This being our last edition for the year 2025, we deem it appropriate to express bountiful gratitude to our teeming readers for their loyalty.
It is our readers’ patronage and, above all, God’s support which made it possible for us to weather the vicissitudes of the passing year.
Our next edition will be on January 5, 2026, a brand new year in which we pray the Omnipotent God to be with us as he has always been, so we can serve our country better.
The passing year has been a chequered one, a roller coaster of sorts. Politics has played out in different forms and it is understandable.
It is a year in which the country took another giant step in its practice of democracy; the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which won the 2024 elections and took over the mantle of political leadership of the country, commenced their four-year mandate.
Fingers have been crossed as Ghanaians watch in anticipation about the implementation of the campaign season promises.
While the dominant opposition political party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has punched holes in the governance of the NDC, the latter has consistently clapped hands for their performance, dangling a ‘reset’ programme they promised during the opposition days.
The judgment lies in the hands of Ghanaians, for they voted for a change in government.
In juxtaposing the performance of the two dominant political parties, it has been held that while the NPP was able to deliver without much ado its flagship promise, the Free Senior High School (SHS), immediately it took over power, the NDC’s 24-Hour Economy is still cocooned somewhere.
The youth are still waiting for the implementation of the 1:3:3 employment game-changer. It is a template which has attracted copious commentaries.
Promises and the picking of holes in the performance of others is all too easy.
Those in government understand the challenges involved in the implementation of novelty policies. Those who have been in government, both the NDC and NPP having been at one time or the other, know better the nuances of governance. The two parties know how sometimes it is practically impossible to carry through some policies.
It is for the foregone factors that political parties must be measured in the attack of their political opponents.
The resetting agenda of the NDC has hit the judiciary hard, and this has attracted motley commentaries depending on which side of the political divide political commentators find themselves in.
The provision of $10 billion to shore up the cedi against the dollar has provided a conversational topic in the media. Those engaged in this conversation have questioned the sustainability of the intervention which, for them, only gives a cosmetic appearance to the economy, especially the foreign exchange situation of the national currency.
As to the economic wisdom in doing so, the experts have not found any, the long term effect of the intervention which is anything but productive, being the cornerstone of political conversations.
Illegal mining is still outstanding. Government has not been able to stamp it out, making critics wonder what antidote they had in mind at the time they charged on their predecessor to deal decisively with it.
As we usher in a new year, the second in the four-year mandate given the NDC, Ghanaians would expect to see especially the implementation of game-changing policies which they were promised.
The other dominant political party, NPP, will choose a flagbearer at the end of January, the journey to which date has been heated up. An eventful year it is likely going to be for both dominant parties and, indeed, the country. Utility tariff hikes will also take off in the new year.