CENTRE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE & DATA

POLICY BRIEF RELEASE The Centre for Social Change & Data (CSCD) has issued a recommendation to evolve Ghana’s 24-Hour Market Initiative into Integrated 24-Hour Business & Trading Hubs. Preliminary modeling suggests up to 160,000 direct and induced jobs nationally. Sustainable policy must be systems-based. Full brief below.

@_owurakuampofo Football has advanced

RefCam footage of Germany vs Ghana 😭🤣

@KwesiHubert They should just sack him. He feels bigger than the station

What kind of employee is this? 😭😭😭

Ghana’s annual inflation rate cooled, extending an easing streak to a 15th month despite pressure for higher fuel prices because of fallout from the Iran war bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@adom_tv If he believes in what he is saying why didn’t he bring the letter from Cyprus

The Finance Minister and the GRA boss are using the introduction of AI in customs as an opportunity to loot the state. - Michael Okyere Baafi, Ranking Member, Trade Industry and Tourism Committee #Badwam

Hikikomori is becoming a common phenomenon in Asia and it is trickling into Africa

@GhanaPresidency The Clergy are not happy with the president for saying LGTQ is not a priority

President Mahama signs five bills into law President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, signed five bills including three amendment bills passed by Parliament into law. They are: I. i). Security and Intelligence Agencies Bill, 2025; II. ii). University of Engineering and Agricultural Sciences Bill, 2025; III. iii). Ghana Deposit Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2025; IV. iv). Growth and Sustainability Levy (Amendment) Bill, 2026; and V. v). Education Regulatory Bodies (Amendment) Bill, 2026. In a brief remark after assenting to the bills, President Mahama explained that the Security and Intelligence Agencies Act, 2026, scraps the Office of Minister of National Security and frees the President's to appoint any Minister to supervise the security agencies. He said it also reverses the name of the office of National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), to the original name, Bureau of National Intelligence, (BNI) This the President said, addresses the confusion between that security agency and a well-known Ghanaian financial institution, the National Investment Bank. President Mahama also noted that the University of Engineering and Agricultural Sciences Act, 2026, establishes another University in the Eastern Region, at Bonsu, with three campuses - the main campus at Bonsu in the Eastern Region, with the second campus to be cited at Ohawu in the Oti Region. The third, the Presdient assed will be located at Acherensua in the Ahafo Region. Touching on the Amendment to the Growth and Sustainability Levy Act, the President said: "As you're aware, the act was amended to increase it from 1% to 3%, and so this act reduces it again. That is the levy on mining companies. It reduces it again to 1%, because of the introduction of the sliding scale of royalties." He also spoke to the passage of the Government Education Regulatory Bodies Amendment Act, emphasising that amends Act 1023 to grant greater flexibility to private tertiary institutions and the option to Charter. The Ghana Deposit Protection Amendment Act, the President concluded, is an amendment to an original act that was supposed to guarantee deposits held in commercial banks or financial institutions. It basically expands protection to include mobile money wallets and other digital platforms, ensuring a wider scope of digital financial assets are secured. The signing ceremony, was witnessed by the Clerk of Parliament, Mr. Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, Secretary to the President, Dr Callistus Mahama, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Dr Dominic Akrutinga Ayine, Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, a Senior Presidential Advisor and a Special Aide to the President, Finance Minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, and the Vice President, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang. #ResettingGhana #MahamaThePresident

A team that we can’t point to 1st eleven cannot win games. You cannot call players together for three days and expect good chemistry of play

@addojunr @Mr_Ceo_____ We must accept that he is not tactically good

🇬🇭Coach Otto Addo says he accepts responsibilty for 5-1 defeat to 🇦🇹Austria along with his technical team.

@MKDankwah @4lyf_sonSm Everything about you is elections erh. Allow the people to focus and govern

If Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang does not contest the NDC race, who would you prefer to lead the party?

This is what we get when our so called Academia and civil society create stories to collect grants from so called donor agencies

@KemiBadenoch You should know that without Africa, UK is nothing. You are just like a piece of land of an island

Russia, China and Iran vote with others to demand trillions in reparations from UK taxpayers…and the Labour government abstain! Britain led the fight to end slavery. Why didn’t Starmer’s representative vote against this? Ignorance…or cowardice? We shouldn’t be paying for a crime we helped eradicate and still fight today.

@GBNEWS If everyone is talking, UK should not. They caused us more harm than anything

'How on Earth could our country abstain with something which could literally wipe our economy out and which has no justification?' Kelvin MacKenzie voices his bemusement at the UN voting for the UK to pay slavery reparations. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604

Seeing President @JDMahama continue the reparations argument from where President @NAkufoAddo left off on the same international stage sends a very powerful signal. From the outside, it would appear that Ghana has a consistent national position and that governments change, but the country’s direction remains steady. That is how serious countries behave. Governments may change, but national interests continue. This is a big lesson and a template for us to follow. Unfortunately, this is not always our internal reality. Even now, many of our national conversations are still driven heavily by party politics, and major discussions quickly become NPP versus NDC instead of Ghana versus our challenges. Policies are sometimes discontinued simply because they were started by a different administration, and national debates are framed around political victory rather than long term national progress. Imagine if we intentionally built our national narrative around continuity. Imagine if every government was expected to continue major national projects, improve them, and then be benchmarked based on measurable national goals rather than party manifestos alone. Imagine if our national conversations focused on infrastructure continuity, education reform continuity, industrial policy continuity, health system continuity, and governance reforms that span multiple administrations. Our politics would change, our media discussions would change, and our development would become more deliberate and consistent. While we fight for reparations and apologies for colonialism and slavery, we must also look within ourselves and practice Sankofa. We must go back and take the good from our own ways of doing things. We must build our technology, architecture, cities, food systems, industries, and governance structures around our climate, culture, and social systems instead of excessive copying without adaptation. Development is not copying. Development is adapting knowledge to your environment and your people. Countries that develop quickly do not change direction every four or eight years. They change leaders, but they maintain direction. They build systems, not just governments. They continue national conversations, national projects, and national positions regardless of who is in power. This moment, whether coincidental or not, should serve as a lesson. Ghana needs a national development narrative that survives elections, survives political parties, and survives individual leaders. When national interest becomes continuous and not partisan, development becomes faster, planning becomes long term, and the country begins to move forward in a more stable and predictable way.

A significant part of Africa’s problem is not only political or economic; it is also intellectual and institutional. Many of the narratives about Africa are produced in academic institutions, civil society organizations, and think tanks. These narratives often emphasize crisis, failure, and instability because those stories attract funding, research grants, and international attention. Over time, this creates a system where Africa is continuously studied as a problem rather than engaged as a partner in knowledge production and development. This intellectual hegemony is deeply embedded, and sometimes even our own scholars and institutions unknowingly participate in sustaining it.

They are in academia, civil society, and think tanks. They write the stories about Africa. The worse the story, the easier it is to get grants. So Africa is constantly painted as a problem to be studied, not a partner to be built with. This intellectual and institutional hegemony is deeply woven into the global system , and sometimes even our own people are used to sustain it.

There’s a foreign interest lobby in Ghana’s media and CSO space. If you watch carefully you’ll see them.

@majornija @EbenTheGloryMan I tell you 😄😄. He is right but missed my point. I never said everyone in Ghana is rich. Even the issue of politics and politicians, it is everywhere. Just that some countries are older and “advanced” as we say. I just don’t want to write thesis

@EbenTheGloryMan @CSCD_World Yall have just as many traitors within your ranks as we do.

Do yall realize that if the Democrats were in office, they would have just paid reparations to Ghana?

@Chosen1Dreams @majornija Since you are refusing to do research. I may as well be your TA

@CSCD_World @majornija Stop lying . Ghana is Broke .

@JoyPrimeTV @JoyNewsOnTV A good analyst would compare Adjoa’s first time to the first time MPs first term. Not this cheap analysis

Adwoa Sarfo's standards have not been met at Dome Kwabenya in terms of her vocalness and knowledge - Dr. Dickson Adomako Kissi comments on Comfort Doyoe's call for the protection of female parliamentary seats Watch #PrimeMorning here: youtu.be/85pmmXfTokk

@Nibiru1000 Ghana is not asking to be paid. Ghana is fighting for y’all’s rights to be treated as equal humans and not as second class citizens in the land your forefathers helped to build. Go and read the speech and the motion well

I say this with all my heart and complete sincerity, fuck Ghana!