Author: Insight News

An eleven-person committee has been established by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to oversee its presidential primaries. The committee’s main responsibility is to investigate each candidate who has applied to represent the party in the general elections of 2024. During a meeting on May 30, the National Steering Committee chose the team. The committee’s main duty is to carefully review and score the ten party veterans who have turned in their applications to run for the party’s flagbearer position. The outcome of this crucial screening procedure will have a big impact on who the party nominates as its presidential…

Prior to the general elections in 2024, Mustapha Gbande, the Deputy National Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has issued a stern warning to the New Patriotic Party (NPP). His responses follow President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s remarks on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in which he congratulated the NDC on winning the Assin North by-election. He claimed that the outcome and the way it was handled only served to strengthen Ghana’s democratic credentials. James Gyakye Quayson of the NDC, whose dual citizenship controversy sparked the by-election, won with a commanding 57.56 percent of the vote. He defeated his rivals…

Three contractors working on the government’s Agenda 111 project’s health facility construction have been fired. Agenda 111 is a component of a vast healthcare sector vision for Ghana, whose realization will make Ghana a center of medical excellence and a popular destination for medical tourists. 101 district hospitals, six regional hospitals in the recently established regions, two specialized hospitals in the middle and northern belts, a regional hospital in the Western Region, and renovations to the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital are all part of the Agenda 111 project. In order to ensure the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal Three of the…

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has advised the public to disregard a phony advertisement that claims it is conducting a recruitment drive and is circulating on various social media. In a statement, GAF stated that it is not currently hiring for the Forces. The statement advised people who were interested in joining the military to only use the channels used by GAF to publicize its recruitment and enlistment drives, namely the newspapers Daily Graphic and Ghanaian Times. GAF emphasized that it is not actively seeking new members and urged the general public to report any phony internet links and illegal…

On June 29, 2023, Koku Anyidoho, a former deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), posted on social media to congratulate his party on their success in the Assin North bye-election. In this constituency, the NDC won decisively. The Electoral Commission of Ghana announced James Gyakye Quayson as the Member of Parliament-elect for the Assin North constituency on June 27, 2023, following the recent Assin North bye-election. 17,245 votes, or 57.56% of the total votes cast, went to Mr. Quayson. Charles Opoku of the NPP, who was his main rival, received 12,630 votes, or 42.15 percent of the…

Assin North by-election results on Tuesday resulted in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) losing its bid for a parliamentary seat, and a Polling Station Executive blames Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for the party’s defeat. Mr. Dominic Owoahene speaking in an interview on Metro TV monitored by InsightNewsgh.com, he accused Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia of interfering and projecting himself during their campaign prior to the Assin North by-election. He said while they were on the ground canvassing vote for NPP’s candidate Charles Opoku, Dr. Bawumia was busy projecting himself. According to him, during their last campaign at Assin North constituency, Dr.…

The former vice president Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur’s wife, Mrs. Matilda Amissah Arthur, has admitted that she frequently suggested that he step down from his role as vice president of Ghana. She claimed that despite many requests for him to resign, she never did because she understood the value of his voice in the government and the potential void that his resignation might cause. “Many times, many times, but after I said that (he should resign), I realized that if he goes out, who will say the kind of things he says, so he should be there even if he…

Tracey Sarkcess, the wife of well-known Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie, has at last reacted to actress Yvonne Nelson’s recent exposé of a relationship she had with the rapper 13 years ago that resulted in a pregnancy. Since Yvonne Nelson revealed in her book, “I Am Not Yvonne Nelson,” that Sarkodie had impregnated her 13 years prior and persuaded her to have an abortion, the shocking news has dominated trending tabs for almost a week. Well, Mrs. Adelz, a social media user, has also charged the “Country Side” hitmaker with allegedly having an extramarital affair in 2016. Sarkodie had unprotected sex with…

InsightNewsgh.com looks at the stories making headlines of Ghanaian newspaper publications for Friday, 30th June, 2023.

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) claims that a level 300 student committed suicide in her dorm room. One of the residents of Bomso’s Ultimate Hostel is reportedly the student who is majoring in real estate. The source claims that she sent her friends a message saying, “I QUIT,” but by the time she arrived at her hostel, she had already committed suicide. READ ALSO: 88 Out Of ‘Agenda 111’ Hospitals Under Construction – Oppong Nkrumah It said that because her door was locked, other hostel guests had to break down the door to get to her…