Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has argued that the penalty for violating the President’s Social Gathering Restriction Law is too harsh. Speaking on Adom TV’s popular programme, The Big Agenda, hosted by Captain Smart on Tuesday evening, Mr Kpebu said the “poor offenders just can’t pay” the huge fine as punishment for violating the …

The United Kingdom (UK) Health Secretary, Rt. Hon Matt Hancock, has announced that Oxford University will begin human trials of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, 23rd April 2020. He announced that a total of about £20m funding has been made available for the research. The United Kingdom has had a …

The Executive Director of the Ghana Federation of Labour, Mr Abraham Koomson says the decision by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to lift the partial lockdown of Accra and Kumasi is “suicidal”. “What the president is trying to tell us now is, you can go out and go and kill …

Former HIV/AIDS Ambassador and mentally unhinged Joyce Dzidzor Mensah in a Facebook post has confessed how she nearly killed Afia Schwar and Oye Lithur by taking them to ‘juju’. According to Joyce, Afia Schwarzenegger’s inability to stay at one media house and always running to troubles is powered by her …

A World Health Organization (WHO) driver has been killed in a conflict-riven region of Myanmar while out collecting Covid-19 monitoring samples. Pyae Sone Win Maung was driving a well-marked United Nations vehicle when it was hit by gunfire in Rakhine State. The UN says dozens of civilians have been killed as fighting between the …

The Chief Justice of Ghana, Justice Anin Yeboah has directed that “caused list should be reduced drastically for few cases to be listed for hearing” to prevent congestion at the court. The CJ in a press release regarding what management of the court is doing to curtail the spread urged …

A military officer is on admission at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) after he sustained gunshot wounds in a Tuesday dawn attack in Kumasi. Police at Suame named the victim as AB1 Francis Afriyie, 29 — who is stationed at a Naval Base at Sekondi in the Western Region …

Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has commended Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), various municipal assemblies in Accra, and the security services who took part in the three-day deep cleaning exercise of Accra. According to the minister, her ministry was satisfied with the deep clean-up exercise by …

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Atta-Mills Institute Koku Anyidoho, has said the decision to lift the lockdown was an honest one. The outspoken former communications director at the presidency stated that the lockdown brought untold hardship in some homes. Mr. Anyidoho recounted how he had to give GH¢10 …

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has denied reports that it has announced a new date for holding its parliamentary and presidential elections. It also said there has not been any recent National Steering Committee to take a decision on the way forward for the party’s elections. Some portals reported on …