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Junior doctors suspend planned nationwide strike after gov’t assurances

Following fresh discussions with the Ministry of Health and important stakeholders, the Junior Doctors' Association of Ghana (JDA-GH) has declared that their planned statewide service withdrawal will be suspended. The association intended to demonstrate against months of unpaid salaries, postponed job advertisements, and what...

Abesim: Security guard at Frimps Oil killed by unknown assailants

A private security guard stationed at the Frimps Filling Station opposite Glamosey Junction in Abesim in Sunyani East Municipal of the Bono Region has allegedly been murdered by unknown assailants. The deceased, Kwasi Addae, a former staff of Volta River Authority in Sunyani, met his...

Attorney-General Orders Chairman Wontumi to Appear in Court on Monday Over Galamsey Charges

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, has directed the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako (popularly known as Chairman Wontumi), to appear in Accra on Monday, October 6, to respond to charges linked to alleged...

Gov’t secures ¥3bn JICA grant to upgrade Kumasi inner ring road

To improve the Inner Ring Road in Kumasi, the government has obtained a grant of ¥3 billion Japanese yen (about USD 20 million) from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Following the agreement's signing in Accra, Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson revealed the...

Junior doctors to withdraw services nationwide from October 7

In protest over months of unpaid salaries, postponed postings, and what it claims is ongoing unjust treatment of its members, the Junior Doctors' Association of Ghana (JDA-GH) has declared a statewide service withdrawal that would take effect on Tuesday, October 7, 2025. More than...

Galamsey: Dormaahene rejects calls for State of Emergency

Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II, a recently sworn-in Court of Appeal Judge and Dormaahene, has rejected proposals for the declaration of a state of emergency due to illegal mining, or galamsey. Justice Agyeman Badu II told reporters that such a measure was needless following...