Accra Hearts of Oak have many iconic feats to their name, and on Sunday at the Baba Yara Stadium, they added another, courtesy of a vintage showing that fetched a 1- 0 victory over Asante Kotoko.

Playing with 10 men for more than an hour, the Phobians lived every letter of their "Never Say Die" motto, repelling wave after wave of pressure to secure all three points in the Ghana Premier League clash.

It was some revenge on the Porcupine Warriors, who had won the reverse encounter in Accra by a similar margin, but yesterday's victory was devoid of all the controversies that attended Kotoko's victory back in November.

The Ministry for the Interior has confirmed that a truck carrying Ghanaian tomato traders was caught in a terrorist attack in Titao, Burkina Faso, on Saturday February 14, 2026.

This morning, and probably against my better judgement, I decided to follow the debates surrounding the recent tanking of cocoa farm gate prices in Ghana. As expected it was again, almost all about the crippling, debilitating, partisan, binary, zero-sum-game: whodunnit and ‘who-do-we-hail-or-threaten-to-jail-for-what-we-don’t-even-know-yet’. Damp squib! Do these people even talk to each other?

The government has begun moves to extradite a Russian national accused of secretly recording and publishing intimate videos of Ghanaian women online, with the Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, declaring that the suspect will face the full force of Ghana’s laws.

Many years ago, when Mr John Ampao met his wife, Josephine, in Lagos, Nigeria, their dream was simple, like that of most immigrants — to work hard, earn a decent income and raise their family without struggle.

Life in Lagos was not easy, but it was promising. Mr Ampao, a trained visual artist, ran an art gallery where he created and sold paintings. Josephine, a food vendor, also supported the home while caring for their growing family.

Then one morning, everything started changing.

African leaders have elected President Évariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi as Chairperson of the African Union for 2026, as the 39th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government opened in Addis Ababa with renewed calls for unity, institutional reform and water security across the continent.

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Dr Agnes Naa Momo Lartey, has urged Ghanaians to refrain from sharing non-consensual intimate videos of Ghanaian women allegedly recorded secretly and circulated online by a Russian national.

Any public sector employee who does not verify their Ghana Card details on the newly introduced e-Payslip platform by March 15, 2026, risks having their salaries suspended by the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD).

Three people were burnt beyond recognition in a road traffic accident that resulted in a fire at Signboard near Okanta, off the Suhim–Accra N6-Highway on Saturday dawn.

Following a targeted intelligence-led operation at Pokuase in the Greater Accra Region, a human trafficking and organised cybercrime syndicated has been busted by the police.

Former Vice-President and New Patriotic Party flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has opened up about the personal attacks he endured during the party’s recent presidential primary, attributing his response and eventual victory to patience, good character and unwavering faith in God.

The Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection (MoGCSP) has reacted to reports of a foreign national, said to be a Russian, who allegedly engaged in sexual activities with some Ghanaian women during a visit to Ghana, video recorded and circulated the acts without their consent on social media. 

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that Ghana will stop relying on foreign funding to purchase cocoa and will instead mobilise domestic resources to finance the crop, in a move he says will strengthen local processing and support economic growth.

The parties in the suit challenging the decision by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to award the contract for the production new number plates to a single entity beginning 2026 have agreed to resolve the case out of court. 

The DVLA had reportedly awarded the contract for the production of 2026 vehicle number plates and the planned introduction of new number plates should Parliament approve the proposed bill for the new numbers to a single entity, Original Manufacturers and Embossment Company Limited, the company owned by one Nyarko Esumadu Appiah, also known as Daasebre.

Former Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta's name has been deleted from INTERPOL's Red Notice "permanently" as a wanted man.

Cabinet has directed the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice to commission a concurrent forensic audit and criminal investigations into the activities of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) between 2017 and 2024.

The Minority in Parliament has urged the government to provide cocoa farmers a bailout package to cushion them against low prices of cocoa rather than drastically reducing producer price by 28 per cent.

The Producer Price Review Committee (PPRC) has announced new prices for cocoa at the farmgate for the rest of the 2025/2026 crop season, pegging a tonne of the beans at GH¢41,392 and a bag of 64 kilogrammes at GH¢2,587.

The Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has directed investigations into the circumstances under which a hit-and-run victim was refused emergency care by three major hospitals in Accra - Ridge, Police, and Korle Bu - for close to three hours before he died last week.

The minister has said he will personally chair the investigative committee on Monday, February 16, to help unravel the circumstances surrounding that “No Bed Syndrome” incident that led to the denial of emergency care to 29-year-old Charles Amissah, who was involved in a hit-and-run incident at Nkrumah Overpass.

One person has died and 15 others sustained injuries following a road traffic accident at Peki Tsame near Mawutor Inn on the Peki–Asikuma highway in the Volta Regon.

The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr, has said the GH¢80,000 paid to him as damages by Kennedy Ohene Agyapong in the defamation suit he filed against him is still intact and "untouched" in the bank account of his lawyers.

He said this following a Court of Appeal ruling on Thursday, which said he should refund the money to Mr Agyapong.

The Tarkwa District Magistrate Court Two has sentenced an 18-year-old small-scale miner, Theophilus Fameye, to 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labour for stealing an iPhone 11 valued at GH¢2,600 from a student.

A 34-year-old trader who allegedly wore a military uniform to impress a nurse at the 37 Military Hospital has appeared before the Adabraka District Court.

The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has set up a team of experts in road safety to investigate the spate of road crashes involving Toyota Voxy vehicles being used for commercial purposes.

The Supreme Court has ordered the Attorney-General to produce the document covering Ghana’s decision to accept West African deportees who were previously held by United States (US) authorities.