Author: Insight News

According to Ken Ofori-Atta, minister of finance, one of the government’s signature initiatives, the One District One Factory initiative, has generated over 160,000 direct and indirect jobs. On Monday, July 31, 2023, he presented the government’s mid-year fiscal policy review of the budget statement and economic strategy. He noted that as of June 2023, a total of 126 factories were operating in 58 districts across the nation, and that job creation efforts were focused on the nation’s teeming youth unemployment rate. “Mr. Speaker, in line with the government’s unwavering commitment to industrialisation, the implementation of the flagship One District, One…

According to Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, 2022 was a challenging year for him and the administration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. He claimed that the COVID-19 aftermath and the Russia-Ukraine war, which had an impact on the entire world, were to blame for the rising cost of goods and services. Ken Ofori-Atta informed the legislature about the mid-year budget review and claimed that the pandemic and conflict forced the government to seek assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He said “2022 was the most difficult year for me as Ghana’s Finance Minister. On July 1st, 2022, we took…

Manchester United new goalkeeper, Andre Onana has finally spoken after shouting at Harry Maguire in a viral video that has got many talking. Maguire erred during their preseason game against Borussia Dortmund, Onana lashed out at him. Maguire made a sloppy pass that allowed Dortmund to get in on goal before the goalkeeper saved them. The English defender was then yelled at by the Cameroonian as he ran directly in Harry Maguire’s direction. Maguire had a difficult night because when his name was announced in Las Vegas, the crowd booed him as well. Some fans criticize the Cameroonian for disrespecting…

Former France Ambassador to Ghana, Anne Sophie Avé, has made passionate appeal to government should consider granting Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Shatta Wale and other musicians a diplomatic passport. According to Sophie Avé, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Black Sherif, Shatta Wale, R2Bees, and King Promise deserve a diplomatic passport because they keeping putting Ghana on the globe with their creative arts better than the best Ambassadors could in a lifetime. “Ghana, you should give Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Black Sherif, Shatta Wale, R2Bees, and King Promise diplomatic passports: they put Ghana to the world better than the best Ambassador could in a lifetime,” Sophie Avé. In…

Award-winning Ghanaian Gospel singer, Empress Gifty almost clashed with MzGee, host of United Showbiz over weekend. MzGee questioned the Gospel musician’s seriousness in putting more efforts to promote her new songs than turning into a marriage counselor on TV. Reacting to the question, Empress Gifty got angry and asked MzGee to rephrase her question because according to her, she pumps more money into her craft. She explained that she doesn’t want to be like other artists who after they release a new song, go on a media tour to promote their songs and come back to sit idle. She added…

John Mahama, the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) nominee for president in 2024, has voiced concern over the rising rates of youth unemployment in the nation. According to him, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration has led to the highest level of unemployment in Ghana’s history. Speaking at the Academic City University College’s commencement ceremony over the weekend, Mahama claimed that youth unemployment posed the greatest threat to Ghana’s stability and security. He warned the graduates that there were no jobs ready to take them on and that it might take a long time to find suitable employment. He claims that…

According to investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni, the president secretly ordered the former sanitation minister to resign after hearing that a large sum of money had vanished from her home. On Monday, he revealed on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show that President Akufo-Addo, who was in Rome at the time, was enraged by the news and had ordered Cecilia Abena Dapaah to submit her resignation or he would be forced to remove her from office. “I’m privy to what went on before that resignation was tendered. The President was away in Rome when the news broke. One evening, he called…

The regional coordinator for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Volta has asked the party’s leadership to suspend Pope Yevu as regional secretary for allegedly stealing supplies meant to be distributed to voters during the recently completed Assin North by-election. In a petition to the NPP’s national executives dated July 3, the Volta region’s organizer Korsi Bodja claimed that Pope Yevu had stolen campaign supplies like hair dryers, cutlasses, Wellington boots, head pans, fertilizer, and sewing machines that were intended to be distributed in the Ewe communities during the election. “I write to invoke Article 3(7) of the party’s constitution…

COPEC Fuel prices are expected to rise beginning on August 1. Petrol is expected to cost $13.27 per liter and diesel will cost $13.93. Duncan Amoah, theChamber Of Petroleum Consumers’ (COPEC) Executive Secretary, claims that the “pump prices of Petrol and Diesel are likely to increase on average by about 9% over the current mean price of GHS11.90/L across the country whilst LPG prices increase by about 20%.” He gave an explanation for the increase, stating, “The prices of finished products on the international market have shot up by average of around 12% for both petrol and diesel whiles crude…

Private legal practitioner and former police officer, Alexander Amoako Twum Barimah has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) intend to maintain the free SHS policy if they successful win power in the 2024 general elections. According to Twum Barimah, the NDC will never collapse free SHS education but would rather prioritize on quality more than quantity. Mr. Twum Barimah speaking during a panel discussion on Adekye Nsroma on UTV morning show said the ruling NPP government are not handling the free SHS well and because of that a lot of the students who gain admissions to universities don’t do well…