The baby of a “highly valued and loved” nurse has been delivered successfully after she died from Covid-19. Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong, 28, had worked for five years at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, where she died on Sunday. A hospital trust spokeswoman said the nurse’s “child was doing very well” but could give no further […]

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has received a notification through the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Surveillance and Monitoring System for substandard and falsified chloroquine in the WHO region of Africa. These chloroquine products with different presentations are confirmed as falsified on the basis that they deliberately or fraudulently misrepresent their composition or source.A […]

Management of the Media General Group has taken note of the arrest of Frank Basoah, a young man who paraded himself as journalist working with Onua FM and allegedly extorted monies from shop owners at Buduburam in the Central Region for violating the lockdown order. We wish to state categorically that Frank Basoah is not […]

Ghana’s High Commission to the United Kingdom has confirmed that the High Commissioner, Papa Owusu Ankomah is in stable condition after contracting coronavirus (Covid-19). Report of the High Commissioner living with the virus went viral last week. He was reportedly said to have been sent to the intensive care unit (ICU) of one of the […]

Parents of children with special need in Kumasi have called on the government to improve support to them during the coronavirus crisis. Although government has commenced the distribution of food to the poor and vulnerable to enable them cope under the ongoing partial lockdown, some mothers of children with special need say they are yet […]

Even before government gives details on the free electricity package announced to cushion the poorest people in the country, it is becoming clearer that most of them will miss out on the relief package. President Nana Akufo-Addo last week announced a 100 per cent absorption of electricity bills for the poorest of the poor who […]

“Umuofia kwenu,” yelled Ogbuefi Ezuego the powerful orator in Chinua Achebe’s legendary novel Things Fall Apart. It was the fifth time the old man had bellowed and the crowd that had gathered at the market-place thunderously responded ‘Yaa!’ The crowd of men, numbering in their thousands, had gathered after they had heard at dawn the […]

Twenty-two persons who attempted to cross over from Ghana to neighbouring Togo Tuesday night have been arrested at Ave Hevi, a border town in the Akatsi North District of the Volta Region The 22 people, made up of 17 males, were riding on five unregistered motorbikes when they were intercepted at about 11:00 p.m. by […]

Emmanuel Agyemang Badu is a Ghana midfielder playing for Hellas Verona in Italy – where, like most countries, football is on hold during the coronavirus crisis. In March, his sister Hagar was shot and killed in the city of Berekum. He has not being able to go back to Ghana to see his family because […]