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The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has increased electricity tariffs for the third quarter of 2025 by 2.45%. This move comes as a surprise to many, including PURC itself, since all traditional indicators pointed to a reduction. In April 2025, the Commission had already implemented a 14.75% increase for the first and second quarters. Given recent economic gains, a reduction seemed more likely. Electricity tariffs in Ghana are reviewed quarterly, using four primary indicators: the Cedi–US Dollar exchange rate, the inflation rate, natural gas prices, and the country’s electricity generation mix. These parameters form the basis of Ghana’s Energy Sector…

Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe Abronye, widely known as Abronye DC, has distanced himself from a viral letter being circulated on social media, purportedly addressed to the party’s disciplinary committee.In a strongly worded statement, Abronye described the letter as a “malicious fabrication” deliberately crafted to tarnish his image within the party. He accused three individuals — Maxwell Mahama, a suspended former member of the NPP; Amankwaa Agyare, whom he identified as the self-styled regional coordinator of the Kennedy Agyapong campaign in Bono; and one Maxwell Osei Bonsu — of being behind the “unintelligent and…

Ama Governor (L) and Gertrude Torkornoo (R) A national address by suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Sackey Torkornoo, on, June 25, 2025, alleging injustice perpetrated against her by a five-member committee investigating petitions for her removal from office has sparked widespread conversation on social media, particularly on X.Notable among the conversations sparked online is the case of Ama Governor, a socialite who was denied her call to the Ghana Bar in both 2022 and 2023 despite successful completion of her law program due to a petition alleging misconduct against her.A committee was set up by the General Legal Council to…

The Executives of the African University College of Communications and Business (AUCB) Alumni Association have paid a courtesy call on the institution’s new Chancellor, Frank Adu Junior. The meeting, held at the university’s main campus, marked the first formal engagement between the alumni leadership and the newly appointed chancellor. Mr. Adu Jr., a distinguished banker and statesman, assumed office as the first Chancellor of AUCB following the university’s receipt of its presidential charter in late 2024. His appointment heralds a new era of growth and transformation for the institution. On behalf of the Alumni Executive team, David Olaga, President of…

Mr. Johnson “The Mosquito” Asiedu-Nketia, the National Chairman of the Mahama-led 2.0 government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has absolutely no leadership integrity and moral credibility to pride himself about. So, it is rather comical for the wiry-framed former Sunyani-East Member of Parliament to be haughtily and smugly calling for the removal or the immediate dismissal of Ghana’s professionally finest Electoral Commission Chairperson over the past three decades, by most global accounts, namely, Mrs. Jean Adukwei Mensa, and her two unprecedentedly competent deputies, namely, Dr. Bossman Asare and Mr. Samuel Tettey (See “EC Is a Subject of Reset in…

New UK support will see millions of children, including in Ghana, vaccinated against some of the world’s deadliest diseases, Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced today at Gavi’s global summit in Brussels.The UK’s new £1.25 billion pledge to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, extends a close 25year partnership which has helped to vaccinate over one billion children globally against diseases like meningitis, to prevent more than 18 million lives being lost, and to improve countries economic prospects.Since 2000, when the UK was a founding member, Gavi has generated $250 billion in economic benefits through reduced death and disability. Gavi now receives investment…

The Minister of Energy and Green Transition, John Jinapor, has revealed plans to submit a proposal to cabinet to acquire electric vehicles for all ministers to be used in Accra. According to him, this will support the government’s energy transition goal as it seeks to extend to other government appointees. The minister made this disclosure at the launch of the Energy Commission’s 60kW solar powered electrical vehicle (EV) charging station. The Energy Commission, under its Drive Electric Initiate (DEI), has taken lead on awareness creation by organising Ghana’s first E-mobility Conference and Exhibition in 2021 and also the country’s first…

There is a quiet crisis eating away at the soul of Ghanaian society. It is not economic, nor infrastructural—it is existential. We are witnessing a disturbing obsession with titles: Dr., Prof., Engineer, Lawyer, and Architect—anything that offers a façade of prestige. In a culture where respect has become a currency tightly bound to labels, we have turned titles into idols. The result? A nation increasingly blind to substance, and drunk on symbols. Today, one cannot walk through public life in Ghana without tripping over an avalanche of self-declared titles. “Dr. So-and-so,” “Prof. This-or-that,” even “Engineer” or “Lawyer” prefixed like divine…

The Director of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Nyakrom campus, Professor Isaac Buaben, has issued a heartfelt appeal to individuals, philanthropists, NGOs, and corporate bodies to support the institution with vital infrastructure, particularly hostels and lecture halls, to help accommodate a growing student population.“I’m appealing to anyone across the globe to come and support UCC Nyakrom campus to provide enough hostel facilities for the student population which should have been higher than what we have presently,” he said.Speaking to journalists during a media engagement in Agona Nyakrom on Monday, Professor Buaben revealed that the campus currently has 325 students…

File photo of a protest by the Minority in Parliament The Minority in Parliament has accused the government of purposely delaying the return of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill which aims to ban LGBTQ+ activities.They argue that even though the National Democratic Congress (NDC) strongly supported the bill while in opposition during the 8th Parliament, the current government hasn’t brought it back in the 9th Parliament.According to them, this delay has allowed such activities to be shown publicly.Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, June 25, 2026, Minority Leader Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin described the delay as…