A 15-year-old girl, Sekinat Agbelade, was said to have been shot dead by men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Agosasa, Ipokia Local area of Ogun States. It was gathered that the Customs officers, on Saturday, while on the chase of some suspected smugglers, fired gunshots, hitting the innocent …
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Mystery In Wuhan: Recovered Coronavirus Patients Test Positive Again
A spate of mysterious second-time infections is calling into question the accuracy of COVID-19 diagnostic tools even as China prepares to lift quarantine measures to allow residents to leave the epicenter of its outbreak next month. It’s also raising concerns of a possible second wave of cases. From March 18-22, …
Read More »COVID-19 Fund needless – Agalga
The Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense & Interior and NDC MP for Builsa North, James Agalga, says the establishment of the COVID-19 Fund to attend to the emergency needs of the country in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in Ghana, is needless. According to him, the establishment …
Read More »Germany to fly out 7,000 tourists stuck in South Africa
The German embassy in South Africa is making plans to repatriate some 7,000 of its nationals who are stuck in the country. Already, 47 German tourists are under quarantine in the country after one of them tested positive to Covid-19, according to local media reports. South Africa has the highest …
Read More »[Video] COVID-19: Traditional priests converge at Independence Square to pray for Ghana
A group of traditonal priests have converged at the independence square to pray for the country over the outbreak of coronavirus in the world. The video intercepted by My News Ghana sees a group of traditionalists, presumed to be Ewes praying to the gods and ancestors to deliver Ghana from the dreaded effects of …
Read More »Somali governor killed in Al-Shabaab suicide blast
A governor in Somalia’s Puntland has been killed in a suicide bombing claimed by the al-Shabaab jihadist group, police and hospital sources said Monday. Abdisalan Hassan Hersi, governor of Nugaal region, succumbed to his injuries after being rushed to hospital in Garowe, the capital of Puntland where the blast occurred …
Read More »My father’s spirit will not be quiet; He will speak – Obour
Former President of Musician Union of Ghana, Bice Osei Kuffour, popularly known as Obour, has kicked back at critics who claim that he put the lives of many health workers at rusk by not revealing the travel history of his dad to health workers when he was admitted at the Greater Accra …
Read More »One shot, 2 houses burnt in chieftaincy clash at Yong near Tamale
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 »Another Ghana Legend Kwasi Owusu ‘Powerhouse’ Dies Aged 72
Very sad news out of Sunyani this morning says that former Ghanaian footballer Kwasi Owusu has passed away few hours after the demise of former Ghana and Asante Kotoko striker Opoku Afriyie. The legendary striker died on Sunday from unconfirmed causes. Kwasi Owusu captained Ghana for several years in an …
Read More »Pastor arrested for spreading false information on COVID-19
A Ugandan Pastor, Augustine Yiga of Revival Church Kawaala has been arrested by the police for spreading false information about coronavirus. The pastor last week said, that coronavirus is not a dangerous disease but a common flu. He said, “Whether Government imprisons me, I don’t care, but I am speaking the …
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 »I’m convinced, God wants the world to pay attention to him – Yvonne Nelson
“I’m convinced! God wants the world to pay attention to HIM! It’s His world, did we forget?”, these are the words of Ghanaian screen goddess, Yvonne Nelson. Taking to her Twitter to express her opinion on how Coronavirus is dominating and crippling countries all over the world, she said, it is God’s way …
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 »Polls close in Mali amid coronavirus threat, security fears
Polls have closed in Mali’s long-delayed parliamentary elections which were held despite concerns about security and the coronavirus pandemic. Sunday’s vote came hours after the violence-hit West African country announced its first coronavirus death and days after main opposition leader Soumaila Cisse was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. The vote was …
Read More »Drink lemon water – Prophet TB Joshua speaks after ‘failed’ coronavirus prophesy
Temitope Balogun Joshua, commonly referred to as TB. Joshua, the renowned Nigerian televangelist has subtly responded to those who were anticipating a heavy rainfall last week to signal the end of the deadly coronavirus in the world. Many were those who were expecting a heavy downpour to wash away the …
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 »Obour clashes with ‘mortuary men’ over dad’s mortal remains?
A staff of Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge Hospital) has hinted to host of Onua 95.1 FM’s Anigye Mmre Christian Agyei Frimpong that former MUSIGA President Bice Osei Kuffour aka Obour stormed the hospital’s morgue with some men to retrieve the body of his father hours after he died of Coronavirus. …
Read More »NDC bars communicators from in-studio radio, TV discussions over COVID-19 lockdown
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has suspended in-studio discussions for its communication officers following the lockdown announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo. To this effect, all such discussions in the Ashanti Region, Greater Accra and other parts of the Central Region have been discouraged by the party amidst the Coronavirus …
Read More »Coronavirus: The world needs to learn from the Ebola fight
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who made history as Africa’s first elected female president, led Liberia for 12 years including during the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak that killed nearly 5,000 people in her country. The BBC asked the Nobel Peace Laureate for her reflections on the current coronavirus crisis. Dear fellow citizens of …
Read More »Three soldiers killed in Burkina Faso bomb attack
A homemade bomb killed three soldiers in north-west Burkina Faso on Sunday. The attack happened after a patrol vehicle jumped on a mine in Gomboro in the Sourou province, according to Le Faso news website. Two soldiers died on the spot while the third one succumbed to injuries while being …
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 »Spain returns faulty test kits to China as COVID-19 death toll passes 4,000-mark
As Spain’s death toll hit 4,089, the Chinese embassy in Madrid said on Thursday (26 March) that the Spanish government had bought a batch of faulty COVID-19 testing kits from an unauthorised Chinese company, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to almost 56,188 on Thursday (26 March), …
Read More »Harry and Meghan Will Pay For Their Own Security In US – Trump Announces
US President Donald Trump has announced that the United States government will not pay for the security of British Royals Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle if they decide to leave Canada and relocate to the United States. Harry and Meghan are set to complete the final stage of …
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