Accra Street Journal - ASJ

12/10/2026

Ellen Amihere is seeking the CIIG Assistant General Secretary position with 17+ years in insurance. Learn about her experience, qualifications, and campaign.

With more than 17 years in insurance, experience across technical operations and reinsurance, and a campaign built around service, Ellen Amihere is making a case for leadership at the Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana. The Race and the Question It Raises The race for Assistant General Secretary...

12/10/2026

Ghana Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 350.12 points (2.49%) to 14,403.60 on October 12, 2026. MTN Ghana, TotalEnergies and ETI led gainers as market cap hit GHS 272.03 billion.

The Ghana Stock Exchange recorded a strong upward surge on Monday, October 12, 2026, with the benchmark GSE Composite Index soaring 350.12 points (2.49%) to close at 14,403.60 points, extending its year-to-date gain to 64.23%. The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) recorded a strong upward surge today, Octo...

12/10/2026

Child marriage is illegal in Ghana, yet it persists. Learn about the two-year age gap, weak enforcement, poverty, and the data behind 80,000 girls in unions

Child marriage is not legal in Ghana. The 1992 Constitution and the Children’s Act of 1998 set the minimum age of marriage at 18 for both girls and boys. Any person who forces a child to be betrothed, subjected to a dowry transaction, or married commits an offence punishable by a fine or imprisonm...

12/10/2026

Learn where capital is going in Ghana's startup ecosystem. Understand funding concentration, pension capital, fintech, agritech, and the Nigeria-Ghana corridor

Ghana’s startup ecosystem has matured over two decades, but the funding landscape is shifting in ways that founders and investors need to understand. More money is flowing into fewer companies, later stages are attracting the biggest cheques, and the long-awaited wave of domestic pension capital i...

12/10/2026

Learn the key differences between venture capital and private equity. Understand how VC funds startups while PE focuses on mature businesses in Ghana.

12/10/2026

Learn how VC funds make money through management fees and carried interest. Understand the power law, exits, distribution waterfalls, and the Ghanaian context.

Venture capital is not a charity. It is a business built on a simple but brutal math: most startups fail, a few return capital, and one must return the entire fund. The way VC funds make money reflects that reality—fees to survive, carried interest to thrive, and exits to deliver. The Two Pillars:...

12/10/2026

Learn what investors evaluate before funding a Ghanaian startup: bankability, traction, governance, financials, and the documentation that signals readiness

Ghanaian founders often pitch investors with a compelling vision, only to walk away empty-handed. The gap is rarely about the idea itself. It is about bankability—the difference between a business that is merely growing and one that is ready to receive, deploy, and protect someone else’s capital...

12/10/2026

Learn how VCs value Ghanaian startups using the Venture Capital Method, market comparables, and DCF. Understand the Ghana discount, currency risk, and deal structures.

Venture capital valuation is not an award for past performance. It is a hurdle for future behavior . In Ghana, that hurdle is shaped by a unique set of forces: a small but growing ecosystem, currency risk, a formalisation gap, and a power-law dynamic where a single outlier can return an entire fund....

12/10/2026

Learn the difference between seed funding and Series A. Understand what investors evaluate, round sizes, instruments, and the Series A Crunch for Ghanaian startups.

Seed funding and Series A are not simply two sizes of the same thing. They are fundamentally different stages of a startup’s life, separated by a critical transition from proving an idea to proving a business. The core difference lies in what investors are evaluating: potential versus performance....

10/10/2026

Learn how to file GRA tax returns when your business makes a loss in Ghana. Understand NIL returns, loss carry forward, and the Minimum Chargeable Income rule.

A business that makes no profit still has to file. But the GRA does not let a business declare losses forever without paying something. Here is how the rules work when your business is running at a loss. Filing When You Make a Loss Even if your business made no profit, you must still file...