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President John Dramani Mahama, Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, has appointed Brigadier General Glover Ashong Annan as Commissioner of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, with immediate effect.

The Environmental Protection Authority will on Tuesday launch a pilot water-cleaning exercise on the Birim River at Adiukrom in the Asiakwa Area as part of intensified national efforts to tackle pollution of major water bodies.

Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) has officially launched its 2026 Annual Education Policy Monitoring exercise, aimed at evaluating the implementation of key basic education policies and interventions outlined in the 2025 Education Budget.

The Office of the President has confirmed that no prima facie case has been established in the petition seeking the removal of the Chairperson and Deputy Commissioners of the Electoral Commission. The determination follows a formal review by the Chief Justice, His Lordship Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, after the petition was referred by President John Dramani Mahama.

The Wa District Magistrate Court has convicted three individuals, Yiritang Boosi, Yahaya Samad, and Adams Alhassan, for unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition in the Wa West District.

Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, on Wednesday received the open letters of three newly appointed envoys from Malta, Angola and Namibia, reaffirming Accra’s commitment to expanding diplomatic and economic cooperation with the three nations.

Ghana’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister on Wednesday held talks with a visiting delegation from the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries aimed at strengthening cooperation and expanding the country’s palm oil sector.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has stepped up diplomatic efforts to secure justice in the case of Nana Agyei Ahyia, the Ghanaian student who died under what officials describe as unusual circumstances while studying in Latvia.

Last week, seven Ghanaian traders were gruesomely killed and several others wounded when insurgents ambushed a community in Burkina Faso where they had travelled to buy tomatoes and other foodstuffs. Ghana and Burkina Faso share a border and those of from Upper East know how closely knitted the border communities are. Citizens of both countries cross over on daily basis for both business and family issues. The traders’ trip there last week was, therefore one of a routine governed by the decades old trade relations between two African neighbours. In this case, it was simply to cross the border, access…

Ghanaian authorities have stepped up international cooperation in an ongoing cybercrime investigation involving an alleged foreign suspect accused of secretly recording and distributing intimate footage of Ghanaian women without their consent, officials said after a high-level diplomatic meeting on Tuesday.