Author: Insight News

In a dramatic turn of events that could shape or rend the country’s electoral processes to the core, both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are locked in a disagreement on one side and acceptance on the other over being committed to a peace pate to ensure a calm and orderly electoral process in the December Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Ghanaians woke up on Thursday, August 15, 2024 to a shock from the National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, stating emphatically that, the umbrella party would not be available…

Alexander Afenyo-Markin, Majority Leader in Parliament, has called on the rank and file of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to embark on a concerted, deliberate and sustained effort to win a majority of Parliamentary seats in the December polls. “We need our numbers in Parliament. In the 2000 election, in the Central Region, our President won 19 seats in Central Region, but we won just 10 seats in Parliament. That is why we are having challenges. We don’t want that again under a Bawumia led -Government. Let’s get our numbers and win together for we have done better in every…

A flood alert has been issued for the Upper East, North East, and Northern Regions of Ghana due to the impending release of excess water from the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso on Monday, August 19, 2024. The decision to spill the dam has been made by SONABEL, the Power Utility of Burkina Faso, as water levels have reached a critical threshold, making the spillage necessary to prevent a potentially catastrophic overflow. A letter issued by the White Volta Basin Secretariat of the Water Resources Commission on August 16th, 2024 issued warnings to regional authorities and residents, advising them to…

The Center for Democratic Development (CDD) has asked various political parties to make sure their manifestos respond to unprecedented governance, socio-economic, and security challenges, among other vital issues confronting the country and its citizens. According to CDD, the challenges confronting of worst economic crisis since the 1980s, national indebtedness, rampant government corruption, widening inequality, high and persistent youth unemployment, increasing poverty, need urgent attention and measures to solve them. In addition, the Center listed weak institutions for accountability and local administration, a looming health and environmental crisis (exemplified by galamsey [illegal mining] ravaged forests and water bodies), and internal chieftaincy/tribal/land…

The December 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Ghana are shaping up to be a pivotal contest, particularly in the five Northern regions as to who returns back to the Jubilee House after the tenure of President Akufo-Addo comes to an end. Historically, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dominated these regions, securing the majority of votes in previous elections. However, the emergence of Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice Presidential Candidate and subsequently flagbearer has significantly altered the political dynamics, leading to increased electoral gains for the NPP in these regions. READ ALSO: Bawumia…

An eleventh-hour objection raised by Bawku Central Member of Parliament,  Mahama Ayariga, to disallow the  vetting of two Supreme Court Justices nominees who appeared before Parliament’s Appointments Committee yesterday came to naught after a tensed debate, passionate pleas, a brief suspension of the Committee’s sitting, and an over ruling and a vote. The two new Supreme Court Justices nominees had been named by President Akufo-Addo to replace two justices of the apex who are due for retirement but moments after of the he nominees has sat before the Appointments Committee ready to be vetted, Mr. Ayariga raised an objection to…

A campaign promise by former President John Mahama that he would abolish the 10% withholding tax on betting and lottery winnings if he is reelected as Ghana’s President may get him summoned before the leader of the church where he fellowships as a practicing Christian – the highly respected Reverend Stephen Yenusom Wengam, General Superintendent of Assemblies of God. Responding to the promise to abolish tax on bet winnings, the immediate past Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said he and John Mahama attend the Assemblies of God church and the biblical teachings of that church are against gambling, betting and encouraging…

Africa’s top public health body declared what it termed a “public health emergency of continental security” on Tuesday over an outbreak of mpox that has spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring countries. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) had warned last week of an alarming rate of spread of the viral infection, which is transmitted through close contact and causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions. READ ALSO: New Strand Of Mpox Virus Outbreak In Africa “We declare today this public health emergency of continental security to mobilize our institutions, our collective will, and our…

A former Canadian Minister of Industry (in charge of digitalization, Science and Technology) and President of the Treasury Board, Canada, Hon. Tony Peter Clement has adviced developing nations to adopt Ghana’s ambitious digitalization agenda. According to him, the Government of Ghana has succeeded in using the digital revolution, ensuring accountability and transparency in all sectors of the local economy. Hon. Peter Clement was addressing the Democrat Union of Africa (DUA Forum 2024), held in Accra, where he spoke on the Topic ““The Future is Digital: Advancing New Solutions for a Better World.” READ ALSO: Bawumia Meets Faith-Based Organisations The well-attended conference…

Ongoing jubilations from the backyard of former President John Mahama that the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has concluded that he neither received bribe nor engaged in any corrupt practice in relation to the purchase of three military aircraft from aerospace giants, Airbus, may be short-lived as the matter which was almost put to sleep has been resurrected, this time with a ferocious tenacity by the Fixing The Country Movement. “Fixing the Country Movement strongly believes that the entire OSP investigation into the Airbus corruption scandal is worse than a whitewash…. We utterly reject anything that looks like the…