The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has completed the concept and design of new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-enabled number plates, with a nationwide rollout scheduled for 2027, the Chief Executive Officer, Julius Neequaye Kotey, has announced.

The Minority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has called on journalists to intensify their investigative work and hold public institutions accountable, following recent major narcotics-related incidents.  

The Electoral Commission (EC) is the most important institution in our democracy.

Over the weekend, social media exploded with images from the call of over 1,500 men and women to the Ghana Bar.

An 87-year-old man, Yaw Gahornu, has been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a nine-year-old girl at Ofankor in Greater Accra.

The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has called on the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA) and the Technical Universities Senior Administrators Association of Ghana (TUSAAG) to call off their strike for normal academic work to proceed at all public universities across the country.

The government is working to pay eligible teachers their outstanding promotion-related salary adjustments by October 16, 2026, Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has said.

President John Dramani Mahama has sworn in a law lecturer, Dr Joseph Kwaku Asamoah, and a public policy and development expert, Emilia Affi Agbenyo, as Deputy Chairpersons of the Electoral Commission (EC), charging them to uphold the highest standards of integrity and impartiality in the management of the country’s electoral process.

A Sergeant stationed at the Madina Police station has been arrested and placed in custody over a shooting incident at the Adenta Ritz junction that resulted in injuries to two people last Sunday.

It followed a confrontation between General Sergeant Mathew Aboase, and some drivers of the Ritz Junction Taxi Drivers Union.

 The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked aspirants seeking various positions at the constituency, regional and national levels to ensure that their campaign posters and banners do not exceed five feet in width and eight feet in height.

The Minister for the Interior, Mr Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka, has appealed to Ghanaians to assist law enforcement agencies with credible intelligence without imposing excessive financial conditions, revealing that an informant recently demanded US$20 million from the Narcotics Control Commission in exchange for information.

Bank lending rates have fallen sharply over the past 26 years, reducing the cost of credit for businesses but financial experts say banks must now lend more to productive sectors to support economic growth.

A man in his 20s died after climbing into the Amur tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster in Northern England on Saturday afternoon, October 10, 2026.

Two new appointed deputy chairpersons of the Electoral Commission, Emelia Afi Agbenyo and Joseph Kwaku Asamoah have been sworn into office by President John Dramani Mahama, reports Graphic Online's presidential correspondent, Kester Aburam Korankye. 

The two took the oath of office at the seat of government, formally assuming their roles to support the EC’s mandate.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) Julius Neequaye Kotey has said the elimination of DP plates issued at the ports for imported vehicles and replacing them with stickers have helped greatly to get rid of fraud in the issuance of the numbers at the ports. 

Before April 2025, when the DVLA started issuing DP stickers, he said an average maximum of 1,900 vehicles were deemed to be cleared from the port per month but that increased to over 5,000 in April 2025, and by October 2025, the figure had risen to 15,000 stickers per month.

The Attorney-General has urged the Accra High Court to dismiss a submission of no case filed by Mr Kwabena Adu-Boahene, former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, arguing that the prosecution has established a prima facie case against him and his co-accused.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority has introduced a simulator testing system to enhance the driver's licence testing regime, testing prospective applicants in a virtual environment and determining their responsiveness to road-related scenarios.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has introduced six Ghanaian languages on its computer-based driving theory test platform to help applicants who cannot read or write in English.

The Minister of the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, has disclosed that there were plans to introduce polygraph testing for personnel selected for certain sensitive security assignments, alongside improvements in equipment, working conditions and supervision.

According to the minister, this will help deal with suspected leaks within the security services, which were hampering Ghana'sfight against drug trafficking.

I write anonymously on behalf of hundreds of desperate farmers whose livelihoods have been impaired due to the construction of the Accra-Kumasi Expressway.

It has happened again.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced that its global crackdown on scam centre fraud, Operation Blackout, has so far resulted in the seizure of roughly US$17 billion, the arrest of hundreds of alleged scammers and the freeing of thousands of trafficked workers, while acknowledging the role of Ghanaian authorities in the operation.

The Bono Regional Police Command has arrested eight suspects over the alleged assault of a 21-year-old man during what investigators describe as his initiation into internet fraud - 'sakawa' - at Kotokrom in the Sunyani West Municipality.

The leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has directed all prospective parliamentary aspirants, their agents and supporters to cease all forms of campaign activities with immediate effect.

Pope Leo XIV has announced he will be operated on "in the coming days" after a nodule was found on his lung during a medical check-up.