Media boss pushes unity and ethics for the new year. David Tamakloe, the President of PRINPAG, asked Ghanaian journalists to adopt professionalism and shared responsibility in a holiday message. He recognized the tough economic conditions and press freedom threats from the past year. Tamakloe said media workers kept doing their jobs, informing the public and supporting democracy despite these problems.
He told practitioners to use the holiday period to recommit to ethical reporting, tolerance, and respecting each other. Tamakloe stressed the media's important function in guiding public conversation and ensuring accountability. He shared a positive outlook for the future of Ghana's media industry. He wished everyone a peaceful Christmas...
School officials got busted for stealing student food supplies. The Ghana Education Service condemned an alleged theft at Awaso STEM Senior High School in the Western North Region. The school's matron, Benedicta Nyamadi, and a cook, Rachel Kyeremateng, were arrested over claims they took food meant for students. A statement from GES spokesperson Daniel Afenyi said the service has zero tolerance for actions hurting student welfare. It called the alleged actions a breach of ethical standards and a compromise of student nutrition and well-being.
The GES stated it fully supports the ongoing police investigation and will cooperate with all relevant authorities. It assured parents and the public that systems are in place to find and address...
Landlord busted for renting to a hundred alleged cyber crooks. A property owner in Tabora, Accra got arrested after police found roughly one hundred suspected scammers living in his house. Communications Minister Samuel Nartey George said a joint security raid happened early in the morning in Tabora and Lashibi. The operation nabbed one hundred forty-one people total. Officials think those arrested are Nigerian nationals. The minister explained the landlord's arrest by saying property owners must stop their buildings from being used for crime.
The suspects are linked to mobile money fraud, romance scams, and business email schemes. Police also took thirty-eight laptops and one hundred fifty mobile phones as evidence. These devices are...
Phone company gives out baby stuff for holiday births. Officials from MTN Ghana's Northern Business District handed out seventy gift bundles to newborns at two hospitals in Kumasi, the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the Kumasi Children's Hospital. The area manager for Ashanti, Bono, and Bono East, Obed Adu-Amankwaah, said this is a yearly company tradition for Christmas Day babies. The hampers had basic items like diapers, baby oil, towels, and detergent. This was part of a bigger national effort where MTN distributed seven hundred hampers total, with three hundred ten just in their northern district.
Adu-Amankwaah told reporters the holiday is about giving and showing love, not just celebration. He stated MTN wants to give back...
Gold board boss says his agency isn't losing money, the central bank is. Sammy Gyamfi, the CEO of Ghana's state-owned Ghana Gold Board, called out reports of financial losses on a TV3 show called KeyPoints. He was responding to an International Monetary Fund review that mentioned the Bank of Ghana lost 214 million dollars on a gold trading program. Gyamfi clarified that his board, also called GoldBod, did not create those losses. He argued his organization is less than a year old and runs a surplus, with public financial statements to prove it. He stated the IMF never said GoldBod itself was in the red.
Gyamfi explained that the whole point of the Gold for Reserves program is not profit. He said GoldBod has a mandate to generate...
Don't cherry-pick the constitution reform report, committee heads warn. The Chairperson of Ghana's Constitution Review Committee, Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, wants a full national debate on all their proposals together. He spoke on a JoyNews program called Newsfile after the committee gave its report to President John Dramani Mahama. Their ideas include making the presidential term five years instead of four and lowering the minimum age for presidential candidates to 30. They also want to totally separate the executive and legislative branches, which would stop Members of Parliament from becoming ministers. Other suggestions are limiting election campaigning to 120 days before the vote, putting a maximum number on Supreme Court...
Politician pushes for clinic upgrades after a free health insurance drive. The Assemblyman for Zorko-Gamboringo, Abiire Awineyesma, ran a five-day program in Gamboringo where locals signed up for the National Health Insurance Scheme for free. People could register new cards, renew old ones, or link their NHIS card to their Ghana Card. Awineyesma used a community meeting to demand major health upgrades for the area. He asked the Ghana Health Service and the local Catholic Diocese to turn the St. Theresa Health Center into a Polyclinic. He also requested an upgrade for the Gamboringo CHPS compound to a full Health Center, calling his community the most populated in Zorkor. He pushed the District Chief Executive, Joseph Akasake, and the...
Cops raided four homes in the big SSL fraud probe. Security forces hit three spots in St Andrew and one in St James early Saturday, targeting the collapsed investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited. Hugh Croskery, the founder, was seen leaving a Wickham Avenue residence with police, holding a bag of papers, before being driven away for questioning.
The joint operation involves the Financial Investigations Division and other elite police units. Croskery has always denied wrongdoing in the alleged multibillion-dollar scam, which affected over two hundred clients, including Usain Bolt's company. So far, only one former employee faces charges, with prosecutors citing delays. Authorities told the public to avoid the areas as the...
Guyana's economy is exploding, and not just from oil. The non-oil sector grew almost fourteen percent in the first half of 2025, with overall growth at seven and a half percent. Tourism and Commerce Minister Susan Rodrigues called the numbers exceptional, marking five straight years of broad expansion in areas like agriculture and infrastructure.
But the oil boom is the giant in the room. Production jumped from the first commercial oil in 2019 to over nine hundred thousand barrels a day in 2025, mainly from projects like Yellowtail in the Stabroek Block. This crude surge pours money into the Natural Resource Fund, financing government projects. Economists point out that this dual track creates a strategic challenge, balancing massive...
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