The free primary healthcare programme will be officially launched on April 15, 2026, President John Dramani Mahama has announced,  This programme promises to remove financial barriers to basic healthcare for all Ghanaians from the district hospital level down to the community. President Mahama made the announcement on Monday during his […]

President John Dramani Mahama has questioned the sole reliance on aptitude test scores in Ghana’s security services recruitment. He argued that courage, psychological resilience and the ability to hold ground under fire were qualities no digital scoring system could measure, stressing that the country’s recruitment process needed to reflect that […]

President John Dramani Mahama has issued a warning to his own ministers and senior government officials, telling them directly that the 2025 Auditor General’s report would put them squarely in the spotlight and that they needed to ensure their ministries were operating within the law. The warning came during a […]

A generation of Ghanaians grew up with a book called Courtesy for boys and girls, given free by the state, that taught them not to throw plastic in gutters, how to eat at a table and how to treat the space around them.  President John Dramani Mahama wants that back […]

Ghana is exploring the possibility of entering into arrangements with Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery to source finished petroleum products, as the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East tighten global fuel supplies and push prices higher. President John Dramani Mahama made the disclosure during […]

Ghana is pressing France to intervene with the International Monetary Fund to revive a stalled acquisition of offshore patrol vessels for its Navy, President John Dramani Mahama has revealed , as the two countries prepare for an official state visit in the coming days. The patrol vessel programme, designed to […]

President John Dramani Mahama has received the letters of credence of five newly appointed envoys to Ghana, with ambassadors and high commissioners from France, Angola, Namibia, South Sudan and China formally presenting their credentials at a ceremony. The envoys who presented their credentials were the Ambassador-Designate of France, H.E. Diarra […]

Ghana has produced a draft regional framework for counter-terrorism cooperation in the Sahel and is circulating it to partners for consideration, President John Dramani Mahama has announced, as the country attempts to fill the security vacuum left by the collapse of the Accra Initiative following coups in Mali, Burkina Faso […]

The Director-General of the Ghana Prisons Service, Mrs Patience Baffoe-Bonnie (Esq.), has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to strengthening agricultural production within the Service, describing it as a pathway to effective inmate rehabilitation and reintegration. Speaking at the 2026 Annual Agric Conference of the Ghana Prisons Service on Saturday in Accra, […]

President John Dramani Mahama has returned to Ghana to a rousing reception ceremony following his successful push at the United Nations General Assembly, where a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity was adopted with 123 votes. Addressing the gathering, President Mahama said the moment belonged […]