Traders at the weekly Tuesday market at Dormaa-Ahenkro in the Dormaa Central Municipality of the Bono Region have not been observing the social distancing protocols against the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Also restaurants, chop bar operators and drinking spots continue to flout the protocols as they open up for business …
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The 198 new coronavirus cases aren’t new infections – GHS
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says the 198 new Coronavirus cases announced Saturday are not new infections. It explained that the record 198 new cases, which have seen the country’s case count jump from 641 to 834, are from a backlog of samples currently at the various laboratory testing centres. “The general …
Read More »1 taxi, 1 passenger – Police enforce social distance directive at Odorkor-Darkuman Highway
As the end of the 21-day lockdown period for some parts of the country nears, police and military men ensuring the directive is been adhered to, have beefed up security at all checkpoints in the affected areas. A tour by the GhanaWeb news team to some checkpoints in Accra revealed …
Read More »Armed soldiers seize Ghanaian Times reporter’s camera in Kumasi
A camera belonging to a Ghanaian Times journalist, Kingsley E. Hope, remains confiscated after an encounter with two armed military officers in Kumasi. The incident happened on Friday, April 17, at about 4:20 pm in Adum, Kumasi’s busiest enclave. It comes days after another broadcast journalist with Kumasi-based Zuria FM …
Read More »Pressure mounts on Military and Police hospital mortuaries
The Ghana Armed Force and the Ghana Police Service are alternative plans with respect to their mortuary facilities in this period of the deadly Coronavirus, although the country per official reports is said to have recorded just 9 deaths compared to others who have records thousands. While the Ghana Police Hospital …
Read More »Ghanaians demand 6 hourly COVID-19 updates and not virtual concerts – Minority to govt
The Minority has called on the government to avoid delays in updating figures on COVID-19 cases. They are demanding a six-hourly update, and want the government to be more transparent in how the numbers are churned out. Ranking Member on Health Committee Kwabena Mintah Akandoh addressing the media at the Parliament House …
Read More »Lesotho’s PM sends army into streets
Lesotho’s prime minister, who is accused of murdering his estranged wife, has deployed the army on the streets to “restore order”. In a TV address, Thomas Thabane accused unnamed law enforcement elements of seeking to undermine democracy. The decision comes a day after the constitutional court ruled against his decision …
Read More »TRENDING: Slay Queen beats colleague for sleeping with boyfriend during lockdown
The slay queen is trending for beating her colleague slay queen mainly because she slept with her boyfriend during lockdown. The video is fast trending on social media. In it, a number of slay queens were present in a room that seemed ‘single self-contained’. The abuser was thick and looked …
Read More »HOT VIDEO: Angry youths burns Police station & frees prisoners over lockdown shooting
Angry Nigerian youths have reportedly burnt down a police station and freed all prisoners after one of their colleagues was shot dead during lockdown. In the heartbreaking video, the youths can be seen vandalizing government properties and claiming that they have defeated the police together with the military. The news …
Read More »Malawians protest over coronavirus lockdown
Traders in Malawi’s Limbe area in Blantyre District are protesting against a lockdown that will begin on Saturday. The traders have lit bonfires and police are on the ground dispersing them. Local media reports say the traders do not want the country to go on lockdown as their income will …
Read More »Photos: TV Africa Journalist Shot In Tamale
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 …
Read More »Rickshaw rider injured in an accident on Tarkwa-Damang road
A rickshaw rider has sustained various degree of injuries in an accident that occurred on the Tarkwa-Damang road in the Western Region. The victim, Tamelbi Benatua 37, is currently on admission at the Apinto government hospital. Chief Inspector George Kwabena Osei, of the Tarkwa Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD) …
Read More »Nigerian governor orders arrest of journalist over Lassa fever story
Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state, on Saturday, ordered the police to detain indefinitely THE SUN Correspondent in the state, Mr Chijioke Agwu, after the Governor reportedly arrested and detained him in the state Government House. Vanguard gathered that Agwu’s travail is connected to a Lassa Fever disease story he …
Read More »Akufo Addo to Address The Nation Today
The communications director at the presidency Eugene Arhin has revealed when the President of the Republic Of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo Will be addressing the Nation. This comes after several fake fliers were being circulated on the internet pertaining to the president’s address of the nation. Ghanaians have …
Read More »Documentary reveals how Ghanaians as young as 16 years are addicted to cocaine
Like it or not, while some Ghanaians cannot survive a day without food under this lockdown period, hence pleading with the government to supply them with food, there is a group of people whose daily survival is dependent on drugs. The battle of satisfying ones’ high on a daily basis …
Read More »I challenge individuals to support our security services to fight covid-19 – Hon Bernard Blay
Exclusively on GhEvent TV show “my health my care, ” the Bia west Npp parliamentary candidate for 2020 General election, Hon Bernard Blay, was interviewed on covid_19 security matters on this borders and others places. He made it clear that, all necessary processes of ensuring good security are well regulated. …
Read More »Covid 19: Efia Odo Donates to National Chief Imam Ahead of this year’s Ramadan
“The month of Ramadhan [is that] in which was revealed the Qur’an, a guidance for the people and clear proofs of guidance and criterion. So whoever sights [the new moon of] the month, let him fast it; and whoever is ill or on a journey – then an equal number …
Read More »Zoomlion Supports Noguchi With US$20,000 To Fight COVID-19
Leading waste management company and a subsidiary of Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), has donated US$20,000 (GHC120,000.00) to the University of Ghana Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), one of the leading laboratories at the forefront of testing samples for the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) …
Read More »Use COVID-19 Lockdown Period To Connect To Your Children – Child Expert Admonishes Parents
The pursuit of family livelihood continues to create some form of disconnection between parents and their wards. There are a lot of parents who do not actually know the emotional and psychological state of their children. A lot of parents especially men leave home very early in the morning to …
Read More »Ghana strong to pay back US$1bn COVID-19 loan – IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Ghana’s track record of repaying debts will enable her to repay the US$1bn COVID-19 facility it lent the country with ease. In a staff report and statement by the Executive Director for Ghana, the Fund said: “Ghana’s track record of servicing debts to the …
Read More »Sunlight kills COVID-19 quickly – Test results find
Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true. A briefing on the preliminary …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Lockdown: Techiman market to be shut
The Municipal Chief Executive of the Techiman Assembly, John Donyina, has announced a one-week closure of its main market amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at a press briefing, he said the decision forms part of proactive measures to prevent possible cases at Techiman. He added the closure will take effect from …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Former Ghana star Joe Dakota buried in the US
Former Ghana and Hearts of Oak star Jonathan Ankrah ‘Joe Dakota’ who died in Maryland has been buried in the USA on Friday, 17th April, 2020. The former Hearts of Oak player, died in USA on Thursday April 9, 2020 after battling a short illness. Dakota who was in his …
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