President John Dramani Mahama has urged Ghanaians to draw inspiration from the life and values of the late President John Evans Atta Mills as the country navigates a new phase of national development.

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has arrested about 50 Nigerian nationals, including a landlord, during a dawn operation at McCarthy Hills in the Ga South Municipality of Accra over alleged involvement in cybercrime and human trafficking.

The Minister of Defence, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, has cautioned the youth against cutting corners to enlist in the Ghana Armed Forces, saying such attempts could endanger their lives.

The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the violent disturbances that disrupted the Ablekuma North parliamentary re-run election on July 11, 2025. The suspects, identified as Musah Muntari, 46, a Station Manager at STC, and Ali Saeed, alias Mboma, 43, a businessman, are currently in custody assisting with investigations.

On July 22, 2025, the Bank of Ghana issued a formal notice (No. BG/GOV/SEC/2025/47) titled "Guidelines for the application of Exchange Rates by the Shipping Industry in Ghana”.

This notice was ostensibly issued in response to agitation by the shipping community notably Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF), that shipping lines were exercising arbitrariness in setting the exchange rates at which they were converting their fees and charges into local currency, the Ghana cedi.

The Supreme Court has quashed the order directed at the National House of Chiefs in Kumasi to restore Nii Tackie Adama Latse II onto the national register of chiefs as the Ga Mantse.

The 2025 edition of the Insurance Fair, which aims to address the country’s insurance penetration challenges while positioning the sector as a critical pillar of national development, commences in Accra today.

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has condemned the incidence of electoral violence during elections especially the violence that characterised the rerun of 19 polling stations in the Ablekuma North Constituency, and the brutalisation of citizens, including journalists. 

In this opinion piece, I engage with some key issues that stem from the revelations in the press briefings by the ministers of the Interior and Defence.

This first part addresses why the (alleged) problems are important, and I do so by placing them within a broader context of Security Sector Governance and Reform (SSG/R) and providing examples to back my observations and claims.

To begin my piece, I  provide an introduction and context. This section is followed by a long engagement with the alleged scandal around recruitment into the security services and what that means for trust and confidence in the sector. I end this part one with some pointers to what one must expect in part two. 

The Chief Executive Officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr (Med) Paa Kwesi Baidoo, has appealed to the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for support towards the hospital’s retooling.

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has said the dispute between Azuma Resources and Engineers and Planners (E&P) mining companies has been resolved, following his directive.

Hugh Clement A. Brown, the acting Chief Executive Officer of Ghana’s Forestry Commission, has filed a defamation suit against Kwame Baffoe widely known as Abronye DC, a prominent opposition figure and Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, seeking GH¢20 million in damages.

A total of 202 Ghanaian nationals who fell victim to human trafficking and a scam syndicate operating in Nigeria have been rescued and repatriated, according to Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.

Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, July 23, the Minister revealed that the victims were linked to operations believed to be run by the Q-Net group, a notorious recruitment and trafficking network.

Samuel Gyamfi, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board, has initiated legal proceedings against media personality Valentina Nana Acyeiwaa, known as Afia Schwarzenegger, at the Accra High Court.

The Supreme Court has quashed the order directed at the National House of Chiefs in Kumasi to restore Nii Tackie Adama Latse II onto the national register of chiefs as the Ga Mantse.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced a series of planned maintenance exercises scheduled for Thursday, July 24, 2025, across several regions in the country, with power expected to be interrupted in dozens of communities.

Iddrissu Ibrahim, a final-year student of the TI Ahmadiyya Senior High School in Wa, was stabbed last night by a fellow student.

A Chinese woman identified as Mrs Jiang was shocked to find little chicks around her home when she returned from a trip. 

Mrs Jiang bought three cartons of eggs before heading out for a short trip. Two days later, she returned to high-pitched chirping and fluffy yellow chicks across the floor.  

Ghana's mining sector generated US$7.1 billion in mineral revenue, with US$4.9 billion returned to the country through the Bank of Ghana and commercial banks, according to the Ghana Chamber of Mines.

Ghana recorded a total of 7,289 road crashes and 1,504 fatalities between January and June 2025, according to provisional data released by the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) in collaboration with the Police Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD).

The report further indicates that 12,354 vehicles were involved in various accidents during the six-month period, resulting in injuries to 8,300 individuals.

The government is set to deploy 530 newly trained Blue Water Guards this week as part of a nationwide effort to tackle illegal mining and help restore Ghana’s polluted rivers. The deployment, scheduled for Friday, July 25, 2025, will bring the total number of trained personnel under the initiative to over 1,000.

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) says it is preparing to launch targeted intelligence-led operations in the Volta Region to help dismantle cannabis farms where schoolchildren are reportedly being used as labourers.

Naa Abdul-Malik Azenbe, the Kusasi Chief in the Ashanti Region has been shot dead by unknown assailants at Asawase, a Kumasi suburb.

Former Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, who has been accused of using his position to conspire with others to extort GH₵280.51 million from oil marketing companies, has pleaded not guilty to charges filed by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).

Ghana needs a legally binding national development plan to break the cycle of abandoned projects and ensure sustainable development.