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A day before I was elected Chair of the Fairtrade Africa Board, I sat in a room in Accra with cocoa farmers, leaders of cocoa cooperative, traders, policymakers and other stakeholders in the cocoa space,

Hollard Life Assurance Ghana, a subsidiary of Hollard Ghana, has appointed Sosthenes K. Konutsey as its new Managing Director, bringing more than two decades of experience across insurance, banking, pensions and digital health to the leadership of the life insurance business.

Dear Madam Chairperson and Members,

It is an unspoken tension that characterizes every budget reading, every policy adjustment, and every encounter with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).

When I was a boy, my late father, an underground miner who spent much of his working life in the tunnels beneath Tarkwa would sometimes explain to me the strange, patient discipline of his trade. Miners, he said, did not take every ounce of gold they found.

Last month, WAEC released the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results, with over 50,000 learners failing in English and Mathematics.

There is something interesting about growing up in Ghana. From childhood, many of us are introduced to competition before we fully understand collaboration.

It is no coincidence that MTN's digital banking push and the Bank of Ghana's rollout of Non-Interest Banking (NIB) were announced in the same month: January 2026. The two events are structurally linked.