepted nearly 3.9 tonnes of cocaine on 10 September 2026, concealed within a container of plastic waste that had departed Ghana, they did more than disrupt a single narcotics shipment. They…
At the 15th Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lectures held at the University of Cape Coast on 17 September 2026, Sir Sam Jonah, the institution’s Chancellor, posed a question that cuts to the heart of Ghana’s post-independence governance record: why has a…
The arrest of four officers from the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in connection with a nearly 3.9-tonne cocaine shipment intercepted by French authorities reveals a governance failure that extends well beyond Ghana’s borders. At stake is…
The scene was unremarkable by the standards of a busy Accra street: a police patrol team, uniformed and armed with institutional authority, stopping a civilian. What allegedly followed, however, cut to the heart of a governance problem that West African…
A single infrastructure decision can redraw an economy’s internal logic. Ghana’s proposed Accra-Kumasi Expressway, a 198.7-kilometre, six-lane corridor designed to cut travel time between the country’s two largest cities from six hours to two, is precisely that kind of decision…
When 26 young Ghanaians graduated from a 12-week digital skills programme in Accra in August 2026, the ceremony carried a weight that extended well beyond the occasion itself. Samuel Nartey George, Minister of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovation, framed the…
