GENERAL NEWS

Personnel from the military stormed Chokor in Accra after residents defied the lockdown directive to party at the beach. Ghanaweb.com broke the story of how the residents ignored the President’s lockdown directives to chill at the beach on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020. Barely two hours after GhanaWeb broke the …

The assembly member for Lawui and Klokpui in the Akatsi South Constituency has cried out for support for his electoral area as the people of his electoral drink from the same water source as animals. In a press statement, the assemblymember for the area Hon. Wisdom Akpablie lamented the lack …

Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has commended scientists at the University of Ghana (UG) for a successful sequencing of the genomes of SARS-CoV-2, “to help track mutations and trace community infections” of COVID-19. The scientists, who work at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR – College of Health Sciences) and …

President Akufo-Addo has extended the initial one-month ban on public and social gatherings by an additional two weeks. The extension became operational after he signed the Executive Instrument (EI) to give effect to the new directive. In a series of tweets on Sunday, April 12 explaining the legalities around the …

The Karaga District of the Northern Region continues to record increasing cases of deaths relating to snake bites by virtue of the fact that residents are mostly farmers according to health professionals in the area. In view of this, the Deputy Minister of Energy in charge of Petroleum, Dr Adam …

Potential coronavirus treatments could be made for as little as $1, well below their typical price tags in pharmacies, according to an analysis of nine drugs in clinical trials. If their promise is confirmed in ongoing studies, medicines for Covid-19, including hydroxychloroquine, which President Donald Trump touted as a treatment, and Gilead …

Ghanaians are set to enjoy free mobile data and free call in the coming weeks. This comes after the telecommunication networks in Ghana resolved to provide free data and free calls to provide some relief to their customers in the course of the outbreak of coronavirus. According to reports, Kenneth …

Deputy Minister-Designate for Health, Dr Bernard Oko-Boye has rebuffed claims that the decision to reduce electricity tariffs in order to cushion consumers as a result of the coronavirus was the idea of former President John Dramani Mahama. There have been arguments that the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) …

All attempts by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to crave the indulgence of security personnel in the country to be patient and professional while enforcing the lockdown, seem to have fallen on death ears, as a TV African journalist has savagely been assaulted by a uniformed military man. The unexpected incident …

Dozens are counting their losses as wads of an unspecified amount of hard Ghana Cedi banknotes burn and shred in an inferno that razed down a whole house and it’s adjoining makeshift residential structures in the Suame Municipality of the Ashanti region on Saturday evening. All other valuable items also …