Author: Political Desk

Proceedings in Parliament have temporarily halted following a demand by the Minority Caucus for the recall of a letter from the Clerk of Parliament to the Electoral Commission, which had declared the Kpandai seat as vacant. The disruption began at the commencement of sitting on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, when the Minority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, read a statement on the floor articulating the Caucus’s demands. Following his statement, the Minority side erupted into spontaneous chanting, which prompted the First Deputy Speaker, Bernard Ahiafor, to suspend the sitting. When the House resumed, Speaker Alban Bagbin took over the chair and…

Former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, and nine others were on Tuesday arraigned before Criminal Division Court 4 of the Accra High Court on a consolidated 54-count charge involving extortion, using public office for profit, money laundering and conspiracy to commit crime. The accused persons, who all pleaded not guilty, are alleged to have operated an extortion racket targeting oil marketing companies and fuel transporters between 2022 and 2024, amassing over GH¢291 million and US$332,000 in illicit payments. Prosecutors from the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) told the court, presided over by…

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), together with sister security agencies, will on Thursday, December 11, 2025, stage a joint Show of Force Exercise in parts of Accra as part of measures to heighten security ahead of the Christmas festivities. The exercise will involve personnel and assets from the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana National Fire Service, Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, and the Ghana Immigration Service. According to a statement signed by the Director of Public Relations of the Ghana Armed Forces, Naval Captain Michael Addo Larbi, the activity will commence at 9:00 a.m. from the…

The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court has granted an application by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to allow its first prosecution witness to testify anonymously and in camera in the ongoing corruption trial involving former Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Onuawonto Bissue, and two others. Justice Audrey Kocuvie-Tay, presiding over the case, ruled that the undercover investigator, identified in court documents only as Benjamin Agyepong, will give evidence in private due to credible threats to his life linked to the sensitive nature of illegal mining investigations. The court cited Article…

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, in collaboration with the Bank of Ghana (BoG), on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, arrested 41 persons during a major operation targeting illegal foreign exchange trading, popularly known as black market forex, in parts of Accra. The joint team carried out simultaneous swoops at known hotspots, including Tudu, Circle Airport, and Osu. An initial raid netted 29 suspects, including Ghanaians and foreign nationals from Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. A follow-up operation about an hour later led to the arrest of 12 more persons, bringing the day’s total to 41. Addressing journalists…

The Minority in Parliament has demanded the immediate withdrawal of a letter from the Clerk to Parliament that officially declared the Kpandai constituency seat vacant, describing the move as “unfortunate” and a violation of the rule of law. The controversial letter, dated December 4, 2025 and signed by Clerk Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, notified Electoral Commission Chairperson Jean Mensa of the vacancy following a Tamale High Court order for a complete rerun of the 2024 parliamentary election in the Northern Region constituency. The court ruling, delivered on November 24, 2025, invalidated the original results which declared the New Patriotic Party (NPP)…

A South Korean court has sentenced a woman in her 20s to four years in prison for blackmailing South Korea and former Tottenham football icon Son Heung-min by falsely claiming she was pregnant with his child. The Seoul district court on Monday, December 8, 2025, also handed a two-year jail term to her male accomplice, aged in his 40s, who threatened the footballer 15 times to force payment. According to local media reports, the woman approached Son last year with the pregnancy claim despite not knowing whether it was true, and demanded money to keep the allegation private. She eventually…

Burkina Faso has detained eleven Nigerian military officers after a Nigerian Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft made an unscheduled landing in Bobo-Dioulasso on Monday, following what Burkinabè authorities described as an unauthorised entry into its airspace. The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) – comprising Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – issued a joint statement on Tuesday accusing the aircraft of violating the sovereignty of its member states and described the incident as an “unfriendly act”. The AES said an immediate investigation confirmed the plane had no prior authorisation to overfly Burkinabè territory and that the country’s air defence forces had…

The Ghana Police Service says the American woman, Arianna Naomi Mackey, who went viral accusing five masked men purporting to be police officers of kidnapping and robbing her in Accra, has left the country and is refusing to cooperate with investigations. In a press release issued by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, the Police disclosed that preliminary probes established that Ms Mackey recorded the viral video at a hotel in Accra where she was staying with two companions. Investigations further revealed that she checked out of the hotel and departed Ghana through Kotoka International Airport…

The Northern Regional Police Command has rescued a 42-year-old man who was kidnapped from his home at Wapuli in the Yendi District and arrested three members of a four-man syndicate who received a GH¢100,000 ransom from the victim’s family. The suspects – Haruna Seidu, Amidu Bandi and Osman Bandi – were apprehended on Friday, December 5, 2025, at Bokpaba, a village along the Bimbilla-Yendi stretch of the Eastern Corridor, after an intelligence-led operation. In a statement issued on Monday, December 8, Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Chief Inspector Alhassan Luckman Niendow, said police received information about the abduction and…