GALAMSEY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DIPLOMACY: ADDRESSING ILLEGAL SMALL-SCALE MINING IN GHANA THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT.

The management of the Graphic Communications Group Ltd (GCGL) has paid a courtesy call on the Managing Director (MD) of GCB Bank PLC, Farihan Alhassan, to formally congratulate him and explore ways to strengthen the partnership between the two companies.

Cement manufacturers have failed to declare their ex-factory prices by the Friday, May 23, 2025, deadline, despite repeated directives by the Cement Manufacturing Development Committee (CMDC).  

The Ministry of Energy has retrieved 2,637 containers belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), twice the number of containers presumed to have gone missing with their contents.

Former world boxing champion Amir Khan has unveiled an ambitious new business venture that signals his foray into boxing promotion, with Ghana poised to be the launchpad for his latest endeavour. 

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 24-year-old woman to 12 months imprisonment for stealing a 50-inch Television (TV) at Teshie Military Barracks in Accra. 

The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has secured convictions against all five members of a robbery syndicate responsible for violent attacks at Jos Bakery in Dome and ACP Junction near Kwabenya, with sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years' imprisonment.

Parliament reconvenes today, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, as the Second Meeting of the First Session of the Ninth Parliament officially begins following the Easter recess.

Forty-eight-year-old Oncology Nurse Specialist at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Naomi Oyoe Ohene Oti, has won this year’s Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award of $250,000.

Lead counsel for former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, has denied reports suggesting that his client is seeking a plea bargain with the Attorney-General’s Department.

French President Emmanuel Macron has dismissed viral rumours that his wife, Brigitte Macron, physically assaulted him during their arrival in Vietnam, describing the speculation as a distortion of reality fuelled by disinformation campaigns.

As a footballer, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas seemed destined for greatness. But a drug-smuggling conviction has left his career and reputation in tatters. How did things unravel so dramatically for a player once tipped for the top?

The Mohali Cyber Crime Cell of the Punjab Police has busted an international racket of fraudsters by arresting seven nationals of Nigeria and Ghana from a rented accommodation in Noida from where they were allegedly operating a fake call centre, police said on Saturday. 

President John Dramani Mahama has said metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) under his leadership are to be empowered to raise their own funding through the issuing of bonds for infrastructural projects such as roads.

President John Dramani Mahama has said the plans to re-introduce road tolls in Ghana through a fully digital system will do away with physical tollbooths and manual collection.

The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Johnson Asiamah, has rejected allegations that the central bank was manipulating the exchange rate following the recent sharp appreciation of the Ghanaian Cedi.

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) spent more than $140 million on jute sacks it did not need between 2022 and 2024, according to the new acting Chief Executive Officer, Randy Abbey.

The Minister of Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, has received the final report of the Petroleum Downstream Sector Reforms Committee (PDSRC), which was inaugurated on March 14, 2025, to assess and recommend improvements for Ghana’s petroleum downstream industry.

Black Stars head coach Otto Addo has handed debut call-ups to five promising youngsters ahead of the Unity Cup 2025, set to take place in London.

The new faces include goalkeeper Joseph Tetteh Anang of St. Patrick’s Athletic (Ireland), Abdul Aziz Issah of Barcelona Atlètic (Spain), Aaron Essel of North Texas SC (USA), Caleb Yirenkyi of FC Nordsjaelland (Denmark), and Mohammed Gadafi Fuseini, who features for Union St. Gilloise in Belgium.

Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, a former Board Chairperson of the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF), was this morning hauled before the High Court in Accra in a wheelchair for his plea to be to taken in the case in which he has been accused of conspiring with the fund’s CEO to cause financial loss of $2million to the state in the sky train project.

Naomi Oyoe Ohene Oti, an Oncology Nurse Specialist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, has won the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2025, which comes with a $250,000 cash prize. She was chosen from more than 100,000 nominations submitted across 199 countries.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recalled all staff of Ghana’s mission in Washington DC, with immediate effect, over alleged fraudulent activities uncovered in that embassy. 

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has called for the reconstitution of the framework for the appointment of Electoral Commissioners to ensure true independence and national reconciliation.

The Minority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has expressed concern about the delay in the release and disbursement of statutory funds for the efficient running of critical state bodies.

Ghana’s electricity sector is flashing red and we must not ignore the alarm.