Cabinet has directed the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice to commission a concurrent forensic audit and criminal investigations into the activities of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) between 2017 and 2024.

The Minority in Parliament has urged the government to provide cocoa farmers a bailout package to cushion them against low prices of cocoa rather than drastically reducing producer price by 28 per cent.

The Producer Price Review Committee (PPRC) has announced new prices for cocoa at the farmgate for the rest of the 2025/2026 crop season, pegging a tonne of the beans at GH¢41,392 and a bag of 64 kilogrammes at GH¢2,587.

The Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has directed investigations into the circumstances under which a hit-and-run victim was refused emergency care by three major hospitals in Accra - Ridge, Police, and Korle Bu - for close to three hours before he died last week.

The minister has said he will personally chair the investigative committee on Monday, February 16, to help unravel the circumstances surrounding that “No Bed Syndrome” incident that led to the denial of emergency care to 29-year-old Charles Amissah, who was involved in a hit-and-run incident at Nkrumah Overpass.

One person has died and 15 others sustained injuries following a road traffic accident at Peki Tsame near Mawutor Inn on the Peki–Asikuma highway in the Volta Regon.

The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr, has said the GH¢80,000 paid to him as damages by Kennedy Ohene Agyapong in the defamation suit he filed against him is still intact and "untouched" in the bank account of his lawyers.

He said this following a Court of Appeal ruling on Thursday, which said he should refund the money to Mr Agyapong.

The Tarkwa District Magistrate Court Two has sentenced an 18-year-old small-scale miner, Theophilus Fameye, to 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labour for stealing an iPhone 11 valued at GH¢2,600 from a student.

A 34-year-old trader who allegedly wore a military uniform to impress a nurse at the 37 Military Hospital has appeared before the Adabraka District Court.

The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has set up a team of experts in road safety to investigate the spate of road crashes involving Toyota Voxy vehicles being used for commercial purposes.

The Supreme Court has ordered the Attorney-General to produce the document covering Ghana’s decision to accept West African deportees who were previously held by United States (US) authorities. 

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has sent a stern warning to miscreants in second cycle schools, stressing that lawlessness and misconduct will be dealt with ruthlessly. 

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that Ghana’s Parliament will this year ratify the African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (AUCEVAWG), describing the move as a decisive step towards protecting the Ghanaian girl child and promoting equal opportunities for women and girls.

This week, thanks to all the noise about airport renaming, Nii Darko Ankrah, historian and lecturer at the Institute of African Studies, has, in an interview with Bernard Avle, reminded us that the very apostles of democracy who overthrew Nkrumah for using the Preventive Detention Act to imprison his enemies without trial, turned round, when they took power, to enact a law, the ‘Protective Detention Act’, to jail “offenders” without trial. 

I found the end of 2025 Ghana Statistical Services’ figures on Ghana’s demography interesting.

For close to three hours last Friday [February 6, 2026], a victim of a hit-and-run incident at Nkrumah Circle Overpass in Accra was refused emergency care by three major hospitals in Accra, with the explanation of "no vacant bed available," until he died. 

The Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) from the National Ambulance Service had received a walk-in call around 10:32 pm on that day to attend to an emergency Road Traffic Crash (RTC) at Circle Overpass.

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has “pleaded” with the Executive to release a parcel of land around Parliament to pave the way for the construction of a "permanent seat" for Parliament. 

The government has reduced the producer price of cocoa to GH¢41,392 per tonne and GH¢2,587 per bag for the remainder of the 2025/2026 crop season, citing a sharp fall in global market prices and mounting liquidity pressures within the sector.

The government has announced far-reaching reforms to overhaul Ghana’s cocoa sector following what it describes as eight years of “gross mismanagement”, with immediate payments to farmers, a new financing model and a forensic investigation into the operations of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD).

Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu and Deputy Communications Minister Mohammed Adams Sukparu are in stable condition following a road traffic accident involving their official convoy on the Bolgatanga–Tumu Road today, according to a statement from the Education Minister's office.

Ghana’s economic expansion lost pace in November 2025, with fresh data from the Ghana Statistical Service showing that a sharp slowdown in industry weighed on overall performance despite continued strength in services and steady gains in agriculture.

Parliament has approved GH¢9.27 billion for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to undertake its activities for the year ending December 31, 2026.

Thomas Partey, the former Arsenal midfielder, has been charged with two new counts of rape.

The Kwahu Business Forum was conceived as a targeted intervention to strengthen entrepreneurship in one of Ghana’s most commercially vibrant regions, according to Benjamin Essuman, Special Aide to the Chief of Staff.

A former New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Asante Akyem North, Andy Appiah-Kubi, has proposed a lottery-based voting method for political party primaries, a move that has stirred debate over internal party democracy.

President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday inaugurated the reconstituted Presidential Advisory Group on the Economy (PAGE) at the Jubilee House in Accra.