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17 student cadets awarded at 2025 Cadet Media Personality Awards
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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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The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has taken note of public allegations of extortion and related conduct made against the Minority Leader of Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin.
The allegations were made by the Chief Executive of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi.
In a brief statement, the OSP said it has also received a joint petition submitted by two persons, as well as two separate petitions from other persons, in relation to the same allegations.
“Given the nature of the allegations, the OSP will assess the case and determine whether it falls within its statutory mandate and whether further investigative action is warranted,” the statement said.
The development comes amid a heated public feud between the Minority in Parliament and the leadership of GoldBod over the operations of the Domestic Gold Purchase Programme.
The Minority, led by Afenyo-Markin, has accused GoldBod and the Bank of Ghana of causing a loss of over $1.7 billion, citing the International Monetary Fund’s August 2026 report. The Minority has vowed to pursue the matter as Parliament has reconvened for an emergency sitting.
GoldBod, on the other hand, has rejected claims by some NPP MPs, including Tano South MP Dr Gideon Boako, that it owes the Bank of Ghana GH¢1 billion in overdrafts, describing the claim as “false and malicious.”
In the latest twist, GoldBod CEO Sammy Gyamfi has accused the Minority Leader of extortion and related conduct, an allegation that has triggered petitions to the OSP.
The OSP is mandated under Act 959 to investigate and prosecute specific cases of alleged or suspected corruption and corruption-related offences involving public officers and politically exposed persons.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Kodua Frimpong, has filed his nomination to contest the position of General Secretary again as the party begins its rebuilding efforts ahead of the 2028 general elections.
He was accompanied by party stalwarts and supporters who were in high spirits, expressing confidence that he is the right person to hold the position.
Speaking after filing his nomination, Mr Kodua Frimpong assured the rank and file of the party that he would not disappoint them.
“I can assure you that the faith the rank and file of the party have had in me, I will never disappoint them,” he said.
He also pledged to run a clean campaign devoid of personal attacks.
“I can assure you that our internal campaign will be devoid of personal attacks,” he told his fellow contestants and the rank and file of the party as he seeks to retain his position.
His tenure has seen the party through the 2024 general elections, where the NPP lost power to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) after eight years in government.
The party is currently in a rebuilding phase, with internal elections scheduled to elect new national executives to lead its reorganization towards the 2028 polls.
The General Secretary position is considered one of the most influential in the party’s administrative structure, responsible for the day-to-day running of the party secretariat and implementation of party decisions.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
