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The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has come under fire from Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the founder of the pressure group #FixTheCountry, for giving President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo access to its platform for political campaigning. The GBA Executives, he claimed, ought to be ashamed of themselves. Vormawor claimed in a Facebook post that the Executives have damaged the GBA’s already-cloudy reputation. Nana Addo revealed that John Mahama, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, loses the general election of 2024 in a speech on Monday, September 11, 2023, at the 2023 Ghana Bar Association Conference held at the University of Cape Coast. Mahama…

In the general elections of 2024, John Dramani Mahama must lose, according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. He asserted that Ghana does not need the former President and flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as its leader. John Mahama’s recent outburst against the judiciary, according to President Akufo-Addo’s remarks at the 2023 Ghana Bar Association Conference in Cape Coast, is dangerous for the nation’s democracy. Additionally, he claimed that calling judges “NPP” or “NDC” is a flagrant attack on Ghana’s judicial system. “Not only are these concepts of “NPP” and “NDC” judges new in our public discourse,…

The 2023 Ghana Outstanding Woman TV Personality award was given at the GOWA (Ghana Outstanding Women Awards) to Gloria Akpene Nyarku, also known as MzGee and the host of UTV’s United Showbiz. MzGee, who was beaming with happiness, expressed her belief that the public will be inspired by her success and that it will encourage others to persevere in the face of chaos in the knowledge that their efforts will eventually be rewarded. She stated in a post on Instagram “God’s been good! I didn’t see this coming…,” She wrote in the caption of her happy post. “Indeed, God’s been…

President Akufo-Addo has described as dangerous the comments by John Mahama suggesting the next NDC government will balance out the Justices on the Supreme Court. Previously, the former president John Mahama claimed that the Akufo-Addo government has crowded Ghana’s courts in order to avoid facing consequences after taking office. Mr. Mahama revealed that some of the lawyers President Akufo-Addo has passed up on the bench during the closing remarks of the third lawyers conference, which was held at Akosombo in the Eastern region and was organized by the NDC Lawyers Association. According to President Akufo-Addo, Mahama’s comments “represent a brazen…

The government’s recently announced increase in the farm-gate price of cocoa has been criticized by the leader of the National Democratic Congress, John Mahama, as a ripoff of the labor-intensive cocoa farmers and their families, who continue to support their nation’s economy. Mahama argued in a Facebook post that the government should have given cocoa farmers a more equitable share of the international FOB price given that the price of cocoa reached a 46-year high of $3,600. He expressed dissatisfaction that the government had decided to give farmers just GH 1,308 per bag, or just 52.7% of the FOB price…

Chief Bugri Naabu, the former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), will appear before the parliamentary committee looking into the stolen IGP tape a second time. The former NPP Chairman was caught on tape plotting with a few police officers to have Dr. Akufo Dampare, the current IGP, fired because he was not acting in the party’s best interests. A few weeks ago, Chief Bugri Naabu made his first appearance before the committee, speaking about the aforementioned tape and naming the officers who were present for the conversation. Although the committee released him on the day he…

James Youngdon, a rising star on social media and a Twene Jonas impersonator, has apologized to Christians and Muslims for his remarks on Facebook. The American man, also known online as Twene Jonas National Service, uses social media to address various issues and has taken on Twene Jonas’ persona. During a live Facebook broadcast last week on the streets of New York, he asserted that any man who bows and uses his forehead for prayer is an idiot. He insulted Ghanaians as a whole and the many different religions practiced in the country. One Muslim living in Ghana who was…

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has been invited to appear before the 7-member ad-hoc committee chaired by Samuel Atta Akyea on Tuesday, September 12, accompanied by his lawyers. On the topics covered in the leaked tape, the Inspector General of Police is anticipated to have a chance to speak. In an interview with JoyNews, Hon. Atta Akyea said it was crucial that the IGP be heard. Lawyer Atta Akyea, the chairman of the committee looking into the IGP tape that was leaked, said the committee’s work was essential to learning more about the topics covered…

InsightNewsgh.com looks at the stories making headlines of the various newspaper publications for today, Monday, 11th September, 2023.

According to the country’s interior ministry, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck central Morocco and killed at least 632 people. According to the US Geological Survey, the epicenter was in the High Atlas Mountains, 71 kilometers (44 miles) south-west of Marrakesh, at a depth of 18.5 kilometers. On Friday, the earthquake occurred at 22:11 GMT (local time). A 4.9 aftershock occurred 19 minutes later. The ministry reported fatalities in Marrakesh and several southern locales. It’s thought that many of the victims are in far-off places. As a result of the Moroccan government’s warning not to return home…