For years, poverty made small necessities such as noodles and sanitary pads powerful tools of manipulation in Jato Village in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern Region, where commercial motorbike riders, popularly known as okada riders, exploited young girls, leading to a spike in teenage pregnancies.
The Minister for the Interior, Mohammed Muntaka-Mubarak, has received a donation of assorted food items from the Hudai Foundation to support prison inmates during the holy month of Ramadan.
The National Investment Bank (NIB) has donated GH₵1 million to the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) to support the military’s self-help barracks redevelopment project, aimed at improving housing for personnel.
Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, Minister for the Interior, has launched the Automated Fire Safety Compliance System (AFCAS), a digital platform aimed at transforming fire safety compliance in Ghana.
President John Dramani Mahama on Friday, February 20, 2026, commissioned a state-of-the-art steel production plant by B5PLUS Company Limited at Lɛpleku in the Ningo-Prampram Municipality, marking a major milestone in Ghana’s drive toward industrialization and value addition.
The National Service Authority has announced that allowances for November and December 2025 have been paid to national service personnel across the country.
The District Court of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) in Accra has remanded Latifa Salifu in connection with the theft of a four-day-old baby boy from the postnatal ward of Mamprobi Polyclinic in Accra.
Samuel Nartey George, the Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations, has clarified that not all the women whose images were circulated by the Russian national had intimate encounters with him.
Government has initiated legal processes to prosecute a Russian national accused of non-consensually recording and disseminating intimate images of Ghanaian women, even if he is not extradited to Ghana.
The Kumawu District Police have arrested Kofi Dougan, a pharmacist at the Kumawu Government Hospital in the Ashanti Region, for allegedly assaulting a medical officer.
