Author: Insight News

Former Energy Minister Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko has officially announced his intention to contest for the position of National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). In a press statement issued on Tuesday, September 30,2025,  Mr. Agyarko described his decision as a “call to duty” after holding wide consultations with his family, close associates, and members of the party. He explained that those closest to him, whose lives would be most affected by his decision, were the first people he engaged. He also said he carefully listened to the views of many party members, as well as voices outside the party,…

The Assistant Headmaster (Academic) of KNUST Senior High School, Mr. Charles Akwasi Aidoo, who seen in a viral video fondling the breast of a female student, has been sacked. The short clip showed Mr. Charles Akwasi Aidoo, the Assistant Headmaster (Academic) of KNUST Senior High School, in what looked like a compromising situation with a female student. Within hours, the video was everywhere, on WhatsApp groups, Facebook pages, and X timelines. People could not believe what they were seeing, and the anger was loud. Treating the inappropriate misconduct with great concern, the Ghana Education Service (GES) stepped in. According to…

For some reasons yet to be understood or even explained, an unknown woman believed to be about age 40 was found perched on a tall avocado pear tree with some dogs barking beneath the tree at Afasiebon near Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region and residents concluded she must be a witch. Residents say she is not known in the area and she could not have climbed the tree without the help of a ladder. The suspected ‘witch’ was alleged to be in flight on Monday dawn when she strangely lost control and got crashed into a tall avocado tree at…

Kwame Baffoe, alias Abronye DC, the ever audacious Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said he would appear before the Party’s disciplinary committee to respond to allegations of misconduct against him and has called on the Committee to broadcast all meetings with him live on both radio and on television in the interest of transparency. “I hereby write to indicate my full preparedness and willingness to appear before the Committee to comprehensively lay bare and substantiate the antichrist actions and inactions of Hon. Kennedy Agyapong, which has undermined the cohesion and integrity of our Party”, Abronye…

The Chamber of Indigenous Business & Investors (CIBI) has challenged the accuracy of an investigative report put out by The Fourth Estate and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) regarding the National Lottery Authority’s (NLA) licencing arrangement with KGL Technology Limited. CIBI, in a rather strongly worded statement, signed by its Executive Director, Alistair Nelson, describe the investigative report from The Fourth Estate and MFWA as misleading and sensational. Below is the statement in full: According to an investigative report by the Fourth Estate, and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), the National Lottery Authority (NLA) gave away…

The Government of the United States of America has officially lifted visa restrictions it placed on Ghana and holders of Ghanaian passports in July this year. The reversal happened at a time Ghana has become of the deportation hubs for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Ghana continues to receive West African nationals deported from the United States. There is however no official statement linking the reversal of the restrictions to the receiving of the deported West Africans. The United States Embassy in Accra confirmed the reversal of the visa restrictions on its official X page moments after the news was…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has washed its hands off two of its loudest regional chairmen, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly called Chairman Wontumi, and Kwame Baffoe Abronye alias Abronye DC. In a strongly worded press release signed by General Secretary Justin Kodua Frimpong on Sunday, September 28, 2025, the NPP’s national leadership distanced itself from both men, calling on members and the general public to ignore recent statements made by these regional chairmen, insisting that their remarks do not reflect the official position of the party. “The National Leadership of the New Patriotic Party urges the public and its stakeholders to…

The Copyright Monitoring Team (CMT) of the Copyright Office of Ghana has announced a national operation to crackdown, arrest and see to the prosecution of all television station owners and managers who air movies for commercial purposes without the expressly granted permission of the rights holders. The CMT, fortified by Act 690 of the Copyright Act, 2005 is embarking on the operation in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service and television station operators and owners found guilty by court of showing movie content for commercial purposes without prior permission could face summary conviction up to a six-month jail term, a…

The Executive Chairman of the KGL Group and former Board Chair of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Mr. Alex Apau Dadey, delivered a resounding opening address at the Forward Africa Leaders Symposium 2025, held in partnership with the Africa Peer Review Mechanism at the iconic home of global enterprise — NASDAQ, New York. Sharing the global stage with distinguished leaders and innovators such as H.E. Dr. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah President of Namibia, Prime Minister of Lesotho Ntsokoane Samuel Matekane, Deputy Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament and Chair of Cleopatra Group H.E. Mohamed AbdulEnien, and CEO and President MTN Group, Mr.…

AMINATU AMIDU, a female illegal miner at Botrampa in the Ashanti Region, has reportedly died while digging for gold in an abandoned mining pit. The now-deceased woman was said to be prospecting for the precious metals with her colleague miners when she met her untimely death in the deep pit. The abandoned pit, according to Nyinahin District Police report, caved in unexpectedly therefore Aminatu Amidu could not escape from harm’s path. According to the police, the heartbreaking incident occurred on September 22, 2025 and they (police) have since commenced their investigations. One Fuseini Mamudu of Agogoso “reported that on 22/09/2025,…