Author: Insight News

The Church of Pentecost has rallied a great support behind their member and Deaconess Piesie Esther who has been nominated in the category for the Vodafone Ghana Music Award ‘Artist of the Year.’ The talented Gospel singer has been nominated for 7 awards in this year’s VGMA. They are; Best Artiste of the Year, Best Gospel Artiste of the Year, Best Gospel Song of the Year, Most Popular Song of the Year, Best Music Video, Best Female Vocal Performance and Best Songwriter of the Year. The church took to their Twitter Page to back their very own as they called…

According to Ghanaian media personality George Nii Armah Quaye, some members of the gospel community are allegedly doing everything in their power to influence the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) board and academy in order to win. George claims that while musicians in other genres are working hard to win over their fans and secure votes, their gospel colleagues are proactively attempting to sway the board. In a facebook post on May 2, 2023, he wrote “Gospel people” going round DESPERATELY doing all they can to “INFLUENCE ” VGMA Academy and Board Members. According to him, “Worldly” acts are focusing…

Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed government to digitize taxi and trotro operations in Ghana. Speaking at a meeting, Dr. Bawumia said very soon taxi and trotro drivers will be enrolled into the digital platform just like the Yango, Bolt and Uber drivers. In his speech, Dr. Bawmua who has finally declared his intentions to lead the New Patriotic Party to break the 8 in the 2024 general elections said some commercial drivers paid a courtesy call on him. According to him, at the meeting with the concern drivers, they pointed out that the introduction of the digital transport…

Aisha Huang, a Chinese national known as the “galamsey queen,” was found guilty by the Accra High Court. After changing her plea from not guilty to guilty on the charge of illegally entering the country while being barred from entry, she was found guilty. Aisha was found guilty by the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court, which is presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, following the execution of a plea bargain with the prosecution. Aisha Huang changed her plea in the final charge after several months of trial, but she maintained her not guilty plea for the counts…

Popular Ghanaian comedian cum TV Show host, Foster Romanus has explained why the Nyansapo Drama Group decided to stage a play titled ‘Father Bernard.’ Recall a viral video clip of a woman throwing her face flat on the casket of the late Parish Priest’s grave pit with a scream “eiii Father Bernard” made her internet sensation. Few days after, the video went viral as content creators on TikTok created hundreds of funny videos from the unfortunate dive at the burial of the late Rev. Father Bernard Kofi Ackon who was interred on March 21, 2023. Following this, Comedian Foster Romanus…

Former President, John Dramani Mahama has vowed to fix the Free SHS policy which has been a big problem after its implementation by the President Nana Addo led NPP government. Under the NPP-led administration, Mahama pledged to fix the National Health Insurance Scheme and the problematic Free SHS policy. “Free SHS is not working properly, the benefit it is supposed to give the parents, they are not getting. I can tell you today that the money we are spending on our children to go to school is far more than when we used to pay school fees. “We are going…

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice president, has declared his intention to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the general elections of 2024. The Vice President made this announcement in a meeting with the majority caucus in Parliament behind closed doors, according to a report by Accra-based Citi FM. The majority of NPP MPs supported the Vice President’s action at the meeting on Tuesday night. Dr. Bawumia is widely regarded as the favorite to succeed President Akufo-Addo in 2024, but he will face opposition from Alan Kyeremanteng, a three-time candidate who resigned in January of this year to concentrate on his…

Otiko Djaba, a former minister of gender, children, and social protection, has provided an explanation for why she turned down an offer to serve as Ghana’s ambassador to Italy made by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in 2018. She claimed that because she is leaving active politics, she has no regrets about turning down the position. Speaking on GTV, she claimed that because of her work in the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) sector and later in full-time party and national politics, her four children had to put up with an absent mother for years. Otiko Djaba stated: “I’d worked for sixteen…

The National Democratic Congress’s (NDC’s) Sammy Gyamfi, the director of communications, has revealed the ludicrous contradictions in the employment and labor relations minister Ignatius Baffour Awuah’s and vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s figures regarding the jobs they assert the government has created. Earlier, Dr. Bawumia asserted that the government has created 2 million jobs since 2017 in his speech at the national Eid-ul-Fitr celebration in Independence Square. He also mentioned opportunities for the youth. When he asserted that the government created over two million jobs in the public and private sectors using “verifiable data” at a health walk in Mpraeso,…

Nana Ama Mcbrown, the empress of television in Ghana, has responded to those who criticized her for succeeding in the media despite not having a degree. When asked what she thought of the disparaging remarks made by others, Nana Ama Mcbrown said that she didn’t care while speaking to Berla Mundi on the Day show. The vivacious media personality claims that she deals with issues on a daily basis. “Berla I have been on tv for 22 years to allow negative comments from people to affect me. I am a grown woman and there are certain things I just brush…