Ghana's Silent Crisis: Non-Communicable Diseases Threaten Economic Future, Experts Warn

Marking this year’s Fetu Afahye celebrations, the Telecel Ghana Foundation provided free health screening to residents of Abura, Central Region under its connected health pillar.

The Chief Justice's praise for SSNIT and MIIF, and his pointed question about "what we have been doing in the past eight years," was defensible as opinion but costly as precedent. Measured against his own predecessors and against chief justices in Washington, London, Ottawa and Canberra, the episode exposes a structural gap in Ghana's constitutional design: robust guarantees of institutional independence, but no settled convention on what a sitting Chief Justice should and should not say in public.

Renewed weakness in the cedi and higher fuel prices are expected to push inflation higher in September - potentially limiting the scope for further monetary easing by the Bank of Ghana (BoG), according to Apakan Securities.

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is targeting at least GH¢310 billion in domestic revenue by 2028, nearly double the GH¢182 billion it collected in 2025, as it accelerates tax reforms and digitalisation to boost compliance and support industrial growth.

President of the Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS), Dr. Simon Annan, has made a strong case for procurement and supply chain to be positioned as a strategic driver of inclusive and measurable national development, rather than being treated merely as a transactional or administrative function.

The Richard Nii Armah Quaye (RNAQ) Ga-Dangme Youth Scholarship Fund has been launched to support brilliant but needy students whose financial circumstances threaten their ability to pursue tertiary education.

The government is seeking to establish a unified institutional and legal framework to coordinate Ghana’s growing ocean economy, as it prepares to begin nationwide consultations on a proposed Blue Economy Commission Bill aimed at aligning activities across maritime, environmental, tourism and natural-resource sectors.

The Future of Development Cooperation Coalition (FDCC) has called for a fundamental rethink of how countries finance their development priorities, bus