Author: Insight News

The recent bizarre attempt by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Majority in Parliament to oust the Minority Leader, Osahen Alexander Afenyo-Markin from the ECOWAS Parliament has become an exercise in futility because per the laws governing the ECOWAS Parliament, the tenure of a Member, more so, an elected Deputy Speaker is fixed and as long as he has won his Effutu Constituency seat, no person, group or nation can remove him unless he himself voluntarily resigns, takes a position in the Executive or dies. Under the Supplementary Act A/SA.1/12/16, governing the ECOWAS Parliament, a Member State cannot unilaterally or arbitrarily…

THE INSPECTOR General of Police (IGP), Christian Tetteh Yohunu, rushed to Kumasi on Saturday in the company of top police officers from Accra. The hurriedly arranged visit was in connection with the recent shootings in Asawase, where two people, including a Kusasi Chief, have been fatally shot dead. The IGP, in a speech read on his behalf, said the shootings in Asawase, notably the loss of lives, was a worry to the president and the entire security forces. In this regard, he explained that he decided to visit the Ashanti Regional capital to personally assess the security situation in order…

SIXTEEN SUSPECTS have been busted by the Manhyia Divisional Police in Kumasi on suspicion of either using or peddling narcotic drugs, which is against the law. The suspects include Emmanuel Asante, 23, Osman Ibrahim, 27, Issah Ahmed, 27, Robert Addison, 26, Opoku Basoa, 29, Gabriel Yussif 34 and Mohammed Yusif, 31. The other suspects, who are in police grips, are Aziz Mohammed, 27, Far Iddrisu, 29, Siley Imani, 26, Ali Mohammed, 24, Hahaha Abdul, 33, Abubakar Mohamed, 22. Also apprehended during the successful police operation includes Rafat Issahaka, 17 years old and Clement Taking, 18 years old and Amadu Awal,…

In what insiders fear could spiral into a nationwide scandal, a group of unscrupulous individuals, described by local workers as “politically connected hoodlums”, have, on the blind side of key state actors, seized control of several Axle Load Stations in the Ashanti Region and parts of the Eastern and Bono Regions. This alarming development, which continues to unfold quietly under the radar of the Presidency, the Ministry of Roads and Highways, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), and the Director of the Ghana Highways Authority (GHA), threatens to derail some of the current administration’s hard-won…

In a move that has drawn both praise and political commentary, the Member of Parliament for Nsawam-Adoagyiri constituency in the Eastern Region and Minority Chief Whip, Hon. Frank Annoh-Dompreh has distributed over 500 driver’s licenses to taxi drivers within his constituency. The symbolic handover took place on Sunday, July 27, at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituency office in Nsawam. The initiative, which was originally launched in 2023 ahead of the 2024 general elections, aimed to support commercial drivers by covering the full cost of obtaining valid driving licenses through the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA). Each license is…

Three Senior High School (SHS) students have been shot to death on their campuses in two separate but connected attacks in Bawku and Nalerigu. This has forced Government to shut down schools in the areas and begin an urgent evacuation of students while imposing a curfew. “The curfew is intended to create an environment conducive to the evacuation of all students in various educational institutions in affected areas, some of whom have been unfortunately targeted in the conflict”, the Spokesperson to the President, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, stated in a press release issued on Sunday July 27, 2025. On Saturday night,…

The National Security Secretariat is on a full-scale investigation to trace and track the whereabouts of several consignments of live rounds of ammunition belonging to the Ghana Armed Forces (GFA) which cannot be accounted for. The said consignment of thousands of military-grade ammunition is suspected to have been covertly transferred to the Secretariat in 2024 without the requisite documentation and in a breach of laid down protocols for such transfers and movement of Ghana Armed Forces ammunition. Defence Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah told Military Chiefs and journalists in Accra that the incident of the missing consignment is not a…

The Ghana Police Service has successfully stopped a planned robbery in Accra following a special intelligence-led operation, resulting in the killing of two suspects, while the other three are still on the run. According to a statement posted on the Ghana Police Service’s official Facebook page on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, the operation was carried out by the Police Intelligence Directorate (PID) on Monday, July 15, 2025. The police acted on credible tip-off that five armed men were hiding at a hotel in Labadi and planning to rob a foreign national in the Cantonments area. “The Ghana Police Service has…

Jerry Ahmed Shaib, the Deputy Minority Whip in Parliament has issued an official statement to deny online news reports that he had threatened to resign as a Member of Parliament if former Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia gets elected as flag-bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2028 elections. Jerry Shaib, the Member of Parliament for the Weija-Gbawe Constituency said he had never made such comments in any manner or form to any individual or persons and it should be treated as false news. The said report went viral online after it was put out by a shady…

The Attorney-General (AG) has officially dropped the criminal case against former Finance Minister Dr. Kwabena Duffuor and seven others, who were standing trial over the collapse of uniBank. The decision was announced on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 by Deputy Attorney-General Dr. Justice Srem-Sai, through a press release posted on his Facebook wall. He stated that the AG had entered a nolle prosequi, a legal declaration indicating that the State no longer wishes to pursue the case. This move brings an end to a high-profile prosecution that had been ongoing since 2020. The press statement issued by the AG’s office, explained…