A concerned Yeji native's letter to President Mahama

Once known mainly as a fishing village, Kokrobite is steadily becoming a place where people come to ride waves.

A Ghanaian teacher has once again placed the country in the global spotlight after being named the Sub-Saharan African regional winner of the 2026 Cambridge Dedicated Teacher Awards, marking the second consecutive year a Ghanaian educator has claimed the honour.

International credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings has upgraded Ghana’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating from ‘B-’ to ‘B’, citing sharp improvements in the country’s debt position, stronger economic growth, rising international reserves and continued fiscal consolidation.

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has enhanced surveillance in Ghana after an outbreak of Hantavirus on a cruise ship, which has now docked in Cape Verde.

In a statement the GHS assured that no case of Hantavirus has been recorded in Ghana, but enhanced surveillance measures have been instituted following the docking of the cruise ship in Cape Verde.

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) recorded a steep decline this week, shedding GH¢12.5 billion in market capitalisation as a broad-based selloff swept through the Accra bourse in the trading week ended Friday, May 8, 2026.

Ghanaians seeking to obtain or renew their passports no longer have to travel to Accra for biometric capture, as the Passport Office has published the full list of Passport Application Centres across all sixteen regions.

The Ghana Police Service has arrested three additional suspects in connection with the brutal murder of Sain Devendra Kumar, an Indian national whose body was discovered on April 26, 2026, with multiple stab wounds in the boot of his abandoned vehicle on the outskirts of Sabin Akrofuom in the Ashanti Region.

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has declared three women wanted for their alleged involvement in causing financial loss to the state, according to public notices issued by the anti-graft agency.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed reports suggesting that students under the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy are being charged feeding fees, insisting that no school has been authorised to collect money from parents or students under any guise.

Four people, including a pregnant woman and her daughter, have died in a tragic road crash involving a tipper truck at Kinkinlin near Makango in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region.

The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch), Kofi Asare, has proposed that the number of subject papers written during the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) should be reduced from the current 10/11 to four.

All the four presidential aspirants in the New Patriotic Party's January 2026 primary have been named as co-chairmen of the newly established NPP Policy Committees. 

The NPP flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, in a deliberate signal that the elephant family was closing ranks and marching in one direction, strategically named the four.

The Minority Leader and Third Deputy Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has called on West African states to collectively demand the arrest, prosecution and conviction of South Africans engaged in xenophobic attacks on other African nationals, especially West Africans.

The Head of the Ghana National Office (HNO) of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Dr Rosemond Wilson, has toured some Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) centres in Accra, calling on supervisors and invigilators to allow the candidates to do independent work.

A 60-year-old man has been arrested by the police for allegedly tying his teenage son to a quad motorbike and dragging him along a tarred road at North Legon in Accra, causing the boy multiple injuries.

A man who appeared in a viral video wearing a mask and threatening police officers and soldiers over the arrest of armed robbers has been arrested by the police in the Ashanti Region.

This is Samuel Donkor, the 'one-man teacher' handling 12 classes at at Kakpeni District Assembly School in the Northern Region.

Eleven suspects have been arrested by the police for allegedly using deepfake AI-generated video to impersonate President John Dramani Mahama.

The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts has denied any involvement in or endorsement of the recently held Karnival Kingdom Festival in Accra, even as the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference calls for an urgent investigation into the event, which featured what the bishops describe as "public nudity" and "an eyesore that denigrated the nation's values."

The Chairman of Parliament’s Health Committee, Dr Mark Kurt Nawaane, has urged medical professionals who feel unable to cope with the demands of the profession to resign rather than compromise patient care and professional standards.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has scheduled planned maintenance exercises in the Accra East and Ashanti Regions for Friday, May 8, 2026, as part of ongoing efforts to enhance service reliability and strengthen the stability of the national grid.

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has filed witness statements to open his defence in the ongoing illegal mining-related trial over activities on his Samreboi concession in the Western Region.

The criminal case being prosecuted by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) against former Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta and others came up on the High Court in Accra today.

One of the accused persons, Col. (Rtd.) Kwadwo Damoah, a former Director of Customs and currently serving as the Member of Parliament for Jaman South had applied to the court to be granted permission to travel to London for some days.

The cruise ship hit by an outbreak of hantavirus is on track to dock in the Canary Islands by the weekend.