The Acting Rent Commissioner, Frederick Opoku, has said the Rent Control Department was committed to setting and regulating how much private hostels for tertiary institutions can charge in Ghana.

Expressing a disagreement with the hostel operators' association that it lacked the mandate to do that in the absence of a framework for setting the rates, the acting Rent Commissioner said there were already about 100 applications on his table for assessment.

He said the Rent Control Department was set to assess the 100 private hostels and determine the rents they should charge students before tertiary institutions reopen for the next academic year.

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has raised concern over a sharp rise in lawsuits against health facilities, disclosing a jump in the number of suits from 40 in 2023 to 44 in 2024, and to 89 in 2025. 

The government has paid GH¢10.82 billion to bondholders under the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP).

The Minority Caucus in Parliament has called on the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) to account to Ghanaians for how it incurred $1.7 billion, or the equivalent of GH¢22 billion, in losses in its gold trading operations in 2025.

A number of New Patriotic Party (NPP) members seeking national executive positions picked nomination forms when the nominations opened last Monday.

TDC Ghana Ltd has defended its statutory mandate to plan, lay out and develop the Tema area, following a public disagreement with the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) concerning the Community One, Site Three infilling housing project.

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is set to leverage the country’s growing digital transaction data to develop solutions to bridge the annual small and medium enterprises (SMEs) financing gap estimated at $4.8 billion.

The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mustapha Gbande, has stated that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lacks credibility to make any impact in the 2028 general election.

The High Court in Accra has quashed the February 2026 decision of the Ghana Chess Association (GCA) to suspend chess player and instructor, Miracle Morris Stephen, from all chess-related activities in Ghana.

The Minority in Parliament has challenged the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) to account for losses associated with its gold trading operations.

They argued that the institution cannot claim credit for foreign exchange gains while distancing itself from the costs and losses arising from the same transactions.

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has cautioned market women to stay away from unauthorised use of chemicals to accelerate ripening of plantain.

According to the FDA, following a recent survey at the Madina market in Accra, it discovered that some market women were using Ethemax to accelerate the ripening of plantain for sale to the public.

Reacting to public health concerns following a recent video in which some market women in Madina were seen discussing how some of their colleagues were using the chemical, the FDA said it has initiated moves to train traders on proper dosage.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed claims circulating on social media that the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy has been cancelled and parents have been directed to pay GH¢1,500 for chop boxes and trunks.

The Cyber Security Authority (CSA) has imposed an administrative penalty of GH¢360,000 on Ernst & Young (EY) Ghana for providing cybersecurity services without a valid Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSP) licence.

A 20-year-old man, identified as Kombat Yaw Yiremiah, has drowned in a river separating Ghana and Togo at Tambalug in the Tempane District of the Upper East Region.

When a young Constable was informed by his commander that the Police Administration had approved his promotion through a special recommendation for helping to arrest key suspects in a major robbery case, he could hardly believe it.

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).