PETE’S CORNER with Peter Martey AGBEKO: GJA 2025 ELECTIONS:  Navigating the landmines

Few public institutions have had as profound an impact on Ghana's educational development as the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).

Ask your grandmother what a bank is, and she will probably describe a building.

Ghana has repeatedly searched for a credible answer to one persistent question: how should the state determine the true value of imports without undermining legitimate international trade?

There are moments in the life of a nation when a government must pause, listen, and remember where its authority comes from.

Recognition is not a soft skill; it is a leadership multiplier. There is a particular kind of employee every organisation depends on.

The book-build and the pricing gap The Ministry of Finance (MoF) opened the book-build for a new four-year Government of Ghana (GoG) bond on September 1, 2026, with initial price guidance set at 11.5 to 12percent. Bidding closes on September 3, settlement is scheduled for September 7, and the paper matures on September 2, 2030. No size target has been disclosed, consistent with the Ministry’s recent practice of letting the order book determine the quantum raised rather than pre-committing to an amount.

In an earlier piece for this column, I wrote about Ananse — the trickster who built webs not to trap flies, but to acquire stories, and with them, control over what the world came to believe.

The health of an economy is judged by macroeconomic variables, namely, GDP growth rate, unemployment rate, inflation rate, exchange rate, interest rate, national budget balance and trade balance.