Author: Insight News

Ghanaian journalist Nana Aba Anamoah is not happy with Jessie Clark Funk for calling Ghanaians bitter, and having one of the terrible roads in Africa in addition to other others the journalist describes as offensive.  Jessie Clark Funk in an interview said, “I’ve been to Ghana twice, and there is a temple in Ghana and the people who are not members of the church, they resent that temple. They resent it. You go to the City of Accra where you fly in and everything is dusty, dirty, terrible roads and shacks. Obviously, there are plenty places in Africa that cannot…

An Economist by name Dr Evans Nunoo, has advised Ghanaians to desist from taking tea, bread with eggs and salad if they earn less than 2, 000 Ghana cedis as their monthly salary.  “Two thousand Ghana cedis is a small amount, if you look at our current economic situation. If you have to pay school fees and other bills. If you are a young person yet to start a family, 2000 cedis might be okay. Though you may want more. “But if you are a family person, you don’t have the luxury of drinking tea and bread with eggs and…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson to act as caretaker of the Food and Agriculture Ministry. This follows the resignation of the sector minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in a statement accepting Dr. Akoto’s resignation indicated that Madam Koomson will hold the fort until a substantive minister is appointed. The announcement was made in a statement released on Thursday night and signed by Eugene Arhin, the Director of Communications at the Office of the President. “The President of Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has accepted the resignation…

Outspoken Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency, Hon Kennedy Agyapong has said that he used money meant for the payment of his children school fees to support the New Patriotic Party (NPP) leading to the 2016 general elections.  He said the party was broke and had less support from top people, which made him to take such risk of ignoring payment of his children University fees and focus on working hard for the party to gain power. He explained his contribution to the party’s growth, both district, regional, constituency, and national base are unmatched. “So in 2016, there…

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential candidate aspirant and Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Hon Kennedy Agyapong has revealed that he once lost a woman he was dating all because of huge investment he had done in the NPP party during the 1992 general elections.  Speaking in an interview with NET 2 TV, the businessman justified why he deserves to contest the upcoming presidential primaries due to his past investment. He further indicated that, his struggle for the party in the past 30 years made him to lose his fiancé at a point, because he went broke after investing…

Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of seven of the nine charges against him. After a trial lasting almost five months, the Manchester City defender has been cleared of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. However, after 13 days of deliberation at Chester Crown Court, the jury has been unable to reach verdicts on two other charges against Mendy – one count of rape, involving a woman aged 24 in October 2020, and one count of attempted rape, involving a woman aged 29 in October 2018. The Crown Prosecution Service has seven days to decide…

Graham Potter said “the hits keep on coming” after Joao Felix was sent off on his Chelsea debut as the Blues slumped to a 2-1 defeat at Fulham on Thursday. Felix was thrown straight into the starting lineup just a day after completing an €11million loan move from Atletico Madrid and looked lively before lunging into a reckless 58th-minute tackle on Kenny Tete with the score level at 1-1. Chelsea’s injury problems deepened as Denis Zakaria was forced off with a quad problem on a night when the Blues slipped to their seventh defeat in 10 matches across all competitions,…

Lionel Messi is likely to win the Men’s FIFA Best award for a second time. This comes after winning the recently held World Cup with the Argentina national team last year in Qatar.  Messi ticked off one of the final things missing from his CV. In inspiring his country to victory in Qatar, he boosted his claims to be the greatest to have played the game. It appeared to end the debate over who is the superior of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The latter still has something over Messi, as the Portuguese has won FIFA’s Best award on two occasions to…

The Member of Parliament for the Effutu Constituency, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has touted his constituency as an ideal place to visit, to live, to study or to invest dubbed ‘Visit Effutu’.  “Effutu is a great place to see, to live, to study and to do business. I invite all who can to come over for tourism, for business investment, for pleasure or for relaxation. We are a friendly and hard working people with a hallmark of positive optimism and a rich cultural heritage. “We invite you to experience Effutu, explore Effutu, engage with the people of Effutu and lets enjoy Effutu…

The Brock Royal Family has paid off medical bills for new mothers at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Labour Ward in Accra. The wealthy family were moved by the pathetic stories of the new mothers who have been discharged but cannot go home as a result of their unpaid medical bills totaling several thousands of Ghana cedis. A representative of the Brock Royal Family, who spoke on condition of anonymity said “The Brock Royal family has been doing such charity works on the quiet, but we decided to do this public. “We consider this as a privilege than a duty, we…