The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has disbursed GH¢199.47 million to senior high and technical school heads to settle outstanding feeding arrears, easing mounting pressure over delayed payments that had threatened to disrupt schoo…
The Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD) has rejected allegations circulating on social media that a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defence received unearned salaries amounting to GH¢427 million over a 29-month …
Anthropic announced on Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is intended to help peopl…
Scientists believe footballs could be designed to reduce the impact of heading after new research discovered the action caused a previously unreported pressure wave energy transfer to the brain.
The Football Association-backed s…
The routes for the three UK stages of the 2027 Tour de France Femmes have been revealed, with riders saying it will be "super brutal".
A gruelling 154km second stage from Manchester to Sheffield, which includes nearly 3,000m of …
MTN Ghana is poised to build 800 more sites nationwide to boost interconnectivity and quality of the network. In 2024, the company built an additional 25 cell sites and doubled the number to 50 in 2025. However, in a very ambitious move, s…
Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters.
The threat is real and growing fas…
English teenager Stan Moody made a hugely impressive debut at the Crucible as he moved into a 6-3 lead in his World Championship first-round match against former winner Kyren Wilson.
Moody, 19, needs four more frames to become the young…
Local Government Minister Ahmed Ibrahim has revealed that all 9,090 assembly members across the country received monthly allowances of more than GHS1,000 between April and December 2025, marking what he described as a major step in rec…
The Minister for Communication, Technology and Innovation, Sam George, says Ghana is seeking to learn from Zambia’s approach to reducing energy losses and improving efficiency in power distribution.
According to him, inefficiencies …
Three weeks into the county season and Somerset's James Rew is making a strong case to be part of England's post-Ashes rebuild.
The left-hander's 379 runs is bettered only by Jamie Smith, albeit that Rew has played a game more t…
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Meghan Markle is facing harsh criticism after a luxury wellness retreat in Sydney, with attendees claiming they expected far more time with the Duchess of Sussex than they received. Some guests now reportedly want refunds after Markle appe…
Ghana’s decision to hand the Black Stars to Carlos Queiroz on the eve of the 2026 FIFA World Cup is not merely bold — it is a high-risk, time-compressed gamble that leaves no margin for hesitation.
This is not a rebuilding project.…
The US has attacked and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship trying to get past its blockade of Iran's ports, President Trump says.
The ship, called the Touska, was intercepted in the Gulf of Oman.
Earlier this month, US forces annou…
A new initiative aimed at reshaping environmental education among young people has been launched in Accra, with a focus on making climate issues more engaging and action-oriented.
The initiative is designed to move beyond traditional …
The winning runner at a Beijing half-marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — significantly faster than the human world record of 57 minutes recently set by Jacob Kiplimo.
Comparing human and…
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has outlined an ambitious agenda for 2026 aimed at deepening Ghana’s export diversification efforts and strengthening the competitiveness of the country’s non-traditional export sector.
Ac…
Ghana’s all-time leading goalscorer, Asamoah Gyan has been appointed a brand ambassador for the MILO U-13 Champions League, joining former Black Stars captains Stephen Appiah and André Ayew.
The inclusion of Gyan as a new influencer f…
Next week, Rihanna’s album Anti will celebrate 10 years – a complete decade – on the Billboard 200, the company’s ranking of the most popular full-lengths and EPs in the United States. What’s shocking about that run, in addition to the fac…
Amanda has been at the centre of her local community for years, as a volunteer and a governor at her two children's school in a quiet London suburb. But over the past two years, she says simply going about her daily life has brough…
The Chief Executive Officer of MobileMoney Fintech Limited, Shaibu Haruna, has urged customers to report mobile money agents who charge fees for deposits into personal accounts.
He noted that while deposits into mobile wallets are e…
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring.
According to a new analysis from market intelligence provider Appfigures, worldwide app releases in the first quarter of 2026 were up 60% year-over-year across bot…
The National Fisheries Association of Ghana (NAFAG) has backed the government’s decision to establish a Marine Protected Area (MPA), describing it as a timely and critical intervention to restore the country’s declining fish stocks.
T…
Shareholders of GCB Bank PLC are set to receive dividend payout of GH¢265 million for 2025, after five years of putting that on hold.
Shareholders approved the GH¢1 per share dividend last Friday on the back of a strong and resilient …
It was a night of glitz and glamour as Ghanaian music icon Okyeame Kwame marked his 50th birthday in grand style.
The star-studded celebration, held on Saturday, April 18, at +233 Jazz Bar & Grill in Accra, was hosted by Channel One…
Ghana’s fast-rising para-athlete Hayford Addai has departed Accra for the 2026 World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Rabat, Morocco, as he continues to build momentum towards the Commonwealth Games.
The meet, scheduled from April 22 to 2…
"Edward", a nine-year old Kenyan boy, has always been aware his father worked for the British military. The boy's skin colour, lighter than his peers, has provoked years of bullying. His father disappeared before Edward [not his re…
The leader of one of South Africa's main opposition parties, Julius Malema, has been given a five-year prison term for unlawfully possessing a firearm and firing it in public, casting a huge question mark over his political career.…
FirstBank Ghana has held the maiden edition of its SME Connect, a workshop to deepen engagement with small and medium-scale enterprise (SME) customers and better align its products with their needs.
The event marked the climax of a se…
A Chief of Staff at the Presidency, Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, has called for the continuous recognition of women as a daily culture and an integral part of the country’s national fabric.
This she said must not become an annual ritual, a t…
I have spent over 40 years rehabilitating quadriceps and hamstring injuries that modern sports medicine often leaves behind.
I have watched athletes cycle through surgery, rest, relapse and despair. When I read about Mohammed Kudus—h…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has cautioned its members against violating guidelines governing its internal elections, warning that sanctions will be applied to offenders.
The directive follows the approval of rules to regu…
A Professor of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, Joseph Aggrey-Fynn, has attributed Ghana’s declining fish stocks largely to illegal fishing practices and weak enforcement of existing regulations, warning that the country risks further depl…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has called on the youth to use education and new technologies, including digital tools and artificial intelligence, to make Africa “borderless” in practice.
He explained that the continent had b…
President John Mahama has announced the government’s commitment to maintaining inflation within single digits, following a significant decline in the rate to 3.2%
The pledge forms part of broader efforts to stabilise the economy thr…
WHILE playwright and producer Kobina Ansah welcomes private sector support, he is firmly pushing back against suggestions that the government should scale back its funding for the arts.
He cautioned that decreasing public support woul…
OpenAI has been all over the news recently, whether that news is about acquisitions, competition with Anthropic, or bigger debates about AI’s impact on society.
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean…
Karpowership Ghana has organised an educational tour for selected journalists to familiarise them with the operations of its power ship as part of efforts to deepen media understanding of its role in the country’s energy mix.
The jour…
Government is moving to digitise how Ghanaians report power outages, with plans to introduce a WhatsApp-based system that allows users to flag faults instantly and trigger a rapid response from technical teams.
The initiative, accor…
The 2026 MILO Under-13 Champions League will reach its climax at the Essipon Stadium in the Western Region from April 21 to 25, as more than 5,000 young footballers gather for the national finals of one of Ghana’s most influential grassr…
The Vice-President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, says the government will continue to provide the necessary infrastructure to support agribusiness, especially within the tomato value chain.
She said the initiative would genera…
The Minister for Communication, Technology, and Innovation, Sam George, has disclosed plans for the consideration of a framework that would allow mutual recognition of fintech and payment service licences between Ghana and Zambia to ea…
Ghanaians living abroad remitted nearly $7.8 billion to the country in 2025, significantly exceeding foreign direct investment (FDI), but much of the inflow continues to be channelled into consumption rather than productive investment.
…
Nestlé Ghana Ltd has held a special celebration marking 20 years since former Ghana international Stephen Appiah led Ghana to its first FIFA World Cup appearance in 2006.
The company also honoured Appiah for his remarkable dedication …
"Golf but louder" has been LIV's tagline as it tried to become a big noise in the sport, but the decibel level was appreciably higher when Matt Fitzpatrick brought down Scottie Scheffler on the PGA Tour last Sunday.
While a disc…
Ibrahima Konate says he is "close to an agreement" with Liverpool over a new contract and there is a "big chance" he will remain at Anfield next season.
The France centre-back's current deal expires this summer, five years after…
The running battle between Erling Haaland and Gabriel was a theme of the Premier League title showdown between Manchester City and Arsenal.
The Norway forward had already had his undershirt partially ripped in one physical tussl…
Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior says he feels "100%" support from the club's ownership despite a run of four league defeats without a goal.
The 41-year-old replaced Enzo Maresca, who left on New Year's Day, but Saturday's home defeat b…
Formula 1 bosses will use "a scalpel rather than a baseball bat" in making changes to the sport's rules at a meeting on Monday, says Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff.
The team bosses are meeting with commercial rights holder F…
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