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Ghana has introduced a legal framework to regulate virtual assets as cryptocurrency adoption accelerates and digital finance expands across the economy.  The move follows the enactment of the Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Act, 2025, aimed at strengthening oversight of the country’s growing cryptocurrency market and aligning regulatory standards with global financial integrity requirements.  The

Sam George – Minister of Communication and Digital Transformation. Mr. Sam George, the Minister for Communication and Digital Transformation, has called on the MTN to confront the challenges of ensuring affordable access for all citizens, strengthen infrastructure resilience, including power reliability and fibre protection. It is also to deepen cybersecurity and data protection, closing digital

Ghana will host this year’s Pan African AI Summit to drive youth-focused digital innovation and position the country as a hub for AI-led economic growth. The summit, slated for September 22–23, will take place at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City Accra, as part of a collaboration between the Pan African AI Summit and the

Containers at the Tema Harbour, Ghana’s largest sea port. The implementation of an artificial intelligence (AI) system at Ghana’s ports has generated mixed reactions among residents, traders, and industry players. The system, which has been integrated into customs operations, is aimed at enhancing transparency, improving revenue mobilisation, and reducing corruption at the port. This has

Professor Christian Agyare The Governing Council of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (KNUST) at its 292nd (Special) Meeting held on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 appointed Professor Christian Agyare as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University.  His four-year term of office will begin effective 1st August, 2026 to July, 31, 2030.   Prof. Agyare succeeds

Corporate Ghana has been urged to overhaul workplace systems to ensure full inclusion of persons with disabilities, as experts warn that persistent structural and attitudinal barriers continue to limit their meaningful participation in the economy.  Professor Augustana Naami, Social Work scholar at the University of Ghana, made the call at the EmpowAbility Seminar 2.0, organised

Abronye An Accra Circuit Court has remanded Bono Regional New Patriotic Party Chairman Kwame Baffoe into Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) custody over alleged offensive conduct and false publication. Baffoe has been charged with offensive conduct conducive to breach of the peace and publication of false news. He pleaded not guilty. When the case was

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), has paid a working visit to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, to brief him on the award of a GH¢400 million Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Teaching Hospital contract.  The visit led by its Administrator, Mr. Paul Adjei, was to update the Asantehene on the successful award of the contract for the procurement of

Three persons have been arrested by the Eastern Regional Police Command for unlawful possession of suspected narcotics following an intelligence-led operation at Odumase-Krobo that also exposed an attempted GH¢100,000 bribe. According to a press release signed by Chief Inspector Bridget Opoku of the Public Affairs Unit of the Eastern Regional Police Command, the operation was

Ghana has presented 509,862 candidates for this year’s West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), which began with Oral English on Tuesday.  Statistics from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) revealed that 225,274 of the candidates are males, while 284,588 are females.   In addition, 82 candidates from Togo will join their Ghanaian counterparts.  WAEC