Kweku Osei Korankye Osei, popularly known as Koka, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court on charges of offensive conduct and threatening to harm a police officer and his family.

(I share the following nightmare from my Memoires)
Venue, Agona Duakwa

A young boy in my late teens, just finished 6th Form.

One Saturday early 1970, I retired to bed in my father’s house, after a busy day. I had visited the town center with my closest pals: Albert Botwe, Kweku Asare Kumi and Kobena Ayensu. After a little loafing around town, I saw my colleagues off and retired to bed at Nkubease suburb; my room, adjacent to a venerable old relation. Being the last to retire, I locked the main gate and dashed to my room resting on the bed. From a distance, I heard the sound of drumming filtering down from the town-square (Nkwantanan). It was past 10pm. The drumming soon ceased, taken over by familiar metallic jingles.

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has called for the immediate withdrawal of the Health Minister's directive to suspend the Chief Executive Officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, describing the action as without basis and urging his reinstatement within three working days.

President John Dramani Mahama is in Minsk on a five-day state visit to the Republic of Belarus, where he has laid a wreath at the Victory Monument in honour of Belarusian and Soviet Army soldiers who died liberating the country during World War II.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced planned power outages for Sunday, June 7, 2026, affecting communities in the Tema and Accra East Regions as part of maintenance exercises to improve service delivery.

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has disputed claims by the Ministry of Finance that it has released 85 percent of its 2026 budget allocation, insisting that actual releases as of May 29, 2026 amounted to only 12.4 percent of its approved budget.

Medical doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi have announced an indefinite withdrawal of services in protest against the Minister of Health's directive to suspend the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo.

In most communities across the Upper East Region, the land has become bare, with vast stretches of grassland that once provided abundant pasture for livestock having disappeared, leaving cattle, goats and sheep struggling to find enough feed to survive.

The government has entreated the citizenry to join forces to plant 30 million tree seedlings across the country. 

The Bawku Naba and President of the Kusaug Traditional Council, Zug-Raan Asigri Abugrago Azoka II, has called on the Nayiri and Overlord of Mamprugu, Naa Bohagu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga, to prevail on the Mamprusi community in Bawku to undertake customary reconciliatory rituals for lasting peace in the area.

A long the Atta Mills High Street in the heart of Accra stands one of Ghana's most important national landmarks — the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum. Surrounded by fountains, gardens, and watched over by a towering bronze statue of Ghana's founding president, the monument is more than a final resting place.

Driving in Accra and perhaps other cities in Ghana is a daily drill, becoming extremely difficult to grapple with.

The Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has directed the Board of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to suspend Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo, the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, for two weeks with immediate effect.

Reflections from the Charles Amissah Case

The tragic death of Charles Amissah has once again exposed the painful realities of emergency and trauma care delivery in Ghana. Reports from the investigative committee indicate that after sustaining traumatic injuries in a road traffic incident, he was transported between multiple hospitals without receiving timely lifesaving intervention before eventually dying from hemorrhagic shock and exsanguination.

Firefighters from the Konongo-Odumasi Fire Station rescued a trapped victim following a collision between an STC bus and a Kia Picanto taxicab at Konongo Akrantiebesa near the Next Bon Gas Filling Station on Thursday night (June 4, 2026).

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The National Media Commission (NMC) has appointed Dr Isaac Okpoti Nai as the new Managing Director of New Times Corporation, publishers of the Ghanaian Times and Spectator newspapers.

A fuel tanker driver was burnt beyond recognition and his assistant sustained severe burns after the vehicle was involved in an accident at Atimatim Maase near Kumasi in the Ashanti.

The brakes of the truck reportedly failed, the driver lost control, and it struck an electric pole, and ignited a fire.

The accident happened on Thursday, June 4.

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has condemned the physical assault of a senior staff midwife by relatives of a patient at the Tema Community 22 Polyclinic, calling for immediate steps to protect nurses and midwives across the country.

The National Vaccine Institute (NVI) is seeking partnership with key investors to help drive local vaccine manufacturing in the country by 2030.

To say the last days of May 2026 were eventful might probably be an understatement.

The Ministry of Finance has released GH¢1.677 billion to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture this year, representing 85 per cent of the ministry’s approved budget for goods, services and capital expenditure.

The Minority Caucus in Parliament says there was a glaring contradiction in the governing National Democratic Congress' (NDC) position on flagship anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.

A total of 80 suspects have been picked up in a major intelligence-led anti-crime operation carried out across parts of the Upper East Region.

President John Dramani Mahama begins a five day state visit to Belarus today, with discussions expected to centre on agriculture, trade, education and investment cooperation between the two countries.