Petition pushes MIIF stake, local participation in Gold Fields lease deal

When the Speaker of Parliament of Ghana, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, rose to deliver the keynote address at the 2026 National Summit of the Institute of Public Relations (IPR), Ghana, on October 22, he began with a confession and a promise.

For Ghanaians who have endured costly living conditions, unemployment and years of economic uncertainty, the 2027 Budget must offer more than reassuring statistics. On 12 November 2026, Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson is scheduled to present the Government’s next fiscal blueprint to Parliament. Deputy Minister Thomas Nyarko Ampem says it will advance the Reset Agenda through a New Economy programme.

A new phase in Ghana’s AI ambitions October has brought three developments that deserve attention.

Every fishmonger at the Tema fishing harbour can tell you the same story. The canoes go further, stay out longer and come back with less. Premix fuel is costly, the nets are old and the bank will not lend because fishing is "too risky". Meanwhile, Ghana imports fish to feed its own people. This is not a story of an ocean without value. It is a story of an ocean without investment.

In the modern economy, a nation’s energy framework is the foundational blueprint that dictates its capacity to industrialise, feed its population, educate its youth, heal its sick, and compete in the global digital marketplace.

The leadership problem

I salute the motive behind the government's Women's Development Bank.

Let me begin with a question that may make some people uncomfortable: when the best students in Ghana finish school, where do we expect them to go?