Ghana’s financial sector is in crisis. A crisis occasioned by the collapse of over 300 financial institutions; and which has affected every division of the financial sector. Universal banks, savings and loans companies, microfinance companies, capital market institutions, and insurance companies have been impacted. While majority of the collapsed institutions were licensed and regulated, a few were unlicensed and ought ...

The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), together with the government of Ghana launched the National Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Risk Communication and Social Mobilization during Public Health Emergencies and a message guide during the annual International One Health Day event.  One Health brings together government and donor partners across various sectors to focus on ...

Ghana is in the process of developing the Diaspora Engagement Policy to harness the human and material resources of the diaspora for socio-economic transformation. The Policy, when adopted, will provide for the leveraging of investment benefits and privileges through strategies that promote foreign direct investment to Ghana from the diaspora. Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and ...

The Ghana Science Olympiad (GSO), is a competition which is held annually for schools under the Secondary Education Improved Project (SEIP). The Olympiad seeks to help students to develop the habits of critical thinking and problem solving skills; and approaches to real life situations of inter-disciplinary relevant content. The 2020 GSO was put together by the Ghana Education Service (GES) ...

Ghana, the host country of the African Development Bank Group’s 2021 Annual Meetings signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the institution on last Friday, marking an important milestone in preparations for the event. The 56th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank and the 47th Annual Meeting of the African Development Fund are scheduled to take place from 24 to ...

Public Agenda can report that Martin Alamisi Amidu has resigned from his position as Special Prosecutor. Mr Amidu resigned because he does not feel that President Nana Akufo-Addo has done enough to safeguard the independence of his office. Amidu is said to have in a letter addressed to President Nana Akufo-Addo, charged the president to find a suitable replacement for ...

The Ashanti Regional Youth Network, with support from Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA) and OXFAM in Ghana has launched a campaign to ensure an incident-free general election in December 2020. The project aims at educating young people to exercise their civic responsibility in the upcoming elections without allowing themselves to be agents of violence. To this end, ...

Under the theme “Development Banks as Actors for Change towards Gender Equality,” the African Development Bank’s Director for Gender, Women and Civil Society, Vanessa Moungar, joined high-level representatives from global financial institutions, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and UN Women in signing a joint declaration on gender equality to strengthen their commitment at all levels. The declaration was one highlight of ...

Independent power producers in the country have threatened to shut down their operations over unpaid debts by the government. In a ‘notice of shutdown’ letter to the CEO of the Ghana Grid Company, the power producers noted “we would like to inform you about our firm resolve to withdraw our services in the coming days’ ad Infinitum. ” The letter ...

US federal election officials have said the 2020 White House vote was the “most secure in American history”, rejecting President Donald Trump’s fraud claims.  “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” the committee announced.  They spoke out after Mr Trump claimed without proof 2.7 million votes for ...