Benjamin Offei honoured as CEO of the Year in Ghana’s Agrochemical Sector at the Ghana CEO Excellence Awards 2026

The Boardroom Governance Summit (BGS) Africa 2026, originally scheduled for 7 October, will now take place on Thursday 12 November 2026 at the Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra, under the theme ‘Board Committees: From Oversight to Impact’.

Amid Ghana Cocoa Board’s (COCOBOD) restructuring of how it finances cocoa purchases for the 2026/27 season, the board is confident that the crop proportion used as collateral will remain below 60 percent.

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) has presented a cheque for GH¢10 million as dividend to the Ministry of Finance for onward payment into the Consolidated Fund, marking its first such payment to the state since 2017.

Cybersecurity cannot be treated as a competition between institutions, stakeholders have said, warning that fragmented responses to cyber threats could undermine public trust as Ghana’s digital finance ecosystem expands.

Some honours mark a career.

Zijin Golden Ridge Limited (ZGRL), operator of the Akyem Gold Mine, has launched a community skills development programme targeting young people in the Birim North District as the company steps up efforts to build a local technical workforce.

A student-led team from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has emerged as the winner of the 2026 Pan African AI Summit Hack-AI-Thon with an artificial intelligence-powered solution designed to help cocoa farmers turn discarded cocoa pod husks into an additional source of income.

Insurance is fundamentally a business of trust. Customers entrust insurers with the protection of their businesses, assets, livelihoods and futures, with the expectation that their insurer will be there when it matters most.