Business

Els: MBN360 Economy COCOBOD’s Executive Management and Senior Staff have announced salary reductions for the remainder of the 2025/26 crop year, citing liquidity challenges in the cocoa industry. In a statement issued Monday, February 16, 2026, COCOBOD said its Executive Management has taken a 20% pay cut, while Senior Staff have accepted a 10% salary […]

Els: MBN360 News The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Association of Banks, John Awuah, has commended the government for its “fiscal discipline” in the wake of the recent emergency reduction in the producer price for cocoa. Mr Awuah described the move, while painful for farming households, as a necessary “bull by the horn” intervention […]

Els: MBN360 Agribusiness President John Mahama has declared that Ghana must seize the opportunity presented by the current crisis in the global cocoa market to fundamentally shift away from the instability of raw material exports. He said this at the opening of the Ghana Tree Crops Investment Summit & Exhibition at the Accra International Conference […]

Els: MBN360 Agribusiness Deputy Minister for Agriculture, John Dumelo, says the government is engaging the Interior Ministry and authorities in Burkina Faso to provide security assistance to Ghanaian tomato traders who cross the border to buy produce. Speaking in an interview Tuesday, February 17, Mr Dumelo addressed growing concerns over tomato supply shortages and the […]

Els: MBN360 News President John Dramani Mahama has emphasised the need for farmer-centred policies in Ghana’s cocoa sector, drawing on his personal experience as a cocoa farmer to illustrate the tangible impact of government pricing decisions. Speaking at the maiden Ghana Tree Crops Investment Summit and Exhibition on Tuesday, February 17, the President stated that […]

Els: MBN360 Business The Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA) has launched a robust compliance-first initiative to safeguard the integrity of the nation’s special economic zones with a landmark training session, where the Authority gathered 29 newly licensed companies to undergo a comprehensive induction into the legal and operational rigors of the Free Zones Scheme. Led […]

Els: MBN360 News The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG) has revealed that the country loses an estimated GH¢5.7 billion annually due to heavy reliance on tomato imports, inefficient local production systems, and weak value-addition infrastructure, In a statement issued on Monday, February 16, the Chamber described the situation as an economic drain equivalent to 1.2% […]

Els: MBN360 Business The Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) has suspended new applications for Tier 1 and Tier 2 buying licenses, as well as the Self-Financing Aggregator License, as part of a strategic reform process to strengthen Ghana’s gold trading regime. The Aggregator License will be the only gold trading licensing category open for new applications […]

Els: MBN360 News The National Communications Authority (NCA) has instructed mobile network operators to extend coverage beyond district capitals to all constituent towns within every Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assembly (MMDA). In a press statement released on Sunday, February 15, 2026, the NCA announced that it has amended the Quality of Service (QoS) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) […]

Els: MBN360 Extractives/Energy The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced a series of planned maintenance exercises across parts of the country beginning Monday, February 16, 2026, cautioning customers to prepare for temporary power outages in affected communities. According to the power distributor, the maintenance works will take place in the Tema, Greater Accra, Accra East and […]