Author: Insight News

After more than two hours of a crucial meeting with the Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union and Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Tanker Drivers have suspended their industrial action. While work to fix the road gets underway, the union is anticipated to start up again tomorrow, Friday. Due to worries about the inadequate road system surrounding their loading ports, the union declared a sit-down strike on Monday. Sunday Alabi, the vice chairman of the union, stated that following their discussion with the minister, the union resolved to call off their strike at…

Franklin Cudjoe, the founding president of the think tank IMANI Center for Policy & Education, has indicated that the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) James Gyakye Quayson’s victory in the Assin North Constituency by-election is a disgrace for the current and future New Patriotic Party (NPP). His election as a Member of Parliament (MP) in 2020 was declared null and void because he had not received a confirmation of the renunciation of his Canadian citizenship at the time he filed to run for the position of MP in his constituency. For him, the power of the state was used to cruelly…

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Franklin Fifi Kwetey has said that the victory for James Gyakye Quayson in the Assin North Constituency in the Central Region, by-election confirms what the party have been saying about the Akufo-Addo Bawumia leadership being abysmal.  “This is a signal that any wise people will learn from, any intelligent people will learn from, any humble people will learn from,” he said during an interview with 3FM reacting to the win for the NDC candidate. The former Ketu South Member of Parliament (MP) claimed that the NPP had been punished for the injustice…

John Dumelo – an actor, farmer, and former parliamentary candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency has sent an indication to Lydia Seyram Alhassan, Member of Parliament (MP) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), for the constituency that she will be the next to lose after James Gyakye Quayson’s victory in the Assin North by-election. “Lydia Seyram Alhassan. Your downfall is next!’” Dumelo posted on his Facebook page. This comes after officials of the Electoral Commission declared James Gyakye Quayson of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the winner of the Assin North by-election.…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate for the Assin North constituency, James Gyakye Quayson has won the Tuesday, June 27, 2023 by-election.  He won the contest as against Charles Opoku of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Bernice Enyonam Sefenu of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG). Mr. Quayson got 17,245 votes, representing 57.56 percent of the total votes cast. In the closely contested by-election, Charles Opoku received 12,630 votes, representing 42.15 percent of the total votes cast, while Bernice Enyonam Sefenu of the LPG received a pitiful 87 votes, representing 0.29 percent. Quayson hand was lifted to show victory…

Nana Adu-Boahen, the Chief of Korase in the Ashanti region’s Ejisu municipal, has banned politicians from entering his community for any kind of partisan political activity. This comes after he decided to sell his cocoa field in order to earn cash for the community’s poor road, which connects them to Kwaso and other communities in the municipality. In a fit of fury, the chief said that repeated requests to the past Ejisu-Juaben District Assembly and the current Ejisu Municipal Assembly to fix the 2 km road over the years had been unsuccessful. READ ALSO: Akufo-Addo Angrily Orders Chief In Public After…

The Economic and Orgainised Crime Office (EOCO) of Ghana and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to combat transborder organized crimes. The move climaxes a three-day Cyber Peer Exchange Programme that was organised by the EFCC in Nigeria with its West African neighbours in attendance. The aim of the exchange programme was to strengthen regional collaboration and cooperation in the fight against Cybercrime and other Serious and Organised Crime. It was also aimed at providing an opportunity for the two institutions to exchange best practices and discuss existing challenges with…

President Akufo-Addo has ordered board chairman of the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL), Paul Adom Otchere to stop the imposition of fumigation fees on visitors to the airport. Paul Adom Otchere, the GACL chairman, informed the President upon his return from France according to Jubilee House sources. According to reports, the President further ordered that such a policy should not even be considered. On Saturday, June 24, information about the potential implementation of a US$7 per passenger’s bag fumigation levy appeared in both social media and mainstream media. On social media and in the mainstream media, the news story has…

Investigative Journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni has asked host of Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV, Paul Adom-Otchere to give the true detail to his viewers on how he left Multimedia Group of Companies – owners of Joy FM, Adom FM, among others.  According to Manasseh, the broadcaster has been misleading his viewers about his exit from Multimedia. This comes after the company in a statement clarified that, “Manasseh was not sacked from The Multimedia Group. He resigned of his own accord at the end of July 2019 after serving the necessary notice and going through all exit protocols per company…

Investigative journalist and Editor-in-Chief of The Fourth Estate, Manasseh Azure Awuni has questioned the rationale behind President Akufo-Addo’s sayings that the people of Assin North should reject the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s parliamentary candidate, James Gyakye Quayson in the upcoming by-election because he’s likely to be imprisoned.  James Gyakye Quayson, according to the President, will be unable to fulfill his obligations as a Member of Parliament (MP) of the constituency. President Akufo-Addo speaking at the New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s final rally ahead of the by-election scheduled for Tuesday, June 27 claimed that Mr. Quayson may go to prison as a…