GENERAL NEWS

Ghana’s Aviation sector is set to commence domestic flights operations after three weeks of lockdown for passenger flights in the government bid to contain community spread of coronavirus. In this regard, protocols have been developed to guide the operators of domestic flights to contain the coronavirus spread and prevent infection. …

The Speaker of Parliament has recalled Members of Parliament for a sitting on Thursday, April 30, 2020. “The Parliamentary Service wishes to inform all Honourable Members and Staff of Parliament, the Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Michael Quaye, in accordance with Standing Order 6, has directed the resumption …

A serious manhunt is underway for the driver and two passengers on board an Opel Astra with suspicious registration number plate, ‘GG 477 – 14’, who abandoned the vehicle after it crossed into Ghana from Togo, through an unapproved route near the Nyive Border Post last Friday. The incident happened …

Workers of the Sunyani Municipal Assembly and health officials were sighted wearing protective gear while they buried the unidentified bodies in a mass grave at the Sunyani public cemetery. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) investigations showed the bodies, including three children, had been kept at the hospital’s mortuary for long …

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) Ethics Committee has received the raw footage of the “Number 12 exposé” – a documentary that exposed alleged bribery and corruption in African football which was produced by the investigative firm of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.Tiger Eye PI, the Accra-based investigative organization on June …

About six-hundred (600) residents in Ayensuano District of the Eastern region have been displaced by a devastating rainstorm that has struck some communities. The affected communities are Docrochiwa, Kwaboanta Junction, Onakwase, Akokrom, Kwaboanta, Kwaboanta Ada, Ayensuano, Kofi Pare and Agyeikrom. Other affected communities include Ayibontey, Otoase, Owusukrom and Krabokese, Teacher …

Today in History, exactly 59 years ago, on April 28, 1961, 43 Ghanaian peacekeepers were killed in one of the United Nation’s (UN) deadliest missions by the Congolese army at Port Franqui, Kasai, Congo. April 28, 1961, is definitely a day that Ghanaians, and not just Congolese, will remember. Ghana, …

For the third time as many weeks, the novel Coronavirus has claimed the life of a Ghanaian nurse in the United States (US). Doreen Tay unfortunately passed on on April 21, 2020 after testing positive for the COVID-19. The deceased was a product of the St Mary’s Senior High School at Korle …

The Supreme Court will deliver its judgment on Wednesday, April 29 in the case in which NDC MP for Bolga East Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine is challenging the appointment of Martin A.B.K. Amidu as Special Prosecutor by President Akufo-Addo. The outcome of the judgment will determine whether Mr. Amidu who …

In what is clearly a triumph for academic and industry synergy, a rapid diagnostic test kit for the new coronavirus has been developed in Ghana. Scientists at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Incas Diagnostics, both based in the Ashanti Region capital, Kumasi, are currently optimising …