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Zanetor engages French ambassador, youth climate advocates on environmental sustainability

The Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, has held separate meetings with the French Ambassador to Ghana, Diarra Dime-Labille, and the...

UPSA students raise concerns over rising hostel fees, call for government intervention

Students living around the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), are expressing concern over the rising cost of accommodation, particularly at private hostels, and...

Ghana records progress on reparatory justice agenda – Ablakwa

Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says Ghana has made significant progress in its campaign for reparatory justice following the adoption of a Ghana-led...

UHAS VC urges early cancer screening as Ho Teaching Hospital enrols 33 patients under Mahama Cares

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Professor Lydia Aziato, has urged women to prioritise regular cancer screening and seek...

Majority accuses Asafo-Adjaye of targeting Ablakwa over service passport request

The Majority on Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Committee has accused its Deputy Ranking Member, Nana Asafo-Adjaye, of engaging in what it describes...

Several injured as Sprinter bus collides with ‘trotro’ at Odorkor

Several passengers have been injured in a road crash along the Mallam Market stretch on the Odorkor Highway. The accident involved a Sprinter bus with...

Mahama Ayariga directs assemblies to broadcast meetings live on local radio

The Minister of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Mahama Ayariga, has directed all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to broadcast their general...

Gender Ministry supports four siblings allegedly sexually abused by father

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has visited four girls receiving care at a safe shelter following a reported case of alleged...

Fire destroys structures at Tesano [Video]

Firefighters are working to contain a fire that has engulfed wooden structures and a house behind the Fidelity Bank building at Tesano in Accra. According...

Ghana to host signing ceremony for UN cargo documents convention on October 26

Ghana will host the opening-for-signature ceremony of the United Nations Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents in Accra on October 26, 2026, in a move...

Ahafo TEIN members urged to take advantage of government youth programmes

The Ahafo Regional Coordinator of the Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sulemana Baba Amadu, has urged members to...

Krachi West MCE seeks support for $6.7m water treatment facility from Oti River as water crisis deepens  

Residents of Kadentwe, a farming community in the Krachi West Municipality of the Oti Region, are living through a prolonged water crisis despite being...

Mahama commends police over decline in unresolved murders, highway robberies

President John Dramani Mahama has commended the Ghana Police Service for its efforts to improve public safety, citing a reduction in unresolved murder cases...

GoldBod targets to surpass 2025 gold exports, boost forex earnings

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi, says the institution is on course to meet or exceed its 2025...

Mahama directs GH¢300m allocation for 250 new police apartments

President John Dramani Mahama has directed Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson to make provision for GH¢300 million in the 2027 Budget to construct 250...

Wontumi pleads not guilty to amended charges in EXIM Bank case

Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has pleaded not guilty to amended charges in...

Mahama commissions new 85-bed ward complex at Police Hospital

President John Dramani Mahama has commissioned an 85-bed ward complex at the Ghana Police Hospital in Accra as part of efforts to expand the...

Bechem meat processing factory 50% complete, set for March 2027 completion – Kwakye Ofosu

The 6,000-chicken-per-hour meat processing factory being developed in Bechem by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture has reached 50% completion, Government Spokesperson Felix Kwakye...

Money-driven elections fuelling corruption – Haruna Iddrisu

Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has warned that the growing influence of money in Ghana's elections is fuelling corruption, calling for efforts to prevent financial...

Excessive borrowing ‘cracked’ Ghana’s economy under Akufo-Addo – Haruna Iddrisu

Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has blamed excessive borrowing under former President Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration for Ghana’s economic difficulties. He criticised the previous government’s management of...

GoldBod must be more accountable to Ghanaians – Haruna Iddrisu

Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has called for stronger accountability at the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), citing the scale of funds involved in its operations...

One injured in fire outbreak at Atasemanso in Kumasi (Photos)

A fire outbreak has destroyed four container shops and two rooms at Atasemanso in Kumasi, leaving one person injured and a pregnant woman homeless. The...

Education Minister proposes 5 to 10% annual rent increase cap for public universities

Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has proposed a mechanism to guide annual increases in accommodation charges at public universities, suggesting that adjustments could be linked...

61 health workers depart for Grenada under Labour Export Programme

The Ministry of Labour, Jobs and Employment has sent 61 health workers to Grenada under the government's Labour Export Programme. The short send-off ceremony was...

Taviefe-Deme, Sreme renew unity through Yam Festival

The twin communities of Taviefe-Deme and Sreme in the Ho Municipality of the Volta Region have renewed their commitment to unity and development with...

GES opens reposting applications for staff returning from study leave

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has opened applications for the reposting of staff who were granted study leave with pay and successfully completed their...

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...