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Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has released the posting of 90,636 nurses for the 2020/2021 service year, to various health facilities in all sixteen (16) regions across the country, to undertake their mandatory one year National Service. All eligible nurses who register for the national service are requested …

Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz has passed away aged 76 after being hospitalized with coronavirus, his son has confirmed. Ex-Real Madrid chief Lorenzo Sanz sadly passed away on Saturday after contracting coronavirus. The 76-year-old’s son Lorenzo Sanz Duran confirmed the news in an emotional message posted on Twitter. “My father has just …

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has ordered the closure of Ghana’s borders from Sunday, March 22, 2020. This is to help reduce further escalation of the Coronavirus infection rate in the country. “Anybody who comes into the country, before midnight on Sunday, will be mandatorily quarantined and tested for the virus.” President …

Ghana records two(2) new cases of COVID-19 with 1 death, this leaves the existing case count in the country to be 21. Prior to this new development, the Ghana Health Service reported three new cases earlier on Saturday pushing the figure to 19. One of the patients, a 61-year-old Lebanese …

Ghana has recorded its coronavirus-related death. A 61-year-old Lebanese man who was diagnosed with the disease recently is believed to have died at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. There is no official confirmation yet from the Ghana Health Service about the death. But Deputy Health, Alexander Abban, has …

Why the ‘legalization’ of cannabis not what Ghanaians think it is On Friday, Parliament passed the new Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2019, which makes the country’s Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) a Commission. Why the legalization of cannabis is not what Ghanaians think Reuters The new law also enhanced the powers …

The Winneba District Court presided over by His Honour Isaac Oheneba Kuffour has granted bail to the National Democratic Congress(NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Effutu, Dr. James Kofi Annan. He has been charged on two counts: Conspiracy to commit crime to wit Stealing contrary to Section 23(1) and 124 of Act …

The Fantekrom community in the Prestea Huni-valley Constituency in the Western Region was on Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 elated when Lawyer Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, Member of Parliament (MP) for the area cut sod for the commencement of an ultra-modern six-unit classroom block. The project which is expected to be completed within …

Angry youth of Akyem Kwabeng in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern region stormed Kwabeng Police station to demand the release of a suspected armed robber alleged to be part of a gang that killed a security man Saturday dawn. The deceased security man, Tahiru Adamu, 43, was reportedly …

A video on social media, sighted by Adomonline.com, shows an unidentified police officer with the Motor Transport and Traffic Department of the Ghana Police Service holding onto the bonnet of a moving vehicle. The unidentified police officer in the video, hopped onto the bonnet of the vehicle to prevent the unidentified …

The Constituency Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region, Mr. Samuel Akainyah has led the District Police Command to arrest three suspected illegal miners popularly called “galamseyers” operating in three communities. They were apprehended in an operation conducted by the Command …

Three applications brought before the Adjabeng Magistrate Court by New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Hajia Fati have been dismissed. Applications filed before the court by the accused person, Hajia Fati, requested that Judge Isaac Addo recuse himself from the case as well as revoke the court’s final ruling on the case …

President Trump claims a drug used against malaria has been approved in the United States to treat the new coronavirus. Chloroquine is one of the oldest and best-known anti-malarial drugs. So is the president right and what is known about its effectiveness? Chloroquine has been around for decades. It’s no …

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has debunked reports that the country will be on lockdown from Sunday, March 22. In a tweet announcing an address by President Nana Adddo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the evening, Mr Oppong Nkrumah indicated that a lockdown of the country will not be part of the …

Per public health principles, it will be in the country’s best interest to lock down, says the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Aboagye. His comment comes on the back of Ghana seeing a rising number of new infections as the days go by. According to the Director-General …

President Akufo-Addo will address the nation Saturday evening on measures being taken to fight the novel coronavirus. He is, however, not going to announce a lockdown, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said, adding “do not panic.” The address follows a meeting with the Covid-19 response committee. Mr. Oppong Nkrumah …

Former President John Dramani Mahama, has reacted to news that he has settled on Asunafo South Member of Parliament as his running mate for 2020 elections. There were media reports that the former President will choose Eric Opoku as his running mate. The report went ahead to say that the …

The world has been thrown into further state of sorrow and melancholy with the passing of a man many tout as the greatest country musician of all time. Kenny Rogers, the legendary American singer passed on this morning in what a family representative described as “peacefully at home from natural …

A Medical Research Fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Dr Joseph Kofi Bonnie, has disclosed health experts in Ghana are now studying Chinese literature to help understand the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) which has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Ghana has so …

Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has allayed fears of a possible lockdown of the nation due to increasing recorded cases of the novel coronavirus in the country. Rumours of a possible lockdown of the nation by the government over the fast rising cases of COVID-19 in the country have been …

China reported no new local cases of the deadly coronavirus for a third consecutive day Saturday but confirmed the highest yet increase in infections from abroad. The rate of infection has been slowing for weeks in China, while the rest of the world steps up measures to try and battle …

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu the second, has asked for a moratorium on political activities for the next four weeks as the nation focus attention on battling the coronavirus that has killed over 9000 globally. He expects the media to turn off the heat of political discourse and devote the …

Former Asante Kotoko Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Javies Preprah, says Executive Director of the club Dr. Kwame Kyei should relinquish his post to save him from the impending embarrassment as the woes of the club continues to deepen. Asante Kotoko is in crisis due to poor managerial decisions which has …

A research and advocacy policy think tank, CUTS Ghana, has expressed dismay at the decision by the Association of Oil Marketing Companies (AOMCs) to set a percentage cap and defer the window for reducing fuel prices at the pump. This, according to the think tank, violated Section 44 of the …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has temporarily shut down the VIP lounge of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) effective 21st March 2020. The move according to the ministry is to limit the number of imported Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic cases into the country. In a circular note to all …