Month: January 2026

Galamsey: The National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) has shut down illegal mining activities on the COCOBOD Demonstration Farm, Section E, at Bunso in the Eastern Region, following a major enforcement operation conducted on January 8. During the raid, the NAIMOS Taskforce discovered eight excavators and 12 illegal miners actively operating on the research land. […]

OpenAI has launched a new feature in the United States called ChatGPT Health, enabling users to upload and analyse their medical records in order to receive more personalised health-related responses. While the company says the tool has been designed with enhanced privacy safeguards, campaigners have warned that the use of sensitive health data raises serious […]

Grok AI: The government has been accused of dragging its feet on implementing legislation that would criminalise the creation of non-consensual sexualised deepfakes, following growing outrage over images generated using Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool, Grok AI. Campaigners say the delay has left women and girls exposed to serious harm, as sexually explicit images created […]

Four decades after its launch, Microsoft Excel remains one of the most widely used and stubbornly persistent pieces of software in the modern workplace. Once jokingly deployed as a “boss key” in the 1990s to disguise gaming at work, Excel is now more likely to raise eyebrows among executives who view it as a barrier […]

British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua has paid an emotional tribute to his close friends Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele, who were killed in a car crash in Nigeria, describing their deaths as “tough” to come to terms with. Ghami and Ayodele died after the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a stationary truck […]

Arsenal missed the chance to move eight points clear at the top of the Premier League table after being held to a frustrating 0–0 draw by Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners came into the contest in buoyant form, having won their previous five league matches, and were presented with a golden opportunity to […]

Legal counsel for former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, Frank Davies, has confirmed that his client has formally applied for an extension of his stay in the United States on medical grounds. Speaking on Joy FM’s Top Story programme on Thursday, January 8, Mr. Davies explained that former Finance Minister Mr. Ofori-Atta travelled to the United […]

Ghanaian musician Sista Afia has firmly denied claims that she invited Tracy Shay onto the stage during her recent All White Party concert held in Koforidua, following widespread public discussion and social media speculation. The clarification comes after videos from the event surfaced online showing Tracy Shay, a schoolgirl protégé of award-winning singer Wendy Shay, […]

The host of Asempa FM’s flagship current affairs programme, Ekosiisen, Philip Osei Bonsu, has formally invoked Ghana’s Right to Information (RTI) law to demand greater transparency from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) over the financial performance of the state’s Gold-for-Reserve (G4R) programme. The request, dated January 7, 2026, seeks detailed disclosures on the programme’s gold […]

Deportation: Lawyers representing Ghana’s former Minister for Finance, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, are taking urgent legal steps to prevent his possible deportation to Ghana following his detention by officials of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for allegedly overstaying his visa. Mr. Ofori-Atta was picked up by ICE officers on Tuesday, setting in motion […]