The Accra Regional Police Command will enforce a High Court order prohibiting the “Stop Galamsey” protest on Friday, February 27, 2026. The move aims to maintain public safety during the State of the Nation Address.
President John Dramani Mahama delivered his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) since assuming office for a second term on February 27, 2025. He reflected on his return to Parliament after nearly a decade. He acknowledged the unpredictability of life and expressed gratitude to the people of Ghana for their historic electoral mandate. With […]
Netflix has backed away from its proposal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing the way for Paramount-Skydance to win a months-long battle for one of Hollywood’s most storied studios. Warner Bros., which put itself up for sale last year, on Thursday said Paramount’s latest bid was “superior” to Netflix’s, which in turn refused to raise […]
Pope Leo XIV will embark on his first pastoral visit to Africa from April 13–23, touring Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea, as the Vatican highlights the continent’s growing importance to the Catholic Church.
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources says it is making progress in addressing long standing challenges within Ghana’s land administration system through the introduction of the Land Bank and Digitalisation Project. The Land Bank and Digitalisation Project is a government initiative under the Ministry and the Lands Commission aimed at modernising the management of […]
The Jomoro Municipal Taskforce in the Western Region, set up by the Chief Executive, Benjamin Boadi, in collaboration with the Municipal Police Command and the Blue Water Guard, has burnt three changfans and six water pumping machines which were being used for illegal mining activities in forests and water bodies in the municipality. The task […]
Ghana has inaugurated a new Sample Reception Centre at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research of the University of Ghana, in a major boost to the country’s laboratory systems and disease surveillance capacity. The facility, established with support from the World Health Organization and funding from the Gates Foundation, will strengthen the safe receipt, […]
The Amansie West District Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service has reported gains in maternal healthcare delivery, even as cases of hypertension, diabetes and HIV continue to rise in the district. Speaking at the district’s Annual Performance Review and Staff Awards Ceremony, the District Health Director, Bernard Badu Bediako, highlighted both achievements and emerging […]
February 14, 2026 was a sad day for Ghanaian traders and the country by extension. A group of Ghanaian tomato trader’s enroute to their trading point were targeted in a deadly terrorist attack in northern Burkina Faso-Titao to be specific. This attack resulted in the death of about seven Ghanaian traders, severely burnt, and scores […]
Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Morris Addae, a member of the National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) task force who was shot in the thigh during an anti-galamsey operation earlier this year, has now successfully recovered. It will be recalled that on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, L/Cpl Addae sustained a gunshot wound when unknown assailants opened fire […]
According to a new report by the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, waste should be treated as a strategic national asset rather than an environmental burden. The report, titled “An Economic Analysis of the Benefits of Adequate Investment in Waste Management and Sanitation in Ghana,” was launched in Accra on February 25 2026. […]
The Black Atlantic, as it emerged in the early modern era, was shaped profoundly by disruption. The Atlantic slave trade displaced millions of Africans, fractured kinship systems, interrupted languages, and unsettled the ordinary processes through which societies transmit memory across generations. Historical continuity, which elsewhere might rest upon land, lineage, and stable institutions, was deliberately […]
African independence is often remembered as an event. A date marks the transfer of authority, a flag is raised, and sovereignty appears to follow as a settled fact. Public memory reinforces this sequence, encouraging the assumption that freedom was secured at a definable moment and preserved by constitutional order thereafter. The Lusophone experience resists that […]
The General Officer Commanding the Ghana Armed Forces Northern Command, Brigadier General Worlanyo Agbebo, has urged personnel of state security agencies at Ghana’s northern borders to build stronger working relationships centred on their mutual responsibility to safeguard the country. During a visit to key border posts as part of the Armed Forces’ quarterly long-range border […]
Cardiologists and public health leaders have raised concern over the rising burden of heart failure in Ghana, describing it as a growing public health emergency that is claiming lives in their most productive years. This came to the fore at the 8th Annual General and Scientific Meeting (AGSM) of the Ghanaian Society of Cardiology, held […]
Ga Mantse King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II visits First Lady Lordina Mahama in Accra to thank President John Mahama and his family for their support following his recent accident.
The Health Services Workers Union (HSWU) has urged the public to refrain from what it describes as growing attacks and “blanket accusations” against healthcare professionals, following two controversial incidents that have stirred national debate. At a press conference on February 26, the Union’s General Secretary, Mr Franklyn Owusu Ansah, cautioned Ghanaians against rushing to judgment […]
Ghana Police Service has dismantled a syndicate behind a viral traffic fine scam. Seven suspects were arrested in Ada and Winneba following a high-level intelligence operation.
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