One person has been severely injured and at least two houses burnt after heavy gunfire exchanges erupted between two rival chieftaincy factions at Yong near Tamale in the Northern Region, MyNewsGh.com reports. The two factions have been fighting over the Yong skin after one side rejected a successor chief selected …
Read More »Lockdown and my in-law’s funeral
My husband’s mother died tragically in February. She was returning from a funeral that happened in their hometown when the car she was in had an accident. She didn’t die on the spot. She spent two weeks in the hospital with a broken arm and leg but in February 2020, …
Read More »[VIDEO]: Police Officers Chase Man For Staying Outdoors Amid Lockdown in Ghana
Following the press released by the president of Ghana Friday night, he made the general public aware of the lock dawn some front liners of the health officials have proposed. The president then took their grievances in concentration and interacted for a partial lockdown of some affected places in the …
Read More »WATCH VIDEO: Stubborn Ghanaian Youth Receives First Lockdown Lashes For Defying Order
To control activities and prevent further spread of the virus, security personnels have been deployed into the restricted zones to ensure law and order. In a video circulating on social media, a stubborn young man has received the first lockdown for defying the order of staying home. He was seen …
Read More »Covid-19: E/R House of Chiefs suspend rituals, courtesy calls
The Eastern Regional House of Chiefs has suspended the hearing of all customary judicial cases before the Judicial Committee of the House for one month due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in the country. A statement issued and signed by Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Pannin – President of …
Read More »Covid-19: Indisciplined traders incur military wrath in Kumasi
Residents the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs have Friday, March 27, to remember as a day on which indiscipline attitudes were met with radical responses from personnel of the Ghana Army during the turn of the metropolis for disinfection of markets there in the wake of the spread of the …
Read More »Coronavirus: Accra, Kumasi locked down
Restriction of movements in some parts of Accra, Tema, Kasoa and Kumasi is in full force for two weeks, as a way of controlling the spread of the dreaded novel Coronavirus in Ghana. These areas are described by the Ghana Health Service as the epicenters, where substantial numbers of the …
Read More »UK govt to fly ‘willing’ nationals out of Ghana tonight
The government of the United Kingdom will on Sunday night, fly out hundreds of its nationals in Ghana who are willing to return home as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Two flights will be ferrying as many as 600 passengers with more flights being arranged in the coming days. …
Read More »COVID-19: Ghana To Repatriate Guinean Patients
Officials and security personnel are working with their counterparts in West Africa to ensure the repatriation of some 10 Guineans diagnosed with coronavirus in Ghana. Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, made this known at a press briefing in Accra on Sunday, March 29, 2020. According to him, the 10 Guineans …
Read More »Coronavirus ‘Runaways’ From Accra Involved In Accidents
Some 20 people suspected to be travelling to hinterlands in a bid to escape the partial lockdown in Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Kasoa due to the coronavirus spread have been involved in an accident at Nkawkaw, in the Kwahu West Municipality of the Eastern Region. The victims were among 50 …
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