First Ladies rally in Accra to accelerate Africa’s fight against HIV as ICASA 2025 opens
By: Henrietta Avollah Afful At the Presidency in Accra on Thursday 4th December, 2025, a powerful call to action echoed through a high-level gathering of African First Ladies: move beyond advocacy and take decisive steps that will end AIDS in children and mothers by 2030. The message came from Ghana’s First Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama, […]
PLHIV-LED HIV Integration Summit opens with launch of GNP+ World AIDS Report ahead of ICASA 2025
By: Benjamin Nii Nai Anyetei Global and national networks of people living with HIV have converged in Accra for the PLHIV-Led HIV Integration Summit, a major pre-conference event ahead of the 2025 International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA). Organised by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), the summit brings […]
NETRIGHT-Ghana urges government to curb revenue leakages to support gender programmes
By; Rachel Kakraba The Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana, NETRIGHT- Ghana, has called for deliberate government action to curb revenue leakages and ease the burden of debt servicing, to free up funds for gender-responsive interventions. NETRIGHT-Ghana, which is made up of CSOs working on women’s rights issues, believes improving efficiency in revenue management would create […]
ICASA 2025 opens in Accra with call for Africa to lead its own health agenda
By: Henrietta Afful The 23rd Edition of the ICASA Conference opened in Accra on December 3 and will run through December 8, 2025. The six-day conference, held under the theme “Africa in Action: Catalysing Integrated Sustainable Responses to End AIDS, TB & Malaria,” is the largest continental gathering focused on HIV/AIDS, STIs, TB, Malaria, and […]
CJ inaugurates Justice Clubs in Western and Central regions; Officers charged to be advocates of justice
By: Frederica Mensah The Chief Justice (CJ), Paul Baffoe-Bonnie has inaugurated Justice Clubs in some selected Senior High schools in the Western and Central Regions. The move which forms part of the Chief Justice’s Mentoring programme that provides mentorship and impart knowledge on the law to students. It seeks to encourage young people to show […]
Meta starts kicking Australian children off Instagram and Facebook
Meta has started removing Australian children under 16 years old from its Instagram, Facebook and Threads platforms, a week before an official teen social media ban begins. The tech giant announced last month it had begun notifying users aged between 13 to 15 years old that their accounts would start being shut down from 4 […]
Special Prosecutor releases lawyer Martin Kpebu after hours in custody
By: Ashiadey Dotse The Office of the Special Prosecutor, OSP, has released private legal practitioner Mr Martin Kpebu after detaining him for several hours on Wednesday, December 3, 2025. Mr. Kpebu was arrested for allegedly obstructing an officer of the Special Prosecutor during a visit to the OSP premises to assist in an investigation. Reports […]
‘No excuse’ – California doctor sentenced to 30 months in ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry overdose case
A California doctor who supplied ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison – becoming the first person to receive a sentence in the actor’s overdose death. Dr Salvador Plasencia was one of five charged in a multiyear federal investigation that examined how Perry acquired the dissociative anaesthetic […]
Fresh SIM registration scheduled for early 2026 – Sam George
The Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations, Samuel Nartey George, has announced that the government will commence a fresh nationwide SIM registration exercise by the first quarter of 2026, describing the previous process carried out under the former administration as invalid. Speaking in an interview on TV3 on Wednesday, December 3, the Minister said […]
OSP detains lawyer Martin Kpebu
By: Ashiadey Dotse The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) on Wednesday, December 3, detained private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, after a reported confrontation with police officers at the entrance of the OSP premises.Lawyer Kpebu, who had gone to meet investigators over corruption allegations he made against the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, was taken into […]
Vanuatu Trade Commission Ghana announces maiden “Vanuatu Business and Pleasure Tour 2026”
By: Gloria Anderson The Vanuatu Trade Commission Ghana, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Ghana, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and External Trade (Vanuatu), and the Diaspora Affairs Office at the Office of the President of the Republic of Ghana, proudly announces the launch of its inaugural […]
Nigeria’s defence minister resigns amid kidnapping crisis
Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned from his position with immediate effect for health reasons, the president’s office has said. The 63-year-old’s departure coincides with a period of heightened security challenges across Nigeria, with the government under pressure to deal with a spate of mass kidnappings. Last week, the office of the […]
US Homeland Security secretary calls for more travel bans
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said she will recommend a travel ban on several countries which she claims are “flooding” the US with criminal activity. Writing on social media on Monday, Noem said she had met President Donald Trump and decided to suggest “a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding […]
UK Imposes 10-Year Travel Bans on 1,632 Ghanaians in Major Visa Fraud Crackdown
By: Nana Karikari, Senior Global Affairs Correspondent The United Kingdom’s decision to impose 10-year travel bans on 1,632 Ghanaian visa applicants marks a severe inflection point in the fight against immigration fraud. This blacklist, representing 4% of all Ghanaian applicants in 2024, is not merely an administrative penalty; it is a geopolitical statement by UK […]
