Two Niger nationals who were last week intercepted at a covid-19 safety check point at COCOBOD head office in Accra and tested positive for covid-19 have been returned to police custody under bizarre circumstances hours after they were transferred to the Ga East Hospital for treatment. It is immediately unclear why  persons who tested positive […]

For many, the name Kwame Farkye was very synonymous with late after radio. He basically ruled Drive Time radio in the capital in the greater part of the 2000s. His Drive Time show on Atlantis Radio was the most listened to show on the late afternoon belt in Accra. It was simply the show that […]

Tensions are running high in the Chinese city of Guangzhou over coronavirus rumours. According to community leaders hundreds of Africans remain unable to go home after being evicted from their homes and hotels over fears the coronavirus was spreading in African communities. The Guangdong provincial government has responded to concerns of discrimination by calling China […]

There seems to be no clear-cut understanding as to whether persons in the creative arts industry are part of a proposed stimulus package to be given by the government. While the Creative Arts Council is collating information from some creative industry persons to be submitted to the government, the Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister has […]

If there was any time Kobina Ansah’s tagline for his play, Emergency Wedding, was relevant, then that time will be now – Man has his timelines but God has the clock.  The Covid-19 pandemic has brought life to a halt and it is no news how much it is distorting the timelines of many. It, […]

Ningo-Prampram in the Greater Accra Region has recorded two cases of the deadly novel coronavirus cases. They were part of 50 people whose samples were taken after they were identified as having come in contact with an infected person who was said to have visited the area recently. Results of the samples from the Noguchi […]

The Member of Parliament for Binduri in the Upper East region, Dr. Robert Baba Kuganab-lem, has donated assorted items to health facilities, markets and chiefs in his constituency to help fight the novel coronavirus. The items worth 26,850 cedis included 50 Veronica buckets, 410 bottles of sanitizers, 25 gallons of disinfectants, 50 gallons of liquid […]

The UN’s biodiversity chief has called for a global ban on wildlife markets to prevent the outbreak of future pandemics. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema told the BBC that the practice of buying and selling wild animals in markets can pose a threat to human health as well as to endangered species. “We know over the last […]