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Ashanti GJA launches 2025 regional media awards to celebrate excellence in journalism

The Ashanti regional chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has officially launched the Ashanti Media Excellence Awards in Kumasi. The awards program is dedicated...

IEAG engages GMA fact-finding team on Tema port congestion

The Executive Secretary of the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana (IEAG), Samson Asaki Awingobit, on Tuesday, 8 September 2026, welcomed a fact-finding team...

GES sets up help desk to resolve outstanding salary arrears for teachers

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has established a dedicated Help Desk at its headquarters to assist teachers with unresolved concerns over outstanding salary arrears. The...

Selection of schools after BECE results a backward approach – Abuakwa South MP

Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South, Dr Kingsley Agyemang, has described the government’s decision to allow students to select senior high schools after the...

AMA to commission new multi-purpose abattoir in Accra

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is set to commission a new multi-purpose abattoir in the coming days as part of efforts to improve meat...

Akwaboa chiefs decry health and economic impact of deplorable roads in the area

Traditional authorities at Akwaboa in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District of the Ashanti Region say they have become targets of insults and public ridicule...

GNFS responds to fire incidents at Anyinam and Akyem Asafo

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has responded to two separate fire incidents at Anyinam and Akyem Asafo in the Eastern Region, with no...

No bed syndrome: NAS trains officers on new digital system to help ambulances find available hospital beds

The National Ambulance Service (NAS) is training its Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) to use a new digital referral system designed to help them identify...

President Mahama appoints Abdul-Baasit Aziz-Bamba as Acting Director-General of Value for Money Office

President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Dr. Abdul-Baasit Aziz-Bamba as Acting Director-General of the Value for Money Office. According to a statement from the Presidency...

UCC sends important notice to WASSCE students

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has reminded applicants awaiting their 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results that its admission application...

Ashanti NPP Youth Wing petitions BNI over Owusu Bempah’s allegations against Ayew Afriye

The Ashanti Regional Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has petitioned the National Security Secretariat, the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and...

Eduwatch analyst urges urgent review of CSSPS algorithm over placement challenges

Education Research and Policy Analyst, Divine Kpe, has called on the Ministry of Education to urgently review and improve the algorithm underpinning the Computerized...

Adu-Boahene trial: Defence given until September 25 to file no-case submission

The Accra High Court has given counsel for former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, until September 25 to file a submission of...

NPP defends rural telephony record, demands status report from government

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected claims that previous governments failed to make significant investments in expanding telecommunications services to rural and underserved...

Former Education Minister proposes measures to ease SHS placement pressure

Former Education Minister and Bosomtwe MP, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has called for a deliberate national strategy to create more high-performing Category A senior...

One year, 70 years of impact: KATH hails Ghana Medical Trust Fund as GH¢4m medical equipment boost arrives

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has paid a glowing tribute to the Ghana Medical Trust Fund (GMTF), declaring that the Trust Fund’s impact...

SHS placement: JHS leaver assigned School for the Deaf despite no impairment (Video)

A parent has raised concerns over the 2026 Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) after his ward was assigned to the Mampong Akwapim...

Pragyia rider jailed three months for biting Community Police Assistant

A 24-year-old tricycle (Pragyia) rider has been jailed for three months by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the...

SHS placement: Why Education Ministry, GES and CSSPS have a lot of work to do – IFEST boss

The Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), Dr Peter Anti, has called for greater transparency and public education on Ghana’s Senior...

Citizen sues Supreme Court to compel Mahama to appoint former Chief Justice to Council of State

A Ghanaian citizen, Samuel Bryan Buabeng, has filed a suit at the Supreme Court seeking an order compelling President John Dramani Mahama to appoint...

Evacuate to forestall any eventuality – GWL urges Weija residents ahead of spillage

The Ghana Water Limited (GWL) has urged residents living in unauthorised areas along the course of the Weija River to evacuate immediately ahead of...

Lands Ministry engages Asutifi North stakeholders on responsible mining initiative

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has engaged key stakeholders in the Asutifi North District of the Ahafo Region on plans to introduce...

‘We must identify, block the pipeline’ – Dr. Adutwum on galamsey crisis

Former Education Minister and Bosomtwe MP, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has called for a broader approach to tackling illegal mining, insisting that efforts must...

‘NPP should stop being hypocritical’ – Nukpenu fires over demand for evacuation cost

A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anthony Nukpenu, has urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to allow the Auditor-General to scrutinise the...

It is a delicate policy – Dr. Adutwum on use of mother tongue as medium of instruction in schools

Former Education Minister and Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has described the use of mother tongue as a language of...

Over 30K classrooms without teachers – Adutwum says as he questions 7,000 recruitment clearance

Former Education Minister and Bosomtwe MP, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has raised concerns over what he describes as a widening teacher shortage in Ghana’s...

Parents, JHS leavers converge at Kumasi Resolution Centre over SHS placement challenges

Parents and candidates grappling with challenges under the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) have trooped to the resolution centre at KTI Hall...

NPP demands urgent action amidst SHS placement, WASSCE concerns

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on the government to urgently find concrete educational opportunities for 54,985 BECE candidates who were not initially...

Court rejects Mustapha Abdul-Hamid’s adjournment plea, orders trial to resume on Wednesday

The Accra High Court has rejected an open-court plea by lead counsel for former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Mustapha...

Tomato prices to drop sharply in coming weeks — John Dumelo

The Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, John Dumelo, has projected a sharp decline in tomato prices in the coming weeks as farmers begin...

Two arrested over suspected cocaine seized at Wa bus station

Two people are in police custody in the Upper West Region after security operatives seized substances suspected to be narcotic drugs at the ESP...

Kaneshie-Abossey Okai residents demand urgent action as Ghana Water pipe leaks for over 3 months

Residents of Kaneshie-Abossey Okai, near the Obetsebi Lamptey Roundabout in Accra, are appealing to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to urgently fix a...

45-year-old Prang resident wins GH¢1 million in Telecel “M’Ahitti” promo

Forty-five-year-old Adiza Ibrahim, a resident of Prang in the Pru East District of the Bono East Region, has won GH¢1 million in the Telecel...

Local Government Minister inspects Aayalolo buses at Madina, Achimota and Kinbu

The Minister for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Mahama Ayariga, has inspected facilities of the Greater Accra Passenger Transport Executive (GAPTE), operators of...

Glass door breaks as anxious parents seek SHS placement for wards at GNAT Hall (Photos)

Some parents whose children are yet to secure placement into Senior High Schools(SHSs) are appealing to the Ghana Education Service (GES), the Ministry of...

GIGS welcomes UN adoption of Equal Earth map as correction to ‘450 years of cartographic injustice’ against Africa

The Ghana Institute of Governance and Security (GIGS) has welcomed a United Nations General Assembly resolution backing the Equal Earth map projection, describing the...

It is unacceptable; it shouldn’t have happened – Dr. Adutwum on 54,985 BECE candidates missing automatic placement

Former Education Minister and Member of Parliament (MP) for Bosomtwe, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has described the sharp increase in the number of BECE...

Angel Carbonu calls for urgent focus on public basic schools over declining English performance

Former President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Angel Carbonu, has called for increased attention and investment in public basic schools to...

Christian Council commends GoldBod for responsible gold management

The Christian Council of Ghana has commended the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) for its efforts to promote transparency, responsible gold trading and environmental sustainability...

Two denied bail over alleged lynching of young man at Daboya

The Buipe District Magistrate Court has denied bail to two persons standing trial over the alleged lynching of a young man at Daboya in...