First Lady calls for support to make Ghana STEM leader in Africa

Comprehensive geological mapping is essential to delineating concessions for small-scale and large-scale mining operators and preventing operational conflicts between local miners and multinational companies, Denis Gyeyir, Programme Manager for Resources Futures in Africa at the Open Society Foundations, has said.

Government faces mounting pressure to convert its expanding youth population into productive employment, with nearly two million young people neither working nor in education or training - highlighting the challenge of translating economic growth and macroeconomic stability into decent jobs.

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA Ghana) has launched a one-year initiative to assess the institutional, regulatory and workforce requirements for Ghana’s nuclear power programme as the country works towards the stage at which it can invite bids or negotiate a contract for its first nuclear power plant.

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Energy and Mines has commended First Sky Limited for completing a 50-megawatt peak (MWp) solar power plant at Galgu in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region,

Copper production is rising across the Central African Copperbelt. The bigger question is whether the region can turn that growth into local value, stronger supply chains and industrial development.

African tech leaders at  Moonshot by TechCabal 2026 have called for greater investment in the infrastructure, capital and leadership needed to build technology companies that can compete globally and sustain innovation.

The Hunger Project–Ghana, in partnership with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has handed over a refurbished Emergency Dispatch Centre to the National Ambulance Service in Ho, Volta Region.

As part of activities to climax Customer Service Month 2026, Pinnacle Life Insurance Company Limited organized a community engagement initiative dubbed “Pinnacle Life Health Initiative,”