Former Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has appeared on Interpol's Red Notice as a wanted man for using public office for profit.

Legendary Ghanaian broadcaster, Mike Eghan, famed for his 1970s television show, The Mike Eghan Show, has passed away, aged 89.

President John Mahama has announced a series of environmental reforms, including a ban on the use of wood for school furniture and plans to phase out styrofoam as a food packaging material.

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has posted an operating loss of GH¢9.49 billion for the 2024 financial year, a significant but narrowed deficit compared to the GH¢13.23 billion loss restated for 2023.

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that the government will soon ban the production and importation of styrofoam food containers in Ghana.

In a gruesome act, residents of Assin Akropong in the Assin Fosu area of the Central Region woke up on Wednesday to discover that grave looters had exhumed the remains of a 15-year-old boy, Kenneth Ampofo five days after he had been buried.

After serving 23 years behind bars, a mechanic, Yaw Asante Agyekum, who was wrongly convicted alongside Ataa Ayi, a notorious armed robber in 2002 is now a free man after the Court of Appeal set aside his conviction. 

A 30-year-old woman who allegedly poured some substance suspected to be acid on her taxi driver ex-boyfriend has been arrested by the Tesano Divisional Police Command.

At a time when fiscal prudence, macroeconomic recovery, and energy security are all in delicate balance, the Government of Ghana’s decision to increase the Energy Sector Recovery Levy (ESLA) by GH¢1 per litre deserves more than a cursory political response, it requires sober, data-driven analysis.

Tanzania has decided to block access to social media platform X because it allows pornographic content to be shared, the information minister has said.

US President Donald Trump has signed a ban on travel to the US from 12 countries citing national security risks, according to the White House.

There are also seven additional countries whose nationals will face a partial travel restrictions.

The US president said the list could be revised if "material improvements" were made and additional countries could be added as "threats emerge around the world".

The Volta Regional Police Command has intercepted a large sum of money, which was in fertilizer bags, in a commercial vehicle en route to Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.

The police intercepted the money made up of GH¢1 notes and coins, totaling GH¢1,021,700, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, around 4:45 pm during a routine snap check near Juapong in the Volta Region.

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.