The Volta Region Friday recorded its first COVID-19 death at the local Treatment Centre in Ho. The deceased, a 60-year-old woman who returned from Accra two weeks ago, visited the Ho Teaching Hospital with difficulty in breathing, fever for three days and reduced level of consciousness. She was noticed to have been progressively getting weak […]
An Accra Circuit Court on Friday granted a GH¢30,000.00 bail with two sureties each to 19 persons for breaking the Public Restrictions Order meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The accused made up of nine Nigerians and ten Ghanaians pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit crime to wit failing to comply with Restrictions […]
Most Ghanaians have heeded the call by the government to support the fight to halt the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. People all over the country, are now washing their hands regularly with soap under running water, using alcohol-based hand sanitizers to rub their hands frequently, while refraining from handshaking and keeping […]
The Electoral Commission has accused the largest opposition party, National Democratic Congress (NDC), of consistently engaging in the spread of falsehood to court disaffection for the Commission. The NDC had in a press conference on Thursday, addressed by the National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, claimed the EC was conniving with government and other state agencies to […]
Authorities in Nigeria say the whereabouts of a team of 15 Chinese medical experts who arrived in the country in early April is not known to the government. The Chinese team who travelled to Nigeria to support the country’s fight against coronavirus had been received at the airport by government officials, including Health Minister Osagie […]
The Bank of Ghana has kept the policy rate unchanged at 14.5 per cent, citing risks to inflation outlook following the recent jump in inflation rate in April. “The recent rise in inflation is projected to peak in the second quarter and begin to return to the disinflation path in subsequent quarters with inflation settling […]
Corporate Communications Director of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Emma Akyea-Boakye, is urging Ghanaians, especially those with children in senior high schools, to fumigate their homes against bed bug infestation. She observed the students unknowingly always carry the bed bugs from to their homes to schools and vice versa, a situation she said, continue to impede the […]
Workers at the morgue in the various health facilities across the country are lamenting about the lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) amidst the outbreak of COVID-19. They claimed health authorities have refused to provide mortuary workers the requisite PPEs to protect themselves and enhance their work regardless of rapid spread of the novel corona […]
THE INCLUSION OF PARTISAN POLITICS EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN LEGAL AND JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION IS THE BEGINNING OF UNSAVORY POLITICAL RIVALRY, WHICH HAS THE TENDENCY TO DISTORT DEVELOPMENT AND NATIONAL COHESION Partisanship politics is the struggle for political power to rule the people, this struggles sometimes leads to hatred, enmity, wrangling and possibly violence which […]
Veteran rapper Abrewa Nana believes strongly that female rapper Eno can battle any male rapper today. According to her, Eno is a gifted rapper whose lyrical dexterity is unmatched. Following the on-going heated beef among three females – Eno, Sista Afia, and Freda Rhymz – which has seen them release diss tracks to jab each […]
A mental health nurse who tested positive for coronavirus pandemic and currently at an isolation centre has painted quite a disturbing picture of the emotional torture some of the patients are going through. Compounded by the prevailing stigmatization in society, Seyram Avotri said some of the recovered patients are even faced with the hard choice […]
Customers of the Salaga branch of the GCB Bank are in a fix after samples of staff were taken for tests. Information available to 3news.com from Salaga indicates that the samples were taken after one of the bankers (name withheld) was suspected of carrying the virus. Some of the customers who spoke to the news […]
The Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health (GCNH) is alleging that some religious groups are trying to put pressure on government to relax the measures put in place to curb the spread of coronavirus. “We do not support this at all,” the Coalition said in a press release issued on Wednesday, May 13. This comes […]
A 15-year-old coronavirus patient has escaped from an isolation centre in the Upper West Region of Ghana after being granted permission to go out. The incident occurred Thursday, May 14. Explaining how it happened in an interview with Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Friday, May 15, the Acting Regional Health Director, […]
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has responded to recent allegations levelled against it by the country’s largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Prime among the allegations is an existing collusion between the NIA and the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to rig the December 7 elections in favour of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In […]
After recording an imported case of Covid-19 from Nkwanta in the Oti region, the Kpandai District Assembly has intensified education and provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and other materials to combat any spread of the virus. The Assembly is also considering procuring more nose mask for residents. The District in April this year recorded […]
The Paramount Chief of the Manya Krobo Traditional Area, Nene Sakite II, has destooled the Paramount Queen mother of the Area, Nana Aplam II, 3news.com has gathered. Sources close to the Manya Krobo Paramountcy say the Paramount Chief announced the immediate destoolment of the Queen mother for “betrayal” before a meeting of chiefs and elders […]
Leader of the National Hawkers and Informal Vendors Association Madam Juliana Brown Afari has revealed that the market areas, especially in the capital city, have not received enough education on the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. She told Alfred Ocansey, the host of the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Friday, May 15 that the only […]
A Covid-19 patient, Seyram Avotri, who has been sent to the Pentecost Isolation Centre in Gomoa Fete in the Central Region, has said they are made to exercise regularly on the corridors and staircase at the centre. A mental health nurse at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Seyram Avotri said they are only allowed to have […]
Health workers at facilities in the Western Region have threatened to lay down their tools if they do not get personal protective equipment (PPEs) to work with. The non-availability of PPEs at hospitals across the Region has forced some of the facilities to continuously reschedule the sample taking of contacts traced from confirmed Covid-19 cases. […]
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