NSS ghost name ‘scandal’: ‘My client has not been served with charge sheet’ — Assibey Antwi’s lawyer tell court 

Exactly five days after the charge sheet against former Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA) Osei Assibey Antwi was shared in the media, his lawyers have told the Criminal Division of the High Court that their client has not been served, a reason for his absence in court today. 

Ghana’s national football team, the Black Stars, have advanced two places in the latest FIFA World Ranking, continuing their positive trajectory under coach Otto Addo. The team now sits 73rd in the global standings.

The spokesperson for former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has warned that any presidential candidate who refuses to concede defeat despite an obvious loss poses a threat to Ghana’s democracy.

Mildred Donkor, the woman who was accused by the Attorney-General of conspiring with the immediate past Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene and his wife to allegedly move stolen state funds of over GH¢49 million in a deal to purchase software for the country has been discharged by the Accra High Court. 

Black Stars head coach Otto Addo has urged injured striker Inaki Williams to better adapt to the team’s dynamics as Ghana prepares for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The Athletic Bilbao forward missed Ghana’s final two qualifiers against the Central African Republic and Comoros due to injury.

Since completing his nationality switch to Ghana in 2022, Williams has managed just two goals in 25 appearances for the national team—far below expectations for a player of his caliber.

All vehicles in Ghana are to receive new number plates from April 1, 2026, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has said.

All the new plates are to be RFID-compliant (Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).

Elisha Mahama Akpanichie, the main accused person in the murder of Eric Johnson, the owner of the Royal Cosy Hills Hotel, popularly known as Jirapa 'Dubai', has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Kumasi High Court has adjourned the case filed by Madam Akosua Serwaa Fosuh, who claims to be the legal wife of the late highlife musician Charles Kwadwo Fosuh, popularly known as Daddy Lumba, to October 28, 2025.

The number of Ghanaians facing a food crisis saw a sharp increase in 2024, with an additional 900,000 people struggling to access adequate food, according to data from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).

A 15-year-old student of Walewale Girls’ Model Junior High School in the North East Region, Beatrice Laari Dammigu, has called for stronger national action to end child marriage and drug abuse among young people.

The Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Johnson Pandit Asiama, has expressed confidence that Ghana is on course to successfully exit its programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) next year, as key economic indicators continue to improve. 

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has paid a glowing tribute to the late Apostle Kwadwo Safo Kantanka, describing him as “a grace and a gift not just to his family, but to Ghana and the entire African continent.” 

The Movement for Change has officially transitioned into a fully fledged political party, promising a new dawn in Ghanaian politics, with a vision to unite the country, transform the economy and end divisive partisan rule.

The Bank of Ghana (BoG), in collaboration with the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and the Cyber Security Authority, has uncovered and shut down over 400 illegal online lending operators as part of efforts to sanitise the country’s growing digital finance space.

The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has stated that he will remain in touch with the electorate because the party is a grassroots-based party.

There’s a popular saying in Ghana that “we love the dead more than the living.

The Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Brigadier General Paul Seidu Tanye-Kulono, has highlighted the successful implementation of Ghana’s 24-hour economy policy at the nation’s ports.

John Dramani Mahama is a frustrated President.

On Friday, October 10, 2025, the Nobel Foundation, located in Stockholm, Sweden, awarded the 2025 prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, to Venezuela’s Opposition Leader, Maria Corina Machado, for her fight against dictatorship in Venezuela. 

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has started a more frequent economic growth measure, with the maiden monthly indicator of economic growth (MIEG), revealing a 4.5 per cent year-on-year growth in the economy for July 2025. 

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) presidential campaign has degenerated into a theatre of unruliness — a noisy, chaotic spectacle growing louder by the day, fueled largely by the deafening silence of the two main contenders: former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and former Assin Central MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong. 

The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) has handed over a set of furniture to two schools in the metropolis. 

The Minister of Works, Housing and Water Resources, Kenneth Gilbert Adjei, has emphasised the government's commitment to restoring integrity and enhancing governance in Ghana’s real estate sector through targeted regulatory reforms. 

More than 1 million tickets have already been sold for next year’s World Cup, FIFA said Thursday in its first update on numbers since the official start of sales began earlier this month.

The highest demand, as would be expected, were from buyers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico — the three nations that will play host to the tournament.

FIFA said people from 212 different countries and territories have already purchased, even though only 28 of the 48 spots in the field have been filled.

Telecel Ghana has dismissed allegations by the Minority in Parliament suggesting its involvement in a secret takeover of AT Ghana, describing the claims as “misleading” and “inaccurate.”