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Police in Gauteng have launched the 72-hour Activation Plan to find the suspects behind the killing of a Sebokeng-based Detective Sergeant. National Police Commissioner, General Khehla Sitole, has assigned the Gauteng Provincial Commissioner to immediately mobilise the 72-hour plan. According to a police report, at about 7:10pm, the police official …

Former Asante Kotoko coach Bashiru Hayford says he is more than qualified to head the Ghana Football Association Technical Directorate. The former Somalia head coach has applied for the position and has been shortlisted among applicants to be interviewed this week. According to him, his vast experience over the years …

Despite all the gains made by the local currency against its major trading currencies at beginning of the year, especially the United States dollar, the coronavirus pandemic impact has washed all away, causing the cedi to lose its strength. The cedi, which appreciated by 4.5 percent as of the end …

With skyrocketing prices of food items resulting from COVID-19 pandemic gari has emerged as the food item in highest demand, especially among low-income workers in Sokoto. Gari, a popular staple food in Nigeria, is used as a main dish or accompaniment. “Both the white and yellow varieties are in high …

Medical staff at the Maamobi General Hospital are angry at their supervisor for selling Personal Protective Equipment to them. Health workers at the facility can only access the PPE after paying 5 cedis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The facility has recorded COVID-19 cases with some health workers …

The health condition of one coronavirus patient on admission in Ghana has deteriorated with the patient put on a ventilator, President Akufo Addo has disclosed. Out of the official figure of 1042 positive cases, nine persons have died. Addressing the leadership of churches at the seat of government, Jubilee House, …

There will be a three-day national prayer and fasting programme as part of efforts to battle the deadly COVID-19. This programme was put together by church leaders who are members of the Christian Council in the country and it will begin on Friday, April 24 and ends on Sunday, April 26. …

The sudden death of a 15-year-old girl has sparked anger among peasant farmers at Tsremati Yoyim a farming community near Nkurakan in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region. The girl, Mavis Tetteh died while being carried at the back of some men in the community who were rushing …

Former Sports Minister Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye has thrown his support behind Mubarak Wakaso’s assertion that the two biggest political parties in the country, NPP and NDC are the bane of the nation’s 38-year trophy drought. Ghana have endured nothing but disappointment at the continental football showpiece since lifting the …

Ghana midfielder Mubarak Wakaso believes the two biggest political parties in the country- NPP and NDC-are partly to be blamed to the country’s 38-year trophy drought. The Black Stars have not won a continental title since 1982 when they lifted the Africa Cup of Nations for the fourth time. Since …

NPP Member of Parliament and Businessman, Kennedy Agyapong has alleged that the leader of the International God’s Way Church, Bishop Angel Daniel Obinim has been smuggling human placenta from the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to be cooked and eaten for spiritual powers, MyNewsGh.com has filed. On Monday Night on Net …

In what is surely the government’s most ambitious social spending effort in the democratic era, potentially reaching the pockets of millions of impoverished and vulnerable South Africans, President Cyril Ramaphosa outlined a massive R500 billion social and economic spending plan on Tuesday to buffer some of the effects of the …

The ban on the sale and transportation of alcohol during the coronavirus lockdown in South Africa has emptied hospital beds, ruined businesses, provoked violence and political disputes, and has led to a surge of interest in pineapples, writes the BBC’s Andrew Harding from Johannesburg. The idea was simple. Ban all …

The US state of Missouri is suing the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus which it says has led to severe economic losses. In the lawsuit, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt alleges China did little to stop the spread of the virus. Mr Schmitt claims Missouri residents have …

Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has argued that the penalty for violating the President’s Social Gathering Restriction Law is too harsh. Speaking on Adom TV’s popular programme, The Big Agenda, hosted by Captain Smart on Tuesday evening, Mr Kpebu said the “poor offenders just can’t pay” the huge fine as punishment for violating the …

The United Kingdom (UK) Health Secretary, Rt. Hon Matt Hancock, has announced that Oxford University will begin human trials of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, 23rd April 2020. He announced that a total of about £20m funding has been made available for the research. The United Kingdom has had a …

The Executive Director of the Ghana Federation of Labour, Mr Abraham Koomson says the decision by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to lift the partial lockdown of Accra and Kumasi is “suicidal”. “What the president is trying to tell us now is, you can go out and go and kill …

Former HIV/AIDS Ambassador and mentally unhinged Joyce Dzidzor Mensah in a Facebook post has confessed how she nearly killed Afia Schwar and Oye Lithur by taking them to ‘juju’. According to Joyce, Afia Schwarzenegger’s inability to stay at one media house and always running to troubles is powered by her …

A World Health Organization (WHO) driver has been killed in a conflict-riven region of Myanmar while out collecting Covid-19 monitoring samples. Pyae Sone Win Maung was driving a well-marked United Nations vehicle when it was hit by gunfire in Rakhine State. The UN says dozens of civilians have been killed as fighting between the …

The Chief Justice of Ghana, Justice Anin Yeboah has directed that “caused list should be reduced drastically for few cases to be listed for hearing” to prevent congestion at the court. The CJ in a press release regarding what management of the court is doing to curtail the spread urged …

A military officer is on admission at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) after he sustained gunshot wounds in a Tuesday dawn attack in Kumasi. Police at Suame named the victim as AB1 Francis Afriyie, 29 — who is stationed at a Naval Base at Sekondi in the Western Region …

A CHPS compound that serves the health needs of the people of Kuliya, a community in the Kasena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region, has become deplorable and unsafe for staff and the clients who visit the facility. The building, which has not received any facelift since it was …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is meeting members of the Council of State to decide on the future of Ghana regarding the measures put in place in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The president expressed satisfaction with the measures so far and, more importantly, the level of compliance by …

Ramaphosa sets aside billions for economic and social relief President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a massive R500 billion economic and social relief package to beat the effects of the coronavirus. The president said this money will come from repurposing R130 billion in the government’s budget, and other money from local …

Some 50 vulnerable women in Salaga in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah region have received food items worth Thousands of Ghana Cedis from a UK based Muslim Women Association.   This is the second time in a week the Association; Federation of Muslim Women (FOMWA) has donated to  …