Author: Insight News

InsightNewsgh.com looks at the stories making headlines of the various newspaper publications for today, Friday, 1st September, 2023.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor has declared that it disagrees with a decision made by the Accra High Court regarding Cecilia Dapaah, a former minister of water resources and sanitation, and her frozen bank accounts. Even though the OSP respects the court’s decision, it disagrees with the order, according to a press release issued on Thursday, August 31, 2023, and signed by the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng. The OSP challenged the court’s ruling because, contrary to the court’s assertion, the OSP filed its application for the seizure and freezing orders within the allotted time period. “While the OSP respects…

Fatawu Issahaku, a young player from Ghana, has expressed his happiness at finishing a season-long loan transfer to Leicester City in the English Championship. After transferring from Sporting CP, the 19-year-old is anticipated to settle in and eventually break into the Portuguese club’s first team at the end of the season. Numerous English clubs have shown interest in the winger, including Crystal Palace, who had an initial offer of €8 million rejected, according to Portuguese and English media. The youngster who claimed it was the best course of action for him was nonetheless apprehended by the Foxes. “I’m so happy.…

COP George Akuffo Dampare, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), is not effectively running the police force, according to George Alex Mensah, the Director of Operations for the Ghana Police Service. The fact that things are not going well under the current IGP is a well-kept secret among the top brass of the police service. IGP Dampare’s leadership, according to COP Mensah, has caused a decline in morale among many police officers. He was speaking to a parliamentary select committee looking into a leaked tape of the IGP. “Dampare is not managing the Police Service well and the majority of…

Richard Ahiagbah, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) director of communications, has stated that while the party’s National Council’s decision to organize itself into an electoral college to break ties is novel and to some extent unpopular, it is not in any way unconstitutional. Tweeted by Mr. Ahiagbah, “The decision of the National Council to constitute itself into an electoral college to break the tie is novel and to some extent unpopular, but it is by no means unconstitutional. I regret the withdrawal of Mr. Agyarko from the race, but I believe that the National Council made a difficult decision in…

Former National Democratic Congress (NDC) deputy national communications officer Kweku Boahen has asserted that Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM1 should have been jailed long-term. Mr. Kweku Boahen speaking on UTV’s Adekye Nsroma morning show monitored by InsightNewsgh.com revealed the moment NAM 1 requested the aggrieved customers of Menzgold to pay GH₵650 verification process to qualify them for a refund of their investment, he should been arrested and put behind bars. According to him, NAM 1 has been over-pampered and allowed to walk freely in the country without facing charges against him after his…

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has been ordered by an Accra High Court to return Cecilia Dapaah’s money within seven days. When the OSP seized the former sanitation minister’s assets, she became embroiled in a legal battle. The OSP is now required to give her the money that was seized after the court reversed this decision. Following the discovery that Madam Dapaah was keeping more than $1 million in her home, the OSP opened a corruption and corruption-related offense investigation into her. The Office of the Special Prosecutor conducted a thorough search of the minister’s residences following the…

A former member of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), Major (Rtd) Kwadwo Boakye Djan, passed away, according to reports in Accra. According to a report by Accra-based Asaase Radio, the former serviceman passed away on August 30, 2023, at the 37 Military Hospital, following a brief illness. He was a political and military leader in Ghana who was well-known for his contributions to those fields. Boakye Djan attended Opoku Ware School for secondary education during his O Levels and Achimota School during his sixth form. The late Boakye Djan claimed that former president Jerry John Rawlings committed murder and…

Celebrated Ghanaian media personality, Berla Mundi has shared her take on the ousted Gabon President Ali Bongo following military coup. According to Berla Mundi, African leaders are turning deaf ears to the cry to some African local citizens about the treatment from some presidents. Her comment comes after ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba was captured in a viral video appealing to the international community for assistance in freeing him from the house arrest imposed by the military junta in Gabon. Speaking in the recorded video, President Ali Bongo seated in his office in his home pleaded with people and the…

Boakye Agyarko, a potential flagbearer candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has declared his intention to skip the party’s special run-off election, which is set for September 2, 2023. Mr. Boakye Agyarko claims that it is against the party’s constitution and election rules for the party’s Presidential Elections Committee to restrict the number of voters in the run-off election between himself and Francis Addai Nimoh. “It is totally unacceptable to me that such an unconstitutional act can be perpetuated on the altar of expediency. Am I to surmise that the party did not know the cost implication? “It is…