Russia has doubled its annual scholarship allocation for Ghanaian students from 120 to 240.

The successful conduct of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) regional executive elections marks more than an internal housekeeping exercise.

The Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, has called for a well-integrated risk management approach to address Ghana's perennial flooding problem.

The Ghana Police Service has urged the public to disregard a flyer in circulation on social media on the use of AirPods and earphones while driving.

Attached below is a copy of a police statement setting the records straight

POLICE URGE PUBLIC TO DISREGARD FALSE FLYER ON USE OF AIRPODS AND EARPHONES WHILE DRIVING

President John Dramani Mahama has announced plans to put proposed amendments to Ghana’s entrenched constitutional provisions to a referendum alongside next year’s District Assembly elections, as part of efforts to advance the government’s constitutional reform agenda.

The Deputy Attorney General Dr Justice Srem-Sai has explained why the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), rather than the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), is leading Ghana’s local investigations into the AKSA bribery scandal.

Ignatius Kwesi Afrifa, a former Amenfi West parliamentary candidate, has been elected the new Western Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), polling 265 votes, representing 72.207 percent of valid ballots cast, to defeat his closest challenger, Abdul Ganiyu Mohammed, who obtained 102 votes.

The new Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Odeneho Kwaku Appiah alias COKA, has urged members of the party to put aside their personal differences, combine their strengths, and work together to rebuild the NPP in the region.

The General Overseer of Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, has revealed how “very powerful people with deep pockets” who used to profit from the illegal gold mining business in Ghana are no longer getting direct access to gold following the introduction of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod).

The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has ordered specified senior management officials of public universities to return to work, saying they are not eligible to participate in the ongoing industrial action by the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA) and the Technical University Senior Administrators’ Association of Ghana (TUSAAG).

The Accra High Court has adjourned the trial of former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, and his wife, Angela Adjei-Boateng, to August 25, 2026 until the final determination of an application seeking to restrain the trial court from sitting during the legal vacation.

My second shock when I entered school in September 1987 was not academic. It was culinary.

Fourteen people have been arrested by the police in the Upper East region on suspicion of cultivating and distributing narcotic drugs [wee] at Daliga in the Nabdam District.

The fight against corruption in Ghana has stagnated, with no evidence of change, the Executive Director of Transparency International (TI-Ghana), Mary Addah, has stated.

Hundreds of residents from Dome-Kwabenya, Comet, Berekuso, Agyementi and Kitase on Monday morning took to the streets to protest and demand rehabilitation and completion of the Dome-Kwabenya–Berekuso–Kitase Road.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) last Saturday held its regional executive elections as the party reorganises ahead of the 2028 general election.

The government is pursuing a five-year strategic plan to strengthen the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry to enable the country to produce a greater proportion of the medicines it currently imports, President John Dramani Mahama has said.

Cameroun's senior female football team, the Indomitable Lionesses in winning the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) have also swept the individual awards.

The Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroun have beaten Malawi's Scorchers 3-0 to lift the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title for the first time.

Ecuador police seize cocaine packaged with image of soccer star Erling Haaland.

Drugs, packaged with the image of Manchester City and Norway national team striker Erling Haaland were confiscated by Ecuadorian police on Tuesday (August 11), the country’s national police said.

Two people died on Sunday night after a Scienta vehicle collided head-on with a Metro Mass Transit (MMT) bus at Assin Fosu in the Central Region.

Thirty of the ambulances that were at the centre of a controversy over whether or not they were fit for purpose, because they were said to be mere buses that had been imported and were to be retrofitted for proper use as ambulances andhad been parked at the Burma Camp in Accra for many years, have now been handed over to National Security.

The National Security outfit is to refurbish them and integrate them into the national emergency response fleet.

The Ministry of Health (MoH), in collaboration with the National Ambulance Service (NAS), at the weekend handed over the 30 ambulances stationed at the Ghana Air Force Base at Burma Camp in Accra to National Security.

Abdul-Aziz Abdu-Rahaman has been elected as the Upper West Regional Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

He polled 173 votes to defeat Kantong Alaska, who obtained 86 votes.

A Ghanaian evacuee from South Africa passed away shortly after arriving at Accra International Airport from South Africa on Friday evening (August 14, 2026), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced.

Dear Mirror Lawyer,

I married my wife under the customary law in Ghana in May 2023.  

Our marriage has been blessed with a beautiful baby girl.