Author: Insight News

THE POLICE in Kumasi have retrieved a locally manufactured pistol that was used to shoot a female student at the Adventist Senior High School (SHS). Suspect Bernard Amoabeng, 16 years old, a form two student, was arrested on Friday for shooting a female student of the school, Suzzy Pinamang, who is also in form two. According to a police statement, sighted by THE NEW PUBLISHER, the gun, which belongs to Bernard’s father, is currently in police possession as exhibit for investigation. The police release said Bernard took his father’s pistol to school on Friday and the gun accidentally fell on…

Tahiru Zinabu, believed to be 21-years old, has been found naked and dead under shocking circumstances in her bedroom at Twifo Praso, in the Twifo Atti Morkwa District of the Central Region. According to Listowel Aboagye Dacosta, a UTV correspondent reporting live; the heartbreaking discovery was made around 4:30 am by a woman who lives in the same house. The woman said she had woken up early to prepare food for sale when she noticed Zinabu’s door was strangely open. Curious and concerned, she walked in, only to meet the terrifying scene. The deceased was found lying naked on the…

A 16-year-old male student of Adventist Senior High School in Kumasi is in police custody after he allegedly brought his father’s loaded pistol to school, leading to the accidental shooting of a fellow female student in the face. The incident happened on Friday, April 4, 2025, around 12:00 noon. According to the Ashanti Regional Police Command, preliminary investigations show that the second-year student brought a locally manufactured pistol loaded with one BB ammunition to school. While attempting to show the weapon to a classmate, it accidentally discharged and hit another student who happens to be a female. In a press…

Former Minister for Lands, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has said the argument that the John Mahama led-administration has reduced the size of government cannot hold water because the reality is that the new arrangement has rather increased the size and cost of government in a camouflaged style. Abu Jinapor argues that Presidential Staffers, Presidential Advisors and Presidential Aides have their salaries, emoluments and retirement benefits pegged at the same level as deputy ministers therefore even if President Mahama shrinks the number of ministers and deputy ministers to 60 as promised, the fact that the same government has hugely increased the number…

The Office of the President has no legal rights to arbitrarily revoke the appointments of Public Servants who were  duly recruited in line with established legal and administrative procedures and claim the justification of revocation is because the appointments were done after December 7 2024, after the former administration lost the elections, Minority Leader Osahen Alexander Afenyo-Markin has stated. The Minority Leader said the dismissals are not about economic prudence but rather a deliberate political cleansing of the public sector to make room for party loyalists and has therefore called for a Parliamentary probe into the Executive decision. “Article 24…

Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) and The Gambia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to replicate its African tailored waste management solution in The Gambia. This move is seen as an “African solution to an African challenge.” The signing ceremony was led by the Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources, Honourable Rohey John Manjang and Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group, at a brief but significant ceremony in Accra on Monday, March 3, 2025. According to Madam Manjang, there was the need for Africa to devise homegrown solutions to its challenges, stating her…

Renowned filmmaker and actress, Juliet Yaa Asante, the former Executive Secretary of the National Film Authority (NFA) has opened up about a list of ordeals  ranging from financial neglect from government and absence of office equipment, intimidation and sexual harassment from her superiors, to insults buses  and lack of cooperation she endured during her tenure. Juliet  Asante on Sunday took to her facebook page to congratulate the newly appointed Executive Secretary, colleague actress Kafui Danku-Pitcher and describe her exit from the NFA as “freedom”. In her write up, Juliet Asante said the first year she was appointed to head the…

The Minority in Parliament has explained that the side abstained from the 3-day orientation programme held at the Volta Serene Hotel in Ho for Members, ostensibly to cut cost as the programme could have been held in the Chamber to save cost. “We all want to reduce cost so the last time, the argument was strongly made that we should reduce cost by having the engagement here. What has changed? You are already saying that the economy is not strong so simply put, we want to reduce cost. To that end the retreat respectfully, Mr. Speaker, should be held here…

It is quite unfortunate that, we have a lot of neutral-sycophants, cowards clergy, and interest-driven intellectuals who are just watching unconsciously, and unconcerned for the public funds of Ghana to be used for the construction of a permanent Hajj Village for the Muslims community. This was the decision by John Mahama government  days ago. But the use of public funds to sponsor the construction of the Hajj Village can be best described as a criminally masterminded government decision at the detriment of taxpayers. The truth be told; we are creating a dangerous society where the minority enjoys preferential treatment at…

A former Bronx-based immigration attorney with Ghanaian descent, Kofi Amankwaa, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for orchestrating a multi-year immigration fraud scheme involving fraudulent applications under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, announced the sentencing on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, after Amankwaa pleaded guilty in September 2024. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla delivered the sentence, holding Amankwaa accountable for exploiting the immigration system for personal gain. According to court records, Amankwaa and his team filed thousands of fraudulent immigration applications between…