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Lockdown: Beat people to stay home – Ejisu Queen mother to soldiers

The Paramount Queen mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Region has called on security officials enforcing the partial lockdown in her paramountcy to beat up residents who defy the presidential directive. “I see the young girls and boys always on the streets, left to me alone I support stiffer punishment …

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Lockdown: Woman lashed by police officers for sitting in front of her house [VIDEO]

My News Ghana has sighted a video on Instagram where police officers were captured flogging a woman for flouting lockdown instructions. According to eyewitness, police on patrol who were enforcing lockdown regulations found the woman sitting in front of her house and asked her to get inside which she refused …

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Journalist reportedly shot as security forces raid Changli in Tamale [Photos]

A journalist with Accra-based TV Africa has been reportedly shot during a joint security operation on Saturday [April 18, 2020] at Changli a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region Tamale. Armed security forces raided the community this dawn and arrested 134 residents and destroyed hundreds of properties of residents It is …

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COVID-19 Private Sector Fund to build 100-bed isolation center in six weeks

The Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund, an initiative set up to support the government to combat the novel coronavirus in the country says it has begun setting up a 100-bed infectious diseases isolation and treatment facility. The project, dubbed the ‘Facility 100 Project’, will be used for the treatment of …

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COVID-19 victims will not be handed over to families for burial

Head of Pathology Department of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Dr Simon Naporo has revealed that the bodies of all people who died of COVID-19 will not be handed over to their families but would be buried by the government. According to him, the disease is highly contagious and the …

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Soldier shoots 50-year-old man at coronavirus checkpoint for using unapproved route

A military man on operation covid-19 safety duties has shot at a 50-year-old motor rider for allegedly using unapproved route at a barrier at Dobro in the Nsawam Adoagyir Municipality of the Eastern Region. According to the police, report from the security personnel at the said barrier indicated that the …

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Police hospital to begin mass burial for unidentified bodies to free up space

The Ghana Police Hospital in Accra has announced for the notice of the General Public that it intends to organize a mass burial service for bodies at the Police Hospital, MyNewsGh.com can report. A statement from the hospital said the mass burial has become imperative due to the need to …

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Government accused of neglecting special needs families in food distribution programme

Families raising children with Special Needs or disabilities have been left out in the Government’s food distribution programme for Covid-19, Mrs Ellen Affam-Dadzie, Executive Director of ‘With God Cerebral Palsy Centre,’ has said She said many families raising children with disabilities are unable to go out and collect the cooked …

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Mahama urges government to order a freeze on ejections by landlords

Former President John Mahama is urging the government to order a freeze on ejections to ease the pressure on the many tenants who have lost their daily income to the lockdown in Accra and other parts of the country. The presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the …

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How Adom-Otchere told a $100k bribe lie against me – Manasseh recounts

After journalist and host of Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana, Paul Adom-Otchere made headlines for slamming Dr Zanetor Agyemang-Rawlings on Thursday’s edition of the show, his colleague Manasseh Azure Awuni has in an epistle claimed he [Adom-Otchere] levelled some bribery allegations against him years ago. The television personality had in …

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