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17 student cadets awarded at 2025 Cadet Media Personality Awards
Seventeen student cadets from various schools received awards while several other dignitaries were honoured for promoting fire safety education at this year’s Cadet Media Personality Awards held last Thursday at the Fire Academy and Training School in Accra.
The event coincided with the launch of the 2025 ‘Fire Safety Tales.’
The awardees received various prizes including tablets, smartphones, smart watches, laptops, game consoles, and trophies, among others. Student cadets from the Covenant Presbyterian School in Dzorwulu received most of the prizes.
The purpose of the ‘Fire Safety Tales’, a television programme to be broadcast on Fire Television, the television station of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), was to promote fire safety education through creative content.
Speaking at the launch of the programme and awards ceremony, the Director of Culture and Creative Arts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Divine Owusu-Ansah, commended Cadet Media Ghana for creating a platform for young people to obtain practical skills in media literacy and reporting, while building a strong partnership with the GNFS and other security agencies.
He pledged the support of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts to Cadet Media Ghana and the GNFS towards the launch of similar partnership programmes.
The Chief Fire Officer of the GNFS, CFO Daniella Mawusi Ntow-Sarpong, in her remarks, said that it was working with Usher University in the United Kingdom and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to create a fire safety curriculum for all basic schools in the country to educate the youth on fire safety.
CFO Ntow-Sarpong noted that the GNFS had visited many schools, worship centres, markets, and communities to educate members on fire safety, noting that fire safety was a shared responsibility and therefore encouraged the public to build a strong relationship with the GNFS.
The Director of Cadet Media Ghana, the official media organisation for the National Cadet Corps Ghana, Mr. Jacob Nyarko, urged relevant stakeholders, including school heads and the GES, to prioritise media education.
Cadet Akosua Baah Asare of the Covenant Presbyterian School, Dzorwulu, now at Holy Child Senior High School, Cape Coast, was adjudged the overall best cadet personality and took home a laptop, a trophy, and bouquet as her prize.
By Benjamin Arcton-Tettey
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Thomas Partey, Ransford Yeboah Königsdörffer, Kojo Oppong Peprah, and Alexander Djiku trained with the Black Stars on Tuesday, March 23 as preparations intensify for the international friendly against Austria on Friday.
The newly arrived players—Partey, Königsdörffer, Oppong Peprah and Djiku—joined the group training Tuesday afternoon in readiness for the match.
Partey and Djiku bring valuable experience and dexterity to the team, having played a major role in securing Ghana a spot at the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, Canada, and the United States of America.
All 25 players participated in Tuesday’s training session, each aiming to catch the eye of head coach Otto Addo.
The full squad present at training included Lawrence Ati-Zigi, Benjamin Asare, Joseph Anang, Patrick Pfeiffer, Derrick Luckassen, Derrick Kohn, Jerome Opoku, Caleb Yirenkyi, Kojo Oppong Peprah, Jonas Adjetey, Marvin Senaya, Gideon Mensah, Elisha Owusu, Ibrahim Sulemana, Kwasi Sibo, Jordan Ayew, Prince Kwabena Adu, Christopher Bonsu Baah, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, Antoine Semenyo, Kamal Deen Sulemana, Daniel Agyei, Thomas Partey, Alexander Djiku, and Ransford Yeboah Königsdörffer.
Training will continue on Wednesday and Thursday ahead of the match on Friday, March 27, 2026.
The Kadjebi District Police Command, through a sustained intelligence-led operation, has arrested a suspect, Chalim Madzaton, also known as Peter Tano, 36, a farmer.
He was apprehended at his hideout in Kpaya, a suburb of Ahamansu, in connection with the murder of 80-year-old Dakolor Semaka.
On March 24, 2026, police received a report that the suspect had allegedly attacked his girlfriend, Yaa Tugbenyo, 55, and her mother, the deceased, at their residence in Mangoase near Kadjebi During the incident, Yaa Tugbenyo managed to escape but later returned to find her mother lying motionless on the floor.
Police Officers visited the scene and found the body of the deceased lying in a supine positior with isible signs of violence.
The scene was processed, and photographs were taken for evidential purpose.
The deceased was pronounced dead by a medical officer at St. Mary Theresa Hospital and the body has since been deposited at the hospital’s morgue for preservation and autopsy.
The suspect is currently in Police custody assisting with investigations and will be arraigned before court.
