The government of Ghana has introduced a new list of ministries for the year 2025 under the leadership of President John Dramani Mahama.
Among the updated list include the Ministry of Sports and Recreation which was hitherto known as Ministry of Youths and Sports.
The structural change is first time in decades at the ministry.
President John Dramani Mahama had promised to separate the ‘Youths’ component from the Sports Ministry during his campaign last year to better address the needs of the youth, the Ministry of Sports.
Mr. Mahama’s vision for the restructured ministry includes the establishment of a youth development service that will create job opportunities for young people and support his 24-hour economy initiative.
He said in March 2024, “We are going to separate Youth and Sports because it’s a youth and sports ministry but over the years, what we do is that the concentration is on sports and even on sports, the concentration is on Black Stars at the expense of any other sports. So I’m going to set up a service for Youth development. It will focus primarily on Youth status in all sectors of the economy.”
“It will focus on mainstreaming youth interest in all sectors of the economy. And most of all, we will concentrate on bringing on strategies that will create jobs for young people and this Ministry will support the 24-hour economy.”
The rebranded sector is yet to have its designed minister to spearhead affairs under the new government.
The new list reduces the Ministries from 30 to 23, check the full list
