Author: Editorial Staff

Director for Mobile Web Ghana Florence Toffa has urged countries on the African continent to take bold steps in becoming creative developers of artificial intelligence (AI) rather than passive recipients of the new technology. Speaking at the Ghana Hubs Network 2025 Annual Conference of Hubs in Accra, Ms. Toffa emphasized the need for inclusive innovation and developing digital capacity to prevent the continent from lagging in the global AI revolution. “Africa cannot stand by and allow others to chart the course of AI. We should innovate, construct, and engage fully—otherwise we will again be left behind,” she said in a private sector engagement in innovation panel. The event held under the theme “Resilient Hubs, Thriving Futures: Building Ghana’s Innovation Ecosystem,” the biennial conference brought together entrepreneurs, tech hubs, development agencies, and policymakers to deliberate on prospects for digital inclusivity and job creation. Ms. Toffa urged African stakeholders to move beyond applying the use of AI solutions like ChatGPT and begin developing their own AI solutions. She asserted that building local expertise and infrastructure is the future of Africa. “It’s not…

Joseph Ofori Amanfo, a 42-year-old researcher and nuclear scientist, has disproved the claims that the legendary Fetish Priest, Komfo Anokye, is from Awukugua-Akuapim. While one account points to one Ano and Yaa Anubea, from Awukugua-Akuapim, as his parents, another account has it that Komfo Anokye was born in Ghana in 1655 to Agya Ano and Maame Kobe, from Awukugua in the Nifa Division of the Okerestate. But Ofori Amanfo, a PhD candidate, based on intensive research, has proved otherwise to end the historical debate on the origin and parentage of the legend. He claims Komfo Anokye is a royal of…

Deputy Chief of Staff (Administration) at the Presidency, Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, has called on Ghanaian youth to embrace innovation, technology, and purpose-driven entrepreneurship to lead the transformation of Ghana’s economy. She was speaking at the 2025 National Youth Mentorship Summit and Awards held at the University of Ghana, Accra. The summit was organised under the theme “Youthpreneur: A Catalyst for a New Economy.” Reflecting on her own student days in the 1980s, Nana Oye highlighted the generational shift brought about by technology and urged young people to make the most of the tools now available to them. “When…

The Leadership Empowerment Club (LEC), in partnership with MTN Ghana, has successfully organized the Grand Finale of the 2025 National Youth Mentorship Summit and Awards at the University of Ghana, Legon—bringing together hundreds of willing minds to lead the way. The event, held under the theme “Youthpreneur: A Catalyst for a New Economy,”  was aimed at empowering young people with practical tools, life inspiration, and mentorship to help them turn ideas into impact. One of LEC’s flagship programs, the summit continues to be an essential platform for leadership development, entrepreneurship, and career development for the Ghanaian youth and beyond. This…

The World Child Cancer (WCC) organisation has officially concluded its nationwide haematology training project in Ghana, which trained over 300 healthcare professionals in safe blood transfusion practices and the management of transfusion-related complications in paediatric cancer care. Held in Accra, the project closure event brought together stakeholders, partners, and policymakers to reflect on progress, share best practices, and discuss future collaboration to strengthen paediatric oncology services in Ghana. The Chief Executive Officer of the National Blood Service (NBS), Dr. Shirley Owusu-Ofori, expressed concern over declining voluntary blood donations, attributing the trend to persistent myths that donated blood is used for…

UNESCO Representative in Ghana, Mr. Edmund Moukala, made a clarion call to shift public attitude and intensify collective action in combating plastic pollution and safeguarding the coast and oceans of Ghana. He addressed the occasion when a massive beach clean up exercise was carried out at the Regional Maritime University Beach in Accra to mark World Oceans Day 2025. Mr. Moukala asserted that action on the environment is not merely policy declarations but actuality. It is not a question of talking change, but changing,” Mr. Moukala stated. “What we are doing here today proves that we are listening to…

The United Nations in Ghana, together with the Regional Maritime University (RMU), Plastic Punch, and other development partners, has hosted an enormous beach clean-up exercise in Accra to mark World Oceans Day 2025. Held under the global theme, “Accelerating Action and Mobilizing All Actors to Conserve and Sustainably Use the Ocean,” the activity brought together students, volunteers, activists, and environmental groups to raise awareness concerning ocean pollution and the challenge of sustainable waste management. The cleanup was done at RMU Beach and coincided with the ongoing 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice, rallying support for the need for collective action…

The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) has urged the media and civil society organisations (CSOs) to be at the forefront in building public confidence and political will towards asset recovery and management reforms in Ghana. This call was made during a stakeholder workshop held under the theme “Building Political Will and Public Support for Asset Recovery in Ghana.” The workshop brought together representatives of anti-corruption agencies, investigative journalists, and CSO actors to build knowledge on the legal and institutional frameworks that guide the recovery of proceeds of crime. Speaking at the event, Executive Secretary of GACC, Mrs. Beauty Emefa Narteh,…

The Head of Legal and Prosecution at the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Leo Anthony Siamah, has called for greater stakeholder cooperation and greater enforceability of laws to combat organised financial crimes and recover stolen assets. Speaking at a recent asset recovery and management forum, Mr. Siamah again emphasized that EOCO has shifted from investigating only criminal suspects to targeting, as well as the proceeds of their criminality. “Not only concentrating on the area of interest now. Now we also have an interest in ensuring that criminals don’t get to enjoy the proceeds of their trade,” he stated.…

Ghana Coalition Against Galamsey (GCAG) has condemned in strong terms Legislative Instrument (L.I.) 2462 for vesting presidential authority to approve mining in forest reserves, labelling it a frontal attack on the country’s environmental integrity and constitutional order. At a press briefing organized by the Ghana Coalition Against Galamsey (GCAG) in Accra, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, stated that the regulation provides a perilous precedent by de facto weakening established environmental restraints and permitting large-scale destruction of ecologically valuable environments. “This is not just a policy failure. It is a failure in law and the…