Ghana Topics is a collaborative public information project by Ghana NLP to identify key topics that appeared frequently in Ghanaian news annually. The current results are from analyzing over 61,000 news articles published in 2025 across 5 major Ghanaian news outlets. Using NLP techniques and AI-powered classification, we extracted and filtered keywords to surface the topics dominating the news cycle.
- Total sentences processed: 959,502
- Total articles analyzed: 61,018
- Total noun phrases: 1,393,240
- Total phrase occurrences: 5,949,477
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The following keywords appeared most frequently in Ghanaian news in 2025, each appearing in in 980 articles on average. The most dominant topic was Galamsey/illegal mining.
| Phrase | Count |
|---|---|
| Galamsey/illegal mining | 9706 |
| Jobs | 3077 |
| Training | 3022 |
| Research | 2498 |
| Infrastructure | 2435 |
| Construction | 2071 |
| Skills | 1887 |
| Employment | 1355 |
| Mining | 1301 |
| Job Creation | 1277 |
| Production | 1276 |
| Investments | 1172 |
| Agribusiness | 1145 |
| Entrepreneurship | 948 |
| 24-Hour Economy | 868 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 838 |
| Energy sector | 779 |
| Electricity | 730 |
| Innovations | 706 |
| Green Transition | 651 |
| Engineering | 638 |
| Reform | 614 |
| Digital Technology | 610 |
| Manufacturing | 574 |
| Youth Development | 563 |
| Procurement | 538 |
| Digital Transformation | 533 |
| Infrastructure development | 513 |
| ICT | 480 |
| Community Development | 451 |
| Renewable energy | 446 |
| Medicine | 408 |
| Higher Education | 405 |
| Mathematics | 405 |
| Breast cancer | 404 |
| Youth Empowerment | 399 |
| Diabetes | 398 |
| Capacity Building | 398 |
| Creative Arts | 386 |
| Free SHS | 384 |
| Farming | 384 |
| Banking | 383 |
| Insurance | 376 |
| Nutrition | 373 |
| TVET | 370 |
| Economics | 369 |
| Rehabilitation | 367 |
| Export | 367 |
| Mental Health | 364 |
| Cervical cancer | 364 |
| Hypertension | 362 |
| NCDs | 358 |
| STEM | 352 |
| Public education | 350 |
| Digital platforms | 349 |
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