The United States Embassy in Accra has notified the public of a temporary suspension of visa processing and most consular services as it undertakes scheduled maintenance works at its Consular Section. The suspension, which will run from 20 to 31 July 2026, is
The Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) is exploring a strategic partnership with award-winning Ghanaian music icons to promote GoldBod Jewellery and Ghana’s gold value-addition agenda. As part of the collaboration, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, and Samuel Adu Frimpong, known in showbiz
New HIV infections have increased in Bono, with the region recording 1,145 cases from January to May 2026, the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has said. According to Mr Ahmed Ibrahim Bambilla, the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regional Technical Coordinator of the GAC the new infections of the
A delegation representing Togbe Afede XIV has undertaken a feasibility assessment to support proposed expansion of Kpeve Water Treatment Plant. Executives of Strategic Initiatives Limited representing the Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State, Togbe Afede XIV, together with their Chinese partners, visited the Kpeve Water Pumping and Treatment Station on Saturday as part of an ongoing feasibility study for a proposed
Ya-Na Abukari II, the Overlord of the Dagbon Traditional Area, is dead. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) understands that he passed away on Saturday July 11, 2026, in South Africa. To avert a leadership vacuum in the Dagbon Kingdom, Kampakuya-Na Yakubu has been outdoored as Regent and will oversee the affairs of the Kingdom until a
The March and March Movement, the South African group that has spearheaded nationwide demonstrations calling for the removal of undocumented migrants, has confirmed the death of one of its leaders, Andile Mvuyelwa Somgxada, days after he was shot in Gauteng Province. In a
Frederick Kumi, popularly known as “Abu Trica,” has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in a United States District Court. The accused, who was extradited from Ghana to the United States, has been accused of
President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday joined residents, sanitation workers, and local authorities at Alajo in the Greater Accra Region for the second and final day of the national clean-up exercise. The campaign, which began yesterday, comes in the wake of recent heavy
The devastating floods that once again paralysed Accra have exposed more than the destructive force of heavy rainfall. They have laid bare decades of planning failures, weak enforcement of development regulations, environmental degradation and institutional shortcomings that continue to place lives and livelihoods
An apparent shortage of commercial vehicles on the Nungua-Accra route is forcing commuters to pay as much as GH¢20.00 for a journey that ordinarily costs GH¢6.00. Every morning, hundreds of commuters queue at the Nungua lorry station to board the limited number of