Author: Insight News

A seven-year-old boy, identified as Ebenezer Nyamekye Mensah, has drowned after falling into a water-filled manhole pit at Abuom Redtop, near the West Hills Mall in Accra. The tragic incident occurred on Sunday, October 26, 2025. According to a statement released by the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) on Monday, October 27, 2025, the Kasoa Fire Station received a distress call about the incident and immediately dispatched a rescue team to the scene. The rescue team arrived at approximately 3:45 p.m. and began search and rescue operations. After an intensive search, firefighters successfully retrieved the lifeless body of the young…

Happy 98.9 FM’s seasoned producer, Lawrenda Danso, has been named “Media Producer of the Year” at the prestigious 2025 Ghana Entertainment Awards USA, cementing her place among the most accomplished media professionals in Ghana. Lawrenda, who has built an enviable career spanning over 15 years in radio and television production, distinguished herself from a pool of leading industry contenders to clinch the coveted award. Currently the producer of the Happy Evening Drive, she works alongside celebrated broadcaster Veronica Napoleon (Akua Sika), playing a pivotal role in maintaining the program’s position as one of Ghana’s most engaging and widely listened-to drive-time…

The Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has put an end to the debate on whether or not Senior High School (SHS) students in government and government-assisted schools should be allowed to keep long hairs or to style their hairs in whatever ways they deem fit even if the hairstyles do not conform to school regulations Speaking over the weekend at the 75th Anniversary celebrations of Mawuli School, in the Volta Region, Haruna Iddrisu said schools in Ghana are not avenues for beauty contests where students should be allowed to keep lay hairstyles they so wish. The Education Minister directed school heads…

Former Vice-President and 2024 New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on Saturday joined hundreds of mourners at Senase near Berekum in the Bono Region to commiserate with the family of Yaw Obeng Manu, Editor of the Ghanaian Publisher, during the burial of his late father, Mr. James Yaw Manu. Dr. Bawumia, who was in the region as part of his campaign activities for the NPP presidential primary, took time off his schedule to attend the solemn ceremony held at the St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Senase. He was accompanied by prominent members of the NPP, including the…

Former Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia seems to be having a lot of endorsements and assurances from delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that they would retain him as the Party’s presidential candidate for the 2028 presidential elections. The most recent of such assurances came from the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions when Dr. Bawumia took his ‘Our Journey Together’ tour there to sell his campaign message ahead of the NPP January 31 presidential primary. A wave of palpable excitement and unwavering support has swept through the Bono and Ahafo regions, as Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia concluded a highly…

A landlord in Ghana has warned his tenants that anyone who joins a planned rent protest against landlords will be forced to move out of his house. In a video circulating on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), on October, 25th, 2025 the man, who said he owns houses in Agege, Pambros, Adjen Kotoku, and Amasaman, spoke in a serious tone. He warned that tenants in his houses should not take part in the demonstration being planned against landlords over high rent charges. “This message goes to my tenants at Agege, Pambros, Adjen Kotoku, and Amasaman,” the landlord said. “I…

The Minority Leader, Osahen Alexander Afenyo-Markin, who doubles as the Member of Parliament for the Effutu Constituency, last week took a working tour of parts of his constituency in the company of His Excellency, Roey Gilad, Ambassador of the State of Israel to Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Minority Leader announced on his Facebook page that his Office, in partnership with the Embassy of Israel in Ghana, Engineers Without Borders–Israel and CBR-Ghana is leading a community-based initiative aimed at strengthening rehabilitation services for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs). “As part of this partnership, we visited Don Bosco Primary School and…

POLICE INSPECTOR, Ahmed Twumasi, aka ‘Tacuum’, will spend the rest of his life in jail as a Court of competent jurisdiction has found him guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Victoria Dapaah aka ‘Maa Adwoa’. Inspector Twumasi was arrested in May 2023, after he was accused of shooting 26-year-old Victoria Dapaah, multiple times in the abdomen and chest on April 20, 2023, at about 9:50 p.m. The law enforcement officer now turned crime suspect was arrested after a specialized police operation smoked him out of his hideout at Sekyere near Effiduase in the Ashanti region. Last Friday October 24, 2025, the…

Alex Apau Dadey, the distinguished Executive Chairman of KGL Group, has been celebrated with the prestigious Forbes Best of Africa Corporate Leadership and Innovation Award at a high-profile Leadership and Philanthropy Forum held at the House of Lords in London. The award was formally presented by Mark A. Furlong, President of Custom Solutions Media for Forbes Media, who commended Mr. Dadey’s exceptional achievements in steering KGL Group to remarkable technological heights. Presenting the honor, Mr. Furlong stated: “On behalf of the Forbes Best of Africa Award Committee, it is my honor to present to you the Forbes Best of Africa…

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), Mr. Eric Adjei Esq., has stressed that the Adwumawura initiative introduced by President John Dramani Mahama’s government is a national development project for all Ghanaians, not just members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Speaking on UTV’s ‘MPU NE MPU’ show on October 24, 2025, Mr. Adjei dismissed claims that the initiative only favours NDC supporters. He said the programme was created to empower entrepreneurs and promote job creation across all political divides. “The Adwumawura policy directs that we serve the interest of all Ghanaians. I am…