The government’s flagship infrastructure development programme, the $10-billion ‘Big Push’ aimed at comprehensively addressing the nation’s infrastructure deficit, has been launched.

The Ministry of Education has advised parents and guardians not to pay money to anyone who promises to secure a senior high school (SHS) placement for their children or wards under the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).

The recent violent clash in parts of the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District in the Savannah Region is taking a heavy toll on education as many schools have been shut down in the affected communities.

Dutch airline KLM has cancelled around 100 flights on Wednesday due to a strike by ground crew at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, a spokesperson for the Dutch arm of airline group Air France KLM said on Tuesday.

A recent study has revealed that air pollution is now the leading cause of death in the country, overtaking HIV/AIDS, malaria and road traffic accidents.

President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, cut the sod in Afienya to begin the government’s Big Push infrastructure programme, starting with the Dawhenya–Ayikuma–Dodowa and Tema–Aflao roads.

Apart from an earlier use of an unearned Prof title, the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) raised with Richard Kofi Asiedu, the Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Chief Executive Officer of St. Andrews Group of Schools, it has emerged that his use of a "Dr" title is also inappropriate, as it was only honorary. 

In July 2025, GTEC warned Richard Kofi Asiedu over his continued unauthorised use of the honorary title “Professor.” 

An innovator and heart surgeon, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has described the founder of the Kristo Asafo Mission, Apostle Kwadwo Safo, as a brilliant inventor who thought outside the box due to his non-traditional academic background.

Ghana now has a legal framework backing its participation in carbon market projects, the Deputy Director in charge of the Climate Change Unit at the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST), Mohammed Gyimah, has said.

The Ghana Coalition Against Galamsey (GCAG) has expressed disappointment with President John Dramani Mahama’s comments on illegal mining (galamsey), made during his encounter with the media last Wednesday at the Jubilee House.

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has assured the public that its current focus on premium registration does not mean mass registration has been scrapped. 

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate in the Tamale Central by-election, Prof. Alidu Seidu, is set to make history as the first person to enter Parliament without parliamentary elections in the Fourth Republic.

The Office of the Auditor-General has recovered GH¢10 million from persons who were paid salaries they did not deserve. 

Over 48,000 displaced residents of Gbenyiri and nearby communities in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District in the Savannah Region want to return home to their farms and livelihoods, but the fear of renewed attacks is keeping them in camps.

The Ghana Gold Board (GOLDBOD) says it has uncovered a gold smuggling syndicate valued at more than GH¢120 million, describing it as the most elaborate operation since the Board was established.

Students of the Tamale Technical University (TaTU) on Tuesday (September 16, 2025) staged a protest against the institution’s management over alleged misappropriation of funds, neglect of student welfare, and a proposed increase in school fees without justification.

A “thank-you tour” announced by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) National Chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has stirred political discourse within the party, with some suggesting that the three-day programme is less about gratitude and more about positioning for a future presidential bid.

A United States federal judge has refused to block the deportation of four West African men who face being returned to countries where immigration courts previously ruled they risk torture or persecution, in a ruling that has been described as a victory for the Trump administration.

A group of young people in Kpone, within the Kpone Katamanso Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, have staged a demonstration to protest poor roads, water shortages, and unresolved land boundary disputes in the area.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Kwame Ntow Amoah, has been appointed Chairman of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organization (APPO).

Thousands of mourners converged on Manhyia Palace in the Ashante Region yesterday to pay their last respects to the late Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III, as Asanteman begins four days of solemn burial rites for its revered 98-year-old queen mother.

"We cannot continue to dither in September 2025 on the repeal of L.I. 2462 that has permitted mining in forest reserves. It is a good place to start, if we sincerely want to win the war against galamsey [illegal mining]. The time to act is now without any further delay", the acting Chief Justice Paul Baffoe Bonnie has said.

The President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Mrs Efua Ghartey has questioned the thriving business in Ghana that requires the importation of the many excavators.

"We cannot as a nation go back to the culture of silence", the President of the Ghana Bar Association, Mrs Efua Ghartey has said.

Retired Ministers of the Assemblies of God Church in the East and West zones of the church in the Greater Accra Region and their spouses trooped to the Ringway branch of the church for the quarterly free health screening programme organised by the Lordina Foundation.