GENERAL NEWS

The Government on Friday announced that evacuation of Ghanaians stranded in foreign countries following the outbreak of the COVID-19, would be extended to other parts of the world. The Kuwaiti Government last May deported some 230 Ghanaians from gulf nation. Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional …

The National Identification Authority (NIA) says it will issue 3,875,441 Ghana Cards to applicants in 5,635 registration centres in all the regions concurrently, from Monday, June 8 to Tuesday, June 16. The nationwide exercise, it said, would enable 11,062,850 Ghanaians to possess their cards in good time to use them …

As part of efforts to contain the spread of the Covid-19, Zoomlion Ghana Limited on Thursday (June 06) disinfected nine (9) mosques in various parts of Accra. They included the Madina Central Mosque, Shia Mosque Madina, Al-Aziz Central Mosque, Burma Camp, Ahlul-bait Institute Central Mosque, Alhamadiya Mosque and the Military …

The leadership of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) has made an appeal to the government to convert their placements in various institutions into permanent engagements at the end of the three-year contract period. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Mr Dennis Opoku Katakyie and Ms Jacklin Okyere …

Government, through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), has topped-up grants of beneficiaries under its Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme to enable them to purchase basic COVID-19 personal protective equipment. The top-up was due to the change in the mode of payment of the beneficiaries as …

Parliament has frozen approval of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee’s report on the Electoral Commission’s controversial Constitutional Instrument (CI). The CI was to give backing to the Electoral Commission’s quest to compile a new voters’ register but after the Chairman of the Committee accused the ranking member of doctoring the report, …

The Eastern Regional Chief Imam, Alhaji Yussif Amudani Sulemana, has said congregational prayers would not resume until the full ban on religious activities is lifted. He explained that the directives by the Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs which followed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s announcement on Sunday would be …

An amount of Ghc31, 038 and Ghc11,209 was donated by the UK & Ireland Chapter and the Germany Chapter respectively to the NDC Party at the Party Headquarters to assist in the fight against COVID19.    The donation was presented by the Director of International Relations, Mr. Alexander Segbefia on …

A 10-year-old girl who suffered third-degree burns at Munamunaso, a farming community near Nsawkaw in the Tain district of the Bono Region, requires GHS10,000 to undergo skin graft surgery and other therapies. On Monday, 17 February 2020, the victim, Prosera Buenaa, was entrapped by fire she set up to cook …

Four people have died from Coronavirus in 24 hours, the highest in a single day as Ghana’s case count rises to 9,168. According to a Ghana Health Service (GHS) update the total number of deaths is now 42 after the last update on June 4. The new figures mean that 283 more …