{"id":2740,"date":"2026-02-27T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:56:13","slug":"president-mahama-declares-economic-recovery-in-2026-state-of-the-nation-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/?p=2740","title":{"rendered":"President Mahama Declares Economic Recovery in 2026 State of the Nation Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div id=\"ultimate-heading-78456a09f6222fac0\" class=\"uvc-heading ult-adjust-bottom-margin ultimate-heading-78456a09f6222fac0 uvc-9116  uvc-heading-default-font-sizes\" data-hspacer=\"no_spacer\"  data-halign=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uvc-heading-spacer no_spacer\" style=\"top\"><\/div><div class=\"uvc-main-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-78456a09f6222fac0 h5'  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}' ><h5 style=\"--font-weight:theme;\">President Mahama Declares Economic Recovery in 2026 State of the Nation Address<\/h5><\/div><div class=\"uvc-sub-heading ult-responsive\"  data-ultimate-target='.uvc-heading.ultimate-heading-78456a09f6222fac0 .uvc-sub-heading '  data-responsive-json-new='{\"font-size\":\"\",\"line-height\":\"\"}'  style=\"font-weight:normal;\">Accra, Ghana &#8211; 27 February 2026<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Republic, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, has announced that Ghana\u2019s economy is stabilising and returning to growth, declaring that \u201cGhana is back\u201d and \u201cGhana is working again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delivering the 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament, the President emphasised that decisive fiscal discipline, reforms, and prudent economic management are beginning to yield measurable results despite earlier national challenges.<\/p>\n<p>According to the President, his administration prioritised restoring order to public finances through spending controls, improved reporting of government liabilities, and auditing of prior financial commitments. These actions, he noted, are already producing \u201cremarkable economic outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further assured citizens that Ghana is on a renewed path of growth and development under the government\u2019s \u201cResetting Ghana\u201d agenda, stressing that the country is now positioned for sustained acceleration and investor confidence.<\/p>\n<p>The Address highlighted optimism ahead of Ghana\u2019s 69th Independence Anniversary, with the President stating that the nation is rebuilding prosperity through responsible governance and inclusive growth policy.<\/p>\n<p>GAP Perspective<\/p>\n<p>The State of the Nation Address provides an important national policy direction and performance update. GAP encourages members and citizens to engage constructively with national development priorities, particularly in areas of economic recovery, fiscal discipline, and inclusive growth.<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news","pmpro-has-access","category-2","description-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/John_Mahama_delivers_state_of_union-770x433-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welfare.gapghana.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}