GENERAL NEWS

Ghana has confirmed nine (9) additional COVID-19 cases; six (6) from Greater Accra and three (3) from Ashanti region, the Ghana Health Service has announced. Among the cases from Greater Accra, one is a 37-year-old woman with no history of travel nor contact with a confirmed case. One is a …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today April 5, 2020, give an account of the progress of the partial lockdown of Accra and Kumasi. This was disclosed by the Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah. The address is expected to be made at 6:00pm. The President according to Oppong Nkrumah will …

The Chief of Oblieman-Doodo who is Acting Paramount Chief of Abola Piam We of the Ga State in the Greater Accra Region, Nii Oyanka I has called for the total overhaul of decentralization structures in the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana over lack of proper planning towards educating the local …

A total of 33 people have died of Meningitis while some 214 others are under treatment in the Upper West Region. The Upper West Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Osei Kuffuor Afreh who disclosed this at a media encounter in Wa today [Saturday] said the situation has become a …

Founder and Head Pastor of Perez Chapel Church International, Bishop Charles Agyinasare, has encouraged Ghanaians to eliminate fear and panic resulting from the Coronavirus outbreak. He cautioned that individuals must not be consumed with anxiety and entertain fear of the deadly virus adding that “God has His eyes on you.” In a …

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye Snr turned 76 today. The astute barrister was born on 4th April 1944 to Mr. E.G.N. Oquaye of Osu, Accra (a cocoa merchant) and Mrs. Felicia Awusiki Oquaye, (nee Azu) of Odumase-Krobo – the third of 7 children. He was brought up at Asamankese …

Dr Martin Luther King Jr. did not return to the United States the same man who had visited the newly-independent Ghana in March 1957. He struck a friendship with Ghana’s independence leader Kwame Nkrumah and was impressed by the way the intelligent and eloquent Nkrumah philosophized about the need for …

President Akufo-Addo will tomorrow April 5, 2020, give an account of the progress of the partial lockdown of Accra and Kumasi. This was disclosed by the Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah. The address is expected to be made at 6:00pm. The President according to Oppong Nkrumah will account to the …

The 26-year-old female teacher who went missing two days ago in the Atebubu-Amantin Municipality has been found dead. The lifeless body of Benedicta Gyane Afofie, a teacher at Amantin Roman Catholic Junior High School was retrieved from the Volta Lake in Yeji in the Pru East District. Details surroundings her …

For Ghana, in the future, to be well-prepared to fight infectious diseases such as COVID-19, it must expand the capacity of some of its main health facilities such as the 37 Military Hospital in Accra and also establish in the northern part of the country, a medical research centre à …