GENERAL NEWS

Body withdrawals at the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) mortuary have increased from five to sixty a week as bereaved families have resorted to private burials. The move was as a result of President Akufo Addo’s appeal to decongest the various morgues across the country as a result of the …

Call it sarcasm or a conspiracy theory but the idea of the coronavirus wreaking havoc in the country is fast gaining prominence on Ghanaian social media as the number of infected cases crossed the 2000 mark. Since the confirmation of the first case, the catchy phrase “By June de33 na …

President Akufo-Addo has extended the closure of Ghana’s borders by another month following the increase in the number of confirmed cases of the global pandemic, the Coronavirus. Speaking at a closed-door celebration of the Labour Day, organized by the state broadcaster GBC in conjunction with the Trade Union Congress (TUC), the …

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has petitioned the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and National Media Commission (NMC) about the activities of “money doublers” on television. In a tweet, the Minister said: “I have written to the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and National Media Commission (NMC) to take note of the …

The NPP Member of Parliament for Offinso South Municipal in the Ashanti region, Hon. Ben Abdallah Banda, has on Tuesday April 29, 2020, cut the sod for the commencement of a 7 kilometre roads in his constituency. The 3.5 kilometer road from Offinso-Agric to Anyankaso and a 3.5 kilometer Abofour …

Ghana’s first president and pioneering pan-Africanist, Kwame Nkrumah, dealt a notable blow to the British Empire when he led the campaign demanding self-rule for the African countries known as British colonies. His great gift was that he was able to diagnose Africa’s predicament, understand the oppressive forces working against the continent’s …

At least three headless bodies have been exhumed in a bush at a village called Sakyikrom, near Adeiso in the Eastern Region. A police team that carried out the operation hauled the person they suspected to have killed the two men and a woman to the scene to point the …

A lot of countries have locked down as part of measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Millions of women will lose access to contraception, face unexpected pregnancies and suffer gender-based violence as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a grim report from the UNFPA, the United Nations’ …

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has congratulated Ghanaian workers as the country celebrates workers today, 1 May. May 1 every year is set aside as Workers Day or May Day to celebrate workers across the globe. In a Facebook post, Dr Bawumia said: “On the occasion of Workers’ Day I …

In a video that has now gone viral, a soldier and a mobile police officer were seen fighting over superiority in public. The location of this brouhaha and cause of the heated argument isn’t known, but from the voice and background, it appears as if it happened in the Northern …