{"id":342889,"date":"2025-01-11T11:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T11:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=342889"},"modified":"2025-01-11T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T12:37:51","slug":"president-mahama-reduces-number-of-ministries-from-30-to-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/news\/politics\/president-mahama-reduces-number-of-ministries-from-30-to-23\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"President Mahama reduces number of Ministries from 30 to 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Rebecca Ampah<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President John Dramani Mahama has officially reduced the number of government ministries from 30 to 23 through the enactment of the Civil Service (Ministries) Instrument, 2025 (E.I. 1). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Executive Instrument, signed on January 9, 2025, effectively revoked the Civil Service (Ministries) Instrument, 2021 (E.I. 12).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 23 Ministries Established Under E.I. 1 are;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Ministry of Finance  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Ministry of Health  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Ministry of the Interior  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Ministry of Defence  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Ministry of Education  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Ministry of Energy and Green Transition  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Ministry of Roads and Highways  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Ministry of Transport  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Ministry of Sports and Recreation  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. Ministry of Foreign Affairs  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

16. Ministry of Youth Development and Empowerment  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

17. Ministry of Works, Housing and Water Resources  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

18. Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

19. Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

20. Ministry of Labour, Jobs and Employment  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

21. Ministry of Food and Agriculture  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

22. Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

23. Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The restructuring aims to optimize operations, reduce inefficiencies, and establish a more efficient administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BELOW IS THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By: Rebecca Ampah President John Dramani Mahama has officially reduced the number of government ministries from 30 to 23 through the enactment of the Civil Service (Ministries) Instrument, 2025 (E.I. 1).  The Executive Instrument, signed on January 9, 2025, effectively revoked the Civil Service (Ministries) Instrument, 2021 (E.I. 12). The 23 Ministries Established Under E.I. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":342896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,25,2773],"tags":[22871],"class_list":["post-342889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-news","category-trending","tag-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250108-WA0041-e1736597120641.jpg?fit=718%2C570&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342889"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342905,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342889\/revisions\/342905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}