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Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the works of illustrious Ghanaian poet, playwright and academician, Professor Ama Ata Aidoo as one that was on the lips of every “school-going boy or girl’. A state burial service was held last Thursday, July 13 at the Forecourt of the State House in Accra for the professor who died on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at age 81. Eulogizing the works of the state person in a Facebook post after the ceremony, the former President said “Aunt Ama Ata Aidoo was the candle, and I have had the privilege of being one of…

A vehicle that the Lighthouse Chapel International (LCI) gave to Kwame Yirenkyi Ampofo, a former church bishop, when he served the organization, has been withdrawn. The Auto Theft Unit of the police Criminal Investigations Department (CID), according to Mr. Kwame Ampofo, an engineer by training, is investigating him for stealing the said vehicle. According to him, the Chevrolet Tahoe was presented to him in 2016 after being used from 2013 to 2016 by Mrs. Adelaide Heward-Mills, the church’s founder’s wife. After dismissing him due to confusion between him and the church’s leadership in 2022, he claimed the Healing Jesus branch…

Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Minister of Education, and Hanan Abdul-Wahab, the CEO of the National Buffer Stock Company, appear to be fighting regarding whether or not the Akufo-Addo administration owes food suppliers any money. Traders who claim they are owed enormous amounts of money have been picketing at the National Buffer Stock Company’s offices over the past few weeks. Aside from the picketing, however, official documents have been made public and interviews with government officials regarding the substantial debt, which the Ministry of Education estimates to be in the hundreds of millions of Ghana Cedis but claims to cover…

A police officer by name COP Titus Avoka Azasiyande has been found shot to death with bullet wounds all over him at a barrier near Bia-Tano Forest in the Ahafo Region. The dead body was found lying in a pool of blood with his service weapon right next to him in the early hours of Thursday, July 13, 2023. Uncertainty surrounding the circumstances of Sergeant Azasiyande’s murder has been highlighted on the potential of foul play, suggesting that he may have been the target of unknown attackers, while others have blamed it on suicide. Initial investigations indicate that Sergeant Azasiyande…

A Human Rights Court in Accra has dismissed a case by Rev Kusi Boateng, Secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral Secretariat, stopping Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa from making talks and social media posts about him.  The Court in the judgement further awarded cost of GHS10,000.00 cost against Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng. The lawmaker in a Facebook post detailing the outcome of the court ruling said, “this is the second time cost has been awarded against Kusi Boateng/Adu Gyamfi. I dedicate this latest legal victory to the masses who have kept me resolute…

InsightNewsgh.com looks at the stories making headlines of Ghanaian newspaper publications for Friday, 14th July, 2023.

It is evidently clear that a majority of Ghanaians are opposed to a supposed attempt by some pro-LGBT persons to legalize same sex marriages in the country and this is demonstrated in the public support the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights And Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 has received nationwide. Many believe that opposing the said Bill amounts to supporting the so-called attempt to legalize same-sex marriages and LGBT in all its forms and shades: a strong public perception that has sparked emotions and sentiments. The opposition to the supposed plan to legalize same-sex marriages is overwhelmingly popular to…

Leadership of the Konkomba Youth Association (KOYA) and Dagbon Forum have joined forces to address the recent spike in hate speech directed at Konkomba and Dagomba communities on social media to avoid future bad occurrence. In a joint statement made on Monday, July 10, 2023 and signed by the heads of the two parties, they indicated that, they stand together in their commitment to fostering peace, unity, and understanding among all people of Northern Ghana. READ ALSO: 2024 election is a showdown between Mahama and Bawumia – Speaker Bagbin “We want to emphasize that the leadership of KOYA and the entire Nkpakpaando is…

There is presently an ongoing and uneasy chaos in the the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Techiman South Constituency in the Bono East Region.  Following the results of internal polls, the situation is alleged to have worsened on the already divided front in the party in the region. Following the ensuing turmoil, two people, including an 80-year-old grandpa, were reported to have been beaten by two heavily built men who are believed to have been assigned by the constituency chairman, Alhaji Nuhu Fawa. Alhaji Nuhu Fawa, the party’s chairman, who appeared in court to address the issue appealed for a settlement…

Four Members of Parliament from the Central Region, representing different political parties, have joined forces in an effort to resolve a possibly violent land dispute regarding exact borderlines between the Gomoa and Effutu enclaves. The land issue predates Ghana’s political independence from British rule and frequently resurfaces, igniting varying degrees of rivalry and hostility, with some criminally inclined people taking advantage of the division for their own gain. Four electoral districts are involved in the land boundary dispute: Effutu, Gomoa Central, Gomoa East, and Gomoa West. The administrative and customary borders between the villages can overlap in certain instances, and…