4 h. ago Ghana must fund its own education, not wait for donors – Mahama

President John Mahama says Ghana must urgently boost domestic financial mobilisation if it wants a strong and sustainable education system.

Politics

37 h. ago Small Businesses Struggle Under High Microfinance Interest Rates

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/small-businesses-struggle-under-high-microfinance-interest-rates/Small business owners across Ghana are facing mounting debt pressures as high interest rates from microfinance institutions and digital lending platforms threaten livelihoods, with many traders finding themselves trapped in cycles of borrowing to repay existing loans. The situation has prompted renewed calls for regulatory intervention and establishment of a promised Women’s Bank to ease […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/small-businesses-struggle-under-high-microfinance-interest-rates/

Economics

67 h. ago A Timeless Message to Ghanaian Youth: Lessons from Daddy Lumba’s Legacy

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Prosper Kay, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/a-timeless-message-to-ghanaian-youth-lessons-from-daddy-lumbas-legacy/The recent developments surrounding Daddy Lumba’s marriage have sparked important conversations about love, family, and community. As young Ghanaians, you are the future leaders, innovators, and change-makers of our nation. Here are some lessons to guide us Respect and Empathy*: Treat others with kindness, understanding, and compassion. Recognize that everyone has their own story and […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Prosper Kay, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/a-timeless-message-to-ghanaian-youth-lessons-from-daddy-lumbas-legacy/

Politics

67 h. ago Perdita Agyarko Writes: A Timeless Message to Ghanaian Youth: Lessons from Daddy Lumba’s Legacy

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Prosper Kay, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/perdita-agyarko-writes-a-timeless-message-to-ghanaian-youth-lessons-from-daddy-lumbas-legacy/The recent developments surrounding Daddy Lumba’s marriage have sparked important conversations about love, family, and community. As young Ghanaians, you are the future leaders, innovators, and change-makers of our nation. Here are some lessons to guide us Respect and Empathy*: Treat others with kindness, understanding, and compassion. Recognize that everyone has their own story and […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Prosper Kay, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/perdita-agyarko-writes-a-timeless-message-to-ghanaian-youth-lessons-from-daddy-lumbas-legacy/

Politics

3 d. ago Spotify Wrapped 2025: How Ghana Lived, Moved, and Listened This Year

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Prosper Kay, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/spotify-wrapped-2025-how-ghana-lived-moved-and-listened-this-year/If 2025 proved anything about Ghana, it’s that Ghanaians remain some of the fiercest champions of their own sound. No one celebrates, uplifts, or protects Ghanaian music quite like Ghanaians do. This year, listeners gravitated toward songs that echoed their identity, their pride, and the everyday rhythms of Ghanaian life. And Spotify Wrapped 2025 makes […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Prosper Kay, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/spotify-wrapped-2025-how-ghana-lived-moved-and-listened-this-year/

Politics

4 d. ago Kuapa Kokoo launches four major CSR projects to boost health and education in Ashanti communities

Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Union has intensified its commitment to improving the welfare of cocoa-growing communities with a rollout of four major corporate social responsibility projects across the Ashanti Region. Under its “Way To Go” initiative, funded by Lidl International and Fairtrade Germany, the farmers’ cooperative, which remains one of the few Ghanaian-owned cocoa-buying companies in an industry dominated by foreign firms, says these projects are designed to uplift the very communities that sustain its operations.

Politics

4 d. ago Leveraging U.S research and global operational experience to build exportable digital twin frameworks for energy resilience

The true turning point in Selasi A. Aikins’s career didn’t happen in a classroom; it happened in the dark. For years, Selasi worked as an engineer at Twin City Energy, an American-owned power producer in Ghana, mastering the complex maintenance of GE combined-cycle gas turbines. He was responsible for high-stakes work, overseeing crucial Major Inspections […]

Politics

4 d. ago PROTOA Dismisses Ex Convict Kofi Soga for 360k Theft & Misconducts

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Prosper Kay, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/protoa-dismisses-ex-convict-kofi-soga-for-360k-theft-misconducts/The National Executive Committee of the Progressive Transport Owners Association (PROTOA Ghana) has officially dismissed Mr. Joshua Kofi Soga—popularly known as French Man and formerly a member of Peace PROTOA, Koforidua Branch—from the Association. His dismissal has been in effect since 2021. This public announcement follows the conclusion of a long-standing legal dispute between PROTOA […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Prosper Kay, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/protoa-dismisses-ex-convict-kofi-soga-for-360k-theft-misconducts/

Politics

4 d. ago Gold Fields Ghana Foundation urges community ownership of water systems to strengthen SDG 3 goals

In line with Sustainable Development Goal 6, which underscores the importance of “clean water and sanitation for all,” the Gold Fields Ghana Foundation has held its Quarter Four (Q4) Water and Sanitation Review Meeting to assess activities across 2025. The meeting brought together WATSAN communities from the Tarkwa-Nsuaem and Prestea Huni-Valley municipalities. According to the […]

Politics

4 d. ago CalBank Rights Issue Oversubscription Signals Shift in Indigenous Banking Risk Perception

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/calbank-rights-issue-oversubscription-signals-shift-in-indigenous-banking-risk-perception/CalBank’s rejection of 500 million cedis in private placement commitments following a 29.4 percent oversubscribed rights issue reveals investors increasingly view Ghanaian owned lenders as viable recovery plays rather than distressed assets, marking a turning point for indigenous banks seven years after the sector’s devastating collapse. The bank closed its capital raising program on November […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/calbank-rights-issue-oversubscription-signals-shift-in-indigenous-banking-risk-perception/

Politics

5 d. ago Outsourcing our future: Who owns Ghana’s digital classroom? 

Are we, as Ghanaian technologists and startup founders, not good enough to build technologies that advance key sectors of Ghana, like education? The answer is a resounding no. Yet, the actions of our leaders suggest otherwise.

Politics

6 d. ago MobileMoney Fintech Restructures, Shareholders Approve Merger and Waiver at EGM

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Isaac Kofi Dzokpo, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/mobilemoney-fintech-restructures-shareholders-approve-merger-and-waiver-at-egm/  MobileMoney Ltd (MML), MTN Ghana’s mobile financial services subsidiary, has received shareholder approval to merge with the newly formed MobileMoney Fintech Ltd (MMF). The move aligns with Bank of Ghana regulations requiring at least 30% local ownership and is aimed at strengthening governance and operational independence. The Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) saw shareholders approve […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Isaac Kofi Dzokpo, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/mobilemoney-fintech-restructures-shareholders-approve-merger-and-waiver-at-egm/

Economics

6 d. ago Deputy Chief Urges Teachers Monitor Students Digital Environment

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/deputy-chief-urges-teachers-monitor-students-digital-environment/Deputy Chief of Staff, Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, has urged teachers and school authorities to actively monitor the digital environment surrounding students while integrating digital literacy into classroom instruction. Speaking on behalf of First Lady Lordina Mahama at Aburi Girls’ Senior High School’s 79th Speech and Prize Giving Day on Saturday, November 22, 2025, the […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/deputy-chief-urges-teachers-monitor-students-digital-environment/

Society

6 d. ago Ambassadors of Shame: When Local Rejects Become Nigeria’s Image Abroad

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Vitus Ozoke, PHD, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ambassadors-of-shame-when-local-rejects-become-nigerias-image-abroad/There are many ways a nation can announce its decline. Some do it with coups, some with hyperinflation. Nigeria, ever inventive, does it with ambassadorial lists. Bola Tinubu’s latest nominations, which include former Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, both rejected at the senatorial ballot box by their own […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Vitus Ozoke, PHD, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ambassadors-of-shame-when-local-rejects-become-nigerias-image-abroad/

Politics

8 d. ago Ghana Records Major Gains in Corporate Ownership Transparency Reforms

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-records-major-gains-in-corporate-ownership-transparency-reforms/Ghana has emerged as one of Africa’s leading performers in beneficial ownership transparency, with reforms substantially improving oversight in the extractive industry and strengthening the country’s investment climate, according to recent evaluations of a global transparency initiative. An independent assessment of the Opening Extractives programme, jointly implemented by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-records-major-gains-in-corporate-ownership-transparency-reforms/

Politics

1 week ago Amidu Congratulates Mahama on Violating Own Post Retirement Contract Ban

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/amidu-congratulates-mahama-on-violating-own-post-retirement-contract-ban/Former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has congratulated President John Dramani Mahama for giving Inspector General of Police (IGP) Christian Tetteh Yohuno a two year post retirement contract appointment to demonstrate his inability to keep to his own promise to the electorate on post retirement contracts. In a statement dated November 25, 2025, and issued on […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/amidu-congratulates-mahama-on-violating-own-post-retirement-contract-ban/

Politics

1 week ago Professor Boateng Urges Protected Funding to Strengthen SIGA Mandate

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/professor-boateng-urges-protected-funding-to-strengthen-siga-mandate/Governance strategist, industrialization advocate and professional chairperson Professor Douglas Boateng has called for bold, long term reforms to strengthen the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), stressing that predictable and protected funding is essential if the institution is to effectively support the transformation of Ghana’s state owned enterprises (SOEs). In a recent high level governance […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/professor-boateng-urges-protected-funding-to-strengthen-siga-mandate/

Politics

1 week ago EdTech Fellowship Graduates Reach Over 74,000 Ghanaian Learners

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/edtech-fellowship-graduates-reach-over-74000-ghanaian-learners/Twelve Ghanaian owned educational technology startups have completed a six month acceleration programme, collectively reaching 74,060 learners and 1,152 educators nationwide through the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship. The second cohort of the programme, implemented by Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST Africa), concluded with a Demo Day where participants presented advancements in their solutions and […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/edtech-fellowship-graduates-reach-over-74000-ghanaian-learners/

Politics

1 week ago African Leaders Must Own Economic Direction, Says AAAG Chief

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/african-leaders-must-own-economic-direction-says-aaag-chief/African governments must strengthen public financial management systems and move past outdated narratives that have hindered the continent’s progress, according to Frederick Riaga, Chief Executive Officer of the African Association of Accountants General (AAAG). Delivering the keynote address at the third AAAG Conference in Accra, Riaga told delegates that Africa’s prosperity depends on deliberate reforms, […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/african-leaders-must-own-economic-direction-says-aaag-chief/

Politics

1 week ago Telecel Ghana CEO urges stronger governance measures during corporate transitions

Telecel Ghana’s CEO, Patricia Obo-Nai, has advised organisations navigating ownership changes, restructuring, or rebranding to prioritise strong governance controls as guardrails against operational loopholes during the transition.

Sport