The call to the Bar of a record 1,500 lawyers is a remarkable milestone for Ghana’s legal profession.

PHP vulnerability: PHP security issues on Wednesday explained

Two serious flaws in software that powers a large share of the web leaked ahead of their fix. Now attacks have reportedly started.

International governments and agencies have urged websites to address two critical cyber-security flaws in a programming language which powers much of the internet.

The silent backbone of many websites is under threat. Here's what you should know.

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If you’re of a certain age, “PHP” may invoke memories of early web development in the 1990s. In the decades since, the scripting language has hummed along in the background, used by popular platforms like WordPress. But just this week, it suddenly got an enormous spotlight as the internet lit up with alarm over two high-risk vulnerabilities.

The Executive Director of the Fisheries Commission, Prof Benjamin B. Campion has announced that the missing seven crew members of a fishing canoe from Sekondi (Second Chance) have been located and rescued at sea.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Kumasi has dismissed an attempt by the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to halt a defamation suit filed against him and Wontumi Multimedia Company Limited by Samson Lardy Anyenini, a lawyer and a journalist from the Multimedia Group Limited.

The Ogun State Police Command in Nigeria has rescued 11 Ghanaian nationals allegedly held hostage in Sagamu after they were lured to the country with promises of Canadian and Spanish visas.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced a nationwide meter audit exercise across all its operational areas, aimed at reducing commercial losses, improving revenue assurance and combating electricity theft.

Vice-President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has called for the law to take its course in the sexual assault case involving the headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS), describing the matter as a serious national concern with implications for present and future generations.

A 19-year-old woman, Emmanuella Asante, has been remanded into police custody by the Accra Regional Police Command in connection with the death of a 33-year-old man at Ofankor Barrier in Accra.

A new review of 45 scientific studies has found that toxic metals from illegal mining activities, locally known as galamsey, are contaminating everyday vegetables in Ghana, posing an elevated health risk to consumers.

President John Dramani Mahama has said he is not concerned about Russian security assistance in the Sahel region, declaring that anyone committed to fighting terrorism is welcome in the region.

Child Rights International (CRI), a child-friendly organisation, has called for the counselling unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to be elevated to an authority to give it greater independence to efficiently deal with child welfare and protection in pre-tertiary schools.

A 29-year-old Ghanaian, Linford Atakora, has been sentenced by a United States federal court to approximately nine months' imprisonment for fraudulently working under the name and Social Security number of a US citizen.

In recent weeks, I have written about Ghana’s child protection system, the need for a sex offender register, and the alarming adolescent pregnancies recorded between January and July 2026.

Ghana’s $10 billion merchandise trade surplus in 2025 was driven largely by gold exports, exposing the economy’s vulnerability to volatile international commodity prices and underscoring the urgent need to diversify exports, the Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Professor Robert Darko Osei, has warned.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi, says the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector generated $10.8 billion in foreign exchange (FX) in 2025, attributing the performance to reforms that brought more gold previously lost to smuggling and illegal trade into the formal economy.

The Majority Chief Whip in Parliament, Rockson-Nelson Etse Dafeamekpor, has reiterated the government’s commitment to supporting community-initiated projects to accelerate development across the country. 

The newly consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Sunyani, Very Reverend Martin Apraku Amankwah, has called for a renewed emphasis on Christian values to tackle greed, selfishness and political divisions undermining national development.

Some drug traffickers in Ghana are acquiring scanners and exploiting insider access to evade detection, the Director-General of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), Brigadier General Maxwell Obuba Mantey has told Parliament's Public Accounts Committee.

Nigeria has recorded a case of Ebola in a female patient who travelled from Uganda in East Africa to Abuja, the capital of the West African state.

Following the Auditor-General’s recent report on performance on the inmate support programme at the Ghana Prisons Service that identified persistent reintegration challenges in addition to a number of discharged inmates ending up back in prison due to poor rehabilitation, the management of the service has identified funding as the main reason for their inability to execute that mandate successfully.

The Ghana Education Service has directed the Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Dr William Amankrah Appiah, and the Obuasi East Municipal Director of Education, Mr Kwamena Owusu-Nketiah, to step aside with immediate effect as investigations continue into allegations of sexual misconduct involving the headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School, Mr Zakaria Abdulai.

The recruitment portal meant for enlisting personnel for the security services will not be opened for new applicants in 2027, the Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak has said.

Rather, the security services including police, prisons, fire and immigration plan to draw from the existing pool of applicants who passed the screening and medical examinations in the 2025/2026 recruitment exercise but were not called for training.

A new study has found statistically significant associations between frequent gaming and negative mental health outcomes, including anxiety, depression and feelings of guilt or shame, among university students in Accra.