Businessman Lord Ibrahim Sani has announced his intention to contest Ghana's 2028 presidential election as an independent candidate, unveiling a new youth-led political movement known as the Rising Generation Movement (RGM).

The Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of hypocrisy over its recent nominations to the Supreme Court, arguing that the party's current position contradicts its previous stance on judicial appointments.

President John Dramani Mahama has expressed optimism about the future of the national football team, the Black Stars, saying the current squad has the potential to achieve greater success if it is maintained and given sustained support.

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has said the machinery of chieftaincy adjudication of cases requires urgent modernisation to ensure the speedy resolution of cases brought before chiefs.

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has arrested three persons in connection with the attempted importation of approximately five million tablets of tramadol with an estimated street value of about GH¢100 million.

The Ministry of Education has urged the Ghana Police Service to, as a matter of urgency, locate and arrest the interdicted Bole Senior High School teacher, who remains at large weeks after a nationwide search was announced. 

Government has allocated a one-million-barrel parcel of crude oil from the Jubilee Field for processing by local refineries, marking a major step towards strengthening Ghana’s energy security and expanding domestic refining capacity.

A retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice William Atuguba, has criticised what he described as the growing tendency of politicians to place party loyalty and personal political ambitions above the national interest.

They were convicted four years ago; they served the sentence, went to the Court of Appeal, and the sentence was dismissed.

The Republic (prosecution) appealed to the Supreme Court and lost the case. It came out at the Supreme Court that the police did what is described in local parlance as 'kululu.' 

Graphic Online's Justice Agbenorsi reports that a police investigator's close relationship with a complainant (a foreign national) in a criminal trial has drawn sharp criticism from the Supreme Court, which held that the officer showed a real likelihood of bias against two men who stood trial at the High Court in a $270,000 gold export scam case. 

Despite opposition by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and boycott by the Minority, Parliament has passed the Public Tribunal Bill, 2026, to establish a legal framework for the operation of tribunals in Ghana. 

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has opposed the reintroduction of the public tribunal system in Ghana.

Tony Forson, a private legal practitioner and former President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Justice Sophia Rosetta Bernasko Essah and Justice Edward Amoako Asante, both Justices of the Court of Appeal have been nominated for appointment to the bench of the Supreme Court.

President John Dramani Mahama made the nomination in a move that will increase the membership of the country's apex court if approved.

The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) has received one million barrels of Ghana's indigenous Jubilee Medium Sweet Crude, as part of efforts to revive the Ghana's only state-owned refinery and strengthen energy security through increased local refining.

The Ministry of Health is to reopen the recruitment portal to absorb 16,000 nurses in two phases, President John Dramani Mahama has announced.

This is to help reduce the backlog of qualified nurses awaiting posting in Ghana.

The 43-year-old social media influencer, Camilla Alhassan, who claimed in a series of TikTok videos that President John Dramani Mahama had sacrificed 32 cows to secure political power, has been slapped with a one-year jail term. 

The Presidential Adviser at the 24-Hour Economy Authority, Goosie Tanoh, has said the government’s 24-Hour Economy initiative is not merely about extending working hours but transforming the country into a high-productivity economy capable of creating better-paying jobs through industrialisation and value addition.

The government has selected an investor to help revive Volta Star Textiles Limited at Juapong in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region, President John Dramani Mahama has said.

The Controller and Accountant-General's Department has clarified that the nearly GH¢11 billion earmarked for the Accra-Kumasi Expressway project has not been spent on construction, contrary to claims circulating on social media.

In a press release dated July 16, 2026, the CAGD said the claims are based on a misunderstanding of government accounting procedures.

Twelve persons have died, and 44 others have been injured following a fatal road traffic accident involving three vehicles at Konongo Anglican Basic School in the Ashanti Region, the Ghana National Fire Service has confirmed.

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has warned that spraying cedi notes at weddings and other social events, making money bouquets for celebrations, and mishandling the national currency are criminal offences punishable under Ghanaian law.

Two men who carried out a cyber-attack which crippled Transport For London (TfL) when they were teenagers have both been sentenced to five years and six months in prison.

Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, and Thalha Jubair, 20, from east London, pleaded guilty in June to carrying out the hack in 2024.

The remains of Bashiru Isak, the Ghanaian who was recently killed in South Africa have been brought home, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

The High Court in Accra has struck out as withdrawn an application by the Attorney-General seeking to revoke the travel permission granted to former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba, after ruling that the order had already lapsed.

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has settled a long-standing financial burden, paying out a total of GH¢162 million in full settlement of outstanding obligations to individual holders of Cocoa Bills who chose not to participate in the government’s Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP).

The ongoing Accra-Tema Motorway expansion has sparked safety concerns among commuters, traders and motorists who have called for improved traffic management measures as construction works continue.