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Man drowns in River Bia at Sefwi Suiano

A man believed to be in his 30s, identified as Majeed Tugah, has drowned in the heavily mined River Bia at Sefwi Suiano in...

Abu Trica reportedly extradited to United States

Ghanaian socialite Frederick Kumi, popularly known as Abu Trica, has reportedly been extradited to the United States on Thursday morning. Reports indicate that he left...

NIA, IOM begin special Ghana Card registration in border communities from July 13

The National Identification Authority (NIA), in partnership with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), will commence a special Ghana Card registration exercise for eligible...

Engineers & Planners fails to comply with court order over $100 million gold mine

Engineers & Planners, the mining company founded by Ibrahim Mahama, is fighting efforts to enforce an international arbitration award over ownership and control of...

EOCO releases former NAFCO boss

The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Food and Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba, has been released from the custody...

MMDAs urged to prioritise service delivery and leave lasting legacies

The Board Chairman of the Centre for Local Governance Advocacy (CLGA), Bernard Joe Apeah, has urged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to prioritise...

Haruna Iddrisu urges swift arrest of Bole SHS teacher over alleged sexual misconduct

The Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has called on the Ghana Police Service to intensify efforts to arrest a teacher at Bole Senior High...

Prophet Roja donates relief items to flood victims in 7 affected communities

The founder of Roja City International Ministries, Prophet Samuel Roja, has extended support to hundreds of flood victims across seven affected communities in Accra...

NIA outlines Ghana Card registration requirements for citizens abroad

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has outlined the requirements for Ghanaians living abroad who wish to register for the Ghana Card. According to the Authority,...

We’ll codify chieftaincy succession to end disputes caused by corrupt kingmakers – Mahama

President John Mahama has announced plans by the government to codify chieftaincy succession processes in the Upper West Region as part of efforts to...

NADMO receives relief items worth $300,000 to support flood victims

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has received relief items valued at approximately $300,000 from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to...

NASPAA calls on service personnel to participate in national clean-up exercise

The National Service Personnel Association (NASPAA) has called on all National Service Personnel across the country to participate in the two-day National General Cleaning...

Sierra Leone introduces mandatory health declaration for Ghanaian travellers

Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised citizens travelling to Sierra Leone to complete a mandatory online health declaration before embarking on their journey. In...

GRA allocates 18 truckloads of confiscated cargo to School Feeding Programme

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has confiscated 18 truckloads of transit cargo intercepted in an attempted diversion into the local market and, on the...

Agbodza warns contractors against using weather as excuse for road project delays

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwame Governs Agbodza, has cautioned contractors working on road projects across the country against attributing delays in project...

Police intercept 188 vehicles in Ashanti Region for various traffic offences

The Ghana Police Service has intercepted 188 vehicles for various road traffic offences during a special enforcement exercise in the Ashanti Region. The operation, led...

Mahama announces plans for new airport in Wa

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that the government will soon commence the procurement process for the construction of a new airport in Wa,...

Three dead, others including baby missing after canoe capsizes on River Oti

Three people have been confirmed dead while three others, including a baby, remain missing after a canoe carrying mourners capsized on the River Oti...

Eastern Corridor Road to undergo full asphalt reconstruction, not patch repairs – Roads Minister

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwame Governs Agbodza, has announced that the government will undertake a full reconstruction of sections of the Eastern...

Auditor-General recovered almost GH¢12bn in disallowed expenditure in 2024 – PAC Chairperson

The Chairperson of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Abena Osei-Asare, has disclosed that the Auditor-General recovered nearly GH¢12 billion in disallowed expenditure in 2024...

Nkwanta South Assembly ranks 2nd in Ghana’s 2025 PFM Compliance League Table

The Nkwanta South District Assembly in the Oti Region has emerged as the second-best-performing Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assembly (MMDA) in Ghana in the...

Inusah Mahama congratulates Salaga South Feed Ghana Brigade graduates

Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority (NYA) and Savannah Regional Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Inusah Mahama,...

Over 10 Bole-Bamboi constituents graduate as Feed Ghana Brigades

More than 10 young men and women from the Bole-Bamboi Constituency have successfully graduated as members of the Feed Ghana Brigades, a flagship initiative...

One injured as Kia Rhino overturns on Accra–Kumasi Highway

One person has sustained injuries after a Kia Rhino truck loaded with animal feed overturned at Omenako on the Accra–Kumasi Highway. The accident occurred on...

New Afram River bridge is a game-changer project – Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has urged Ghanaian investors to move quickly to take advantage of opportunities in the Afram Plains as government works to...

GNFS cracks down on hawkers, drivers blocking emergency routes at Madina Redco

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has begun a special enforcement exercise to remove commercial drivers and hawkers obstructing designated emergency access routes at...

Military officer, 2 others injured in clash between KMA taskforce and squatters at Asafo overpass

Three members of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) taskforce, including a military officer, have been injured following a standoff with squatters at the Asafo...

‘It’s been tough’ – Opare Addo says gov’t needed 18 months to understand youth unemployment

Youth Development and Empowerment Minister George Opare Addo says the government spent its first 18 months in office trying to fully understand the country’s...

Parliament passes Community Service Bill to introduce alternative sentencing

Parliament has passed the Community Service Bill, 2026, introducing community service as an alternative to imprisonment for persons convicted of specified categories of offences. The...

GTEC warns against unaccredited university centres, expired institutions

The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has cautioned prospective students, parents, guardians and the general public against enrolling in several unaccredited university learning centres...

ESPA backs President Mahama’s national clean-up exercise

The Environmental Service Providers Association (ESPA) has pledged its full support for the two-day National General Cleaning Exercise declared by President John Dramani Mahama...

Weija Children’s Hospital: Health Minister denies facility completion, and some equipment not installed

The Minister for Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has attributed the delay in operationalising the 120-bed Children's Specialist Hospital at Weija to the contractor's failure...

We know how to solve flooding but lack the will to act – Kojo Adu Asare

Former Member of Parliament for Adentan, Kojo Adu Asare, has blamed recurring flooding in Accra on poor leadership, weak planning and a lack of...

Glikpome B/A headteacher allegedly found dead in Akatsi guesthouse

The Headteacher of Glikpome Basic School in the Akatsi South Municipality of the Volta Region, 44-year-old Mr. Selorm Kwaku Tettey, has been found dead...

Players must sing national anthem to play for Black Stars – Mahama jokes

President John Dramani Mahama has humorously critiqued the Black Stars, joking that players who cannot sing Ghana's national anthem should not be selected to...

Akufo-Addo government did more to tackle flooding than any other administration – Eugene Boakye Antwi

General Secretary hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Eugene Boakye Antwi, has defended the flood prevention efforts of the Akufo-Addo administration, arguing that...

Health Directorate denies claims of child neglect at Dodowa hospital, threatens legal action

The Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate has rejected claims that a child died at the Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Dodowa, due to neglect by medical...

Sayerano shooting: Two police posts destroyed as DCE assures reconstruction

Two police posts in the Juaboso District of the Western North Region have been destroyed by unidentified persons following the recent police shooting incident...

ESPA proposes dedicated budget for national cleanup exercise

The Executive Secretary of the Environmental Service Providers Association (ESPA), Ama Ofori Antwi, has called on the government to allocate a dedicated budget to...

Tapentadol not approved for use in Ghana; sale of ‘red’ is illegal – Health Minister

The Minister for Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has declared that tapentadol is not approved for medical use in Ghana, warning that the sale, distribution...