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…as Journalist Appeals Justice Brews ‘Sick’ Ruling A High Court judgment weaponising data protection laws against investigative journalism is being challenged. The outcome will define the limits of accountability in Ghana.A legal battle with profound implications for press freedom, civil society, and political accountability is moving to Ghana’s Court of Appeal. Freelance journalist Innocent Samuel Appiah has filed an appeal against a controversial 7 November 2025 High Court ruling by Justice Nana Brew. The judgment, which found Appiah violated the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843) in his reporting on Cynthia Adjei, is seen by legal experts as a dangerous…

President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku, says the Black Queens will be playing to win the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON). The Queens discovered their opponents for the competition to be staged in Morocco on Thursday, where they were drawn in Group D alongside Cameroon, Mali and Cape Verde. Kim Lars Bjorkegren’s side finished third in the last edition of the continental tournament after beating South Africa on penalties to win bronze. On the back of last year’s tournament, Okraku believes the Black Queens will be targeting the ultimate in Morocco once again. “The ambition…

Accra Hearts of Oak recorded their 8th draw of the season, this time, against Dreams F.C. in the Ghana Premier League on Friday. Friday’s draw was the first time in four matches that Hearts had failed to win at home since moving to the University of Ghana Stadium. Before the match, the two teams were separated by eight points and the opening minutes showed which side was superior. Three minutes into the match, Hearts of Oak’s Hussein Mohammed missed the game’s best chance when he pounced on a loose ball after Kofi Kumah had misjudged the flight of the ball.…

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has issued a strong condemnation of what it described as “unacceptable behaviour” by some players and officials during the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 Final between Morocco and Senegal in Rabat on Sunday night. In an official statement released on 19 January 2026, CAF said it “strongly condemns any inappropriate behaviour which occurs during matches, especially those targeting the refereeing team or match organisers.” The governing body said it is reviewing all available footage of the incidents at the high‑profile match and will refer the matter to the relevant disciplinary bodies…

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By Prince Ahenkorah The Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr Thomas Ampem Nyarko, has announced that Ghana will deploy an artificial intelligence powered customs inspection system to help curb massive revenue leakages estimated at over US$127 billion. Speaking at a media engagement during a three-day stakeholders’ meeting, he said the new technology would tackle persistent challenges in the current customs system, including undervaluation, misclassification of goods, and the use of falsified invoices. Mr Nyarko revealed that between 2020 and 2025, Ghana recorded imports valued at about US$127 billion, yet only US$52 billion was officially declared. He noted that the wide gap…

as ‘Galamsey’ fight shifts gearBy Philip Antoh In a sweeping weekend operation, state anti-illegal mining forces descended on sites along the crucial Kumasi-Sunyani corridor, destroying equipment and burning makeshift camps. The raids signal a renewed, tactically mobile effort by the National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) to disrupt the rampant illicit mining, known locally as galamsey, that plagues Ghana’s heartland. Yet, the persistent pattern of miners fleeing before arrival and the severe contamination of the Tano River underscore the entrenched and evasive nature of the crisis.Acting on intelligence, NAIMOS task forces struck at dawn on 17 January, first targeting Bronikrom…

NPP’s Big Five Forced to Sign Peace Pact to Stop All-Out War in Party By Prince Ahenkorah In an extraordinary preemptive move to avert internal war, the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) will on Thursday compel its five presidential aspirants to sign a binding peace pact, supervised by former party presidents and the National Peace Council. The high-stakes ceremony is designed to quarantine the party from the factional violence and bitter recriminations that have crippled it after past primaries, with the singular goal of preserving a united front for the 2028 general election.The initiative, confirmed by Isaac Yaw Boamah-Nyarko, MP…

By David Tamakloe The spectacle of a high-profile figure fleeing, the urgent whispers about extradition, and the grim calculus of political risk this is the simmering drama surrounding former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. But to view this merely as a political standoff is to miss the deeper, more corrosive crisis it represents. It is a direct test of whether Ghana’s institutions can administer justice without succumbing to political theatrics or collapsing under the weight of their own prior failures. The cold political analysis is stark, as laid out in confidential assessments. There are those for whom Ofori-Atta’s permanent exile might…

For years in this sprawling settlement, a woman known as “Mother” operated with seeming impunity. According to local leaders and residents who spoke with The New Republic, Rebecca Afia Naa Dei Kotei, 32, was a central figure in the drug trade that courses through the community, a person who had always managed to slip away when authorities came near.That changed in the early hours of Friday, January 16. In a raid officials described as the culmination of a long intelligence operation, agents from Ghana’s Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) moved through the labyrinth of Budumburam, a former refugee camp now home…