The recent peace between once bitter enemies Ethiopia and Eritrea has transformed lives there.

It’s 5am and I stir. My stomach feels cramped. I have slept no more than four hours. My mind races. The problems cascade through. I hear the birds and do Read More... The post What Does An African Finance Minister Do Now? appeared first on DailyGuide

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 […]

The Minister for Energy, John Peter Amewu says Ghanaians will start enjoying the full electricity reliefs announced by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, from May 2020 instead of April. In his sixth national address to the nation on the novel coronavirus on Thursday, April 9, 2020, President Akufo-Addo said that government will fully cover the […] The post Electricity

British scientists have said they hope to have one million doses of a coronavirus vaccine ready to be deployed by September. The team at Oxford University will start the first UK study of an experimental vaccine against COVID-19 next week. But so great is the need, and so high their confidence that it will work, […] The post Coronavirus:

Parliament has approved a US$1 billion IMF Rapid Credit Facility to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Ghana’s economy. The Executive Board of IMF announced the approval of the loan on Monday, April 13, 2020. The loan has zero percent interest with 5 and half years moratorium and a ten year period of […] The post COVID-19: Parliament approves

Civilian and military leaders are jostling for power as the capital, Khartoum, begins a three-week lockdown on Saturday.

The University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has benefited from the disinfection exercise jointly organised by Cit TV and Zoomlion. Speaking to Citi News, Vector Control Coordinator for Zoomlion, Gideon Sogbey called on school authorities to contain the spread of COVID-19 by putting in place measures to help control the spread of the virus when school […] The post UEW benefits

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 Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP) was proposed by government to effectively manage social and economic recovery in Ghana as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, or so we thought. A clear CAP implementation strategy has not been communicated to date. It is common knowledge that the majority of small businesses have been adversely impacted […] The post Alex

Government has started distributing locally produced Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to frontline workers in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. This came to light when Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia visited Read More... The post Gov’t Starts Distributing Local PPEs

Ghana’s leading waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has donated GHS120,000 to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR). The donation is to complement the efforts of the research institute to be able to carry out more COVID-19 tests in the country. So far the institute has led a team of other research centres […] The post Metro

Dr Ernest Addison The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has donated GHC10 million to the Covid-19 National Trust Fund. The amount was received on behalf of the Fund by the chairperson Read More... The post BoG Donates GHC10m To Covid-19 Fund appeared first on DailyGuide

A new report by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) says more than 300,000 Africans could lose their lives to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) if the virus continues to impact the continent’s struggling economies whose growth is expected to slow down from 3.2 per cent to 1.8 per cent in a best-case scenario, pushing close … The post COVID-19 could kill

The Ministry of Information’s briefing on April 16, 2020, was not only brief, but it was also short of data and analysis. It gave no clues on the question of the lifting, extension or expansion of the lockdown. The national COVID-19 framework hinges on two major strategic assumptions which appear to be that: 1. The […] The post Festus

1.0  Introduction: 1.1  “Many are the afflictions of a righteous man” so says the Good Book, “but the Lord delivers him from all”. This is a... The post Lockdown Blues: Ghanaian Lawyers sitting on a time bomb soon to explode appeared first on The Chronicle Online.

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  Dear husband of my youth, This morning, I have become a singer, after the tumultuous night of bliss I experienced in your arms and under your body. I hardly read the Bible these days but your lovemaking has jolted me to find the dust-covered Good Book. The Easter season just rolled by, but I […] The post Asor Letters: Repentant husbands and compensatory sex-styles

Ghana has never been the same since the two gentlemen who returned to the country from Norway and Turkey tested positive for... The post Sam Okudzeto must withdraw his wise counsel and resign from the Council of State appeared first on The Chronicle Online.

The Ghana Police Service is supplying free water to deprived communities especially on the outskirts of Accra. The gesture, according to Chief Supt. Dr. Baba Iddrisu, the Director for Transport at the Ghana Police Service, is in response to President Nana Akufo-Addo’s call for water supply services to be made free to all Ghanaians. He […] The post Ghana Police