The Court of Appeal has dismissed an application by the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, and two others seeking a stay of proceedings in their ongoing criminal trial, while partly allowing their appeal for additional disclosures.

The European Union has imposed a €200m ($232m; £173m) fine on Chinese-owned online retailer Temu for having illegal products such as dangerous baby toys and faulty chargers for sale on its platform.

The Minority in Parliament has called on the Ministry of Health (MoH) to immediately open the 120-bed Weija Paediatric Hospital to allow access to professional paediatric healthcare. 

The Upper East Regional Police Command has arrested

Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of a man and a violent attack on the elected chief of the Tindorunga community.

The incident happened on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, at Worinyanga in the Tempane District of the Upper East Region.

The Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, on Thursday, toured flood areas at Tetegu following the spillage of the Weija Dam.

He called for the arrest and prosecution of chiefs allegedly involved in the sale of lands along watercourses and other flood-prone areas.

"They [ANC] are all in a cohort to distract us, to fight us in reclaiming the land, the economy, confronting the challenges of unemployment.., the fight for unemployment is exactly what we are being distracted from. [They] tell them [the youth] you are not unemployed because of us [ANC], go to these Africans who are taking your jobs.

Ghanaians, 300 of them have left, someone must tell me, how many South Africans got those jobs that were taken by the Ghanaians", because the Ghanaians are gone now, 300 of them. How many 300 jobs were created after the Ghanaians have left. So it is just a myth, it is a lie, which they are using to further divide us, perpetuate colonial divisions, that were created in the past' - Julius Malema indicated in a jibe towards the South African government and his compatriot South African nationals.

The Greater Accra Regional Minister Linda Ocloo, has assured residents that livestock traders operating along the Kanda Highway and nearby street medians in Accra will vacate the area by Saturday, May 30, following growing concerns over congestion, sanitation and urban order ahead of Eid-ul-Adha celebrations.

The Greater Accra Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has ordered the immediate evacuation of all persons living along the course of the river downstream of the Weija Dam, following the opening of all spill gates to release excess water that has risen above the maximum operating level.

Someone has noted that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the results to be different.

Tetegu, Sampah Valley and Choice in Greater Accra have been submerged following the opening of the Weija Dam.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia has filed an emergency petition in federal court on behalf of a pregnant Ghanaian woman and her four-year-old son who have allegedly been detained in a windowless holding room at Washington Dulles International Airport for more than a week, after arriving on valid tourist visas to seek medical treatment for the child's hand abnormality.

The government has rolled out a nationwide land reclamation programme aimed at recovering degraded forest reserves, abandoned mine pits and polluted landscapes through large-scale tree planting initiatives.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced multiple power disruptions for Thursday, May 28, 2026, combining scheduled maintenance exercises across three regions with ongoing fault-related blackouts that have already affected customers in Accra West, Tema and Ashanti South since Wednesday.

This shimmering satellite image from NASA's Landsat taken on December 21, 2024 shows tendrils of gold surrounding Ghana's sacred "lake of souls," - Lake Bosomtwe, which is said to have been carved out by a devastating asteroid strike around 1 million years ago.

The first batch of 300 Ghanaians evacuated from South Africa arrived at the Accra International Airport Wednesday afternoon (May 27, 2026) to some emotional scenes, as families and government officials gathered to receive them.

The Minority in Parliament has accused the government of attempting to reintroduce the controversial Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) through what it describes as a “backdoor arrangement” involving a proposed 0.75 per cent charge on Mobile Money wallet-to-bank transactions.

The allegation follows a recent announcement by mobile network operator MTN that beginning June 1, 2026, it was going to introduce the charge.

The move has since been suspended by the Bank of Ghana with the explanation that it calls for broader stakeholder consultations.

The first batch of Ghanaian health professionals will depart for Jamaica in June 2026 under the labour exchange arrangement between Ghana and Jamaica.

At the third session of the Ghana-Jamaica Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation in Accra on Tuesday, May 26, the Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh appended his signature to the deal to facilitate the structured recruitment and deployment of Ghanaian health workers to Jamaica.

Lawyers for detained Asante Akim North Member of Parliament (MP) Ohene Kwame Frimpong have successfully filed a bail application before a Dutch court, Majority Chief Whip Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor has disclosed, as it emerged that the legislator is under investigation for alleged fraud and money laundering in the Netherlands.

Only 10 of the first 300 Ghanaians who presented themselves for repatriation from South Africa were in the country legally, immigration officials at OR Tambo International Airport have claimed.

President John Dramani Mahama launched a passionate defence of Ghana’s social fabric at the National Eid al-Adha celebrations in Accra on Wednesday, issuing twin warnings against the twin evils of political extremism and drug abuse while urging the younger generation to look to the National Chief Imam as a living example of humility.

The Ministry of Health on May 22, 2026 announced it was going to organise a mop-up exercise for the validation and posting of health professionals as part of an ongoing recruitment process for the health sector.

An accident at Akomadan on the N10 highway that connects Kumasi to Techiman in the Bono East region has claimed 12 lives.

Two other injured persons are currently receiving treatment at the emergency unit of the Nkenkaasu Government Hospital.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced multiple planned maintenance exercises across the Accra East, Ashanti and Tema Regions for Wednesday, May 27, 2026, resulting in temporary power disruptions lasting between four and seven hours.

The Western Regional Police Command has arrested six suspects, including three Chinese nationals, in connection with a shooting death at an illegal mining (galamsey) site at Gwira Ampanise in the Nzema East District.

The Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation and Prevention Bureau (AIB Ghana) has stated that the fatal aircraft crash at the TMA Day Care School at Tema Community One on March 16, 2026 was most likely caused by engine failure resulting from overheating.