An election observer, Koku Anyidoho, has commended the Electoral Commission for what he described as a strong performance in the conduct of the Ayawaso East parliamentary by-election, expressing satisfaction with preparations and early voting arrangements.

A 43-year-old woman and three children have drowned in an abandoned galamsey pit at Wassa Dunkwa in the Wassa Amenfi West Municipality of the Western Region.

President John Dramani Mahama has said that the escalating military confrontations in the Middle East could lead to severe economic shocks across the African continent.

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday issued a direct challenge to his fellow African Heads of State, urging them not to fear the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and to finally grant their citizens unimpeded access to continental justice.

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 32-year-old unemployed woman to two years’ imprisonment for unlawfully entering a church premises at the 48 Engineer Barracks at Teshie and stealing assorted items.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, announced the development in a Facebook post on Monday, March 2, 2026, confirming that the evacuation had been completed without incident.

A total of 49,966 registered voters are expected to exercise their franchise in today’s Ayawaso East parliamentary by-election to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP).

Legal practitioner and activist Oliver Barker-Vormawor has signalled plans to challenge a High Court ruling ordering him to pay GH¢5.1 million in damages and costs to former National Security Minister Albert Kan Dapaah, insisting the process that led to the judgment was flawed.

The Ministry of Finance has announced the expiration of restrictions on new domestic bond issuance, effectively ending a three-year measure introduced at the height of Ghana’s debt crisis.

The Ghana Stock Exchange kicked off the new month on a spectacular note, with the benchmark GSE Composite Index (GSE-CI) surging by an unprecedented 494.41 points to close Monday's trading session at a high of 13,350.54.

With just hours left until voters in the Ayawaso East Constituency head to the polls, the Electoral Commission has published the complete breakdown of polling stations and voter numbers for the hotly contested by-election scheduled for March 3, 2026.

The High Court in Accra has dismissed as incompetent a suit seeking to halt the Ayawaso East by-election.

The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has declared that the window for independent candidate Mohammed Umaru Sanda to return to the party has closed, formally confirming his removal from the party’s membership roll ahead of the Ayawaso East by-election.

President John Dramani Mahama has called on African countries to allow citizens and civil society organisations to take cases directly to the continent’s human rights court, saying governments have nothing to fear from wider access to justice.

A growing consensus has emerged among policy thinkers, researchers, private sector actors, several parliamentary select committees and development partners that Ghana’s sanitation challenge is not merely an environmental inconvenience; it is an economic emergency.

A 30-year-old man who evaded arrest for nearly four years after a deadly armed robbery at a mining site in the Ashanti Region has been sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment with hard labour by the Bekwai Circuit Court.

Mrs Lordina Dramani Mahama, the First Lady, has been enstooled as the Nkosuohemaa (Development Queenmother) of the Akroso Asukawkaw Traditional Area in the Oti Region.

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested a 45-year-old man, Isaac Boafo, popularly known as “Duabo King”, for the offence of publication of false news with intent to cause fear and panic, following a viral video circulated on social media.

President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Baba Sadiq Abdulai Abu as Ghana’s High Commissioner-designate to the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The Sakumono District Police Command has arrested three individuals in connection with the alleged lynching of a 26-year-old Liberian national, Austin Tengeeh, near Lashibi in the Greater Accra Region.

The Children’s Support Fund set up for victims of the August 6, 2025, Ghana Air Force helicopter crash has exceeded GH¢10 million, according to a statement issued by Dr Valerie Sawyerr, Senior Presidential Advisor on Governmental Affairs and Coordinator of the Fund.

Ghana has begun evacuating some staff of its Embassy in Tehran and activated an emergency response plan for nationals across parts of the Middle East following coordinated military strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran, which have significantly worsened security in the region.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed on Saturday after the US and Israel launched massive aerial strikes on the capital Tehran.

The Embassy of the Republic of Ghana in Doha, Qatar, has issued an urgent security advisory to all Ghanaians residing in Qatar following a missile attack that impacted areas in Doha. 

The Electricity Company of Ghana has announced a series of planned and emergency maintenance works across its operational regions, scheduled to take place from Sunday, March 1, through to Thursday, March 5, 2026.