Ghanaians seeking to obtain or renew their passports no longer have to travel to Accra for biometric capture, as the Passport Office has published the full list of Passport Application Centres across all sixteen regions.

The Ghana Police Service has arrested three additional suspects in connection with the brutal murder of Sain Devendra Kumar, an Indian national whose body was discovered on April 26, 2026, with multiple stab wounds in the boot of his abandoned vehicle on the outskirts of Sabin Akrofuom in the Ashanti Region.

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has declared three women wanted for their alleged involvement in causing financial loss to the state, according to public notices issued by the anti-graft agency.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed reports suggesting that students under the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy are being charged feeding fees, insisting that no school has been authorised to collect money from parents or students under any guise.

Four people, including a pregnant woman and her daughter, have died in a tragic road crash involving a tipper truck at Kinkinlin near Makango in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region.

The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch), Kofi Asare, has proposed that the number of subject papers written during the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) should be reduced from the current 10/11 to four.

All the four presidential aspirants in the New Patriotic Party's January 2026 primary have been named as co-chairmen of the newly established NPP Policy Committees. 

The NPP flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, in a deliberate signal that the elephant family was closing ranks and marching in one direction, strategically named the four.

The Minority Leader and Third Deputy Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has called on West African states to collectively demand the arrest, prosecution and conviction of South Africans engaged in xenophobic attacks on other African nationals, especially West Africans.

The Head of the Ghana National Office (HNO) of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Dr Rosemond Wilson, has toured some Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) centres in Accra, calling on supervisors and invigilators to allow the candidates to do independent work.

A 60-year-old man has been arrested by the police for allegedly tying his teenage son to a quad motorbike and dragging him along a tarred road at North Legon in Accra, causing the boy multiple injuries.

A man who appeared in a viral video wearing a mask and threatening police officers and soldiers over the arrest of armed robbers has been arrested by the police in the Ashanti Region.

This is Samuel Donkor, the 'one-man teacher' handling 12 classes at at Kakpeni District Assembly School in the Northern Region.

Eleven suspects have been arrested by the police for allegedly using deepfake AI-generated video to impersonate President John Dramani Mahama.

The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts has denied any involvement in or endorsement of the recently held Karnival Kingdom Festival in Accra, even as the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference calls for an urgent investigation into the event, which featured what the bishops describe as "public nudity" and "an eyesore that denigrated the nation's values."

The Chairman of Parliament’s Health Committee, Dr Mark Kurt Nawaane, has urged medical professionals who feel unable to cope with the demands of the profession to resign rather than compromise patient care and professional standards.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has scheduled planned maintenance exercises in the Accra East and Ashanti Regions for Friday, May 8, 2026, as part of ongoing efforts to enhance service reliability and strengthen the stability of the national grid.

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has filed witness statements to open his defence in the ongoing illegal mining-related trial over activities on his Samreboi concession in the Western Region.

The criminal case being prosecuted by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) against former Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta and others came up on the High Court in Accra today.

One of the accused persons, Col. (Rtd.) Kwadwo Damoah, a former Director of Customs and currently serving as the Member of Parliament for Jaman South had applied to the court to be granted permission to travel to London for some days.

The cruise ship hit by an outbreak of hantavirus is on track to dock in the Canary Islands by the weekend.

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has expressed concern that public attention surrounding the publication of doctors’ names in the investigative report into the death of Charles Amissah risks diverting focus from what it describes as deep systemic failures in Ghana’s emergency healthcare system.

An independent investigation into the death of Charles Amissah found that he did not die instantly from his road accident injuries but from prolonged, preventable blood loss (exsanguination) due to failure of emergency medical care.

All final year male students of the Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOTECH) have been asked to vacate the school campus following intelligence gathered by the Upper East Regional Security Council (REGSEC) that they are planning a violent disturbance on campus.

One suspected armed robber has died while three others are in Police custody following an intelligence-led operation by the Ghana Police Service at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region.

Six men have been arrested in the Central Region for allegedly posing as National Security operatives, wearing military and Ghana Immigration Service uniforms, and handcuffing three Chinese nationals at a manufacturing company in Agona Swedru.

A downpour that lasted about five hours on Wednesday kept most residents indoors for a better part of the day at Keta in the Volta Region.