Following the earlier decision by the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) not to field a candidate to contest the Tamale Central parliamentary by-election following the death of the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Dr Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, the People's National Convention (PNC) and the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) have also decided to withdraw from the race.

President John Dramani Mahama has made clear that Ghana will not be rushing back to the international capital markets, despite recent signs of stability in the economy under his leadership.

Charlie Kirk, the conservative political activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was killed after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University. President Donald Trump confirmed Kirk’s death on social media.

President John Dramani Mahama has vowed to intensify the fight against illegal mining, stressing that his government has not issued a single licence to mine in Ghana’s forest reserves since returning to office.

President John Mahama has announced far-reaching reforms in Ghana’s education sector, pledging to make access to quality learning a right and not a privilege.

President John Dramani Mahama has declared that Ghana’s economy is firmly on the path of recovery, citing falling inflation, stable currency exchange rates, and renewed investor confidence.

President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that more than 200 corruption-related cases are currently being investigated and prosecuted as part of his government’s commitment to accountability and the recovery of stolen state resources.

Former Minister of Trade and long-serving Adansi Asokwa legislator, Kobina Tahir (KT) Hammond, has criticised New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer aspirants who boast about their wealth and financial contributions to the party.

The government in collaboration with relevant security and regulatory agencies has started an exercise to relocate all the seized excavators from the Tema port enclave to selected military installations in Tema, Accra and the Shai Hills. 

President John Dramani Mahama will on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, host his first presidential media encounter since returning to office.

Fellow Ghanaians, let us begin today's reflection with a passage from Psalm 94 (King James Version), reading from verse 20: "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth MISCHIEF by a law?"

Elon Musk has lost his title of “world’s richest person” title to Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison.

The National Service Authority (NSA) has inaugurated a nine-member Transition and Implementation Steering Committee to design and deploy a new digital platform after an audit found the existing system unsatisfactory.

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has confirmed that a violent confrontation at the Asanko Gold Ghana Ltd concession at Mpatoam in the Amansie West District of Ashanti on Tuesday led to the death of the Assembly member for Manso Aboabo, Samuel Danquah on Tuesday.

Ghana’s economy grew by 6.3 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2025, up from 5.7 per cent in the same period last year, according to new provisional data released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).

The government of Ghana has condemned Israeli airstrikes on Qatar, describing them as a violation of international law and a threat to peace in the Middle East.

The High Court in Accra has prevented lawyers of former Chief Justice Getrude Torkornoo from making an oral application to withdraw the case challenging Shining Stars’ petition to remove her. 

The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), as part of its campaign to sanitise the use of unearned academic credentials in Ghana, has taken action against Dr. Samuel Kaba Akoriyea of the C.K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences in Navrongo in the Upper East Region, for his continuous use of the unearned title of "Professor."

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has commenced the registration of children aged six to 14 years for the Ghana Card, starting at its Premium Centres nationwide.

Bodies that were put in charge of rebuilding Appiatse have declared that supporting the livelihoods of the explosion victims was not part of their mandate, the reason why millions in donations remain unused even as residents struggle to survive.

A Former Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Kwasi Adu-Amankwah, has stressed the need for Organised Labour to address the issue of fragmentation of trade unions in the country.

All residents of Asanteman are required to remain indoors on Thursday night [September 18], at the time the late Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III, will be laid to rest at the royal mausoleum at Breman in Kumasi.

In Asante tradition, succession is a sacred matter. No stool—whether of a chief, a king, or a queen mother—is left vacant for long. The continuity of leadership is both a matter of governance and spirituality. 

The Tema Community 1 District Police has arrested four men after 315 compressed parcels of substances suspected to be Indian hemp were found concealed in the tyres of a truck at the Community 1 Industrial Area.

Two people, including the Assembly member for the Aboabo Tetekaaso Electoral Area in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region have been shot dead by soldiers protecting the Asanko mine concession following a violent confrontation with the community members on Tuesday at Mpatoam.

Two others sustained injuries from gunshots reportedly fired by the soldiers.