SIGA Board Chairs, Chief Executives sign ten landmark commitments on finance, governance

Newmont received three corporate awards at the National Public Relations and Communications Excellence Awards, organised by the Institute of Public Relations (IPR), Ghana..

If the Speaker’s keynote set the tone of the 2026 IPR Ghana National Summit, the speeches that followed turned his challenge into a working agenda. The question running through the hall was a pointed one: how do public relations professionals shape the thinking of leaders, rather than merely announce their decisions?

Vivo Energy Ghana PLC, the company that markets and distributes Shell-branded fuels and lubricants in Ghana, has emerged as the biggest winner at this year’s National PR and Communications Excellence Awards by the Institute of Public Relations, Ghana, winning four major awards in recognition of its excellence in strategic communications, public relations and campaign execution.

The newly appointed Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Industrial Research (CSIR-IIR), Dr. William Owusu Oduro, has called for stronger industrial capacity to address trade imbalances with other countries, particularly China.

Financing constraints, stringent contract requirements and complex licencing procedures are impeding the participation of young businesses in Ghana’s US$10.8billion renewable energy investment programme.

The Prime Minister of Guinea,  Amadou Oury Bah, has described the new waste management partnership between Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), through its environmental services subsidiary, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, and Guinea as a continuation of the "historic brotherhood" between the two countries.

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat has successfully concluded the first phase of its Digital Inclusion and Entrepreneurship Programme (ADIEP), reaching more than 7,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across 16 African countries in a major effort to strengthen digital entrepreneurship and expand participation in intra-African trade.

Africa’s long-term security and stability cannot be considered in isolation from its economic resilience, industrial capacity and ability to sustain productive economies.