The Deputy Minister of Finance, Thomas Nyarko Ampem, has urged pastors and other religious leaders to use their sermons to encourage tax payment with the same enthusiasm they show when preaching about tithing. He said paying taxes was both a moral and patriotic duty to Ghana. Speaking in Accra onContinue Reading
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has said it has made significant progress in its efforts to recover suspected illicit assets with the seizure and freezing of properties valued at more than GH¢100 million and over US$100,000 in the ongoing investigations at the National Petroleum Authority (NPA). According toContinue Reading
Tension has enveloped the Basyonde community in the Tempane District of the Upper East Region following an alleged invasion by armed military personnel on Monday morning, November 3, 2025. The soldiers reportedly entered the community around 11:00 a.m., some hours after two Immigration Service officers were shot by unknown gunmenContinue Reading
The German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in Accra on Sunday evening for a three-day state visit to Ghana. President Steinmeier was met on arrival at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, and the German Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Frederik Landshöft. President Steinmeier,Continue Reading
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah, has laid a new legislative instrument (L.I. 2505) in Parliament to prevent mining in forest reserves. The instrument, known as the Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) (Revocation Instrument, 2025), will take effect once it matures after 21 sitting days.Continue Reading
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has been appointed a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) Taskforce on the peaceful resolution of the war in Ukraine. In a statement dated October 30, 2025, issued by the Parliamentary Service and signed by the Director of Media Relations, David SebastianContinue Reading
Twelve persons have been arrested by Ghana Police following the discovery of 598 cartons of BB cartridges at Nsakye, near Nsawam in the Eastern Region, on Tuesday, October 28, 2025. The police confirmed the arrests in a statement issued on Wednesday [October 29, 2025]. According to the police, the suspectsContinue Reading
The National Service Authority (NSA) has deployed 85,159 tertiary graduates to undertake their one-year mandatory national service across public and private institutions in the country. In a statement issued on October 28, 2025, the Director-General of the NSA, Ms Ruth Dela Seddoh, said the figure represents the first batch ofContinue Reading
The presidency has asked ministers of state to desist from publicly announcing policy initiatives or programmes without first obtaining Cabinet approval. The directive, given in a circular dated Monday, October 27, 2025, and signed by the Secretary to the Cabinet, Professor Kwaku Danso-Boafo, emphasized that non-compliance constitutes a breach ofContinue Reading
Following Eric Oduro Osae’s submission of official documents to the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) to validate his use of the academic title “Dr.”, GTEC has concluded that the joint Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Political Economy he obtained from the Universidad Central de Nicaragua (UCN) and the Doctor of Political EconomyContinue Reading
