The Majority Caucus in Parliament has rebutted the claims by the Minority Caucus that the Ghana Gold Board has incurred a $214 million loss in gold trade under the Gold for Reserve Programme.

The Caucus said the amount was a transactional and insurance cost the GoldBod incurred in its gold trading activities for 2025.

It said both the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Chief Executive of the GoldBod would, within January and March 2026, render accounts to Parliament as they were statutory required to do so.

A Ministerial Advisory Board (MAB) for the Ministry of Defence has been inaugurated in Accra to help provide strategic guidance on policy direction, national security priorities, and stakeholder engagement.

The Chief Executive Officer of GoldBod, Mr Sammy Gyamfi, has said he will address allegations surrounding reported losses under Ghana’s gold for reserve programme on January 5, 2026.

In a statement posted on social media on Monday, [December, 29, 2025], in response to a press conference by the Minority Caucus in Parliament that stated that the state risks losing close to $300 million under the programme by the end of the year.

Mr Gyamfi said his statement would address issues arising from the International Monetary Fund’s reported loss of $214 million under the Gold for Reserves programme, which is being implemented by the Bank of Ghana with GoldBod, formerly the Precious Minerals Marketing Company.

The Minority Caucus in Parliament is demanding a bipartisan parliamentary inquiry into the circumstances under which Ghana lost $214 million in the first nine months of 2025 under the Gold for Reserve Programme.

The caucus said such an ad hoc investigative committee should have the power to subpoena the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), the Chief Executive of the Ghana Gold Board, and other persons to provide answers into how such a loss occurred.

British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua has been involved in a car crash on the Ogun–Lagos state expressway in Nigeria.

The 36-year-old, has family roots in Sagamu, a town in Ogun State, south-west Nigeria.

A statement from the Ogun State Police Command in Nigeria, confirms that two people died in the crash, which also injured Anthony Joshua.

The Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC), Duncan Amoah, has said the resumption of operations at the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), while commendable, represents only the first of three critical phases required to make the refinery economically viable and environmentally compliant.

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Acknowledging that the successful turnaround maintenance (TAM) had helped dispel a long-standing perception that the refinery was too old to function effectively, Mr Amoah cautioned that the current phase alone was insufficient to sustain operations or meet Ghana’s modern fuel standards. 

The Office of the Volta Regional Chief Imam, Alhaji Ali Muniru has condemned the Boxing Day shooting incident at the Ho Central Mosque by a group of assailants, saying it violated the sanctity of the house of worship and left innocent worshippers injured.

In a statement dated December 27, 2025, issued by the office and signed by the spokesman for the Regional Chief Imam, Chief Adamu Hamani, he said the tragic incident was the outcome of the deliberate and prolonged obstruction to the lawful authority of the Volta Regional Chief Imam, despite his recent affirmation by the National Chief Imam, Sheik Osman Nuhu Shaributu, by a faction at the Sabong Zango. 

There is no category ‘A’ senior high school (SHS) in three of the six newly created regions.

They are the North East, Savannah and Oti regions, the Minister of Education Haruna Iddrisu has said.

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has carried out a series of intelligence-led operations across the Eastern and Greater Accra regions, dismantling several drug dens as part of a festive season crackdown dubbed Operation White Ember.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has announced the arrest of two individuals, including a Canadian national, for allegedly causing extensive unlawful damage at a residence in Oyarifa.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has disclosed that the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has formally responded to Ghana’s request for information regarding investigations into the tragic death of a Ghanaian student, Nana Agyei, in Latvia.

The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) has officially resumed crude oil refining operations after several years of inactivity, marking a significant milestone in efforts to revitalise Ghana’s downstream petroleum sector and strengthen national energy security.

The resumption follows the successful completion of major Turnaround Maintenance (TAM) works on the refinery’s Crude Distillation Unit (CDU), carried out over three months from August 1 to October 30, 2025. 

For the 81-year-old Joseph Aheto, when he realised three years ago in 2022, that all his children had overtaken his level of education and were now professors, he decided to enroll at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to pursue a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Programme.

He obtained his first degree in Business Administration from the University of Ghana in 1978, according to a report published by the University of Cape Coast.

Not wanting to cite age, family responsibilities, or being a pensioner as a reason to discourage him, he decided to go back to school and pursue higher education. 

A total of 10 suspects have been arrested by the police and placed in custody, following the shooting incident at the Central Mosque in Ho in the Volta Region on Boxing Day.

As part of efforts to clamp down on cybercrime, especially mobile money fraudsters, a total of 141 suspects have been arrested in an intelligence-led operation.

The Cyber Security Authority Ghana working in collaboration with the police on Saturday arrested the suspects at Tabora and Lashibi in Greater Accra.

Israel has become the first country to formally recognise Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation.

As part of efforts to enhance Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education, two smart classroom projects have been commissioned at the Battor Senior High Technical School (BASEC) and Aveyime-Battor Senior High School (ABAST), all in the North Tongu constituency of the Volta Region, by the Member of Parliament for the area, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has condemned the theft of food supplies meant for students of the Awaso STEM Senior High School in the Western North Region.

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) on Wednesday responded to a distress call involving a multiple-vehicle accident near the Kintampo Waterfalls.

As the year draws to a close, there is little sense of comfort in the world. Instead of relief, there is tension. Wars continue, global rivalries are sharpening, and trust between nations is thinning. For many people, the concern is no longer whether instability will grow, but how far it might spread, and how long it might last.

Three suspected robbers were killed during a shootout with the police in a bush between Anwiankwanta and the Jacobu Junction in the Ashanti Region on Christmas Eve.

The three were part of a gang of five who reportedly opened fire on the police when they saw them.

A police operation to clamp down on illicit drug dealers and criminal gangs in the East Legon enclave has led to the arrest of 120 suspects, including six women.

A Ghanaian financial institution was hit by a major ransomware attack that encrypted vast volumes of data and disrupted critical services, INTERPOL has disclosed.

A total of nine people got injured on Friday morning after some masked armed men stormed the Ho Central Mosque in the Volta Region, amidst sporadic shooting.

Nigeria provided the US with intelligence on jihadists before the strikes that took place in the country on Christmas Day, its foreign ministry, Nigeria’s foreign minister, Yusuf Tuggar said on Friday.

On Thursday, the US president, Donald Trump, said the US military had carried out strikes against Islamic State militants in north-west Nigeria, after spending weeks decrying the group for targeting Christians.