Authorities of some Senior High Schools in the Volta Region have praised the Ghana Education Service (GES) and waste management company, Zoomlion, for the partnership that has seen their schools fumigated against bed bug infestation. Describing the gesture as timely, they revealed their schools have had to battle bed bug infestation over the years. The […]

The general public is being advised not to see the country’s race to beat the deadly coronavirus as a sprint, but rather, a marathon which Ghana is going to be in it for a long period. A former deputy health minister, Dr. Victor Bampoe said it is about time Ghanaians are sensitized that it would […]

Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Papa Owusu Ankomah considers himself blessed having, recovered from the deadly pandemic – novel coronavirus. The former Attorney General under Kufuor’s administration tested positive for Covid-19 last month with reports suggesting that he was receiving treatment in an intensive care unit at the Royal Free Hospital, London. The […]

Rapper Eno has replied Medikal’s jab that he won’t waste his time to record a diss track to reply a female rapper who looks like a corpse. As pressure mounts on Medikal to reply shots Eno threw at him in her ‘Argument Done’ diss track, the male rapper responded that it will be a fruitless […]

Rapper Medikal is sticking to his guns that he won’t reply shots thrown at him by female rapper Eno. To him, spending time to record a diss track aimed at Eno will be a waste of time. Eno in a new diss song – ‘Argument Done’ – released last Friday took heavy jabs at Sista […]

The Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana Journalists Association(GJA)  has, on behalf of all media practitioners in Ashanti, thanked the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, for the donation of food and other items to the Association. Engraved in a beautiful gold plaited frame, the appreciation is headlined: “Journalists Are Forever Grateful To Our King”. Signed […]

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched an integrated ICT system to enhance the operations of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC). Among others, the system will support the operations of MASLOC by processing loan disbursement digitally, increase access to their products and services, reduce the human interface in their operations and increase […]

The Northern Regional Health Directorate is being chased by operators of a hotel, which is said to have served as an isolation centre, over a bill of GH¢219,000. This is an accumulation of debt incurred during the quarantine period of some foreign nationals consisting of Guineans and Burkinabe. Some medical staff of the Tamale Teaching […]

An Accra High Court has found the Auditor-General, Daniel Domelovo, guilty of contempt in the Osafo Maafo US$1 million Kroll saga. The court presided over by Justice Afia Asare Botwe described as untenable the Auditor General’s excuse that he was busy finishing up an audit report for Parliament the reason he failed to respond to […]

Stakeholders are being urged to support and protect waste management actors to minimize their risk of COVID-19 infection and to assist with the important role they are playing in the response to the pandemic. This call was made during a virtual meeting, organized by the ‘Waste’ Recovery Platform being facilitated by the United Nations Development […]

An Accra High Court has sentenced former board chair of the National Communications Authority (NCA), Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, to six years in prison with hard labour. Two others, former Director General of NCA William Mathew Tevie, and a former Deputy National Security Coordinator on the NCA Board, Alhaji Osman Mimina, were each given five years in […]

The Northern Region capital, Tamale, on Monday, May 11 recorded one death due to coronavirus. The case was first reported at the Tamale Central Hospital, the Northern Regional Director of Health Services revealed. At a press briefing in Tamale, Dr Eleeza John Bertson said the Region’s case count rose from 16 to nineteen 19 over […]

The Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health (GCNH) is worried the country’s expanded programme on immunization (EPI), especially between January and June each year, could be under threat in the midst of Covid-19. It is estimated that at least one million children benefit from 13 vaccine preventable childhood diseases under EPI. This has played a […]

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Obuasi East in the Ashanti region, Faustina Amissah wants curfew immediately imposed on Obuasi enclave due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 cases in the area. As at 11th May, 2020 Obuasi had recorded 261 COVID-19 cases with one death, and remains the epicenter in the region. But the […]

While the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) grapples with the uncertainty surrounding its parliamentary primaries ahead of the 2020 elections  due to the coronavirus pandemic, four disqualified aspirants in the Atiwa East Constituency of the Eastern Region are beating war drum as they threaten to contest the December elections as independent candidates if they are […]

While the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) grapples with the uncertainty surrounding its parliamentary primaries ahead of the 2020 elections  due to the coronavirus pandemic, four disqualified aspirants in the Atiwa East Constituency of the Eastern Region are beating war drum as they threaten to contest the December elections as independent candidates if they are […]

Russia now has the second-highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide after the United States. On Tuesday, it reported another 10,899 infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to more than 232,000. The capital, Moscow, is the worst-affected area and has reported more than 5,000 new cases in 24 hours. Source: BBC

Artiste Manager Bulldog is putting his money on female rapper Eno to defeat any male rapper who dares to face her in a battle. According to him, none of the current crop of rappers has the fortitude to face the rap prowess of Eno. For some days now, Sista Afia has ignited a lot of […]

Ghana international Kasim Nuhu says he would be happy to see his close friend and room mate on international duty Thomas Partey play in “the best league in the world”. Partey has been linked with move to Arsenal from Atletico Madrid while other reports have suggested Diego Simeone could use him as a hook to […]

A Deputy Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kwaku Boahen, says the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic does not warrant building of new hospitals. He said the situation at hand only needs stringent measures to halt further spread of the virus and not beginning to build new hospitals. Kwaku Boahen expressed these while […]