The government has declared Friday July 4th Declared Public Holiday. Orginally, Tuesday, 1st July 2025, is supposed to be the Republic Day Holiday.
However, His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Ghana, by Executive Instrument (E.I), in accordance with Section 2 of the Public Holidays and Commemorative Days Act, 2021 (Act 601) has declared Friday, 4th July, 2025 as a Public Holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country.
In a related development, all midweek holidays in Ghana have been shifted to Fridays whiles those that fall on Saturday and Sunday will be observed on Mondays.
Parliament passed the Public Holidays and Commemorative Days (Amendment) Bill, 2025 to give ligal backing to the changes above
The object of the bill is to amend the Public Holidays and Commemorative Days Act, 2001 (Act 601) to provide for Shaqq Day and July 1 as statutory public holidays.
It also provides additional holiday, for the Muslim community as Shaqq Day, which would be observed a day after the Eid-ul Fitr celebration.
The bill also deletes August 4 as Founders’ Day and reinstates September 21 as Founder’s Day.
The bill, which was passed under a certificate of urgency, was presented to the House and read for the first time by the Minister of the Interior, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka on June 24, 2025.
That was after the Committee on Defence and Interior and the leadership of the Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs considered it to be of urgent nature.
Moving the motion to adopt the committee’s report, Mr Muntaka said the government had looked at the number of holidays and in line with some of the promises it made with regards to the holidays had restructured the holidays to take away those that were controversial and those “we are unanimous and rallied around”.
He said the government would keep January 1 as New Year’s Day, January 7 as Constitutional Day, March 6 as Independence Day, March or April for Good Friday for Christians, March or April as Easter Monday for Christians, May 1 as Labour Day and July 1 as Republic Day.