Evolution of mobile money

Honour, loyalty and generosity remain valuable. But the mistake is assuming everyone shares your moral code. Trust becomes stronger when it is accompanied by clear expectations, sensible safeguards and an understanding that incentives change.

With the 20 percent excise duty on local fruit juices now abolished, the government's Feed the Industries Programme offers Ekumfi Fruits & Juices a pathway to US$48 million in annual turnover, more than 9,000 acres of fruit cultivation, and up to GH₵52,000 in gross revenue per acre for youth and farmers growing pineapple. The transformation could also open a route to accelerated EXIM debt repayment.

On July 1, 2011, Ghana’s telecommunications sector embarked on a regulatory initiative that altered subscriber sovereignty and market competition across West Africa. The launch of the Mobile Number Portability System (MNPS) by the National Communications Authority (NCA) aimed to remove a primary switching barrier in network economics: the loss of a subscriber’s identity upon changing service providers.

Note: This article is an extract from the author's 2026 published academic paper titled "The 15-Year Legacy of the Mobile Number Portability System in Ghana: Explicating Its Role as an Innovative Competition Catalyst."

As Ghana’s cocoa sector grapples with low productivity, rising production costs and an ageing farming population, an award-winning farmer shares insights into making cocoa farming more profitable, sustainable and attractive to the next generation.

Preamble Every year, Germany marks the anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification. Newspapers publish special features. Television networks revisit the lessons of division. Scholars analyze its significance. Governments release reports tracking the country's progress toward national cohesion.

Building Prosperity, Not Merely Markets That Never Close

It is 8:15 on a Monday morning in Accra.