The Minister of Labour, Jobs and Employment, Dr Abdul-Rashid Hassan Pelpuo, has expressed the government’s commitment to implement revolutionary and transformational policies to create sustainable, decent and well-paying jobs.

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has postponed the implementation of the GH¢1 Energy Sector Levies (Amendment) Act, 2025, originally set to begin yesterday, to Monday, June 16, this year.

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An ongoing strike by public sector nurses is taking a toll on healthcare delivery in the country, with some major hospitals struggling to provide basic services as some of the wards have been deserted.

Parliament has passed the Energy Sector Levies (Amendment) Bill, 2025, to impose a GH¢1 on every litre of petroleum products to raise additional funds to defray the $3.7 billion energy sector debts.

Livestock prices in Tamale have dropped significantly ahead of the Eid-ul-Adha celebration on Friday, bringing relief to buyers.

The Bank of Ghana is set to implement a policy to block leakages in remittance inflows as part of efforts to further stabilise the local currency. 

President John Mahama has reaffirmed his commitment to preserving the independence of Ghana’s anti-corruption agencies, assuring that his administration will not interfere with ongoing investigations or pressurise the agencies to drop the cases.  

The Dansoman Circuit Court has remanded two people who allegedly valdalising concrete walls and uncompleted building and fence walls at Kwabenya in Accra. 

The massive 3319.66 kilogrammes of substance, which had been concealed in sacks, bags, and cleverly hidden in heaps of sand in a tipper truck to evade detection while being transported to Accra but was intercepted at Pedu junction in Cape Coast by the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) have tested positive and confirmed to be cocaine.

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS)successfully rescued a dog that had fallen into a dry well measuring 10.5 metres deep in the Koradaso area of Begoro. 

Canadian multinational conglomerate Rektron Group Incorporated has announced plans to acquire a controlling 60 per cent equity stake in AT Ghana Limited, the telecommunications company currently owned by the government of Ghana.

A 30-year-old man has been arrested in Kabokweni, outside White River, South Africa, in connection with the alleged murder of his elder sister, whose body he allegedly buried in a shallow grave at his residence nearly a year ago.

According to police, the suspect was taken into custody on Tuesday after he allegedly confessed to burying his sister, aged 44, in the yard at his home in Mpumalanga.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has secured a conviction for Thomas Andy Owusu, an aide to Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in a corruption case tied to illegal mining licensing.

The government has disbursed GH¢987.96 million to the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) as the first quarter allocation for 2025, the Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has told Parliament.

President John Mahama has projected that the Ghana cedi will stabilise within a band of GH¢10 and GH¢12 against the United States (US) dollar, describing it as a fair value to support both exporters and importers while maintaining macroeconomic stability.  

A massive $2.5 billion project by Sentuo Building Materials Complex, an initiative under the government's Big Push programme, has stalled due to a dispute with squatters on the site.

Ghana’s year-on-year inflation rate fell significantly to 18.4 per cent in May 2025, marking a continued slowdown from the 21.2 per cent recorded in April and extending the country’s disinflation trend for a fifth consecutive month.

Two final-year students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have developed an innovative, low-cost phototherapy device to treat neonatal jaundice in newborns, offering a potential lifeline to resource-constrained health facilities across Ghana and beyond.

Consumers are going to pay GH¢1 per every one litre of fuel purchased following the Parliamentary approval of the Energy Sector Levy (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which was introduced in Parliament on Tuesday, [June 3, 2025] under a certificate of urgency by the Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson.

The Ministry of the Interior has issued a strong warning to the public against a fraudulent recruitment message circulating on social media, which falsely claims to offer opportunities to join the Ghana Security Services through an online “Data Gathering Form.”

President John Dramani Mahama has said the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice is currently building 33 cases of corruption and related offences against former government appointees.

Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, popularly known as NAPO, has confirmed that he was invited by the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) in relation to his time as Minister of Education under the erstwhile Nana Akufo-Addo administration.

Ghana has taken a major step towards reinforcing its position as a leading oil and gas producer in West Africa, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the government and key energy partners to extend the production licences for the Jubilee and TEN oil fields to 2040.