Owners of vehicles registered before 2023 will have to pay GH¢25 to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) for their records to be updated digitally, the Director of Driver Training, Testing, and Licensing at the DVLA, Prosper Kafui Semevo has announced.

Addressing a press conference in Accra on Tuesday [Jan 13, 2026], he said the onboarding process was meant to verify the ownership of manually registered vehicles and also block uncustomed vehicles from the system.

Mr Semevo explained that the onboarding process would require customers to personally visit DVLA offices and other designated centers with their vehicles, registration documents, custom declaration forms, and Ghana card for their bio data to be verified.

The Gbese District Court in Accra has adjourned its ruling in the extradition proceedings involving Frederick Kumi, popularly known as Abu Trica, after the State disclosed that it had no evidence against two of the accused persons, even as the court declined to discharge them.

The Ghana Police Service has arrested five people in connection with a taxi phone-snatching ring that targeted passengers, mostly women, across Accra and surrounding communities.

Seven people have been confirmed dead and 18 others injured following a head-on collision between a Sprinter bus and a Man Diesel truck at Komenda Asamasa on the Cape Coast–Takoradi Highway.

The Ghana Water Limited (GWL) has ordered the reassignment of 41 out of its 103 district managers after they failed to meet revenue mobilisation and loss reduction targets, the Managing Director, Mr Adam Mutawakilu, has disclosed.

A nine-member National Timber Monitoring Team was inaugurated in Accra yesterday with a mandate to work to contain illegal logging to sustain the country’s forest resources. 

The National Vice-President of the Poultry Farmers Association, Boris Baidoo, has indicated that Ghana’s poultry industry must focus on innovation rather than subsidies if it is to thrive.

The Samugyah Praise Foundation has donated an unspecified sum to the Graphic Needy Trust Fund and the Happy Family Home Orphanage in Accra.

A Professor of ICT Education at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Professor Issifu Yidana, has called for a shift in how technology is taught and applied in the country’s education system, stressing that current approaches fall short of achieving meaningful learning outcomes.

The KGL Foundation has inaugurated a newly renovated 24-seater water closet toilet facility for the boys’ dormitories of the Presbyterian Senior High Technical School (PRESEC) at Adukrom in the Okere District.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is making significant strides in improving child nutrition and learning outcomes by introducing fortified rice into Ghana’s school feeding system.

A counselling psychologist, Dr Cecelia Tutu-Danquah, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to engage professional counsellors to support pupils and students in basic schools. 

THE Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is collaborating with the Petroleum Commission and the National Petroleum Corporation to recover an amount of $360,240 in debt as surface rental fees from two companies operating in the country currently.

The Steering Committee of Disputes Convocation, made up of young professional arbitrators in Ghana, has honoured Nana Dr S.K.B. Asante, an eminent international arbitrator, with the recognition as the “Father of Modern Arbitration” in modern Ghana.

If years could speak, 2025 would tell a story of mixed reactions across the Northern, North East and Savannah regions.

A counselling psychologist, Dr Cecelia Tutu-Danquah, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to engage professional counsellors to support pupils and students in basic schools. 

The National Association for Heavy-Duty Equipment Operators, Ghana (NAHEOG), in collaboration with the Regional Maritime University (RMU), has graduated its ninth batch of trained mobile crane and forklift operators.

A strategic partnership between the West Africa Food System Resilience Programme (WAFSRP) and agribusiness firm, FarmMate Ltd, has significantly boosted tomato production in Ghana, recording an estimated 240 tonnes of tomatoes in its first round of production in the Upper East Region.

The Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Johnson Pandit Asiama, has called on Parliament and other relevant stakeholders to come on board to reform the Gold-for-Reserves (G4R) programme to improve its effectiveness to support the country's economic stabilisation and reserves.

Akosua Serwaah has filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal in Kumasi against a High Court decision that recognised both her and Priscilla Ofori, also known as Odo Broni, as the lawful surviving spouses of the late highlife legend Charles Kwadwo Fosu, popularly known as Daddy Lumba.