Author: Political Desk

A devastating fire swept through parts of the Dansoman Market in the early hours of Wednesday, November 26, 2025, claiming the life of an eight-year-old girl and destroying several wooden shops and structures. The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) received a distress call at exactly 00:02 hours reporting the outbreak. Firefighters from the Dansoman Fire Station arrived on the scene just two minutes later at 00:04 hours only to meet the blaze already at an advanced stage and spreading rapidly in all directions. After a quick assessment, the first crew immediately requested reinforcements. A total of eight fire engines from…

President John Dramani Mahama has approved a two-year contract extension for Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Christian Tetteh Yohuno, allowing him to remain in office until December 2027. According to a 3news report, the approval, contained in a letter dated Tuesday, November 25, 2025 and signed by Secretary to the President, Dr Callistus Mahama, takes effect from December 28, 2025 – the date the IGP was originally due to proceed on statutory retirement. The letter states that the decision follows a recommendation by the Police Council and is in line with provisions governing the administration of the Ghana Police Service.…

Two employees of Asomdwie Rubber Company, a Chinese-owned plastic and rubber processing firm at Atonsu Agogo in the Ashanti Region, have been found dead inside a parked private car on the company’s premises. The deceased have been identified as a senior male staff member popularly known as Baba and a female colleague who had worked with the company for less than two months. The woman’s full name is yet to be confirmed by the police. According to reports, both workers had attended the wedding of one of their managers on Saturday, November 22, 2025. The female employee later reported for…

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that substantive Ministers for Defence and for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation will be appointed in early 2026. The President made the disclosure on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, when he hosted a delegation of Muslim leaders at the Jubilee House in Accra. Addressing concerns over the two vacant portfolios following the tragic deaths of the immediate-past Defence Minister, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, and Environment Minister, Dr Murtala Muhammed, President Mahama urged Ghanaians to desist from speculating about imminent appointments. “They say Allah gives and Allah takes. He took two of our comrades and we…

 The Ghana Police Service has arrested twenty-seven (27) suspects in a major intelligence-led operation targeting drug peddling and associated criminal activities in the Northern Region. A press release issued on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, by the Northern Regional Police Public Affairs Unit and signed by C/Insp. Alhassan Luckman Niendow (Regional PRO/NR) said the arrests were carried out jointly by the Northern Regional Police Command and the Inspector-General of Police’s Special Operations Team. The suspects were picked up during coordinated swoops on 19th November 2025 at known drug hotspots in and around Tamale. Among those arrested and named in the statement…

The Human Rights Court 1 (Accra) on Monday slapped a GH¢5,000 cost on former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta after dismissing his application to amend his writ and compel discovery of documents in his ongoing legal challenge against the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). According to a report by Opemsuo Radio, the court described the requested documents as unnecessary and held that the application amounted to a waste of judicial time. Ofori-Atta is contesting his designation as a “wanted person” and the arrest warrant issued against him by the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng. The former Minister was re-declared a fugitive…

The Minority Caucus in Parliament has criticised the Tamale High Court’s decision to nullify the 2024 parliamentary election results in the Kpandai Constituency in the Northern Region, describing the ruling as unsupported by the facts presented in court. In a statement issued on Sunday, 24th November 2025 and signed by Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, the Caucus insisted that the election was transparent, the results credible, and the declaration by the Electoral Commission (EC) accurately reflected the will of the voters. According to the statement, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, Mathew Nyindam, defeated his National Democratic Congress (NDC) rival,…

Vice President Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has extended her birthday kindness by making generous donations to inmates of the Nsawam Medium Security Prison and patients at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. Marking her birthday on Friday, November 22, 2025, the Vice President dispatched two separate teams to deliver essential items to the two institutions on her behalf. A delegation led by her Chief of Staff, Alex Segbefia, visited the Nsawam Prisons where they presented cash, bags of rice and sugar, boxes of cooking oil, sardines, bottled water, soft drinks, and sanitary towels specifically for female inmates. The items were warmly received…

A group of concerned Ghanaians will today, Tuesday, November 25, 2025, march to the Jubilee House to demand the immediate removal of Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng. The protest, dubbed “Agro Ne Fom” (Twi for “We are tired”), is being organised to highlight what participants describe as the failure of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to effectively deliver on its anti-corruption mandate. Speaking ahead of the demonstration on Monday, Lead Convener Apostle Abraham Larbi Lincoln said the group is calling on President John Dramani Mahama to terminate Mr Agyebeng’s appointment. “We are not coming because we hate Kissi Agyebeng.…

The Eastern South Regional Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old Nigerian national, Victor Benjamin Fejemirokum, who allegedly murdered a woman and her daughter in Nigeria before escaping to Ghana. The suspect was apprehended in Wenchi, a suburb of Akwatia, following an intelligence-led operation sparked by a viral video circulating on social media. The video accused Fejemirokum of abducting and killing a female staff member of Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and her daughter in Abeokuta, Ogun State. According to police sources, Nigerian authorities had launched a manhunt for the suspect after the crime, but he crossed the border and…