Ghana is deploying defence attachés to six countries, activating two forward operating bases along its northern borders and tightening surveillance along major routes following the attack on Ghanaian traders in Burkina Faso that left eight people dead and three injured.
President John Dramani Mahama has proposed granting duty- and tax-free importation of capital equipment to factories registered under Ghana’s 24-hour economy programme, in a move aimed at accelerating industrial growth.
Community leaders of the Aponoapono community in the Suhum Municipality have appealed to the government to consider introducing the schoolfeeding programme in schools in deprived communities and villages where the programme is needed most.
The Minister of Tourism of South Africa, Patricia De Lille, has challenged African countries to aggressively publicise their values to the rest of the world to boost tourism and yield the benefits thereof.
The President of the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE), Ludwig Annang Hesse, has called on road sector stakeholders to prioritise safety, integrity, and proper planning in delivering infrastructure across the country.
A modern sample reception centre that will receive, process, and analyse clinical and environmental samples with precision and speed, facilitate timely diagnosis and treatment for citizens, has been inaugurated and handed over to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR).
Communities in the eastern parts of the Greater Accra Region face an imminent sanitation crisis following confirmation that the only operational landfill serving the area, the Tema Controlled Dumpsite at Kpone, could be exhausted within a month if urgent action is not taken.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has called for the enactment of an Emergency Care law to handle needless deaths of accident victims in health facilities across the country.
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the nation’s economic transformation depends on moving beyond mere stabilisation to structural reforms.
The Royal Family of the Yilo Traditional area, led by the Paramount Queenmother, Maa Naana Korlekuor Adjado III, has presented a number of items, including bags of rice, cooking oil, soaps, crates of eggs, assorted drinks, bags of purified water, onions and sardine among others, and an undisclosed amount of money to Hour of Grace Children’s Orphanage at Apersua near Nkrukan in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region.
The people of Yorogo in the Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region have inaugurated a self-initiated modern one-storey library and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) complex to transform education and improve digital literacy for students and residents in the area.
The Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has laid before Parliament the Value for Money Office Bill, describing it as a decisive step to tackle chronic inefficiencies in the country’s public financial management system.
The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Abla Dzifa Gomashie, has said national development aspirations do not require abandonment of indigenous languages and cultural identity.
The distributor and marketer of Shell-branded fuels and lubricants, Vivo Energy Ghana PLC, has presented syringes and infusion pumps to the Department of Child Health of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
The Minister of Transport, Joseph Bukari Nikpe, has presented Ghana-made chocolate bars and a fugu wear to the Vice-President of The Gambia, Muhammad B. S. Jallow, to celebrate the long-standing relations between the two countries.
The Ministry of Transport is pursuing a multi-pronged approach to address the nation's escalating urban traffic congestion which is imposing significant economic and environmental costs on the nation.
The management of the Likpe Polyclinic at Bakua in the Guan District in the Oti Region has appealed to the government to upgrade the facility to a district hospital as a fitting response to its expanded focus, services and augmented number of personnel.
The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) has inaugurated a Therapeutic Garden at its One-Stop Centre, headquartered in Accra, as part of efforts to provide healing beyond justice for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV).
The government of Ghana will begin paying long-outstanding gratuity arrears to retired military personnel under Constitutional Instrument 129, with the first tranche expected by close of business on February 27, 2026.
The Ghana Police Service has warned the public about a viral electronic notice falsely claiming to be an official message on traffic offences and fines.
In a public notice issued on Wednesday, February 25, 2026, the police said the circulating message was “false, fraudulent, invalid, and not coming from the Police Service”. It urged the public to ignore the notice and avoid making any payments.
