The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has cleared over 40,000 passport backlogs to end years of delays that inconvenienced many Ghanaians seeking travel documents. Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced the breakthrough during a media briefing in Accra, saying the Ministry had fulfilled its pledge to eliminate bottlenecks in the passport […]
Dr Freda Prempeh, a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North Constituency is urging the Defence Ministry to compensate applicants who were injured in the Accra recruitment stampede by enlisting them into the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). The Ministry of Defence has confirmed 28 casualties, 12 critical cases, five in the Intensive Care Unit […]
President John Dramani Mahama Wednesday visited the 37 Military Hospital to commiserate with victims of a stampede that occurred earlier in the day at the Elwak Sports Stadium, during a military recruitment exercise, which claimed six lives and left several others injured. The President, accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Defence, Mr Ernest Brogya Genfi, […]
Ghana has lost a total of 7,128.13 tonnes of cocoa to smuggling between 2020 and 2025 crop years in Volta and Oti regions. The tonnage recorded for 2020/21 crop year was 7,215 19, which reduced to 5,656.25 in 2021/22, further downward to 874.31 in the 2022/23 crop year while 2023/24 recorded 468.75 tonnes with 2024/25 […]
Creativity took centre stage at the 2025 Volta Regional Graduation Ceremony of the Ghana Co-operative Fashion Designers Association, when a fashion graduate, Mr Agbemewowoele Emmanuel, stunned the audience with an outfit made entirely from used pure water rubbers. Emmanuel, in his mid 20s, the only male among 17 graduating students, said his design was inspired […]
A middle-aged man was crushed to death by the Tema-Mpakadan moving train in the Bediako enclave, close to Afienya in the Greater Accra Region on Wednesday evening. A video footage captured by the train’s camera shows the man, whose identity was yet to be confirmed, was walking on the rail tracks as the train approached. […]
Six job seekers have died, with several others injured, following a stampede at the El-Wak Sports Stadium in Accra during the Ghana Armed Forces’ 2025/2026 recruitment exercise. According to a statement from the Ghana Armed Forces, the tragedy occurred around 6:20 a.m. when an unexpected surge of applicants breached security protocols and forced their way […]
The Tema–Mpakadan train service has suffered another attack after a window of one of its Diesel Multiple Units, was hit by a stone, making it a fourth stone attack, since October 1 2025. The latest attack, which occurred on Monday, November 10, 2025, targeted the windscreen of one of the Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) train, […]
A joint operation carried out Wednesday dawn by the police and military have led to the arrest of hundreds of suspects in the Ashanti, Ahafo, and Volta Regions. The special operation which was carried at dawn around 4 am, was carried out in communities such as Dadwene, Obuasi and Anwona in the Ashanti Region, Ehi […]
A court in Gabon has sentenced the former first lady and the son of deposed President Ali Bongo to 20 years in jail following a two-day trial. On Tuesday night, Sylvia Bongo and Noureddin Bongo were found guilty of embezzlement and corruption after a trial that began a day earlier in their absence. They were […]
