The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has intensified its public awareness campaign against the Ebola virus, urging citizens to stay vigilant and strictly adhere to preventive measures.

The government of Spain has extended financial support of €300,000 to the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) towards the completion of its first forensic laboratory.

The gesture forms part of efforts to strengthen the Commission's investigative and prosecutorial capabilities.

A video of an Ohio pastor Israel Ford disclosing his polygamous marriage has gone viral.

The pastor introduced his second wife at Sunday Service. He invited the first wife Lydia, who took over the microphone and introduced the second one as her sister in marriage to an applause by the congregation.

Takeaways

• LifeWorks Church pastor Israel Ford revealed during a Sunday service that he has been married to a second wife, Minister Shakayla, for nearly three years.

• Ford’s first wife, Lydia, introduced Shakayla as her “sister in marriage,” while Shakayla called the family dynamic “the will of God” and said she had gained from it.

• A video of the Ohio congregation’s surprise announcement has since gone viral on social media.

• Wontumi Exim Bank case adjourned over disclosures

  The Accra High Court has adjourned the case involving the convicted former Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, over an alleged GH¢30 million financial loss to the Ghana Export-Import Bank (Exim Bank), to November 2 and 3, 2026, to enable the court and defence counsel to study the prosecution’s disclosures.

• President Mahama receives honorary doctorate from Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) in Moscow

  President John Dramani Mahama has received an honorary doctorate from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow, nearly 40 years after studying in the country as a postgraduate student.

• Nurse killed in attack while responding to Ebola alert in DR Congo

  A nurse has been killed and another health worker seriously injured in an attack as they were responding to an Ebola alert in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

  The two were targeted by local youths who accused them of contaminating water sources and spreading the Ebola virus, according to the UN-backed Radio Okapi. The World Health Organization (WHO) condemned the attack.

• Apple says it will replace iPhone Duo handsets with screen problems

  Apple has acknowledged some of its iPhone Duo handsets have developed problems with their screens, just days after the highly-anticipated smartphone went on sale.

• Jay-Z to perform at Super Bowl half-time show

  Rapper Jay-Z will perform at the Super Bowl half-time show in February, the NFL has announced.

• Agric Minister donates GH¢50,000 to national amputee team and pledges to offer ‘Nkoko Nketenkete’ business opportunity to team

  The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Eric Opoku has rewarded Ghana’s Black Challenge with GH¢50,000 and pledged poultry business opportunities under the government’s ‘Nkoko Nketenkete’ programme as the national amputee football team prepares for the 2026 World Cup in Mexico.

• IMF team assesses TOR’s recovery efforts

  A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has visited the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) to familiarise itself with the refinery’s operations and also assess ongoing rehabilitation works.

• VIDEO: TOR MD on how ramping-up local refining, purchasing crude in Ghana cedis and not dollars can stabilise pump prices in Ghana

  The Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) Edmond Kombat has been speaking about how fuel price stability can be guaranteed in Ghana with an amendment of the Petroleum Management Act to enable the purchase of Ghanaian crude oil from Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) and their partners using Ghana cedis and not dollars, in addition to ramping up production at TOR using Ghanaian crude to literally eliminate the dollar ‘wahala’.

• Ghanaian twins Arrangement and Lancaster plead guilty, give up rolex-style watches seized at arrest

  Twin brothers from Ghana, Jamal Abubakari, also known as Arrangement, and Kamal Abubakari, also known as Lancaster, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in the United States and agreed to forfeit luxury jewellery, including high-end watches, seized at the time of their arrests, in a romance fraud scheme that cost victims more than US$9 million.

• How Harry Kane ended England's 25-year Ballon d'Or wait

  Harry Kane has become the first English player to win the Ballon d'Or since Michael Owen in 2001 after being crowned the world's best player at a ceremony in London.

• Ignore ‘economic propaganda’; TOR refines Ghanaian medium sweet crude same as what is in Nigeria and Ivory Coast in the Equatorial basin – TOR MD Kombat

  The Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Edmond Kombat has reiterated the refinery’s capability to refine Ghanaian crude contrary to some arguments that TOR lacks that capacity.

• Canal+ and MultiChoice reduce DStv packages in all Sub-Saharan Africa countries to 4, Premium rebranded as Ultimate.

  Canal+ and MultiChoice have reduced DStv packages in all Sub-Saharan Africa countries  by unveiling a simplified line-up of DStv and GOtv packages, reducing DStv’s offering from six packages to just four and bringing every Premier League match into a mid-tier sports bundle for the first time.

• Five ways Donald Trump has changed immigration in the US

  Immigration has always been central to Donald Trump's message.

  When he famously stepped onto the golden escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for his first presidential term in 2015, he accused Mexico for of sending drugs and crime north of the border - and it's been a constant rallying cry ever since.

• Cheaper DStv: 4 new packages take effect November 5

  Canal+ and MultiChoice Ghana have introduced cheaper DStv subscription packages as part of efforts to make pay television more affordable and discourage the use of pirated services and illegal digital boxes.

• TOR working to increase crude processing capacity to 45,000 barrels per stream day; engineers to complete work end of October 2026

  The Managing Director of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Edmond Kombat, has said that as part of processes to help increase its current crude oil processing rate from 28,000 barrels to between 45,000 and 55,000 barrels per stream day, the company currently has engineers from Verga Engineering on site working with the refinery’s technical team to complete the installation and commissioning of the F-61 crude heater, which is expected to enable the existing Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) to process more crude oil.

  That work by the engineers is expected to be completed by the end of October 2026 as part of efforts to raise production and support plans to meet more of Ghana’s fuel demand through local refining.

• Testing GoldBod CEO's 'new law' on small-scale mining against the law - Prof. Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua writes

  “Once it is not a water body; it is not a forest reserve or… place like a roadside, whether the person has licence or not; the government says we should allow the person to mine and register and regularise them” – Sammy Gyamfi, CEO of GoldBod.

  "Mining without that licence is not merely irregular; it is a crime. Under section 99 as originally enacted, small-scale mining without the Minister's licence attracted a minimum fine of 1,000 penalty units and up to three years' imprisonment," writes Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, a professor at the School of Law of the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra where he teaches Public International Law and International Human Rights Law.

• Chris Brown given suspended eight-month prison sentence over nightclub attack

  US singer Chris Brown has avoided jail after striking a man twice in the head with a glass tequila bottle in a London nightclub.

  The R&B star was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, over the attack at private members' club Tape in Mayfair, in the early hours of 19 February 2023.

• President Mahama in Moscow for Russia–Africa Summit

  President John Dramani Mahama arrived in Moscow on Monday ahead of the third Russia–Africa Summit, leading Ghana's delegation to a forum expected to be dominated by peace diplomacy, security cooperation and a renewed push for equitable economic partnerships.

• South Africa evacuees react to GH¢5,500 payments and Minority allegations

  Following the public discussion over the cost of the recent evacuation of some Ghanaians from South Africa due to xenophobic attacks, one of the evacuees has reacted to the allegations by the Minority.

  Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Monday (October 26, 2026), Michael Addo, who said he was representing the returnees defended the government’s payments, insisting that all evacuees received the full GH¢5,500 support package contrary to the allegation that some received just GH¢2000.

• NDC Chairman Asiedu Nketiah urges unsuccessful candidates to remain engaged

  The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has commended party members for the peaceful conduct of the constituency executive elections held across the country.

• Govt pays GH¢4.45bn SSNIT, tier-2 pension obligations

  The government has paid GH¢4.45 billion to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and for the settlement of Second-Tier pension obligations for this year.

• Catholic bishops say White House exploited prayer with Trump

  Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with President Donald Trump.

  Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob, in a statement titled “A Public Apology,” said Sunday that he had received many questions and comments – some of them distraught – about the meeting on Thursday which he and 11 other bishops attended.