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…
A senior Ghanaian lawmaker has raised a formal alarm over the country’s deepening exposure as a drug transit corridor, warning that successive large-scale narcotics seizures by foreign authorities are eroding Ghana’s international standing while domestic enforcement produces no high-profile prosecutions…
A governance gap behind the numbers With Ghana recording a maternal mortality ratio of 801 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to a three-year study referenced in a Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital report, a senior political adviser has demanded that the…
The Ledger That Nobody Sees Picture a household in Accra’s Adabraka neighbourhood, or in a compound home in Tamale, where a family of six sits down each month to reckon with the arithmetic of survival. Rent, school fees, electricity, water,…
Kenya’s Ruto Demands Sovereign Equality in Foreign Investment as Africa Pushes for Value-Retention Over Extraction Kenyan President William Ruto used the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Business Summit in Nairobi to deliver a pointed message to international investors: Africa will…
