Leading research institutes have sounded a clarion call for a cohesive national strategy to tackle Ghana’s escalating plastic pollution crisis, which is severely damaging marine ecosystems and livelihoods.

Three Nigerian nationals, noted for stealing from parked vehicles in Kumasi, have heen sentenced to 20 years each in prison in hard labour.

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has confirmed that MultiChoice Ghana, operators of DStv, has agreed to participate in a stakeholder committee set up to review subscription prices in the country.

Black Stars Head Coach Otto Addo says he remains confident about Ghana’s chances of qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup despite the team’s setback in their last qualifier against Chad.

Inter Miami forward Luis Suarez has been handed a six-match suspension for spitting at a Seattle Sounders' staff member following his side's 3-0 Leagues Cup final defeat.

Egypt’s Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel-Meguid Saqr held talks in Cairo on Saturday with Ghana’s Finance Minister and Acting Defence Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, on strengthening bilateral military cooperation.

New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has taken aim at his rivals in the party’s leadership contest, criticising any economic agenda that begins with negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

At the relaunch of the National Sanitation Day on Saturday, President John Dramani Mahama donated essential sanitation tools to the remarkable BuzStopBoys.

The Bono Regional correspondent of the Graphic Communications Group Ltd (GCGL), Biiya Mukusah Ali, has been adjudged the 2024 Overall Best Journalist in Bono and Ahafo regions.

Former Director of the Ghana School of Law, Mr Kwaku Ansah-Asare has called for a constitutional review to provide a clearer definition of “stated misbehaviour,” under Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution.

To him, this should be separated from penalties for justices and the Chief Justice, and that presidential influence in judicial appointments should also be removed by amending Articles 144 and 153.

In 2023, rice imports from Vietnam, India, Thailand, China, and Pakistan into Ghana were worth US$342million, even though rice can be grown everywhere in Ghana, according to Dr Nana Ama A. Oppong Duah, Policy Advisor/Project Manager of the John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation.

Twenty-seven (27) new cases of Mpox have been confirmed in Ghana, raising the country’s total infections to 494, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said.

A District Court in Adabraka has cautioned the family of the murdered immigration officer, Stephen King Amoah, to exercise restraint and maintain peace while seeking justice.

Two persons arrested during the Homowo Festival at Omanjor in Accra have appeared before the Adabraka District Court.

A man identified as Mr Emmanuel Addai has allegedly bitten off his wife’s ear in a disturbing case of domestic violence at “Wonkayaw,” a community in the Dambai township of the Krachi East Municipality in the Oti Region.

Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club clinched the 2025 Democracy Cup with a narrow 1-0 victory over city rivals Accra Great Olympics at the University of Ghana Stadium.

Azumah Resources Ghana Limited has commended the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, for his pivotal role in resolving a longstanding dispute between the company and Engineers & Planners Co. Ltd. The company said the resolution has boosted investor confidence in Ghana’s mining sector.

Professor Seidu Mahama Alidu, a former Head of the Political Science Department at the University of Ghana, has won the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primary in the Tamale Central Constituency.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the provisional results of candidates who sat for the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for Private Candidates.

A gory road accident at Kormantse near Saltpond in the Central Region in the early hours of today has claimed eight lives and left five others injured.

I got the term “healthy donkey mentality” from a devotional book I read recently in which the writer said, “If we could develop a healthy donkey mentality, what an asset that would be as we travel the road of life!”

Across Africa today, life appears normal. Markets bustle, politicians promise, and consumers spend. 

The government has announced a 50 per cent reduction in registration fees for individual dispatch riders, slashing the cost from GH¢1,070 to GH¢570, as part of reforms to sanitise and regulate the courier industry.

For the first time in 29 years, this year’s Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Awards ceremony will be held in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region.

The monitoring teams set up by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for this year's West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates (WASSCE-SC) has uncovered a high number of irregularities and cheating by some candidates and invigilators.