The government has approved the procurement of 200 new transformers for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to strengthen power transmission and distribution to major cities across the country.
Ghana’s commitment to delivering sustainable and equitable energy access was reaffirmed at the Mission 300 Ghana Energy Compact Review Workshop held in Accra on May 26, 2025.
President John Mahama has laid out his administration’s roadmap for economic recovery, telling business leaders at the 9th Ghana CEOs Summit and Awards Expo in Accra that Ghana must return to fiscal discipline and private sector-led growth.
The Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Jinapor, has received the report of the Petroleum Downstream Sector Reforms Committee, inaugurated on March 14, 2025, to assess Ghana’s petroleum downstream sector.
Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has committed to leading a new policy direction that will place restrictions on the importation of goods that can be produced locally.
The Foreign Affairs Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has announced that Jamaica is set to receive teachers and nurses from Ghana as part of an agreement between the two countries under a special bilateral partnership.
Ghana's mobile money ecosystem continues to soar, with the total value of transactions reaching a high of GH₵365 billion in April 2025, according to the latest data from the Bank of Ghana.
Professor Peter Quartey, Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), says the recent appreciation of the cedi results from a complex mix of domestic and international factors.
The Government of Ghana has received a $174 million cheque from Newmont as part payment of capital gains tax arising from the sale of the Akyem Mine, which was valued at nearly $1 billion.
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced the appointment of three advisors to its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) as part of measures to consolidate the country’s monetary policy regime.
