Former President John Mahama has been ordered to notify the Gender Ministry before sharing food to the vulnerable during the lockdown as he announced recently. Minister of Gender, Child and Social Protection, Mrs Cynthia Morrison who gave the order said the benevolence of the former President was appreciated but the …
Read More »Man, 22, arrested for attacking Policewoman at Kaneshie
A 22-year-old man Osman Amadu is in the grips of the Kaneshie Police for spraying a substance in the eyes of a policewoman at Abossey Okai Zongo junction during enforcement of restriction on movement duties. On Friday, April 10, 2020, around 9:00 am, the police officer was on a COVID-19 …
Read More »Coronavirus: Concerns over increase in infections in SA prison
The number of prisoners who have tested positive for coronavirus in a correctional facility in South Africa has increased by 49 in two days. The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) said the number of infected prisoners at the East London Correctional Centre now stands at 53. Some 23 prison officials …
Read More »[VIDEO]: Rats Break Into ATM Machine During The Lockdown And Eats Up Money Worth $44,000
Some ATM technicians who arrived to fix a malfunctioning cash machine in the Indian state of Assam during the lockdown got a shock when they opened it up. Notes worth more than 1.2m rupees ($44,000) had been shredded – and the suspected culprits are rats as reported by BBC. According to a report …
Read More »Having sex expose you to coronavirus – Youth Warn
President, the Private Newspaper Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG), Mr. Andrew Edwin Arthur who gave the advice bemoaned the lack of discipline and disregard for the lockdown directive. According to him, the coronavirus will soon go away hence the need for Ghanaians to abstain from sex for the period we …
Read More »Coronavirus: Govt will access IMF’s $1bn from April 18 – Ken Ofori-Atta
Minister for Finance Ken Ofori-Atta says the IMF’s disbursement of $1 billion which is to be drawn under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) will be accessed from April 18, 2020. According to Ken Ofori-Atta, all paper works will be concluded this week and hopefully by the weekend government will begin …
Read More »Angry Wontuni invoke curses on Mahama
A lot of social media users have raised concerns over what it believes to be the politicization of the distribution of food to the vulnerable and the ill state of the food. Also, Former President John Mahama recently has cautioned against the politicization of the free food arrangement for vulnerable …
Read More »Govt spending GHC2m a day on cooked food waste of money – Oye Lithur
Nana Oye Lithur, a former minister for Gender and Social Protection, has said that the giveaway of 400,000 meals a day which amounts to GHC2 million is a clear waste of money. She therefore urged that the Akufo-Addo led administration must as a matter of urgency replace the distribution of …
Read More »Coronavirus: Boko Haram leader jabs Trump, mocks social distancing
Abubakar Shekau, factional leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group says it is evil that birthed the coronavirus pandemic in an audio message released on late Tuesday on Twitter by a Nigerian news analysis portal, Hum Angle. Shekau speaks in Hausa – a dominant language used across most parts of …
Read More »Scrap dealer sprays substance into policewoman’s eye [photo]
A 22-year-old scrap dealer is in the grips of the police for allegedly spraying some liquid substance into the eyes of a policewoman during enforcement of restriction duties at Kaneshie Zongo junction. The Accra Regional Police public relations officer, DSP Effia Tenge, told DGN Online that Suspect Osman Amadu was …
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