Top News in Ghana Today

The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) has forecast widespread thunderstorms and rain across southern Ghana today as a weak to moderate rainstorm currently positioned along the Togo-Benin coastline advances westwards, bringing increased cloud cover and unsettled weather conditions.

The Central Region Branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), has strongly condemned a recent alleged attack on a radio station in Kasoa, calling for a transparent investigation and immediate measures to protect media workers.

Abraham Amaliba, the Director-General of the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), has outlined a series of reforms the Authority is undertaking to reduce road crashes and fatalities across the country.

 Here are the front pages of some of Ghana’s newspapers today.

Forty-seven community and general nurses have departed Ghana for Saint Kitts and Nevis under the Ghana Labour Exchange Programme.

An Accra High Court on Thursday retook the plea of Daniel Asiedu, also known as Sexy Dondon, who is standing trial for the alleged murder of former Abuakwa North Member of Parliament J.B. Danquah-Adu.

The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has warned the public against enrolling in or relying on certificates issued by 80 tertiary institutions that are not accredited by the Commission, citing concerns over academic quality and regulatory compliance.

The editor of The Herald newspaper, Larry Alans Dogbey, has been granted bail after being sentenced to seven days imprisonment for contempt of court by an Accra High Court on Thursday.

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has dismissed claims circulating on social media that insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) being distributed to primary school children contain dangerous chemicals that pose a risk to human health.

A week-long market surveillance exercise by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has resulted in the seizure of 4,504 unregistered, counterfeit, and potentially hazardous cosmetic products across 15 regions of Ghana.

The European Union and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development have given out €415,437.78 grant for the implementation of the PharmaVax Programme, aimed at transforming Ghana's pharmaceutical sector.

The Attorney-General has prayed to the High Court in Accra to dismiss an application filed by lawyers for the embattled Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, seeking to defer judgment in his criminal trial.

The Ghana Prisons Service has interdicted a Chief Officer stationed at the Kete-Krachi Local Prison following his arrest for allegedly attempting to smuggle a substance suspected to be Indian hemp into the facility.

Justice Ricardo Cláudio Monteiro Gonçalves, the President of the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, has called on Member States to transform their commitment to enforcing the Court’s judgments into concrete action.

Two friends have been granted GHC 100,000 bail with two sureties each by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti region, for stealing eight ores of gold.