Yesterday, I read the “exposure draft” of the Bank of Ghana’s Guideline for the Regulation and Supervision of Non-Interest Banking. The first thing that struck me is that the central bank’s strategic decision to rebrand “Islamic Banking” as “Non-Interest Banking” (NIB), while understandable as a bid to avoid the kind...

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is prosecuting former senior officials of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), one of the big government agencies in Ghana’s energy sector. The OSP alleges that the former NPA Executives created an extortion racket that netted them more than $25 million in corrupt funds....

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a projection system for rendering maps that shows Africa’s true size better than the much more popular Mercator system. Most educated people know that popular world maps don’t do justice to the sheer humongousness of the African continent. I personally learnt about...

Bright Simons | 13/08/2025 A helicopter crash on the 6th of August 2025 has thrown Ghana into a state of deep mourning. The deaths of the two Cabinet Ministers, a deputy national security boss, and two former government officials have hit the ruling party especially hard. Losing three officers trained...

1. On 22nd July 2025, the Attorney General of Ghana (AG) announced that he had reached an agreement with the main owners of Unibank, a big local bank that was previously collapsed (“resolved”) by the Bank of Ghana (BoG). Unibank’s majority shareholders (“owners”) had been under prosecution commenced by the...

1. If you didn’t get time to watch my presentation on Newsfile about the Black Volta goldmine, E&P, Azumah, and Ecowas Bank (@BIDC_EBID), here is a recording to view at your leisure. 2. I am very impressed by the bold journalism displayed by Newsfile, Joy, and Multimedia. Especially considering the...

Summary *********************************************************************************************************** One of the murkiest, most fascinating and most sensational fights for control of a gold mine is playing out in Ghana as prices of the yellow metal shoot for the sky. This saga is part boardroom battle, part political fiesta, and part policy mess. Everything rolled into one...

Yesterday, the news media in Ghana carried a story about a criminal complaint made by Swiss energy trader, Petraco, to Ghana’s organised crime agency, the Economic & Organised Crime Office (EOCO), against junior oil explorer, Springfield; its media darling founder, Kevin Okyere; and other senior executives and corporate affiliates. The...