In recent weeks, I have written about Ghana’s child protection system, the need for a sex offender register, and the alarming adolescent pregnancies recorded between January and July 2026.

Ghana’s $10 billion merchandise trade surplus in 2025 was driven largely by gold exports, exposing the economy’s vulnerability to volatile international commodity prices and underscoring the urgent need to diversify exports, the Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Professor Robert Darko Osei, has warned.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi, says the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector generated $10.8 billion in foreign exchange (FX) in 2025, attributing the performance to reforms that brought more gold previously lost to smuggling and illegal trade into the formal economy.

The Majority Chief Whip in Parliament, Rockson-Nelson Etse Dafeamekpor, has reiterated the government’s commitment to supporting community-initiated projects to accelerate development across the country. 

The newly consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Sunyani, Very Reverend Martin Apraku Amankwah, has called for a renewed emphasis on Christian values to tackle greed, selfishness and political divisions undermining national development.

Some drug traffickers in Ghana are acquiring scanners and exploiting insider access to evade detection, the Director-General of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), Brigadier General Maxwell Obuba Mantey has told Parliament's Public Accounts Committee.

Nigeria has recorded a case of Ebola in a female patient who travelled from Uganda in East Africa to Abuja, the capital of the West African state.

Following the Auditor-General’s recent report on performance on the inmate support programme at the Ghana Prisons Service that identified persistent reintegration challenges in addition to a number of discharged inmates ending up back in prison due to poor rehabilitation, the management of the service has identified funding as the main reason for their inability to execute that mandate successfully.

The Ghana Education Service has directed the Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Dr William Amankrah Appiah, and the Obuasi East Municipal Director of Education, Mr Kwamena Owusu-Nketiah, to step aside with immediate effect as investigations continue into allegations of sexual misconduct involving the headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School, Mr Zakaria Abdulai.

The recruitment portal meant for enlisting personnel for the security services will not be opened for new applicants in 2027, the Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak has said.

Rather, the security services including police, prisons, fire and immigration plan to draw from the existing pool of applicants who passed the screening and medical examinations in the 2025/2026 recruitment exercise but were not called for training.

A new study has found statistically significant associations between frequent gaming and negative mental health outcomes, including anxiety, depression and feelings of guilt or shame, among university students in Accra.

The Electricity Company of Ghana has announced it will soon commence a Nationwide Meter Audit Exercise across all its operational areas to curb electricity theft and reduce commercial losses.

The Auditor-General’s report has found that wages earned by prison inmates who worked for Zoomlion Ghana Limited were not given to them, rather the Service spent the money on funeral donations, water, tuna, snacks, bus repairs and other items.

The report puts the total figure of the money at GH¢277,625, which was meant to have gone to the inmates, but the Prisons Service spent it.

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has given Franko Herbal Centre 14 days to recall Franko Herbal Mixture from the market after the FDA said laboratory tests found the product contained diazepam and paracetamol, which were not declared as ingredients.

Mr Zakaria Abdulai has formally resigned from his position as the Juaben Constituency Secretary of the National Democratic Congress and withdrawn his candidature for the constituency chairmanship position, effective immediately.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has directed the headmaster of Obuasi Senior High Technical School (SHTS), Zakaria Abdulai, to step aside from the Juaben Constituency chairmanship race pending an investigation by the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service.

Two officers from the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) who received up to GH¢57,006 in unearned salaries have been given a deadline of November 7, 2026, to refund.

The officials who authorised the payments have been told that they will be held financially responsible if the money is not recovered.

The Western Regional Marine Police Command is coordinating a search for a missing fishing canoe, Second Chance, and its seven crew members.

Ghana's industrial transformation agenda received a major boost yesterday when the Petroleum Hub Development Corporation (PHDC) signed a landmark $28 billion Build-Own-Operate (BOO) agreement with a Korea-Emirati-Mali consortium for the second phase of the Ghana Petroleum and Petrochemicals Hub.

A Member of the National Media Commission (NMC), Kobby Asmah, has advised journalists to uphold professionalism, integrity and ethical standards, warning that trading credibility for money could undermine their careers and public trust in the media.

The Ghana High Commission in Pretoria has clarified that data discrepancies highlighted in a recent news report of the government’s South Africa evacuation exercise were clerical errors, not indications of falsified identities.

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has asked Asian investors to take advantage of Ghana’s improved economic gains and competitive environment by partnering their Ghanaian counterparts to establish multinational companies that can profit from Africa’s over 1.5 billion consumers.

President John Dramani Mahama has announced a phased ban on the export of unprocessed minerals by 2030.

Every October, breast cancer campaigners repeat the same message: the disease is treatable when caught early, but fear, stigma and misinformation keep many women away from hospitals until it is too late.

The Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah has said targeted interventions have helped the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi for instance to reduce maternal deaths by 30 per cent in recent months.