A criminal sand-extraction operation on the Accra–Kumasi Expressway project corridor has exposed a critical gap in Ghana’s capacity to protect strategic public infrastructure, prompting a security crackdown in the Ashanti Region and raising pointed questions about institutional oversight of the…
A contractual breach dating back years finally reached its breaking point in October 2026, when the University of Ghana branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG-UG) formally notified the National Labour Commission that it would withdraw all teaching…
Ghana’s legal profession just grew by 1,568 practitioners. The General Legal Council’s formal admission of this cohort at the International Central Gospel Church in Teshie, Accra, marks more than a ceremonial milestone — it signals the closing chapter of a…
A civil society petition calling for a permanent military base in Ghana’s Central Region has brought into sharp focus a governance failure that extends well beyond a single district: the state’s inability to enforce its own land legislation against organised…
A targeted enforcement operation by the Bank of Ghana has thrust a niche but growing segment of Accra’s informal economy into a sharp institutional spotlight, raising pointed questions about how central banks calibrate regulatory authority against the realities of street-level…
What has Ghana actually decided, and who made the call? Ghana’s Cabinet, under President John Dramani Mahama, has formally resolved to apply for membership in BRICS, the intergovernmental grouping that now encompasses Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and a…
Africa’s most prominent industrialist is putting $16 billion on the line in Kenya. Whether the continent’s institutions can match that ambition is the real question. Speaking on the inaugural episode of BBC Africa Enterprise at the groundbreaking of his planned…
Ghana’s Cabinet rejection of a US$109 million health compact was not an endpoint. It was the opening move in a governance test that will ultimately be decided by legislation, budget allocations, and the institutional capacity of the Bank of Ghana’s…
For generations, rural women across Kenya have cultivated land registered in someone else’s name, raised children without authority over household resources, and watched decisions that shaped their daily lives emerge from rooms they were never invited to enter. That arrangement,…
When a state’s investigative apparatus begins to function as a sentencing mechanism, the rule of law does not merely bend — it fractures. That is the core of what OccupyGhana, one of Ghana’s most credible civic accountability organisations, put before…
