President John Dramani Mahama has stated that Ghana is looking inwards to fund its healthcare needs, and announced a series of domestic measures that will move the country away from donor dependency.

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The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Food and Buffer Stock Company Limited (NAFCO), Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba, and his wife, Faiza Seidu Wuni, have been re-arraigned before the High Court on fresh charges as the Attorney-General rebuilds its prosecution following the withdrawal of the original 24-count charge sheet filed in October last year.

Ghana’s 2026 National AI Strategy signals ambition.

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has welcomed the stabilisation gains acknowledged by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under Ghana’s Extended Credit Facility (ECF) programme, but rejected what it described as the government’s “political packaging” of the fund’s latest assessment.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has extended the deadline for the sale and submission of nomination forms for its ongoing branch executive elections to Monday, May 25, 2026.

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The Damang Gold Mine has sold another consignment of gold said to be 100 percent of its gold production, to the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod).

The latest consignment, according to the company amounts to 121 kilogrammes of gold, equivalent to about 3,400 ounces. 

The figure, the company said exceeds the 103 kilogrammes supplied during the company’s first transaction with GoldBod.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has scheduled planned maintenance exercises across the Tema, Ashanti, and Accra East Regions for Tuesday, May 19, 2026, even as engineers continue to battle a broken high-tension pole that plunged parts of Suame Magazine in the Ashanti Region into darkness on Monday.

Who Is Afraid of the Mirror?

By Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran — Accra, Ghana

A recent article published in this outlet [How Iran became the world’s bogeyman] by the Zionist regime's delegate has recycled familiar accusations against Iran: nuclear threat, proxy networks, regional destabilisation. These are charges that have been circulating in the Western media echo chamber for years. We have no interest in issuing a defence, nor do we pay any regard to the source of the article. But the people of Ghana and Africa deserve to see the other side of the coin.

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, a.k.a. Chairman Wontumi, has been slapped with fresh charges at the High Court in Accra.

President John Dramani Mahama says Ghana lost about US$78 million in health support following cuts to some United States aid programmes, affecting malaria, HIV/AIDS and maternal healthcare services.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) says it is introducing a volunteer programme to serve in rural and deprived areas, especially for more than 6,000 health graduates awaiting employment.

According to the ministry, the volunteer arrangement would cover health professionals who completed training from 2022 to date and were not included in the current recruitment exercise for the 2021 batch of nurses and midwives.

A child born in Yunyoo Nasuan in the North East Region enters a world where more than half the population lives in multiple deprivations simultaneously, while a child born in Ayawaso North in Accra faces a poverty rate of just 5.5 per cent; a wide 46-percentage-point gap that has now been laid bare for the first time in Ghana's history, as the country launches its maiden district-level multidimensional poverty rankings covering all 261 districts.

Ghana’s long wait to hear the national anthem at the 24th African Senior Athletics Championships ended in heartbreak yesterday after team captain Joseph Paul Amoah failed to deliver the elusive gold medal on the final day of competition at the University of Ghana Stadium.

With the weight of a nation’s expectations on his shoulders, Amoah carried Ghana’s last realistic hope of climbing to the top of the podium but could only finish fifth in a fiercely contested men’s 200m final, bringing the curtain down on the host nation’s campaign without a single gold medal.

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Christian Tetteh Yohuno, has doubled the Police Academy intake for the police cadet officer Course 54 to a record number of more than 700 for this year.

At a championship dominated by Africa’s established sprint queens, two Ghanaian schoolgirls quietly stole the spotlight, not necessarily because they won, but because they showed that the leap from school sports to elite African athletics no longer has to take years. 

Aishatu Jaffar — better known as Odo Broni — and Gladys “Gaza” Boateng arrived at the 24th African Athletics Championships as talented but largely untested teenagers from Kumasi’s school sports circuit.

Black Stars head coach Carlos Queiroz has thrown down a hard-edged challenge to Ghana’s players, officials and supporters ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, warning that talent and ambition alone will count for nothing unless the Black Stars embrace sacrifice, discipline and collective responsibility.

In an exclusive interview on the Ghana Football Association’s Beyond The Whistle podcast, the vastly experienced Portuguese tactician laid bare the demanding standards he believes Ghana must meet to compete on football’s biggest stage, insisting no player, coach or official can place individual interest above the national cause.

The North East Region has emerged as the epicentre of multidimensional poverty in Ghana, with six districts in the region recording the highest poverty incidences in the country, according to a historic report released by the Ghana Statistical Service on Monday, May 18, 2026.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, has said the country’s local content policy framework must move beyond import-based participation towards manufacturing and value addition within the mining sector.

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) says it has arrested several suspects and seized quantities of illegal drugs following coordinated anti-narcotics operations in parts of Greater Accra and the Oti Region.

On the issue of the destruction of water resources and vital ecosystems in Ghana by galamsey [illegal mining] activities, the European Union (EU) Ambassador, Rune Skinnebach recently visited the Atewa area in the Eastern Region to see at firsthand the excessive devastation caused by illegal mining.

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei II, has said for almost 70 years the country has been talking but it is now time for it to become a nation of builders. 

The Flag Bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has urged members of the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) to prepare themselves for key leadership roles ahead of the 2028 general election.

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has urged Ghanaian business leaders to resort to mediation rather than legal battles, saying it offers wisdom that the law alone cannot provide.