Category: News

Accra: Community leaders from Ghana’s key cocoa-producing regions are pioneering collaborative approaches to sustainable farming through peer-to-peer learning exchanges designed to reduce deforestation while maintaining agricultural productivity. According to Ghana News Agency, this has been made possible through the Hotspot Intervention Areas (HIAs) under the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme, aimed at reducing deforestation, enhancing sustainable cocoa production, and improving community livelihoods. The recent peer-learning programme was facilitated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with support from the Forestry Commission of Ghana. The initiative saw HIA executives from Atewa in the Eastern Region and Sefwi-Wiawso, Western North Region, visit

Accra: President John Dramani Mahama and the First Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama, have sponsored the construction of 10 legacy temples for the Assemblies of God, Ghana, where they both belong. Each temple is equipped with a fully furnished, two-bedroom house for the pastor, an office, musical equipment, and 150 chairs. According to Ghana News Agency, the donations fulfill a vow President Mahama and Mrs. Mahama made to the 2024 General Council meeting of Assemblies of God, Ghana, held in Navrongo. In addition to the new constructions, the First Couple have refurbished an eleventh temple for the Bole Assembly of God

Accra: The Oti Regional Co-ordinating Council (ORCC) has inaugurated a 21-member Regional Environmental Sanitation Taskforce to address poor sanitation issues in the region through law enforcement. The taskforce is expected to work tirelessly to achieve these objectives, improving sanitation management in the region and promoting a healthier environment for residents. According to Ghana News Agency, the event, held under the theme ‘Strengthening Sanitation Law Enforcement for a Cleaner and Healthier Oti Region,’ was led by Oti Regional Minister, Mr. John Kwadwo Gyapong, in collaboration with Environmental Health Officers. The Minister emphasized the importance of sanitation in promoting public health and

Cape coast: The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) on Wednesday shut down several sub-standard and illegal tourism facilities, including hotels and restaurants, for operating illegally across the Central Region. The facilities include Hotel Central near Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, VEKE Executive Lodge at Akyim, and Chicken Pizza branches opposite Becky Kay and near the University of Cape Coast’s Ayensu Road in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Others affected were Fredumens Hotel at Moree Junction in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District and 4:30 Guest House at Saltpond in the Mfantseman Municipality. According to Ghana News Agency, these closures occurred as part of a nationwide inspection

Accra: Ghanaian musician Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, has been released by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) after meeting his bail conditions. According to Ghana News Agency, the dancehall musician had been in EOCO custody for more than 24 hours in connection with a seized 2019 Lamborghini Urus from his residence, which the FBI and the US Justice Department had identified as the proceeds of a $4 million crime. Hundreds of fans gathered outside the EOCO premises in the early hours of Thursday, August 21, 2025, to demand the musician’s release, staging a mini-jam

Accra: Africa Tennis Connect (ATC), in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Accra-South, is set to roll out a transformative, two-day community engagement programme this August. Under the theme: ‘Using Sports to Simulate Change Where Language Fails’, the initiative reimagines sport as a vehicle for leadership development, emotional resilience, and cross-cultural healing, especially in communities where formal language, policy, and structures often fail to reach or empower young people. According to Ghana News Agency, the engagement activities begin with a Kids Tennis and Dance Clinic on Friday, August 22, 2025, at the LEKMA 2 Cluster of Schools in Ledzokuku, where

Nkawie: A 42-year-old Fulani herdsman has been remanded into police custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti Region for allegedly robbing six persons at Nweneso, near Nkawie. According to Ghana News Agency, the plea of Haruna Issah was not taken, and he is expected to reappear before the court, presided over by Mr Robert Addo, on September 3, this year. Police Chief Inspector Ruth Gborson, prosecuting, informed the court that the complainants, who were employees of Nananom Ventures at Toase, were attacked by the suspect on August 5 at about 9:30 p.m.