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@timdexterr @BBSimons I'm always fascinated by his energy, depth of knowledge, and consistency. In the future, we'll need a Bright Simons Institute to memorialize & institutionalize his works. Today, many might take what he's doing for granted but one day we'll understand the value of what he does.

@MoF_Ghana @AyittahBernard

Mof releases PFM Compliance League Table. The Ministry of Finance has developed a Public Financial Management (PFM) Compliance League Table, a landmark transparency and accountability initiative aimed at strengthening fiscal discipline and improving the management of public resources. The PFM Compliance League Table fulfills the Government’s commitment in the 2025 Budget Statement to publish an objective, evidence-based assessment of how public institutions comply with the PFM Act, 2016 (Act 921), its Regulations and associated laws. The League Table serves as a performance benchmarking tool that measures the extent to which public institutions adhere to the rules and procedures governing the use of public funds. By constructively ranking institutions based on their level of compliance, the Ministry seeks to deepen transparency, promote accountability, and encourage continuous improvement across the public sector in the management and use of public resources. The League Table highlights institutions with significant compliance gaps, underscoring the need for targeted corrective actions and stronger enforcement measures. In line with its statutory mandate, the Ministry of Finance, through the PFM Compliance Division, will take firm steps to address persistent non-compliance going forward. The Ministry will engage Covered entities that recorded low compliance scores and help them to identify gaps in their PFM compliance systems. Below is the ranking of the selected covered entities

@lukin_thru_u @FelixKwakyeOfo1 Lol

@Candeed93 @FelixKwakyeOfo1 The Assemblies are chopping the money. No improvement

Bono Regional Minister has just disclosed at the "Resetting Ghana Citizens Engagement" with the President, that in 2024, the total District Assemblies Common Fund receipts for the first three quarters by all 12 MMDAs in the Region was a little over GHS 11 million. In 2025, the total receipts for the first three quarters for the 12 MMDAs was in excess of GHS 122 million.

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CAF Do Wagadri! Before examining the law, the facts must be clear. Senegal did not refuse to play. At the end of regulation time, the match stood at 0–0. The game proceeded into extra time. In the 94th minute, Senegal’s Pape Gueye scored what proved to be the decisive goal. Earlier, Morocco’s Brahim Díaz had missed a penalty in stoppage time, saved by Édouard Mendy, after a prolonged delay caused by protests. In other words, the match was played. Fully. Competitively. To its conclusion. That factual baseline is critical. A. The Law CAF relied on Articles 82 and 84 of its regulations. Article 82 provides that a team that withdraws, refuses to play, or leaves the pitch before the final whistle without the referee’s authorization forfeits the match (typically 3–0). Article 84 goes further: any violation of Article 82 results in elimination from the competition. These provisions are designed to address clear acts of abandonment or refusal. They protect the integrity of competition by sanctioning teams that do not participate or that prematurely terminate matches. B. The Problem with the Application The difficulty is not the rule. It is the application. The allegation is that Senegal left the pitch without the referee’s authorization. Even if that is accepted arguendo, what followed is decisive: Senegal returned to the field, and the referee resumed and completed the match. That sequence matters. If a team truly “withdraws” or “refuses to play,” the match does not continue. The referee does not restart play. The game does not proceed into extra time, nor produce a winning goal. By allowing the match to continue, the referee implicitly regularized whatever interruption had occurred. In effect, the game was restored, not abandoned. That creates a fundamental tension. On one hand, CAF treats the incident as a completed violation triggering automatic forfeiture. On the other hand, the referee’s conduct treated the match as ongoing and valid. Both positions cannot comfortably coexist. C. Doctrinal Tension This raises three legal concerns: 1. Waiver / Regularization: When the referee allowed play to resume, did that decision cure or waive the earlier breach? In most sporting frameworks, the referee’s control of the match is central. A resumed match signals that the competition continues under valid conditions. 2. Proportionality: Articles 82 and 84 impose the most severe sanction available: forfeiture and elimination. Applying such a sanction to a temporary interruption that was subsequently resolved and followed by full completion of the match appears disproportionate. 3. Factual Threshold: The regulations target refusal, withdrawal, or abandonment. But here, the conduct is better characterized as a temporary disruption followed by compliance. Stretching Article 82 to cover that scenario risks expanding the rule beyond its intended scope. D. Conclusion CAF’s decision elevates a moment of disruption over the reality of a completed match. Senegal did not refuse to play. They returned. The referee accepted their return. The game continued. A result was produced on the field. To retroactively convert that match into a forfeiture is not just a strict application of the rules. It is a questionable one. At minimum, it exposes a deeper issue: whether disciplinary provisions designed for abandonment can properly be applied to matches that were, in fact, played to completion. From GOGO’s perspective, Senegal be 2025 AFCON champion; Teranga team; Wyne up now; Celebrate di win; CAF no fit do Kasongo; Pluck your koras, strike the balafons; Pon D thing! The Red Lion has roared. The tamer of the bush! Senegal mek we shout loud—olé olé, olé olé, olé olé, hey!! PS: Yɛde post no bɛto hɔ. Yɛnyɛ comprehension consultants. Da Yie!

South Africa beat Lesotho 2-0 in the World Cup qualifiers. Mokoena was said to be ineligible to play that game because he had accumulated cards. Ref did his job, SA won by 2-0 but FIFA ruled against SA and overturned the score. Called it a forfeiture and SA lost 3-0, lost three points and Lesotho gained what SA lost. FIFA didn't say because the match commissioner and ref allowed Mokoena to play the result of the game was final. So to suggest that because the ref allowed final to continue, Morocco couldn't have appealed and won is SOMEWAY.

@rollcallmaster @BBSimons You just refuse to see solutions. How long have you been following @BBSimons to come up with this false claim?

@BBSimons How do you manage to see problems in just about everything but hardly offer any solutions? It baffles me.

Ghana's president flew to South Korea last week to commission a Nigerian gas ship. Trust me, Pan-African notwithstanding, that is not a regular sight. On the surface: routine economic diplomacy. Bubbling beneath: a truly operatic saga of corporate resilience in a katanomic setting. The vessel is the MT Asharami Ghana, a LPG carrier owned by Nigeria's Sahara Group & NNPC. To get the significance, let’s fly to 2015. Ghana was in the grip of "dumsor" - rolling blackouts. Factories were on life support and Hospitals had become assembly lines of misery. The Mahama government, facing an election and a furious electorate, signed an emergency gas deal with a Nigerian joint venture called WAGL: NNPC plus Sahara Group. The deal: LNG delivered to Tema within a year. Then Ghana opened no letter of credit. Then suddenly signed a competing deal with Quantum that had been furiously paddling under water since 2013 before being supplanted by WAGL. Then took forever to do things that take hours. So, WAGL's sub-contractors started suing for non-payment. In January 2021, a London arbitration tribunal awarded WAGL $68.5 million against Government of Ghana. Another abandoned power project got $170 million. The backer of that project – Trafigura - is also now back in Prestea, chasing LPG. The Ghanaian taxpayer got the bills. This is what katanomics looks like in practice: politics signs the deals, policy cannot honour them, and the legal bill goes to citizens who had no vote in any of it. What happened next is the bigger lesson, though. WAGL didn't fume and sulk. They didn't cower. They quietly rebranded as WAGL Energy, switched from LNG - a product that requires policy to sync with politics (katanomics says No Way!) - to LPG, a product you sell directly to households and businesses. No need to bet on rational national policy. Now, they have IFC backing. And a fleet. And a ship called Ghana. Five years after winning an arbitration against Ghana, they have the President singing their praises in a Korean shipyard. That’s how the game works: adaptive strategy. In a katanomic environment, where policy and politics don't speak to each other, the survival game has clear rules: make modular bets, cut your losses, preserve the relationships that matter, and be mighty patient. Dumsor in 2015. Disputes in 2021. Lawyers feeding on the fat. Russian oligarchs come to town and vanished. A Chinese-built terminal sees no gas. And, finally, in 2026, a Nigerian ship called Ghana gets its Presidential encomiums. The katanomic market doesn't reward the visionary. It rewards those patient enough to outlast it! Read more: brightsimons.com/2026/03/the-me…

For a few years now, a group of us have tried to explain that the biggest challenge in African democracies like Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya is not really the POLITICS. The real mess is in POLICY. We call this KATANOMICS. But we have done most of our explaining using essays. Everyone tells us, however, that reading nowadays is hard! People are too swamped and busy. So, we are trying our hands at using videos and photos. 😊 First video: youtu.be/cj9pUzTr2vQ We are new to this so forgive the quality and focus on the message. But we are very welcome to all feedback. Keep them coming.

@BBSimons" wries..For a few years now, a group of us have tried to explain that the biggest challenge in African democracies like Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya is not really the POLITICS. The real mess is in POLICY. We call this KATANOMICS. But we have done most of our explaining using essays. Everyone tells us, however, that reading nowadays is hard! People are too swamped and busy. So, we are trying our hands at using videos and photos. 😊 First video: youtu.be/cj9pUzTr2vQ We are new to this so forgive the quality and focus on the message. But we are very welcome to all feedback. Keep them coming. "

I said this in 2024 and I'll say it again, we must begin to think about how to institutionalize the works of @BBSimons for future generations. I don't think Ghanaians appreciate Bright enough for the thankless job he's doing for not just Ghana but Africa as a whole! The way @BBSimons explained the politics-policy dynamics on the webinar organized by NEXTIER is nothing short of insightful. God bless you @BBSimons. I really enjoyed the your presentation and the questions were insightful. Please share information about any of your next presentations with me. I want to continue to glean jewels of knowledge from your vineyard (Previous name: Coffie Jaydee. Now Dessy Nabas 😊)

@Mike_Amanpene @CadmanAttaMills @tv3_ghana Wouldn't you have to import assets to expand productivity in order to produce at lower cost of production? Isn't the cedi's strength important in that sense.

@CadmanAttaMills @tv3_ghana Low inflation would increase productive capacity you mean — owing to the stable and predictable environment, and that’s true but the stronger cedi will also affect exports without productivity growth, which may be the point he made, Ghanaian tv always misquotes.

Economist Prof. Godfred Bokpin has expressed reservations about the aggressive strengthening of the cedi, warning that without corresponding growth in productive capacity, low inflation and currency gains may not be sustainable over the medium term. #TheKeyPoints #TV3GH

@kwawp @OleleSalvador But we'll still make windfall profits from the dwindling amounts we are already selling

@Candeed93 @OleleSalvador No Ghana consumes way more than production when it comes to crude and it has been dwindling over the years

👨🏾‍🍳🇬🇭🇮🇷🇺🇸: On Feb. 25, COPEC told Ghanaians to expect fuel prices to rise in March. 3 days later, the US and Israel hit Iran. Iran controls ~20% of the world’s oil supply route — the Strait of Hormuz. Ghana buys its fuel from global markets. The timing couldn’t be worse.

#StopGalamseyNow #ChangetheSnailpaceApproach #ActWithUrgency

@FAnnohDompreh Beautiful picture. 🤩

In solidarity…

Ato Forson is trying to win my heart! I like his posture and his outputs so far. He’s giving me Prof. Mills vibes. Discipline. Prudence. Humility. I actually wrote about Ato when he was appointed Finance Minister. I saved it on Facebook and I’ll repost it in due time. Pray for Ato. We may have a visionary and smart Finance Minister on our hands. With a President driven by policy soundness backing him, Ato can deliver. No doubt about that. Ghanaians, however, must be careful not to get carried away or distracted by politics when sound but unpopular decisions are made. If we really want transformation, then we must take the bitter pill at some point for long-term benefits. The trajectory Ato is on, if not disrupted, will yield long-term economic transformation. Mark it somewhere!!

C. RATIONALE FOR A STRATEGIC RESERVE BUILD‑UP 14. Mr. Speaker, despite the progress made in 2025, growing global uncertainties make Ghana vulnerable to: • external financing volatility; • commodity price cycles; • global geopolitical tensions; • climate‑related disruptions; and • regional security risks. 15. These have simultaneously lifted gold prices to historic highs and provide an opportunity for Ghana to build reserves to secure the country’s external sector against any major shock to strengthen Ghana’s first line of defence. 16. Mr. Speaker, given these uncertainties, the conventional threshold of three months of import cover is no longer adequate. 17. Government therefore seeks to accumulate a strategic buffer beyond the conventional reserve adequacy levels and build an “economic war‑chest” of 15 months of import cover by end-2028 to: • Safeguard macroeconomic stability; • Break the cycle of economic downturns; • Sustain confidence in the currency; • Improve investor confidence; • Reduce exposure to external shocks; and • Support long‑term economic transformation. 18. Mr. Speaker, the objective of this policy is to build reserves to 15 months of import cover to support Ghana’s long-term economic transformation without compromising macroeconomic stability. D. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE 19. Mr. Speaker, this strategy is not new. After the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the most affected countries embarked on aggressive foreign reserve accumulation as a key policy response. 20. This was driven primarily by a desire for self-insurance against future sudden capital reversals and crises following the traumatic experience of relying on IMF bailouts, which came with strict conditions. 21. Mr. Speaker, this helped these economies fare much better during later shocks, like the 2008 Global Financial Crisis without depleting their reserves. 22. Mr. Speaker, a diagnosis of Ghana’s reserve trajectory shows a pattern of episodic accumulation linked to opportunistic external borrowings and seasonal cocoa export inflows, followed by drawdowns to meet external obligations. 23. Mr. Speaker, from a reserve position of 5.4 months of import cover in April 2021, following an Eurobond issuance of US$3 billion, reserves sharply declined to a low of under 2.3 months of import cover in September 2023. 24. The depletion reflected a strain on external buffers in the face of constrained financing options, capital outflows, heightened macroeconomic pressures, and the need to meet critical foreign exchange obligations.

This is what I spoke about in the wake of the cocoa "crisis". Visionary leaders model risks and uncertainties and build long-term buffers ahead of time! Kudos Hon. Ato!! Fiscal discipline is necessary but we must also find ways to boost economic productivity and create jobs for the youths.

Ghana drops coup leader's name from main airport on putsch anniversary bbc.in/4tRsuhD

@pazunre Adding an interview transcription tool will be a game changer for researchers in Africa.

@Candeed93 We have had quite a few requests on this topic - interview transcription tool - that at this point we will build a specialized workflow probably. People are already using it like this Yes we can do Hausa, we haven’t yet integrated it into the API but this is imminent.

AI will likely pollute social media to the extent that people will go outside again AI Music might pollute streaming platforms to the extent that people will go back to buying from the artist The irony 🤔

Ivory Coast is considering cutting the guaranteed farm gate price paid to its cocoa farmers to align with Ghana, two government sources told Reuters, as the world's biggest producers of the chocolate ingredient face a major crisis. reuters.com/world/africa/i…