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Education Minister inaugurates National Defence University Governing Council, announces $25m seed funding

Haruna Iddrisu, the Minister of Education, has inaugurated the 15-member Governing Council of the National Defence University (NDU), announcing US$25 million in government seed...

14-year-old girl dies after reportedly setting herself ablaze at Mpraeso Amanfrom

A 14-year-old Junior High School (JHS) pupil, Keziah Mirekua, has died after reportedly setting herself ablaze at a school park in Mpraeso Amanfrom in...

Multimedia Group’s Raymond Nii Doodo Larbie called to the Ghana Bar, seeks to combine HR practice with law

Raymond Nii Doodo Larbie, the Human Resource (HR) Shared Services Manager at Multimedia Group Limited (MGL), has been called to the Ghana Bar after...

Ghana’s rising mental health cases reflect improved detection – Mental Health Authority CEO

The Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Eugene K. Dordoye, has attributed the growing number of reported mental health cases in...

No disability access, no building permit – KMA boss declares

The Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi, has admitted that most public infrastructure in the metropolis, including his...

Asantehene to lead environmental restoration effort at Jimi Land Reclamation Site

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will undertake a royal visit to the Jimi Land Reclamation and River Watercourse Rehabilitation Project near Obuasi on...

Assemblies of God pastors must resign before entering partisan politics – Rev. Wengam

General Superintendent of Assemblies of God, Ghana, Rev. Stephen Yenusom Wengam has said that the church requires pastors who wish to actively participate in...

Social rejection remains a challenge for ex-convicts – Ghana Prisons Service

The Ghana Prisons Service says the rate of former inmates returning to prison is low but warns that social rejection and limited acceptance remain...

I didn’t find the basis, but I carried the cross – Pius Hadzide on Australia visa scandal

Former Deputy Sports Minister Pius Enam Hadzide has challenged the description of the 2018 Australia visa affair as a scandal. He says no one...

IET-GH signs MOU with Sino-Africa Union Education Institute to expand study opportunities in China for Ghanaian engineering students

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Ghana (IET-GH), has signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Sino-Africa Union Education Institute (SAUEI) to...

Akandoh champions Ghana’s health sovereignty at World Health Summit

Ghana’s Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has called for a new approach to global health governance, insisting that countries must take the lead...

Visa scandal: Signed letters, money admissions put Kofi Adams and Ampofo Ankrah under scrutiny – Pius Hadzide

Former Deputy Sports Minister Pius Enam Hadzide says signed letters and admissions of payment provide grounds for the NPP’s criticism of Sports Minister Kofi...

Ghana launches new legal frameworks to strengthen social protection and gender equity

Ghana has launched three legal instruments aimed at strengthening social protection and promoting gender equity, with Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang calling for...

Ghana’s motto is ‘When you touch one Ghanaian, you touch all of us’ – Ablakwa

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, says the government’s swift evacuation of Ghanaians who felt unsafe in South Africa amid xenophobic attacks...

Items worth over GH¢43k destroyed in vulcanizing shop fire at Begoro

A fire at a vulcanizing shop near the Old ECG Office at Begoro Roundabout has destroyed a wooden structure, tyres and equipment, causing an...

DVLA to run 24-hour services in Kumasi and Takoradi from January 2027

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) will start 24-hour services at its Kumasi and Takoradi offices in January 2027. The Chief Executive Officer, Julius...

Ablakwa urges Africans not to view immigrants as threat to national progress

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has urged African countries to view immigrants as contributors to national development rather than threats to...

FDA destroys 40ft container of unhygienic diapers imported from Spain

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), in collaboration with other security and regulatory agencies, has supervised the disposal of a 40-foot container of non-compliant...

Foreign Affairs Ministry inaugurates committees to strengthen Ghana’s ECOWAS engagement

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has inaugurated the ECOWAS Community Levy and Finance Committee (CLFC) and the ECOWAS Sector Programme Committee (SPC) as part...

Weinglo Family International hosts Smash the Stigma 2026 tennis rally to promote mental health awareness

Weinglo Family International has held the second edition of its Smash the Stigma – Rally for Mental Health, bringing together about 150 participants, eight...

87-year-old man jailed for defiling 9-year-old girl at Ofankor

An 87-year-old man, identified as Yaw Gahornu, has been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment with hard labour after being convicted of defiling a nine-year-old...

Asogli State hails GMTF as laudable healthcare initiative

The Asogli State has described the Ghana Medical Trust Fund (GMTF), popularly known as Mahama Cares, as a laudable initiative with the potential to...

Family announces funeral arrangements for CLOGSAG’s Bampoe Addo and twin brother

The family of the late Dr Isaac Bampoe Addo and his twin brother, Sidney Nii Oko Akuetteh Bampoe Addo, has announced arrangements for their...

Man allegedly shoots wife dead before turning gun on himself at Tosen

A man has allegedly shot his wife before turning the gun on himself at Tosen, a community near Adum-Boso in the Asuogyaman District of...

It’s a shame – Miracles Aboagye criticises appointment of new EC deputy chairpersons

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Director of Communications, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has criticised the appointment of Emelia Afi Agbenyo as a Deputy Chairperson of...

‘The nation failed us’ – Okada Riders’ PRO defends young riders caught between survival and the law

Public Relations Officer of the Okada Riders Association, Evans Wadja, said for years, operating an Okada in Ghana meant operating outside the law and...

ECG announces planned power outages in parts of Central Region

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced planned maintenance works in parts of the Central Region on Wednesday, October 14, and Thursday, October...

Ghana working with global partners to tackle cybercrime – CSA

The Cyber Security Authority (CSA) says Ghana is working with international partners and local security agencies to combat cybercrime, insisting that the growing threat...

Weta irrigation farmers petition Agric Ministry after floods destroy rice fields

Farmers and traditional leaders in Weta in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region have petitioned the Ministry of Food and Agriculture for...

Education Minister urges public universities to prepare for reopening amid GAUA strike

Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has asked the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) to direct public universities to communicate their reopening dates by the weekend...

Credible elections require collective national effort – New Deputy EC Chair

Newly sworn-in Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Joseph Kweku Asamoah, has assured Ghanaians that the Commission will carry out its electoral...

PAC orders eviction of former irrigation company MD from official residence

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to involve the police to remove the former Managing Director of...

Mahama urges new EC Deputy Chairpersons to remain impartial

President John Dramani Mahama has urged the newly appointed Deputy Chairpersons of the Electoral Commission (EC) to demonstrate fairness and impartiality in the discharge...

Police officer arrested after shooting leaves two injured at Ritz Junction

A police officer has been arrested after a shooting at Ritz Junction in Accra left two people with gunshot wounds, the Ghana Police Service...

Mahama swears in two new deputy Electoral Commission chairpersons

President John Dramani Mahama has sworn in Emelia Afi Agbenyo and Dr Joseph Kwaku Asamoah as Deputy Chairpersons of the Electoral Commission (EC), completing...

Nyaho Medical Centre referred to CID over expired data protection certificate

Nyaho Medical Centre has been directed to report to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to provide a statement over...

Data Protection Commission cracks whip on unregistered institutions

The Data Protection Commission has enforced compliance among institutions that have failed to register with it, as part of efforts to protect public data. The...

Plans in place to relocate children from under Atomic Roundabout Interchange – Founder of ‘Classroom on Wheels’

Dr Richard Selase Agboga, founder of the ‘Classroom on Wheels’ project under the Atomic Roundabout Interchange, says discussions are ongoing with social welfare authorities...

Man operating makeshift ‘school’ under Atomic Roundabout Interchange breaks silence (Video)

A social worker, Dr Richard Selase Agboga, who is operating a makeshift school under the Atomic Rounadbout Interchange, has set records straight on the...

‘Enough of the phantom promises!’ — Dr Bannor challenges Mahama over 40,000 security recruitment plan, questions funding

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Finance and Economy Committee spokesperson, Dr Frank Bannor, has challenged the government to explain how it intends to finance...