By:Isaac Amoah
As part of Stanbic Bank Ghana’s strategic plan of empowering Ghanaian journalists with financial reporting skills and also ensuring that they are financially fit, a day’s financial fitness training has been organised in Kumasi for editors and senior media professionals in the Ashanti Region.
The training session and donation of five laptops to five journalists by the bank were in response to the request made by Mr Kingsley E. Hope and the leadership of Science and Technology Communicators of Ghana (SaTCOG).
The Stanbic Bank financial fitness training was held on Wednesday, 29th April 2026, at the Lancaster Hotel in Kumasi.
Participants in a group photograph with Stanbic Bank team
The Stanbic Bank team who led the training include Nabil Hussayn, head of Employment Value Banking; Ama Amissah-Qwartey,Manager of External Communications CSR; Linda Aryee; and Romeo Adoglah, head of Communications. Marketing manager, corporate and investment banking and events. The rest were Portia Oduro-Morrison, marketing manager, and SMS & Youth banking.The team encourages Ghanaians, especially journalists across the country, to emulate saving and investment in all their endeavours.
In his statement, Mr Kingsley E. Hope said the financial training was an investment not just in journalists’ personal finances but in the integrity of their journalism.
According to him, a financially stable journalist is a freer journalist. And a freer journalist is a better one.
Mr Hope, who is the immediate past Ashanti Regional Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) chairman and Ashanti Regional correspondent for Ghanaian Times, explained that financial fitness is not a destination—it is a discipline.
Adding that “Just as we strengthen our bodies through exercise, we must strengthen our finances through consistent habits.”The first step is awareness: knowing where every cedi goes.
The second is discipline: saving before spending, not after. The third is resilience: preparing for emergencies so that shocks do not break us.
The fourth is growth: learning to invest wisely so our money works as hard as we do.Financial fitness is about freedom—the freedom to make choices without fear, the freedom to support our families, and the freedom to build a future with confidence.
He continued that ‘we speak truth to power.’ But we cannot do that effectively when we are financially vulnerable — when unpaid invoices dictate which stories we pursue, when debt determines whether we renew our press credentials, or when financial anxiety quietly shapes the questions we do and do not ask.
Let us commit today to training our financial muscles with the same seriousness we give to our health. Because when we are financially fit, we are empowered, resilient, and ready for tomorrow.So, I encourage you to engage fully today.
Ask the hard questions — the same ones you would ask any source. Take notes.
And commit to applying what you learn because the public interest journalism this country needs depends on practitioners who are not only skilled but also sustainable.”
On his part, Mr Kofi Adu Domfeh, the Ashanti Regional GJA chairman who doubles as editor of Luv FM in Kumasi, commended Stanbic Bank for its commitment to the empowerment of journalists.
He, on behalf of beneficiaries of the laptops, expressed appreciation to the leadership of the bank and urged them to continue the good initiative.Mr Domfeh advised the beneficiaries to use the laptops for their intended purposes.
