Police taskforce seizes 7 excavators in crackdown on galamsey in Ashanti region

The Inspector-General of Police’s Special Anti-Galamsey Taskforce has seized seven excavators in a series of operations targeting illegal mining activities, galamsey, in Ahwiren, a small community in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The operation was launched at the request of the Chief of Ahwiren, Nana Osei Boateng, following reports that miners allegedly backed […]

Court awards Blue Rose over US$1.1m following breach of housing loan deal by Shelter Afrique

The Commercial Division of the Accra High Court has awarded damages in excess of US$1.1 million to Ghanaian real estate developer Blue Rose Limited, following a failed housing finance agreement with The Company for Habitat and Housing in Africa, otherwise called Shelter Afrique. The court, presided over by Justice Samuel Djanie Kotey, held that Shelter […]

Budget surplus means nothing when trained nurses, others are jobless – Prof Charles Ackah

A professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Ghana says the government’s celebration of a budget surplus in the 2025 Mid-Year Fiscal Policy review means little when trained nurses, university graduates, and others remain jobless. Charles Godfred Ackah, reacting to the budget presented to Parliament last Thursday, said what the country needs now […]

GTEC crackdown on unaccredited institutions: 2 Officials arrested at Nyarkotey College

Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service in the company of officials of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) last Wednesday picked up two officials from the Nyarkotey College of Holistic Medicine Study Centre in Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region for running unaccredited programmes and operating an unaccredited centre. […]

UDS student sentenced to death for murdering colleague over relationship dispute

A Computer Science student of the University for Development Studies, Nyankpala campus, Salifu Nurudeen, has been sentenced to death for murdering his fellow student, Wumpini Mohammed Zakiu. The crime occurred in September last year and stemmed from a romantic relationship dispute. Nurudeen’s girlfriend, also a UDS student, had ended her relationship with him and started […]