Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Dr Mark Assibey Yeboah has disclosed part of a US$ 1 billion loan government has secured from the IMF will be used to pay for the Covid-19 electricity subsidy for Ghanaians announced by President Akufo-Addo. Parliament on Friday night approved the US$1 billion (5.5 billion Ghana cedis) International Monetary Fund […]

Ghanaian musician, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale and his Shatta Movement team on Friday 17th April 2020 made a donation to the James Camp Prisons located at Roman Ridge in Accra.  The assorted items donated by the team included food items (bags of rice, gallons of cooking oil, sacks of sugar, […]

The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus originated last year, has raised its official Covid-19 death toll by 50%, adding 1,290 fatalities. Wuhan officials attributed the new figure to updated reporting and deaths outside hospitals. China has insisted there was no cover-up. It has been accused of downplaying the severity of its virus outbreak. […]

At a time when schools across the country have been shut as part of measures to fight the coronavirus global pandemic, Integrated Data Systems (IDS), an ICT Services Provider has launched its free online virtual classes for schools across the country. The e-learning platform which will be provided to the schools for free for the […]

Police in the Upper West Region took less than 48 hours to fish out a Nigerian who was on the run after knowing his status as regards the novel coronavirus. Simon Okafor Chukudi escaped from self-isolation at his residence in Wapaani despite testing positive for coronavirus. The Upper West Regional Police Command, consequently, mounted a […]

Jackson College of Education, Ghana’s leading private College of Education, has presented a cheque for GH? 20,000.00 to the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), at a brief ceremony in Kumasi. The donation sought to enhance the work of the research institution in the face of the novel coronavirus outbreak which continues […]

Member of Parliament for South Dayi Constituency in Volta Region Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwami Dafeamekpor, who doubles as a lawyer, has disclosed that the Ministry of Communications spent GH¢1.4 million on the Virtual Concert that followed the launch of the Covid-19 Tracker app. On Monday, April 13, the Ministry of Communications led by Ursla Owusu-Ekuful launched […]

A majority of New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates in the Saboba Constituency in the Northern Region have appealed to the General Secretary, John Boadu, to reinstate renowned security analyst Emmanuel Mawanye Kotin in the party’s parliamentary primary. This appeal was contained in a letter jointly signed by 204 out of 372 delegates of the constituency. […]

Two healthcare workers and two other persons have been infected with the deadly novel coronavirus in the Upper East Region, bringing to three the number of health professionals with the disease in the region. Three of the four new cases which were recorded Thursday were contacts of the first case in the Region, the regional […]

Taking the world by storm, Nana Tafregya Pallbearers in recent times have earned headlines on various news platforms including BBC. Exercising adroit skills in what they do, these pallbearers are lifting the mood at funerals in Ghana with flamboyant coffin-carrying dance forms, causing families to increasingly pay for their services in sending their loved ones […]

Two thousand young Ghanaian volunteers are to be deployed across the country, particularly to the remote areas, to assist in the government’s campaign against the deadly novel coronavirus which has affected over a million people globally. Chief Executive of the National Youth Authority Sylvester Tetteh who revealed this on Thursday said these volunteers will move […]