Senegal's President has declared Monday a public holiday to celebrate the national football team's first Africa Cup of Nations title following their victory against Egypt, public television announced.

According to the CDD report, “the rising cost of running for political office and the amount of money candidates must raise to contest elections at the constituency level and run as a parliamentary candidate is directly linked to both demand-driven and supply-side corruption, creating interdependencies.

An unidentified body buried halfway at Mempeasem in the Bole District of the Savannah Region has been exhumed. The assembly member of Mempeasem electoral area, Surazu Mahama, confirmed this to Adom News‘ Rebecca Nantomah.

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government is determined to find the means to address what he describes as revenue gaps in the budget. He said the Covid-19 hit the country hard like any other economy worldwide, thereby leaving a gap in its wake.

The government's clarion call on all citizens to appreciate that keeping their environment clean and green is one of the prerequisites for leading a healthy and happy life dubbed 'Operation Clean Your Frontage' has kicked off today, Tuesday, February 1, 2022, with about 30,000 people expected to be deployed in Accra to start a massive clean up campaign.

The University of Ghana says investigations are still ongoing into the drowning of a first-year student in the school’s pool over the weekend. The management of the University of Ghana confirmed the drowning of a male student on Saturday, January 29, 2022.

The shutdown of public universities may still not be off the table as the lecturers’ strike continues hence compelling the possible shutdown of the institutions. Members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) are in their third week of a strike the National Labour Commission has described as illegal.

Parliament has tasked its Committee on Youth and Sports to probe the shambolic performance of the senior national team, Black Stars at the ongoing African Nations Cup in Cameroun. This follows a statement by Ranking Member for the Committee, Kobina Mensa Woyome in which he called on the Ghana Football Association and the Ministry of Youth and Sports to explain to Ghanaians what accounted for the abysmal performance of the team at the tournament.

The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has demanded that the Executive Director of the National Identification Authority (NIA) and the supervising Minister of the Ghana Card registration exercise appear before Parliament. According to him, the time is ripe for the Authority to update the House on its operations, considering the growing importance of the card in national activities.

Northern Regional police commander is advising car owners to buy car tracking devices as part of measures to fight car snatching in the country. The advice comes in a wake of increases in car snatching cases especially in Tamale.