Roof before foundation?

This house won’t see December, swears🫢

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Chale News
January 24, 2026

So, what’s in the bag today?

  • Crime: Tamale boys thought police were sleeping.  Turns out the night shift was very awake.

  • National: Ghana wants Nkrumah’s Guinea yard back.

  • Politics: You Can’t Fix a Party from the Penthouse

  • National: Government said: “Chiefs, solve the cases, take more money.”

  • National: When the oil family meeting got loud, Star Oil stepped outside.

  • Fact of the Day: Let’s talk about how much time you will spend sleeping in this lifetime.

  • Crime: A Ghana Health Service car tried to outrun police, and that’s when things got spicy.

  • General News: Daddy Lumba left Hits, not instructions.

  • Crime: Randy Abbey came for GHS20m… the court returned the file with red ink and vibes of “please redo.”

QUICK BYTE

  • So Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe has come again, telling the NPP, “You’re rebuilding the house from the roof.” According to him, the party lost in 2024, but instead of going back to the grassroots to apologise, explain, and reorganise, leadership is doing a top-down refresh. And in his view, that never works. You can’t repair trust from Accra and expect the grassroots to just understand by osmosis. His message is simple: if you don’t go back to the grassroots and explain yourself, this rebuild will scatter. What makes this whole thing awkward is the timing. The NPP is gearing up for its January 31 presidential primary. Aspirants are smiling, signing peace pacts, talking unity, and acting like everything is under control. Read more

  • So the IGP Special Operations Team rolled through Tamale and Yendi during an intensive patrol. Not a raid you hear coming. More like when your landlord shows up unannounced. By the end of it, three suspects were arrested with suspected Indian hemp. One of them, Kasim Abdul Fataw, is not new to the conversation. Police say he’s a known drug peddler. He didn’t even deny it fully; just said he had “slowed down” because police pressure was too much. Which is a wild thing to say while being arrested by the same police. Now all three are being held at Sakasaka Police Station as investigations continue. Read more

  • So boom. Randy Abbey dragged Abronye DC to court asking for GHS20 million for defamation. Big money. Big energy. Big courtroom moment. Except… the High Court looked at the paperwork, tilted its head, and said, “This one? Nah.” Case dismissed. Not because of what Abronye said. But because how the case was filed was giving wrong group chat energy. Randy Abbey sued Abronye in his personal capacity, as in me, myself, and my reputation. But instead of hiring a private lawyer, the case was filed using COCOBOD’s Legal Department. And the court was like, “Wait… why is COCOBOD’s legal team here?” Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul Baasit broke it down clean. Defamation is personal. Not institutional. COCOBOD wasn’t insulted. COCOBOD didn’t sue. So COCOBOD’s lawyers shouldn’t be in the ring. Simple maths. Wrong plug. Wrong charger. Wrong lawyer. Read more

  • You know how chieftaincy disputes can turn one stool into a whole Netflix series? Season after season, no finale. Government says it’s tired of that too. So they’ve decided to put money behind the peace. The announcement came from Local Government Minister Ahmed Ibrahim when he went to greet the Volta Regional House of Chiefs. The quarterly adjudication allowance aka the money chiefs use to sit, hear cases, and settle disputes is jumping from GH¢30,000 to GH¢50,000. That’s a 66% raise. Why does this matter? Get the full deets in the Deep Dive section.

  • So picture this: a government-branded Ghana Health Service car cruising through Ho… then refusing to stop at a police checkpoint. Not broken brake. Not confusion. Full-on zoom zoom. Police said, “Oh, we’re doing Fast & Furious today?” and gave chase. Get the 411 in the Deep Dive section below

FACT OF THE DAY

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A person will sleep an average of 25 years in their lifetime.

The average time a person sleeps at night is around 8 hours. People also spend an average of 7 years trying to go to sleep. 

  • You know how some houses carry stories? One of those houses is sitting quietly in Guinea, and Ghana wants it back. That’s the house where Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah spent his final years after he was overthrown in 1966. Guinea’s first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré, didn’t just host him, he made him co-President. Wild times. Pan-Africanism was doing side quests. Fast-forward to now. President John Mahama has directed that Ghana open talks with Sékou Touré’s family to acquire the house. Fix it up and turn it into a proper heritage site. Read more

  • So Star Oil has temporarily dipped from COMAC, the big group chat for oil marketing companies. Not stormed out, not slammed the door. More like, “I’ll be outside till everyone calms down.” The beef? Fuel price floors. Star Oil says it’s been talking, but nobody’s listening, and worse, the story being told in public makes them look like the villain. Read more

  • You know how some people leave voice notes, some leave drafts, some leave group chats unanswered forever? Daddy Lumba left music. Plenty of it. But when it came to paperwork, the High Court just announced that there’s no will sitting in their registry with his name on it. The High Court has checked everywhere and confirmed that Daddy Lumba didn’t leave a registered will. No envelope. No “open when I’m gone.” Read more

DEEP DIVE

Chiefs Just Got a Salary Glow-Up

So the Chiefs’ sitting allowance is jumping from GH¢30,000 to GH¢50,000. Because when chiefs don’t have funds, cases pile up. When cases pile up, tensions rise. When tensions rise, one small land issue can turn into a whole security problem. Government says this extra cash should help chiefs sit more often, clear backlogs, and calm things down before they get messy.

And that’s not the only bump. Paramount Chiefs’ monthly allowance has been increased to GH¢3,000, and Queen Mothers are now on GH¢2,400. The message is loud but polite: traditional leaders are no longer just for festivals and durbars they’re doing serious dispute resolution work, and it needs resourcing.

The minister also pitched the 24-hour market idea and asked chiefs to help with land. Read more

Hospital Car, Street Move, Police Chase

You know how some cars automatically make you relax? Ambulance vibes. Hospital logos. Government plates. Your brain just assumes, “Oh, official business.” That’s exactly why this story is wild. Because the car involved wasn’t some random Corolla, it was registered to the Ghana Health Service.

On Friday, January 23, police officers at the OLA Top checkpoint in Ho flagged the vehicle to stop. Normal routine. But instead of slowing down, the driver allegedly did the opposite. Accelerator pressed. Barrier ignored. Confidence loud. And just like that, a regular checkpoint turned into a mini car chase.

Police followed and eventually stopped the vehicle near Tarso Hotel. The driver was identified as 38-year-old Godsway Kwaku Dogbey. When officers searched the car, they found substances suspected to be narcotics. Not paracetamol. Not bandages. Definitely not hospital supplies.

Now Dogbey is in police custody, helping with investigations while officers figure out two big things: what exactly the substances are, and why a Ghana Health Service-registered car was allegedly being used for this kind of run. Because once a hospital car enters crime Twitter, everybody wants answers.

For now, the car has been impounded, the chase is over, and the calm Ho streets have one more “did you hear?” story to pass around. Read more

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