Author: TNRgh

…as Print Media Bleed Heavily  By Philip Antoh The Minister of Government Communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has painted a grim picture of the traditional media landscape in Ghana, warning that the economic strangulation of print media poses a direct threat to the country’s national security. Speaking at the PRINPAG Capacity Building Workshop on Responsive National Security Reporting in Accra, the Minister whose address was delivered on his behalf by Deputy Government Communication Minister, Shamima Muslim detailed how tech giants and skyrocketing production costs have devastated the industry’s financial foundations. The most severe blow, he noted, has been the exodus of…

Drags Ghana Maritime Authority While hiding from EOCOTNR Files Former National Lottery Authority (NLA) boss and current Akuapem North MP Sammy Awuku is putting on a grand show on social media, but insiders say it’s nothing more than a desperate attempt to distract from the corruption storm brewing around his tenure at the NLA.With speculation intensifying that the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) may soon summon him over allegations of siphoning millions through front organisations, Awuku has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of the Mahama administration’s regulatory agencies a move political observers describe as a calculated…

-Afenyo Markins Fires Back TNR Files Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Minority Leader in parliament has hit back at critics that there is a video or audio evidence of him conducting himself in a manner that puts him, his family and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) into disrepute. According to the Effutu constituency Member of Parliament (MP), there is no such recording of him and that his hands are clean. He said the claims being bundled on the internet is false boldly vowing that no such video exist, urging the public the said claim. “People talking about, they have videos and audio.…

-Former CDS Says His Fortunes are from Family Inheritance  -But Asset Declaration Questions Linger General Thomas Oppong Peprah, the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, has fired back at mounting questions over his staggering personal wealth insisting he was simply born into money.The retired military chief, who in March 2025 took up the prestigious posting as Ghana’s Deputy High Commissioner to Canada, is sitting on a property portfolio that reads like a billionaire’s shopping list: 23 houses across Ghana, the United Kingdom, Dubai and the United States.But the General, whose official responsibilities once required full asset disclosure to the Auditor…

National Security Chief Offers Media A Conditional Deal TNR FilesFor two days at the Platinum Bay Hotel in Abokobi, Ghana’s private press and its security establishment engaged in an unusual exercise: talking to each other.The occasion was a capacity-building workshop organised by the Private Newspapers and Online News Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG) in collaboration with the National Security Council Secretariat, under the theme “Media as a Strategic Partner in National Security”.  What emerged was less a training session than a public reckoning with Ghana’s embattled print industry, the chaotic digital information space, and the security institutions that have long…

..as legal tensions Simmer Over Collaboration Claims TNR Files The Attorney-General’s Office and the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) have clashed over claims that the Attorney-General’s Office has rejected requests from the OSP to collaborate on corruption-related cases. Deputy Attorney-General Justice Srem-Sai has dismissed the allegation as false, insisting that the Attorney-General’s Office remains committed to working with all state institutions mandated to investigate and prosecute crime. His comments follow claims by the OSP’s Director of Strategy, Research and Communications, Sammy Darko, that the Special Prosecutor’s Office had, on several occasions, approached the Attorney-General’s Office to collaborate on cases…

…As CSA Urge media to protect against cyber siege TNR Files For three decades, Ghana’s private press has operated in a curious paradox. It is constitutionally protected, fiercely independent, and yet increasingly irrelevant to the average Ghanaian who now wakes up to TikTok, not the front page. It is celebrated abroad as a pillar of West African democracy, yet at home it struggles to pay for newsprint that has nearly doubled in price since 2020. And while it once exposed tyrants and chronicled the nation’s democratic journey, it now finds itself competing for attention with unverified videos, AI-generated deepfakes, and…

A Call to the Ghana Medical Association The warning has moved from our rivers into our hotels. The Ghana Hotels Association reports that some guests are refusing locally sourced fish because they fear contamination from galamsey-polluted waters. Hotels are consequently being forced to import fish and other produce. This is not merely a problem for fishermen or hotel owners. It is an early symptom of a much larger national economic and public-health collapse. Today, it is local fish that consumers distrust. Tomorrow, it may be vegetables, fruits, cocoa, meat, drinking water and every product grown, processed or prepared with water…

President John Dramani Mahama has assented to 10 Bills passed by Parliament during the Second Meeting of the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament, giving legal effect to a series of legislative reforms covering taxation, revenue mobilisation, justice administration, national defence, maritime regulation and the cocoa sector. The Bills were among 12 pieces of legislation approved by Parliament during the meeting, which ended on July 31, 2026. The President’s assent formally transforms the approved Bills into laws, paving the way for the relevant institutions and agencies to begin implementing their provisions. The newly enacted laws are the Customs Act, 2026;…

…High Court dismisses adjournment application pending Supreme Court review TNR FilesThe Accra High Court has dealt a significant blow to attempts by former Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu Boahene to delay proceedings in his ongoing trial, dismissing an application for adjournment pending the outcome of a Supreme Court review.Justice Francis Apanga Achibonga ruled that there was no legal basis to suspend the trial, clearing the way for proceedings to continue.The defence had sought to halt proceedings until September 2, when a three-member panel of the Supreme Court is expected to hear a review application filed by Ofoase-Ayirebi MP Kojo Oppong…