A talented and courageous woman on a critical mission

There was a time when Ghana stopped for football. On match days, market women hurried through their sales so they could catch kick-off.

Revenue mobilisation sits at the heart of Ghana's development agenda.

There is a very particular transformation that happens to certain executives the moment a hard question lands,

Section 7 of the Mid-Year Review is where the Budget stops being arithmetic and starts being roads, power plants and clinics. On the evidence, energy is delivering, infrastructure is moving, and execution rather than money is now the thing to watch.

The recent floods in Accra reminded me of a personal experience on June 3, 2015, when I was affected by a similar disaster at Kaneshie.

The question history is quietly asking History does not rush. It rarely applauds a government, a boardroom or a generation on the day a decision is made. It waits to see whether today's celebrated choice becomes tomorrow's triumph or tomorrow's regret, asking a question no election result or quarterly report can answer honestly.

 A couple of weeks ago, the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), the state entity set up by the Government of Ghana to manage the country’s mineral wealth through royalty collection and investment, published its audited financial performance for 2025, and the results are nothing but impressive demonstration of financial resilience by a state institution in recent times.

Ghana has once again completed an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme – its seventeenth engagement with the Bretton Woods institution since independence.