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NSA outlines steps for posting, validation of national service personnel

The National Service Authority (NSA) has outlined the procedures national service personnel are required to follow to complete their posting, validation and registration ahead...

NAS CEO inspects progress of “operation restore fleet”

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Ambulance Service (NAS), Dr. (Med) George Kojo Owusu, has inspected ongoing works under the Service’s flagship “Operation...

Reform local gov’t system before electing MMDCEs – Former Mayor of Accra

Former Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Chief Executive Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah has called for comprehensive reforms to Ghana’s local government system before the country...

Prof. Prempeh urges gov’t to publish draft bills of constitutional reforms

The Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Prof. H. Kwasi Prempeh, has urged the government to publish draft bills on...

NCPTA backs striking teacher unions, urges parents to keep children at home

The National Council of Parent-Teacher Associations (NCPTAs) Ghana has declared its full solidarity with striking pre-tertiary teacher unions, describing their demands as legitimate and...

ICU-Ghana urges GHABA members to turn skills into sustainable businesses

The Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU-Ghana) has urged members of the Ghana Hairdressers and Beauticians Association (GHABA) to transform their skills and creativity...

Prostate Health Foundation Ghana begins nationwide screening for prison inmates and officers

The Prostate Health Foundation Ghana has commenced a nationwide prostate and general health screening exercise for inmates and officers of the Ghana Prisons Service. The...

Building construction inflation rises to 4.6% in August 2026

The cost of constructing buildings in Ghana increased in August 2026, with the Combined Prime Building Cost Index (PBCI) rising by 4.6 percent year-on-year,...

GHABA takes hair and beauty festival national, calls for skills, creativity, and enterprise development

The Ghana Hairdressers and Beauticians Association (GHABA) has taken its long-running regional Hair and Beauty Festival to the national level, creating a platform to...

Manhyia South MP’s case with EOCO reopens Equity Savings & Loans file as SIC recovery battle emerges

A dispute over the Economic and Organised Crime Office’s (EOCO) attempt to arrest Manhyia South Member of Parliament (MP) and private legal practitioner Nana...

Former Mayor of Accra calls for economic value for plastic waste amid waste management concerns

Former Accra Mayor Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah has called for innovative ways to create economic value from plastic waste as Ghana grapples with persistent...

Ghana urges evidence-based investment in education for children affected by emergencies

Ghana has urged West African countries, policymakers and development partners to prioritise evidence-based investments in education to ensure children affected by conflicts, disasters, displacement...

Who will reveal the exact location to you? – Nana B defends ‘drug lab’ remark

New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Organiser, Henry Nana Boakye has clarified his earlier remarks about an alleged drug laboratory in Ghana, saying the volume...

What credible report is Mahama expecting on cocaine probe? – Nana B says taskforce won’t indict itself

New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Organiser Henry Nana Boakye has questioned the credibility of the ongoing investigation into the recent cocaine bust, arguing that...

Concerns of Adipa residents over landfill site justified, but… – Former AMA Mayor

Former Accra Mayor Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah has backed residents of the Adipa/Asiaw Electoral Area in their call for proper management of the Adipa...

GACL boss files GH¢10m defamation suit against former presidential staffer

Managing Director of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Yvonne Nana Afriyie Opare, has sued Facebook user Samuel Bryan Buabeng over social media publications...

Court adjourns Salomey Baffoe’s case

The case involving senior nursing officer Salomey Awiti Baffoe, who is facing an abetment of crime charge in connection with the alleged publication and...

Over 2,000 teachers in Dormaa comply with strike

Justice Acquah, the Dormaa District Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) in the Bono Region says none of the about 2,000...

Six persons denied bail in 3.9-tonne alleged cocaine case 

The Kwabenya Circuit Court has denied bail to six persons arrested in connection with the seizure of 3.9 tonnes of alleged cocaine at the...

Roads Minister urges contractors to speed up Accra-Kumasi bypass works

Roads and Highways Minister, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has challenged contractors working on the Accra-Kumasi Bypass to accelerate construction, particularly on the troubled Konongo section,...

15 years of waiting: Inside La Presec’s desperate fight for classrooms, computers and dignity

For more than a decade, the walls of an unfinished three-storey classroom block at La Presec have stood as a painful reminder of a...

Auditor-General to track audit recommendations as GH¢280.5m in surcharges remains unpaid

The Ghana Audit Service will, in October 2026, launch an online tracker to monitor the implementation of audit recommendations. The tracker, developed in-house by the...

Ghana ranked 5th source of cocaine seized at Antwerp, Belgium in 2025

Ghana was the fifth-largest country of origin for cocaine seized at the port of Antwerp in Belgium in 2025, according to figures from Belgian...

Walewale MP withdraws ‘rude’ remark, apologises to Speaker Bagbin

The Member of Parliament for Walewale, Dr Kabiru Tiah Mahama, has apologised to Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin and the House after withdrawing his...

Minority vows to pursue narcotics probe despite Bagbin’s rejection of motion

The Minority in Parliament has vowed to pursue its demand for a parliamentary inquiry into major narcotics seizures linked to Ghana, rejecting Speaker Alban...

UGMC research must translate laboratory findings into healthcare solutions – Prof Evelyn Bonney

Associate Professor at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), Evelyn Yayra Bonnie, has called for sustained investment in health research and human...

UGMC Research Director urges stronger clinical trials to bridge gap between research and patient care

The Director of the Medical and Scientific Research Centre (MSRC) at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC), Prof Charles Hayfron-Benjamin, has called for...

KMA announces massive clean-up at Alabar on October 3

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has announced a massive clean-up exercise at Alabar in the Afia Kobi Electoral Area on Saturday, October 3, 2026. The...

IEAG calls on FDA to resolve delays in import code issuance 

The Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana (IEAG) has called on the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) to urgently resolve reported delays in the...

Mortuary breakdown leaves two bodies in limbo at St. Anne’s Hospital in Damongo

Two bodies, both of former teachers, are stuck in limbo at St. Anne's Catholic Hospital after the two engines powering the facility's mortuary broke...

Bagbin adjourns Parliament indefinitely

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has adjourned the House indefinitely following his decision to reject a Minority motion seeking a parliamentary investigation into major...

Naa Badu Adiagba I urges Ghanaians to end stigma against breast cancer patients

Queen Mother of Abelemkpe and Dzorwulu, Naa Badu Adiagba I, has called on Ghanaians to stop stigmatizing people living with breast cancer and...

EOCO declares Wisdom Dogbey wanted over alleged fraud, money laundering

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has declared a man identified as Wisdom Dogbey wanted over alleged offences of defrauding by false pretences...

Bagbin rejects Minority motion for probe into narcotics consignments linked to Ghana

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has rejected a Minority motion seeking a bipartisan parliamentary investigation into major narcotics consignments linked to Ghana, citing concerns...

Three dead, scores injured in accident at Mankuma

Three people have died and about 15 others sustained injuries in a fatal road crash at Mankuma, a farming community near Bole in the...

Roads Minister summons Accra-Kumasi Bypass consultant over absence from project site

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has summoned ADK, the consultancy firm supervising the Accra-Kumasi Bypass project, to explain its absence...

Full implementation of TRAFFITECH-GH rescheduled to November 1

The Ghana Police Service has moved the full implementation of its automated traffic law enforcement programme, TRAFFITECH-GH, from October 1 to November 1, 2026. In...

AMA reminds yellow-plate drivers to obtain commercial driver’s licence

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has reminded drivers of commercially registered vehicles to obtain the Assembly’s commercial driver’s licence or risk running into trouble...

Bagbin raises concern over rising insults and hate speech in Ghana’s public discourse

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has called for greater civility in Ghana’s national discourse, expressing concern over the increasing use of insults, threats and...

Worawora Traditional Council launches 2026 Akwantutenten Festival, calls for support for local development

The Worawora Traditional Council in the Biakoye District of the Oti Region has launched the 2026 Akwantutenten Festival, with a call on indigenes, businesses...