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 […]

Lawyer for Adom-Otchere blasts OSP over ‘unreasonable’ bail terms

Legal representative for Paul Adom-Otchere, Nicholas Lenin Anane Agyei, has sharply criticised the bail conditions imposed by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). He described them as excessive, punitive and a veiled attempt to prolong his client’s detention unlawfully. The defence counsel voiced his concerns following the OSP’s decision to demand that Mr Adom-Otchere, […]

We’ve not apologised for GH¢138.9bn public debt overstatement – Audit Service

The Audit Service has denied issuing an apology for allegedly overstating Ghana’s public debt by GH¢138.91 billion in its 2024 Auditor-General’s report. A statement signed by Ama Awotwe-Bosumafi, Assistant Auditor-General, Public Relations Unit of the Audit Service, said: “There has not been any such apology or statement by the Office regarding information published in our […]

‘All necessary force will be used’ – GAF declares peace enforcement in Bawku

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) says it has transitioned from peacekeeping to peace enforcement operations in Bawku and surrounding areas. This follows a directive by the President and Commander-in-Chief, John Dramani Mahama. According to the military, the decision became necessary due to the “activities of armed elements that have intermittently resulted in violence, reprisal attacks […]