Real trade deficit widens to GH¢6.2bn — GSS

Ghana’s inflation pressures are increasingly shifting away from food and imported goods toward domestically-driven services, housing and utility costs, even as the overall price level remains substantially below where it stood a year ago.

Standard Chartered Bank Ghana PLC has paid GH¢97.8 million in dividends to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) for the 2025 financial year, strengthening returns from the pension manager’s investment portfolio.

Societe Generale Ghana convened women business owners for an intimate engagement, creating a platform for direct conversations between the entrepreneurs and the bank’s senior leadership on financing, business growth, sustainability and the banking support required to scale.

Infinity970, in partnership with Breathe Cities and the Clean Air Fund, has ramped up its regional clean-air advocacy campaign by engaging over 200 commercial drivers, market traders, and residents at Labadi Station in the La Dade-Kotopon Municipality.

Ghana has achieved more than 85 percent coverage under its national HPV vaccination rollout, a milestone highlighted as MSD reaffirms its commitment to supporting the country’s health-system strengthening and universal health coverage (UHC) priorities.

The book-build and the pricing gap The Ministry of Finance (MoF) opened the book-build for a new four-year Government of Ghana (GoG) bond on September 1, 2026, with initial price guidance set at 11.5 to 12percent. Bidding closes on September 3, settlement is scheduled for September 7, and the paper matures on September 2, 2030. No size target has been disclosed, consistent with the Ministry’s recent practice of letting the order book determine the quantum raised rather than pre-committing to an amount.