The Krachi East Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) and Dean of MMDCEs in the Oti Region, Francis Kofi Okesu, has been found dead in a hotel in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. The lifeless body of the MCE was found in a room he had booked, according to police sources. Police have begun investigations into the death.

The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has assured students of the University of Ghana (UG) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) that their interests will be protected in the ongoing saga of unaccredited programmes. The assurance follows the release of the 2021 Auditor-General's Report, which indicated that over 600 programmes run by the two leading universities were without accreditation.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he is open to a national conversation on the government’s Free SHS programme. He indicated that such a conversation should include funding, access, and sustainability.

Two brothers have inflicted cutlass wounds on a farmer, Ibrahim Indago, at Atta Ne Atta in the Asante Akyem South Municipality of the Ashanti Region. Narrating his ordeal to Adom News correspondent Isaac Amoako, Mr Indago said the two brothers attacked him following a misunderstanding over a goat.

Some six persons, who allegedly led the destruction at the Northern Regional office of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Tamale, have been detained after reporting themselves to the regional police. They are currently in custody assisting with investigations and expected to be put before court on Tuesday.

The Ghana Police Service has commenced investigations into circumstances leading to the death of a man who was allegedly attacked by one of the lions at the Accra Zoo. The incident, according to the Ghana Forestry Commission, happened on Sunday, August 28, 2022, at about 12:00 after officials of the Accra Zoo, on a routine patrol, noticed the lifeless body of the deceased in the lion’s enclosure.

Ashanti Region tops HIV population in Ghana — AIDS Commission.

Incumbent Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has said he is confident of retaining the slot even Asiedu Nketia contests him Asiedu Nketia, the current secretary of the party, is rumoured to be eyeing the NDC Chairmanship position but has yet to confirm the reports.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday commissioned 13 Megawatts solar power plant at Kaleo in the Nadowli District of the Upper West Region. The £22.8 million solar plant of the Volta River Authority (VRA), which sits on a 20.4-hectare land began in February 2020 when President Akufo-Addo cut the sod for its construction.

The Forestry Commission with support from its taskforce and the military has arrested five galamsey operators in the Bosomtwe Range Forest Reserve in the Bekwai Forest District of the Ashanti Region. The suspects were arraigned before the Bekwai Circuit but a couple of them have been granted bail at the moment.