Goddy Ikeh
The Supreme Consultative Council of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), says that cocoa smuggling can be reduced by as much as 80 per cent if a new pricing arrangement proposed by COCOBOD takes effect.
MTN Ghana’s share price reached a record high of GH₵3.21 on Tuesday May 6, 2025, due to the surge in investor confidence following strong first-quarter earnings and an announced restructuring of its mobile money business.
The Bank of Ghana’s gold reserves reached a valuation of approximately GH₵46.3 billion at the end of April 2025 per, according to the report by the central bank of Ghana.
Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Mozambique are on course to commence at least 10 new offshore drilling projects between 2026 and 2027, marking a major push in Africa’s deep-water oil and gas development.
Nigeria’s Debt Management Office (DMO) has opened a new window for retail investors with the launch of the Federal Government of Nigeria Savings Bond for May 2025.
The price of OPEC basket of 12 crudes stood at $61.80 a barrel on Friday, May 2, 2026 compared with $61.88 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.
The President of the Republic of Gabon, Brice Nguema, has conferred the country’s highest honour, the Commander in the National Order of Gabonese Merit, on Tony Elumelu, the Group Chairman of United Bank for Africa Plc and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation.
The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Dr. Tajudeen Abbas has said that Nigeria is playing a leading role in the race to provide electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030.
The Nigerian equities market kicked off the new trading week on a bullish note with investors gaining N413bn on Monday.
One of the takeaways from the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was the gap between Nigeria’s economic self-assessment and that of the Bretton Woods institutions. While Nigerian officials painted a picture of resilience and recovery, the IMF and World Bank expressed caution, citing persistent inflation, rising debt, and sluggish reforms.