The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Ghana since Thursday, March 12 is 6,096. This is according to the latest update released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday, May 19. The total number of active cases, however, is 4,292. There are no deaths in the latest update – still 31 – […]
Bishop Daniel Obinim, the founder of the International God’s Way church, was Tuesday arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service over the publication of false news and falsification of documents. Bishop Obinim was, however, arraigned at a Magistrate’s Court, in Accra, and granted a GH¢100,000.00 bail with three sureties – […]
A former member of the erstwhile AFRC, Major Boakye Gyan (retd) who was picked up by officials of the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service on Tuesday has been granted bail. He was picked up in the morning at about 8am when he was preparing to go to his farm, and was […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 19th May, 2020, launched the GH¢1 billion Coronavirus Alleviation Programme Business Support Scheme, which is being provided by Government and selected participating banks to micro, small and medium-scale businesses around the country. Launching the Scheme at Jubilee House, the seat of the nation’s presidency, […]
Nelson Mandela once said: “It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine, that child from farm workers can become the president of a great nation”. This conventional wisdom is too glaring to be ignored and therefore […]
Zoomlion Ghana Limited has begun mass disinfection of over 115 police stations and facilities in the Western region. The nationwide exercise which is on-going in all the regions is geared towards protecting Police personnel and their families who are assisting frontline workers in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic. The exercise commenced on Monday, May […]
Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, the Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), on Tuesday, said the late release of the test results of infected persons accounted for the increase in infections at Obuasi. The authorities, he said, had very little idea of the magnitude of the infection rate until the release of the […]
World Health Organization (WHO) member states have agreed to set up an independent inquiry into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. The resolution, approved without objection by the WHO’s 194-member annual assembly meeting virtually in Geneva, also allows for the inquiry to look into the health body’s own role. The United States in particular […]
The Principal of Jackson College of Education, Mrs. Theodosia Jackson is advocating a deliberate state policy aimed at investing in e-learning infrastructure to incorporate distance learning in Ghana’s education system beyond COVID-19. She said, the coronavirus pandemic has brought to the fore, the urgent need to pay attention to e-learning as a country to complement […]
Isaiah Kwadwo Ampong, one of Ghana’s renowned gospel artistes, has debunked reports that he had said the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has neglected him. Great Ampong, speaking in an interview on Akoma FM’s Entertainment 360 show with Tony Best, revealed that, contrary to reports, he hasn’t told anyone that the NPP has neglected him. […]
A group calling itself Private School Teachers Association of Ghana has joined the move by the four recognised teacher unions to kick against the reopening of schools by the Ghana Education Service (GES). Teacher unions in Ghana want schools to remain closed even if the ban on public gatherings is lifted by the President, following […]
Waste management giant Zoomlion Ghana Limited has begun disinfecting police installations in the Ashanti Region against the deadly novel coronavirus as the country’s infections nears 6,000. A total of 158 police installations within the region are to be disinfected and also fumigated against bedbug infestation, rodents and other dangerous insects within the next five days. […]
Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah has justified the decision by the Police to force people within the Kumasi metropolis to undertake community service as punishment for defying a directive to wear nose masks in public places. Scores of people, mostly commuters and commercial drivers who failed to wear nose mask as directed by the Ashanti […]
World-renowned reggae musician Everton Blender says the current stock of reggae and dancehall artistes pushes the youth into armed robbery and quick money venture. The popular musician, known in real life as Everton Dennis Williams, was of the view that any song of recent times picked at random and compared to songs of the same […]
World-renowned reggae musician Everton Blender says the current stock of reggae and dancehall artistes pushes the youth into arm robbery and quick money venture. The popular musician, known in real life as Everton Dennis Williams, was of the view that any song of recent times picked at random and compared to songs of the same […]
Nana Yaa Jantuah, Vice Chair of the Consumer Protection Agency, has noted that there is lack of supervision in ensuring that all Ghanaians benefit from the free water supply to homes as one of the reliefs by the government to deal with the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. She told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise […]
An audit report into the sustainability of sports stadiums in Ghana has concluded that the National Sports Authority and the Ministry of Youth and Sports have not done enough to maintain sports stadiums in Ghana and manage them on a sustainable basis. The damming verdict, issued by the Auditor-General in a 63-page report, effectively concludes […]
The Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin has ordered for the removal of alien shrines and ban on alien ritual activities. In a statement dated May 15, 2020, he said over the past decade there have been influx of immigrant ritualists guised as traditional priests and engaged in activities that threatened the lives of residents, social […]
The Nsawam Medium Security Prisons in the Eastern Region were Sunday, May 17, fumigated and disinfected as part of measures to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. Since the outbreak of the virus and its subsequent declaration as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) some five months ago, prisons have come under the spotlight […]
The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye has directed that all 275 Members of Parliament and other parliamentary service staff should be tested for COVID -19. At the resumption of the second meeting of the fourth session of the 7th Parliament, the Speaker said MPs must lead the way on the fight against COVID-19. […]
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