The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts has announced a new national initiative encouraging all Ghanaians and friends of Ghana to wear Fugu (Batakari) every Wednesday.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has released the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Ayawaso East, Baba Jamal, on self-recognisance bail after several hours of interrogation.
The High Court in Accra has dismissed an application seeking to refer portions of a practice direction which require accused persons in criminal trials to file the list of defence witnesses and their address to the Supreme Court for constitutional interpretation.
The application was filed by a former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA), Gifty Oware-Mensah, who has been accused of causing financial loss of more than GH¢38 million to the state.
The Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has proposed a national day for Ghanaian students to wear traditional attire in schools across the country, as part of efforts to preserve and promote local cultural identity.
The call was made in Accra on February 10, 2026, during the closing ceremony of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
President John Dramani Mahama has sworn in members of Ghana’s National African Peer Review Mechanism Governing Council in Accra on Tuesday February, 10, 2026.
Firefighters from the Nadowli Fire Station in the Upper West Region have successfully contained a market fire, preventing it from spreading to nearby shops and residential buildings.
President John Dramani Mahama has outlined the government’s comprehensive vision to improve healthcare delivery, revealing that a portion of the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, otherwise known as MahamaCares, has been dedicated to the training of specialist doctors.
The Kumasi Shoe Factory could create 1,500 new jobs within months under the government’s 24-hour Economy programme, but it remains largely idle due to the lack of a ready market.
Food insecurity in Ghana remains volatile and unevenly distributed, with 12.5 million people affected as of the third quarter of 2025, despite a marginal improvement from earlier in the year, according to the latest Quarterly Food Insecurity Report released in Accra today.
President John Dramani Mahama has called an emergency Cabinet meeting to address challenges in the cocoa sector, the Minister of State in charge of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has announced.
The Court of Appeal has granted the Bank of Ghana (BoG) leave to file its written submissions in the case in which Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom is challenging the license revocation of GN Savings and Loans Company Limited.
A police officer has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers during an attack on the Zebilla–Widnaba road in the Upper East Region.
The incident occurred on Sunday, February 8, 2026, at about 8pm. Two police officers were travelling from Widnaba towards Zebilla, when they reportedly encountered an ongoing armed robbery incident along the road.
Ghana has scored 43 out of 100 in the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index, maintaining the same score for the sixth consecutive year while falling five places to rank 76th among 182 countries assessed, Transparency International Ghana announced on February10 2026.
Four armed men guarding an illegal mining site at Anbanzie in the Nzema East District of the Western Region have been arrested after a night operation by the National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat.
Efforts to reactivate passenger rail services on the Kojokrom–Sekondi Railway Line have been disrupted by repeated acts of sabotage, the Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDA) has confirmed.
A new global analysis from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and its International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) shows that up to four in ten cancer cases worldwide could be prevented.
The country has launched an Aviation Security Culture campaign meant to restore public confidence in air travel and strengthen safety standards at airports nationwide.
The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture has signed an agreement with the W. E. B. Du Bois Foundation to redevelop the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre in Accra into a world-class Pan-African premier museum complex.
The Scripture Union (SU) Ghana has held a mammoth national youth rally in Accra aimed at shaping character formation and instilling leadership and sexual discipline among the youth in the country.
An inter-ministerial committee has selected a consortium of investors to partner the state to inject $600 million into the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) to give the state-owned enterprise a new lease of life.
