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Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has called for stronger efforts to ensure that small businesses, women, and young people benefit fully from Africa’s economic integration agenda under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Delivering a speech on behalf of President John Dramani Mahama at the 2026 Africa Prosperity Dialogues held under the theme “Empowering SMEs, Women and Youth in Africa’s Single Market: Innovate, Collaborate, Trade, she said the […]

The second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Matilda Asante Asiedu, says the central bank is rolling out a range of regulatory and digital infrastructure initiatives aimed at strengthening cross-border payments and supporting inclusive economic growth across Africa.Source: www.myjoyonline.comRead full article

Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development at the African Union Commission (AUC), Ama Twum-Amoah, has said Africa’s economic future depends on how well the continent empowers its women and young people.Source: www.myjoyonline.comRead full article

Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Professor Robert Aidoo, has urged the government to urgently devise a strategy to settle outstanding payments owed cocoa farmers by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD).Source: www.myjoyonline.comRead full article

In many Ghanaian traditions, children are named after ancestors, events, virtues, or aspirations. A name is a blessing, a memory, a legacy. We don’t give a child a name that honours someone dishonourable — that could bring confusion or bad omen into the family. Public monuments should follow the same logic. If we wouldn’t name a child after someone whose actions we regret, then why name a national asset after […]