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Ghana’s Digital Future: Hope for Africa’s Digital Identity & Sovereignty
Ghana stands at a defining moment in its national journey—one shaped not by gold or cocoa, but by innovation, creativity, enterprise, and connection. Under the renewed leadership of H.E President John Dramani Mahama and the dynamism of Hon. Sam George, Minister for Communication, Digital Technology & Innovations, the nation is stepping confidently into the future.
The launch of the 1 Million Coders Initiative is a powerful declaration of intent: to equip one million Ghanaian youth with digital skills and digital literacy, preparing them for high- demand roles in the global digital economy. This initiative is not simply about training—it is about transformation. It seeks to close the digital divide, democratize opportunity, and future-proof Ghana’s workforce.
Equally visionary is the recently announced $1 billion technology hub, a strategic partnership with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
This groundbreaking collaboration marks one of the most significant foreign direct investments in Ghana’s technology sector. It promises to create jobs, drive innovation, and make Ghana a regional leader in tech infrastructure, digital entrepreneurship, and advanced skills development.
This hub is more than brick and mortar—it is a symbol of what is possible when leadership is visionary, bold and strategic. The hub lends credence to policy coherence and complementarity required to achieve our digital transformation agenda.
The hub will serve as a launchpad for startups, an incubator for ideas, and a magnet for international investors looking to engage with Africa’s rising digital ecosystem. So if one is wondering where the 1 million Ghanaians to be trained and equipped with digital skills will end up, there you have it.
In this new age of digital colonialism, Africa’s digital identity and sovereignty is the heartbeat of the continent’s development, innovation and independence. Africa’s digital sovereignty is crucial to its development.
From critical infrastructure ownership to control over data, Africa must be in a position to govern its digital space without let or hinderance.The continent cannot realise its single market objective under the Africa Continental Free Trade initiative under the current digital colonization. And this is why President Mahama’s Reset Agenda in the digital space is highly commendable.
Firstly, realignment of the Communications ministry to foster innovation and secondly taking bold and creative initiatives like the 1 million coders (digital skills) program and the $1Billion tech hub to host
Africa’s biggest innovation hub are second to none.
In President Mahama and Minister Sam George, Ghana has leaders who recognize that the next wave of prosperity will be built not on extraction, but on innovation. Their policies are laying the foundation for a resilient, tech-driven economy—one that is inclusive, competitive, and future-ready. We cannot realise our digital sovereignty without digital skills and tools and the necessary infrastructure.
I commend the bold vision of H.E President Mahama and celebrate the efforts of Hon. Sam George in the realisation of the vision. I urge all stakeholders—public and private, local and global—to support this transformative journey. The realisation of the continent’s digital identity and sovereignty is here!
Thank you, President John Dramani Mahama
By George Spencer Quaye,
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Minister for Education leads monitoring visit to BECE Centres
As part of efforts to encourage candidates writing the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), the Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrissu has led a government delegation to the 5 Garrison Education Centre and Emmause Cluster of Schools earlier today in Accra.
The visit aimed at monitoring the conduct of the examination, interacting with candidates, and offering words of motivation.
The minister urged the students to remain focused, confident, and determined, encouraging them to do their best to make themselves and the nation proud.
Accompanying the Education minister were the Minister for Defence, Edward Omane Boamah; Deputy Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs and Member of Parliament for La Dadekotopon, Rita Naa Odoley Sowah and the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Ernest Davis.
The rest included the Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Maamle Andrews; and the Municipal Chief Executive for La Dadekotopon, Alfredos Nii Anyetei.
Other dignitaries present also reiterated government’s commitment to educational excellence and the holistic development of every Ghanaian child.
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Interior Minister calls for correctional reform as Prisons Service graduates New Officers
Speaking at the Passing-Out Parade of Recruit Course 125 at Ankaful Prison Officers’ Training School in the Central Region, the Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak has emphasized the need for correctional reform in Ghana, highlighting the government’s commitment to transforming the Prisons Service into a modern correctional facility that focuses on rehabilitation, reformation and reintegration.
He noted that Government remains committed to expanding vocational training, educational programmes and productive inmate enterprises that reinforce rehabilitation, reformation and reintegration.
The minister pointed out that correctional facilities must become centers of reform, not just detention.
According to him, “is not an act of charity but a strategic investment in national security and human capital. When we empower an inmate with employable skills, we reduce the opportunity for that inmate to re-offend. Rehabilitation and reformation do not occur in isolation but must be linked to purposeful activity.”
To give practical effect to this policy, Muntaka Mohamed-Mubarak announced that Government will scale up support for prison-based ventures, saying that entures such as carpentry, tailoring, agriculture, and industrial operations, including bottled water production, will be central to a sustainable, self-reliant correctional economy.
The Minister also directed all institutions under the Ministry for the Interior to prioritise the purchase of bottled water and toilet rolls produced by the Ghana Prisons Service.
This, he said, will not only reduce the financial burden on the state but also generate revenue and promote inmates’ productivity.
He reassured the leadership and personnel of the Ghana Prisons Service of the Government’s unwavering support, emphasizing that the commitment goes beyond improving logistics and infrastructure to reforming the very foundation of correctional practice in Ghana.
Muntaka Mubarak urged the new officers to serve with integrity, compassion, and professionalism, and assured them that their actions would reflect the high standards of the Service and the trust the nation has placed in them.
