The acting Minister for Defence, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has announced that a board formed to investigate the August 9, Z-9 military helicopter crash has begun its work.

President John Dramani Mahama has secured a package of new agreements with Japan covering infrastructure, agriculture, technology and industrialisation, following his participation in the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-9) in Yokohama from August 20 to 22, 2025.

The Upper West Regional Police Command has arrested a 38-year-old woman, Abena Martha Maanibeh, for allegedly stealing a one-week-old baby and valuables belonging to the baby’s mother at the Wa market, also known as Kejetia.

President John Dramani Mahama is in Singapore for a three-day state visit, aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation, expanding trade and investment, and advancing partnerships in education, science and innovation, urban solutions, agribusiness, and the digital economy.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, last Friday, grilled officials of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) over a sharp increase in office rent payments, failure to remit pension contributions and payment of unearned salaries as part of infractions flagged by the Auditor-General’s 2024 report.

The police anti-galamsey task force has intensified operations in the illegal mining areas, making several arrests in the Ashanti and Western regions in separate exercises over the weekend.

The Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, made a historic journey last Saturday to the ancestral burial grounds of Ga traditional rulers, the King Tackie Tawiah Royal Mausoleum at Tesano, Accra.

Ghana will no longer grant a mining lease for 30 years to any mining company, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Minerals Commission, Martin Ayisi, has stated.

PKA Export and Import, a Ghanaian company, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with two Chinese firms, Polyrocks and Sinovcle, to establish an electric vehicle assembly plant in Ghana.

Police in the Eastern South Region of the Akwatia District have arrested six persons, including a Chinese, for possessing fire arms and ammunition without authority, as part of intensified security measures ahead of the Akwatia by-election.

A joint team of the Kade Police and the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kwaebibirem, Emmanuel Kofi Nti, last Saturday arrested three Chinese nationals for allegedly polluting the Birim River at Akyem Abaam near Kade in the Eastern Region.

The government has acknowledged the profound impact of the Church on education, from the pre-independence era through independence to the post-independence period.

With about nine days to the Akwatia Constituency parliamentary by-election scheduled for Tuesday, September 2, 2025, the two major political parties, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have intensified their campaign to win the vacant seat.

PKA Export and Import, a Ghanaian company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese firms Polyrocks and Sinovcle to establish an electric vehicle assembly plant in Ghana.

Five people were confirmed dead on Sunday morning in a land dispute at Gbiniyiri, a farming community in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Savannah Region.

The campaign team of Dr Bryan Acheampong has reacted to a video circulating on social media which shows Dr Acheampong suggesting that the New Patriotic Party flagbearer hopeful blamed former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia for the Kusasi-Mamprusi conflict.

Ghanaians holding 99-year or 50-year leasehold titles to land will not lose their property outright when the term expires, as the law guarantees an opportunity for renewal, the Acting Greater Accra Regional Lands Officer, Surveyor Timothy Anyidoho, has clarified.

Contrary to an earlier announcement that the spillage of the Bagre Dam would take place on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, authorities in Burkina Faso have rescheduled the exercise to Monday, August 25, 2025.

Former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has reacted to what he described as “unfortunate” tribal and religious attacks against his bid to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the 2028 general election.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that senior high schools across the country will reopen in October for the 2025/2026 academic year.

Police in Akwatia have arrested two men, including a Chinese national, for allegedly possessing ammunition without lawful authority.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates who sat the 2025 BECE for School Candidates.

The government will position public colleges of education as autonomous university colleges.

The government of Burkina Faso, through its national electricity company, SONABEL, has announced it will commence controlled spillage of the Bagré Dam on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, due to rising water levels caused by heavy rainfall.

A nurse at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge Hospital), Rejoice Tsotsoo Bortei, has filed a GH¢7 million lawsuit against social media personality and activist Ralph Saint Williams, popularly known as “Ralph De Fellow Ghanaian,” for alleged physical assault and defamation.