The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has introduced a new visa policy under which all applications to travel to Ghana will be processed within five working days. The announcement was made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, in a Facebook post on Tuesday, May 21, 2025. He stated that […]
The 2024 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and former Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has for the umpteenth time, exhibited his humility, modesty and kindness, by reaching out to content creator and blogger, Kwadwo Sheldon, whose home got flooded, following a heavy downpour in the capital city, […]
The police in the Volta Region last Tuesday (May 13) intercepted a petrol tanker travelling from Madina in Accra to Jasikan, which was loaded with cocoa beans and not fuel. It was believed the cocoa beans were meant for smuggling into neighbouring Togo. The vehicle with registration number, GN 3801-13, has been impounded, while the […]
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has confirmed that no fatalities were recorded following the torrential rainfall that lashed parts of Accra on Sunday, 18 May. According to Chief Disaster Control Officer, Mohammed Jafaro, in an interview with Accra-based Channel One TV, said the agency received a high volume of distress calls from residents in […]
The Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) has strongly condemned the illegal removal of reinforcements from the retaining wall at the Tantra Hill underpass on the Achimota-Ofankor stretch of the N6 highway. In a public announcement issued on May 14, 2025, the GHA, acting on behalf of the Ministry of Roads and Highways, responded to a viral […]
The government has directed owners and operators of excavators to register the equipment with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) within two weeks or have the equipment confiscated by the state. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DVLA, Julius Neequaye Kotey, who gave the directive, said effective June 1 this year, any unregistered excavator […]
A 23-year-old cashier has been sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour by the Kaneshie District Court One after pleading guilty to stealing GH¢8,575.00 from his employer and using it for sports betting, which he eventually lost. The convict, Andy Tetteh, was employed at Bingo Bets, a betting company located at Ecomog, Adabraka, where […]
Scotland’s deputy first minister says she is in “no doubt” that the country’s care system will suffer from UK government plans to tighten immigration rules. Kate Forbes said Scotland needed to take a “distinct approach” to the rest of the UK. It came as care home bosses claimed the immigration plans could lead to closures […]
The European Union (EU) and its member states, under the Global Gateway initiative, have committed more than €800 million, approximately GH¢13 billion, to major infrastructure projects across Ghana’s energy, health, and transport sectors, the EU Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Irchad Razaaly, has announced. The investment includes €55 million to support local vaccine production, €62 million […]
Residents of Amefinukope in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region are in a state of shock following the discovery of five exhumed bodies in two local cemeteries, with parts of the corpses, particularly the heads, missing. The distressing incident occurred on Wednesday, 7th May 2025. According to a community leader, Mr Kwashi Senaya, […]
The High Court in Accra has sentenced Deborah Seyram Adablah, a former National Service Personnel who sued her ‘sugar daddy’ for breach of promise, to 45 days in prison after finding her guilty of contempt. Deborah Seyram Adablah was convicted of defaming the court. She had recorded two separate videos and posted them on social […]
On Wednesday evening, under the domed ceiling of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, 133 cardinals will vote to elect the Catholic Church’s 267th pope. The day will begin at 10:00 (09:00 BST) with a mass in St Peter’s Basilica. The service, which will be televised, will be presided over by Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old Cardinal Dean […]
