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Accra, Ghana
Joined May 2014
Planning to buy dollars this week? The cedi has slipped a little. The Bank of Ghana's interbank rate for Monday, 26 October sold the dollar at GH¢11.6558, up from GH¢11.6108 on Friday, 23 October. That's about 4.5 pesewas more for every dollar.
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Buying land in Ghana? Registering it comes with its own bill. First registration costs GH¢1,148–1,178 for every acre or part of an acre, says the Lands Commission's fee schedule. A consolidated search on a Greater Accra residential plot costs another GH¢237.50.
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Customers parked twice as much money with OmniBSIC Bank last year. Its customer deposits doubled to GH¢16.56 billion in 2025, and total assets more than doubled to GH¢21.58 billion. Profit before tax rose 104% to GH¢641 million. Where do you keep your savings?
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Milo, Onga or Kivo: which one is in your kitchen? Milo is still Ghana's most chosen household brand, with Onga second and Kivo up seven places to third, says Worldpanel's Brand Footprint 2026. Local and regional brands make up 84% of shopper choices among Ghana's top 250.
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Ghana's own oil refinery is back in the black. Tema Oil Refinery made a GH¢1.24 billion profit in 2025, its first profit in a decade, according to the State Interests and Governance Authority. The time it takes TOR to collect money it is owed fell from 1,099 days to 652.
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How many MoMo wallets do you actually use? Ghana had 85.8 million registered mobile money accounts in August, but only 26.4 million were active in the past 90 days. They moved GH¢518.8 billion in the month, up from GH¢354.1 billion a year earlier.
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Christmas chicken and eggs could cost more this year. Poultry farmers in Greater Accra expect prices to rise by at least 15% before Christmas, blaming imported feed and freight costs. Farmers sell a crate of eggs for GH¢40–45. What does a crate cost where you live?
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A survey of 159 kindergarten teachers in Sagnerigu found most lacked formal training in play-based learning.
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A Ghana study of 100 pregnant women links poor sleep to higher inflammation in preeclampsia.
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23% of Ghanaian women aged 15–49 were obese in 2022, up from 9.9% in 2003.
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If you take 1,000 people from poor households and another 1,000 from wealthy households, you would expect to find about 17 people with epilepsy among the poor, compared with just 6 among the wealthy. That’s nearly 3 times as many.
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