Two journalists from the Graphic Communications Group Ltd. (GCGL) have been selected for the Ghana cohort of the 2026 Media Excellence in Emerging Technologies (MEET) Fellowship.

The Traditional Medicine Practice Council (TMPC) closed down three herbal medicine shops in Cape Coast for operating with expired licences.

The Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has questioned discrepancies in records covering payments to Ghanaians evacuated from South Africa, arguing that the figures do not support claims that all beneficiaries received the full GH¢5,500 allowance.

A successful ShattaFest should have been the story, but Shatta Wale’s comments about fraud and alleged selective justice have stolen the spotlight from his own show.

The Conference of Heads of Second Cycle Schools (CHASS) has expressed deep concern about the rising cases of indiscipline among students and staff in senior high schools.

The Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has declared that Ghana's economic recovery must translate into decent jobs, higher incomes and a stronger productive economy, saying stabilisation was never the ultimate goal of the government's reforms.

Online pornography depicting strangulation or incestuous relationships will be banned from early November, the government has announced.

The Overlord of the Gonja Kingdom, Yagbonwura Bii-Kunuto Jewu Soale I, will make a historic visit to Anloga in the Volta Region on November 7, 2026, to attend this year's Hogbetsotso Za.

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have resumed formal dialogue with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with both sides agreeing to establish joint working groups to develop a proposed cooperation agreement.

The Ghana Football Association (GFA), in consultation with the Ministry of Sports and Recreation, has appointed Kim Lars Björkegren to lead an interim Black Stars technical team for Ghana's 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying double-header against Somalia in November.

Lord Paul Yaw Boateng, a prominent British Labour Party politician, peer, and former civil rights lawyer has called for the need for action by urging allies and the public to pressure the trustees of British Museum to take meaningful steps toward restitution.

The chiefs and people of Aburi defied a heavy downpour on Saturday afternoon to celebrate this year’s Odwira Festival, marking the climax of the 200th anniversary of the Akuapem Odwira.

Ghana and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) have agreed for Ghanaian teachers and nurses to be posted to the tropical U.S. territory located in the Caribbean.

Graphic Online understands that a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is scheduled to be signed in November 2026 in Ghana by the Minister of Labour, Employment, and Job Creation to finalise the agreement.

A political science lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Professor Jonathan Asante has called for a review of the process for appointing commissioners for the Electoral Commission, suggesting that it was about time Ghana considered electing commissioners or selecting them through the Public Services Commission.

Commenting on this week's two new deputy chairperson appointments for the commission and the varied public reactions to Ms Emelia Afi Agbenyo's appointment for instance, Prof. Asante described the controversy as “a needless pressure” the President has brought upon himself. 

It was his view that the President had many other candidates who were not politically exposed to appoint from to fill the vacant position of deputy chairperson of the Electoral Commission.

The Northern Regional Police Command, through a Special Operations Team has arrested four suspects and recovered 142 parcels of compressed suspected Indian hemp, with the arresting officers said to have rejected a GH¢50,000 bribe offered them by the suspects.

The Special Operations Team of the Ghana Police Service has arrested 41 suspects during an intelligence-led operation at Lapaz and Chantan in Accra on October 15.

Locally made metal trunk sellers in Accra say their businesses are going through a difficult period as more senior high school (SHS) students opt for suitcases, leaving traders with unsold stock.

The sellers, some of whom have been in the trade for decades, attribute the decline in demand for trunks to changing consumer preferences, the inclusion of suitcases on school prospectuses and the sale of school supplies on campuses.

The founder and leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has questioned the authority of Cabinet to determine Ghana’s proposed participation in BRICS without broader parliamentary scrutiny and public consultation.

Life on the various campuses of public and technical universities is expected to return to normal from Monday following the suspension of the strike by the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA) and the Technical Universities Senior Administrators Association of Ghana (TUSAAG) yesterday.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has disclosed that Ghana has received $250,000 in relief assistance from the Economic Community of West African States to support victims of the June 2026 floods.

The President of the Ghana Shea Employers Association of the Northern Region and Chief Executive Officer of Maltiti A. Enterprise Limited, Hajia Rabiatu Abukari, has urged the government to establish local facilities for organic shea testing and certification, arguing that Ghanaian dealers continue to spend unnecessarily on a process that could be handled within the country.

When vaping first took off at Gracey Mungulu's school, she was vocal about the fact she found it as repulsive as smoking.

"I literally used to tell people like, 'Er, why are you doing that?'" she says.

But Gracey says the habit became so common among her classmates that by the age of 16 she too had taken it up, even though the first time left her coughing rather than inhaling.

On September 25, this year, the people of Akropong in the Eastern Region gathered to celebrate a significant milestone in their cultural history, as Odwira, their annual festival of purification, remembrance and thanksgiving, marked 200 years of tradition.

A 44-year-old Reverend Minister of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Rev. Richard Tagoe, has been enstooled Amanonehene of Abotakyi in the Akuapem Traditional Area in the Eastern Region.

President John Dramani Mahama has charged four newly appointed ambassadors designate to prioritise economic diplomacy, the welfare of Ghanaians abroad, and the projection of Ghana’s interests on the global stage.