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Ghana’s National Security operatives have made a massive bust, seizing a large unspecified amount of US dollars, Ghana Cedis and counterfeits hidden in 12 different 20-foot shipping containers.
President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana has sworn in 17 ministers, including eight regional ministers and dished out instructions that all official foreign trips by ministers and other government appointees should be taken with modesty and not on first class tickets.
Armed men, some wearing military camouflage, attacked journalist Ohemeng Tawiah with stones and machetes on December 20, 2024, after Tawiah and his camera operator, Joseph Kusi, joined a police team investigating allegations of illegal mining at a site in Ghana’s northern Ashanti region.
The Ambassador of Brazil to Ghana, Mrs. Mariana Madeira, has said that the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will convene a meeting of African ministers of agriculture in May to discuss agribusiness.
The Ghana National Gas Company Limited (GNGLC) is facing a debt crisis due mainly to the inability of the Volta River Authority (VRA) to meet its debt service obligations.
The Australian High Com¬missioner to Ghana, Berenice Owen-Jones, has assured the new Ghanaian government of the support of her country in its economic growth strategy, particularly in the mining sector.
President John Dramani Mahama has appointed a committee of eight experts to spearhead the organization of a major national forum on the future of education in Ghana.
The Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative (ASCI) has been selected as a winner of the Schwab Foundation Awards 2025. Proforest’s Africa and Global Director, Abraham Baffoe, receives the award for Collective Social Innovators on behalf of ASCI today at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
Ghana’s Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, says that Ghana has been granted debt relief of $2.8 billion by its Official Creditors as a result of the debt restruc¬turing exercise embarked on by the government under the three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement with the International Monetary (IMF) in 2022.
Ghana’s total public debt dropped to GH¢24.1 bil¬lion month-on-month from GH¢761.0 billion in November 2024, the Bank of Ghana’s Janu¬ary 2025 Summary of Financial and Economic Data has revealed.