NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/nigeria-tops-global-stablecoin-rankings-as-africa-leads-world-in-digital-dollar-adoption/Nigeria has ranked first in the world for ownership of the two most widely used dollar-backed stablecoins, while Africa as a whole has emerged as the region with the highest stablecoin adoption globally, according to a new industry report that captures how emerging economies are turning to digital assets to navigate currency instability and high-cost […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/nigeria-tops-global-stablecoin-rankings-as-africa-leads-world-in-digital-dollar-adoption/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/air-cargo-rates-partially-recover-but-africa-routes-remain-under-pressure/Global air cargo rates staged a modest recovery in the week of March 2 to 8, 2026, climbing back to $2.40 per kilogram after falling sharply in the preceding two-week period, but the rebound masked continued weakness on African and Middle Eastern corridors as the fallout from the Iran conflict continued to reshape international freight […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/air-cargo-rates-partially-recover-but-africa-routes-remain-under-pressure/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/asante-gold-hits-seven-month-production-streak-at-bibiani-as-underground-mining-begins/Asante Gold Corporation has reported seven consecutive monthly increases in gold production at its Bibiani Gold Mine in Ghana, with consolidated output at both Bibiani and Chirano crossing 20,000 ounces in each of January and February 2026, as the company presses toward what it describes as a transformational year for its Ghana operations. The operational […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/asante-gold-hits-seven-month-production-streak-at-bibiani-as-underground-mining-begins/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/standard-chartered-ghana-posts-net-income-rise-despite-squeeze-on-interest-revenue/Standard Chartered Bank Ghana PLC delivered higher net income and stronger earnings per share in the year ended December 31, 2025, even as a sharp appreciation of the Ghana cedi compressed net interest income and reshaped the bank’s revenue dynamics, according to summary financial statements published in Accra today. Net income rose to GH¢804.21 million […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/standard-chartered-ghana-posts-net-income-rise-despite-squeeze-on-interest-revenue/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-fixed-income-market-turns-over-gh%c2%a21-98-billion-on-monday/Ghana’s fixed income market recorded total turnover of GH¢1,979,603,908 across 422 transactions on Monday, March 16, 2026, as sell/buy-back trades on government bonds dominated activity and treasury bills attracted the highest volume of outright transactions. The Ghana Fixed Income Market (GFIM) session was anchored by sell/buy-back trades on Government of Ghana (GoG) notes and bonds, […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-fixed-income-market-turns-over-gh%c2%a21-98-billion-on-monday/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/gse-opens-week-at-fresh-high-as-market-cap-crosses-gh%c2%a2299-billion/The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) opened the new trading week on a sharply positive note on Monday, with both benchmark indices surging to fresh record highs and market capitalisation crossing GH¢299 billion for the first time, extending what has already been a historic run for Ghanaian equities in 2026. The benchmark GSE Composite Index (GSE-CI) […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/gse-opens-week-at-fresh-high-as-market-cap-crosses-gh%c2%a2299-billion/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/act-1146-sets-stage-for-ghana-aquaculture-expansion/Ghana’s aquaculture sector is building momentum as a credible business opportunity for local entrepreneurs, supported by rising domestic production figures and a landmark regulatory overhaul that analysts say could transform the operating environment for fish farmers and related businesses across the country. National agricultural performance data shows aquaculture output reached approximately 121,809 tonnes in 2024, […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/act-1146-sets-stage-for-ghana-aquaculture-expansion/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/goldbod-commits-gh%c2%a227-5m-to-map-northern-ghanas-untapped-gold-zones/The Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) has signed a GH¢27.5 million agreement with the Ghana Geological Survey Authority (GGSA) to conduct geological investigations across three mineralised zones in northern Ghana, launching the first phase of a broader programme to bring scientific rigour to a sector that has long operated with limited subsurface data. The three blocked-out […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/goldbod-commits-gh%c2%a227-5m-to-map-northern-ghanas-untapped-gold-zones/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/trump-delays-beijing-summit-as-hormuz-standoff-rattles-global-markets/United States President Donald Trump has formally asked China to postpone his planned state visit to Beijing by roughly a month, injecting fresh uncertainty into US-China relations and unsettling global financial markets already strained by the Iran conflict and its impact on energy supplies. Trump confirmed in the Oval Office on Monday that the US […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/trump-delays-beijing-summit-as-hormuz-standoff-rattles-global-markets/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/tamale-hub-launches-ai-lab-to-close-ghanas-north-south-digital-divide/A Tamale-based entrepreneurship and innovation organisation has launched what is positioned as the first dedicated artificial intelligence (AI) research and innovation hub in northern Ghana, responding directly to the growing concentration of AI development in the southern part of the country and the widening technology gap it is creating. HOPin Academy, which has trained over […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/tamale-hub-launches-ai-lab-to-close-ghanas-north-south-digital-divide/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/shea-sector-signs-first-collective-bargaining-deal-to-protect-women-dominated-workforce/Workers and employers in Ghana’s shea industry have signed a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) establishing formal labour standards across a sector that employs hundreds of thousands of women in northern Ghana, marking the first time the industry has operated under a structured, legally recognised framework governing working conditions, productivity and employee rights. The agreement was […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/shea-sector-signs-first-collective-bargaining-deal-to-protect-women-dominated-workforce/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/cloudflare-deploys-accra-network-nodes-as-ghana-faces-rising-cyber-threat-exposure/Global connectivity and cybersecurity company Cloudflare has established dedicated network nodes in Accra as part of an expanded infrastructure push into West Africa, signalling a strategic commitment to building localised cyber defence capacity in Ghana as digital attack risks across the region intensify. The infrastructure deployment coincided with a three-day cybersecurity seminar series in Accra, […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/cloudflare-deploys-accra-network-nodes-as-ghana-faces-rising-cyber-threat-exposure/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/profitable-soes-should-keep-commercial-flexibility-under-travel-ban-says-donkor/A corporate governance expert and former power sector minister has endorsed President John Mahama’s ban on state-funded international travel by boards of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and public institutions, but is urging the government to draw a clearer line between commercially run entities and traditional public sector bodies. Dr. Kwabena Donkor, speaking in an exclusive interview, […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/profitable-soes-should-keep-commercial-flexibility-under-travel-ban-says-donkor/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghanas-mpc-opens-129th-meeting-as-inflation-hits-27-year-low/The Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) opened its 129th regular meeting in Accra on Monday against a backdrop of record-low domestic inflation and rising global energy risks, as central banks across the world simultaneously weigh the economic fallout from the Iran conflict. Speaking at the opening session, BoG Governor Dr Johnson Pandit […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghanas-mpc-opens-129th-meeting-as-inflation-hits-27-year-low/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/cdd-ghana-says-soe-reform-failures-pose-systemic-risk-to-public-finances/A new policy analysis from the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has renewed pressure on the government to accelerate state enterprise reforms, warning that persistent governance failures within Ghana’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) continue to generate serious fiscal risks that successive administrations have failed to resolve. The commentary, published this month, draws on findings from […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/cdd-ghana-says-soe-reform-failures-pose-systemic-risk-to-public-finances/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-mineral-royalties-cross-gh%c2%a25-billion-for-first-time-despite-cedi-rally/The Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) collected a record GH¢5.43 billion in mineral royalties in 2025, breaching the GH¢5 billion threshold for the first time in its history, and doing so despite a significant appreciation of the Ghana cedi against the US dollar. The full-year figure represents a 10.8 per cent increase over the GH¢4.90 […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-mineral-royalties-cross-gh%c2%a25-billion-for-first-time-despite-cedi-rally/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/mobilemoney-ltd-float-hits-gh%c2%a238-4bn-as-merger-reshapes-ghanas-fintech-sector/MobileMoney Limited (MML), the fintech subsidiary of Scancom PLC, closed 2025 with a 60.9 per cent surge in its mobile money float to GH¢38.4 billion, as a regulatory-driven merger with a newly incorporated entity signals the next phase of Ghana’s digital payments evolution. The float figure, up from GH¢23.9 billion in 2024, reflects deepening consumer […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/mobilemoney-ltd-float-hits-gh%c2%a238-4bn-as-merger-reshapes-ghanas-fintech-sector/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/hormuz-fertiliser-crunch-threatens-ghanas-planting-season-ahead/The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has removed approximately one third of globally traded seaborne fertiliser from international markets almost overnight, and analysts warn that Ghana, which imports all of its mineral fertiliser requirements and relies on Gulf supplies for urea and phosphates, faces a planting season squeeze that could reduce staple food crop […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/hormuz-fertiliser-crunch-threatens-ghanas-planting-season-ahead/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/oil-dips-from-us106-as-first-tankers-brave-hormuz-in-days/Oil prices retreated from last week’s multi-year highs on Monday as a small number of tankers successfully sailed through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the war began, offering traders a first tentative signal that the waterway could partially reopen, though analysts warned that a sustained price retreat remained unlikely without a […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/oil-dips-from-us106-as-first-tankers-brave-hormuz-in-days/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghanas-ep-pursues-first-indigenous-takeover-of-major-gold-mine/Engineers and Planners (E&P) Company Limited is positioned to become the first indigenous Ghanaian company to take full operational control of a major large-scale gold mine, as a formal handover deadline approaches for the Damang Mine in the Western Region and documents reveal the company has been actively pursuing acquisition of the asset since 2022. […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghanas-ep-pursues-first-indigenous-takeover-of-major-gold-mine/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/c-nergy-warns-ghana-must-transform-gold-boom-not-spend-it/Investment advisory firm C-NERGY Ghana has cautioned that the country risks repeating a pattern stretching back more than two centuries unless policymakers use the current gold price boom to build structural economic resilience rather than finance current expenditure, warning that what Ghana constructs during the present upswing will determine how vulnerable the economy is when […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/c-nergy-warns-ghana-must-transform-gold-boom-not-spend-it/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-issues-fines-warning-as-data-enforcement-era-begins/Ghana’s Data Protection Commission has declared 2026 a year of active enforcement and the Communications Minister has ordered a government policy directive mandating fines against non-compliant institutions, signalling the end of a largely educational phase and the beginning of formal regulatory action across public and private sector organisations that handle personal data. Dr Arnold Kavaarpuo, […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-issues-fines-warning-as-data-enforcement-era-begins/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-to-regulate-ai-and-deepfakes-under-new-data-protection-bill/Ghana is preparing a new Data Protection Bill to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, automated decision-making, deepfakes and cross-border data transfers under formal legal oversight for the first time, with Parliament’s Select Committee on Communications urging the government to move the legislation to the floor of the House without delay. Communications Minister Samuel Nartey George […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Roger A. Agana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-to-regulate-ai-and-deepfakes-under-new-data-protection-bill/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-industry-to-get-15-percent-electricity-cut-from-april/Ghana’s high-voltage industrial users will receive electricity tariff reductions of more than 15 percent from April 1, the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) announced last Friday, a development the Energy Commission says is aligned with the country’s core industrial competitiveness objectives but which analysts warn may be reversed if the Middle East war continues to […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-industry-to-get-15-percent-electricity-cut-from-april/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-produces-8-percent-of-world-cassava-but-exports-little/Ghana sits among the world’s top cassava-producing nations yet captures a fraction of the global trade value the crop generates, a structural disconnect that analysts say reflects both the scale of domestic consumption and the country’s underdeveloped processing capacity relative to competitors in Asia and West Africa. Cassava engages more than 70 percent of Ghanaian […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-produces-8-percent-of-world-cassava-but-exports-little/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/pilot-and-trainee-die-as-microlight-crashes-in-tema-school-park/A microlight aircraft on a training flight from Ho to Accra crashed and burst into flames inside a school compound in Tema Community One on Monday afternoon, killing the pilot and the student trainee on board and triggering an immediate emergency response that kept hundreds of schoolchildren, teachers and bystanders from harm. The Ghana Civil […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/pilot-and-trainee-die-as-microlight-crashes-in-tema-school-park/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/nigeria-inflation-holds-near-five-year-low-despite-ramadan-food-surge/Nigeria’s headline inflation rate edged marginally lower to 15.06 percent in February 2026, extending a disinflation trend that has now lasted eleven consecutive months, though a sharp spike in monthly food prices driven by Ramadan demand signalled that the path to price stability remains uneven for Africa’s largest economy. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/nigeria-inflation-holds-near-five-year-low-despite-ramadan-food-surge/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.

NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/starmer-refuses-warships-proposes-non-nato-hormuz-coalition/British Prime Minister Keir Starmer used a press conference at 10 Downing Street on Monday to draw a firm line between supporting efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and being pulled into direct participation in the Iran war, announcing a non-NATO coalition framework while simultaneously pledging £53 million in domestic energy relief as oil […] NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/starmer-refuses-warships-proposes-non-nato-hormuz-coalition/ Continue reading at the publisher's website.