A brand-new 24-hour market is coming to Dormaa Ahenkro, and every single district in Ghana is slated to get one eventually.
Dormaa Ahenkro gets the first build
President Mahama broke ground during his Bono Region tour.
Market falls under the 24-Hour Economy flagship program.
All 261 MMDAs across Ghana will eventually receive one.
The goal is slashing congestion while boosting local productivity.
Facilities go way beyond basic stalls
Shops, restaurants, clinics, and a police station are planned.
Cold storage, a lorry station, and office space made the list.
Daycare for traders' kids is baked into the design.
Women's Development Bank launches alongside the project.
Displaced traders get first dibs on space
Vendors moved for...
Almost half a million jobs have reportedly popped up from Ghana's Big Push infrastructure blitz, and contractors are already halfway done on some projects.
Big Push is a massive jobs engine
Governs Kwame Agbodza pegged job creation at nearly 500,000.
Contractor supply chains hired engineers, surveyors, and graduates.
Local carpenters, masons, and cooks got community-level gigs.
Agbodza wants even more hires from the surrounding areas.
Jinijini-Sampa Road got a lifeline
President Mahama personally inspected construction on that route.
The original contractor failed to mobilize, so Big Push absorbed it.
Road lacked a funding source before the program intervened.
The finished product will feature asphalt surfacing.
Payments are...
A groundbreaking UN resolution to label the transatlantic slave trade the worst crime against humanity lands on the General Assembly floor on March 25, 2026.
Ghana is leading the charge at the UN
President John Dramani Mahama will personally present the resolution.
Ghana acts as the African Union's point person on reparations.
CARICOM and diaspora communities are backing the effort.
Nothing like this has hit the UN in its 80-year existence.
What the resolution actually demands
Formal recognition of racialized chattel enslavement as historically unmatched.
Scale, duration, and brutal systemic nature justify that designation.
Adoption could kickstart real talks on reparatory justice globally.
Structural inequalities from the slave...
A microlight aircraft nosedived near a daycare center in Tema, killing two brothers and barely missing schoolchildren in the area.
Victims were brothers and a preacher's sons
Captain Frank Donkor, 36, piloted the crashed Sky Arrow.
Elijah Ofori Donkor, 25, was his younger brother on board.
Their father founded the Hebron Prayer Camp near Nsawam.
Donkor had just gotten married back in December 2025.
Crash details from the Tema incident
Registration 9G ADV went down at Tema Community One.
Contact was lost en route from Ho to Accra.
Ghana Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the communication gap.
Kids at TMA Day Care Centre narrowly avoided disaster.
Emergency response was swift
Ghana National Fire Service showed up three minutes...
Ashanti Fest 2026 just got its official kickoff in Kumasi, and MTN Ghana is once again bankrolling the whole thing.
MTN keeps Ashanti Fest alive
Frank Amoakohene praised MTN Ghana for fully funding the festival.
Amoakohene called the partnership a culture-and-community engine.
Years of consistent sponsorship built the event's regional reach.
Festival doubles as a unity platform for Ashanti communities.
Balancing tradition with modern growth
Amoakohene emphasized the importance of cultural preservation in development.
Organizers earned props for blending heritage with modernization.
Residents and visitors got a direct invitation to participate.
Cultural performances headlined the 2026 launch event.
MTN reaffirms its regional...
Ghana's unemployment problem might get a real fix if the government stops letting tourist spots rot, according to one public advocate.
Tourism revival as a jobs fix
Philip Danso Appiagyei wants the NDC to overhaul attractions nationwide.
Renovated sites could pull foreign visitors and locals.
Revenue and long-term gigs would flow to nearby communities.
Young people stand to gain the most.
Busted roads are killing visitor traffic
Kakum National Park suffers from terrible road access.
Lake Bosomtwe in the Ashanti Region faces identical issues.
Appiagyei argues that better infrastructure is non-negotiable.
Visitor counts have tanked because of decay.
Ghana's movie industry is a cautionary tale
Appiagyei drew a direct line to the...
Federal judges keep blocking Ten Commandments classroom laws, but Republican-led states are flooding schools with religious posters anyway and betting the Supreme Court will eventually back them up.
Louisiana leads the charge
Louisiana became the first state to mandate classroom displays in 1980.
A Fifth Circuit ruling lifted the injunction, letting the law proceed.
Governor Jeff Landry ordered superintendents to hang the posters immediately.
Challengers are exploring paths to get Supreme Court review.
Arkansas and Texas laws hit courtroom walls
An Arkansas judge permanently blocked the law as unconstitutional coercion.
He called, displaying sacred texts in classrooms, straight-up proselytizing.
Two Texas judges blocked enforcement...
Elon Musk donated $5 million to Thune's super PAC and then immediately started trashing him online for not ramming through a voter-ID bill that doesn't even have the votes to pass.
Musk's obsessive SAVE Act campaign
Elon Musk posted about the SAVE America Act over 100 times this year.
He called failure to pass it "high treason" against Americans.
Musk urged his 237 million followers to flood Thune's offices.
His crusade is fueled by debunked noncitizen-voting conspiracy theories.
Thune is stuck in an impossible spot
John Thune lacks the 60 votes needed to beat a filibuster.
He refuses to nuke filibuster rules for a party-line vote.
Thune has complained about paid influencers pressuring the Senate.
Not enough Republican senators...
A top DOJ official literally told prosecutors to "go big and go loud" against immigration protesters, and the resulting cases keep falling apart or relying on bizarre legal theories.
DOJ builds a prosecution machine for protesters
Aakash Singh ordered prosecutors to aggressively pursue demonstrators.
National Security Presidential Memo 7 expanded domestic-terrorism definitions.
NSPM-7 coordinators were installed across U.S. attorneys' offices.
The FBI set up a dedicated mission center for left-wing investigations.
Cases keep crumbling under scrutiny
Chicago prosecutors dropped charges after the video contradicted their narrative.
Remaining defendants face a "spontaneous conspiracy" theory defense lawyers mocked.
A U.S. attorney quit...
