Parliament has denied reports making rounds that two members and some staff have tested positive for coronavirus. Last week, the Speaker ordered a mandatory test for all 275 members as well as staff of the Parliamentary Service. Members of the Parliamentary Press Corps were also tested in a bid to stem the spread of the […]
Residents of Kodjona-Menekpo are against the burial of another resident on a private land in the community. They raise concerns that the land for the burial was close to a dug-out well, which could be infected. Again, they say the community is a waterlogged area in a downstream, which should not be approved for burial […]
All major markets in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis and the Effia-Kwesimentsim municipality in the Western Region will be closed down on Thursday for one week. The decision was taken after a meeting between the security councils for both Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly and the Effia-Kwesimentsim Municipal Assembly. The Covid-19 taskforce for Sekondi-Takoradi, in its assessment of the […]
Four persons have died and several others injured following an accident at Anoff on the Nsawam-Adeiso road. The accident on Tuesday morning involved a Toyota Hiace H100 and a Tipper Truck. The Toyota Hiace was from Asamankese to Accra while the Tipper Truck with registration number GT 9928-20 was from the Nsawam area believed to […]
Two journalists who’d been interviewing alleged victims of state torture are among more than 40,000 people that Zimbabwean police say they’ve arrested for breaking lockdown restrictions who have been fined, warned or imprisoned. Most of those people were arrested for breaking the rule on not moving more than 5km (3 miles) from their homes. Others […]
It was a victory by a French team but it felt very much like a Ghanaian one when Olympique Marseille became European champions after beating AC Milan in the final. In 1993, Olympique Marseille under the leadership of Bernard Tapie and the Belgian coach Raymond Goethals shocked the then aristocrats of European football AC Milan […]
The excitement certainly continues on leading Ghanaian television station TV3 Network with this week’s announcement of the airing of the reunion show of Season 3 of its dating game show, Date Rush, from Sunday, May 31, 2020. Season 3 of Date Rush can best be described as the most popular Ghanaian content on television currently […]
How do you even name five players to form a team among a side that won everything? The CAF Champions League, the Super Cup, local Ghana league titles, domestic cups and all? It can be tough and Ishmael Addo admitted as such when he was required to name a five-a-side team made up of players […]
Convener of the Inter-Party Resistance Against the New Voter Register (IPRAN) Bernard Mornah has served notice that his group will make sure the intended compilation by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) does not take place. The EC has scheduled next month for the exercise, having already rolled out sensitization campaign on safety measures to be […]
The mortal remains of late Kumawood actor Bishop Bernard Nyarko will be laid to rest on Saturday, June 27, the family has announced. The actor will be buried in a private burial at Obosomase in the Eastern Region. According to funeral arrangements, the body of the late actor will be preceded by laying in state […]
Gospel artiste Noble Nketsiah believes that his time as a gospel musician hasn’t passed since he is still a blessing to people who listen to his music. To him, people who still listen to his music find him relevant and are inspired by his music. Speaking in an interview on Showbiz 927 on 3FM with […]
The Krowor Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region is involving chiefs and traditional authorities as well as Imams in Zongos in the catchment area to help in the fight against spread of the coronavirus. The Assembly believes traditional leaders have control over their subjects and as such their involvement in the education and the […]
A Deputy Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, Mr. Francis Asenso-Boakye has made a presentation of seven hundred (700) LED streetlights to the Bantama Sub-Metro in Kumasi. In all, a total of 8 electoral areas received the 700 street lights, which adds up to several others previously donated by Mr. Asenso-Boakye to […]
Gospel musician Noble Nketsiah has urged colleague musicians Joe Mettle and Patience Nyarko not to fuel the on-going controversy about their music. He notes that comments made by Patience Nyarko about Joe Mettle’s music, which has sparked an on-going debate in the gospel music fraternity, must not be encouraged. Speaking in an interview on Showbiz […]
Fifty trafficked Nigerian women have been rescued from Lebanon and returned home, Nigeria’s foreign minister says. They have all been placed in quarantine following their arrival on Sunday as a precaution against coronavirus. The country’s anti-trafficking agency will interview them about their experiences after their isolation ends. Last month, a Nigerian woman working as a […]
Former General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) David Ofori Acheampong has asked the government to do widen consultations before reopening schools in the wake of the Covid-19 measures. He told Alfred Ocansey on Sunrise on 3FM Tuesday that the safety of school children and Ghanaians in general must be the topmost […]
All persons who contracted coronavirus in the Upper East Region have fully recovered. The Region as of Monday, May 25 had recorded 26 cases of the viral disease. Speaking at the Ministry of Information’s bi-weekly update on Tuesday, May 26, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) said the region has seen “some level […]
Ghana’s total cumulative case count of coronavirus is now 6,964, according to the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Twenty-seven patients more have, however, recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 2,097. Thirty-two persons have died so far. Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye made this known on Tuesday, May 26 at the Ministry of […]
The opposition People’s National Convention (PNC) has been hit with allegations of visa fraud, which has occasioned the National Chairman, Bernard Mornah, writing to the IGP for a probe. It all started in September, 2019 when a letter supposedly written by the Acting General Secretary, Jacob Kwame Amoako, requested a facilitation of visa processing for […]
Testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus has been halted because of safety fears, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Trials in several countries are being “temporarily” suspended as a precaution, the agency said on Monday. It comes after a recent medical study suggested the drug could increase the risk […]
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