Tag Archives: GHANA

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has announced the registration of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Ghana. The vaccine was approved under the Emergency Use Authorization procedure – a pathway that ensures that a needed medical product or vaccines …

Stevie Wonder, legendary visually impaired singer and pianist has hinted that he will soon relocate to Ghana. Speaking on Oprah Winfrey’s show, ‘The Oprah Conversation’, he emphatically stated that he did not want his descendants to have to deal with racial injustice. “I want to see the nation smile again, …

Ghana has lost US$19,800,000 through fraud and criminal activities in 2020 as against at least US$11 million the previous year, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dr. Herbert Gustav Yankson, Director of the Child Protection Digital Laboratory and Cybercrime Unit, has disclosed. Additionally, the unit recovered US$101,000, six cars, three plots …

Richard Dombo, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Railway Development Limited (GRDA) is dead. According to a Joy News report monitored by GhanaWeb, he died of COVID-19 complications on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. Since he tested positive for the virus, Richard Dombo, was on self-isolation at his home until his …

Ghana U-20 team, the Black Satellites will today, February 16, 2021, take on Tanzania’s U-20 side in the ongoing youth Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Mauritania. The Ngorongoro Heroes of Tanzania will face the Black Satellites in a Group C opener of the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations in …

Tessica Brown, the woman whose hair has been Gorilla Glued for more than a month, finally has sweet relief. As we first reported, Tessica took up Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr Michael Obeng on his offer to perform the $12,500 procedure for free, and it was a pretty grueling process – which took …

Foreign Affairs Minister-designate Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has indicated the country’s preparedness to start issuing chip-embedded passports by mid-2021. She was responding to a question posed by Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu when she appeared before the vetting committee on Thursday, February 11, 2021. According to her, preparations were far advanced and …

Health Minister-designate, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu on Wednesday admitted the delay in payment of allowances to frontline health workers, and gave the assurance that they would be paid by close of this week. Attributing delay to inconsistent data, the Minister-designate said he had tasked health facility managers to review the list of …

More than 15,000 direct and indirect jobs are currently being affected negatively due to the failure of Ghana and UK to sign a post-Brexit trade agreement that allows Ghanaian fruit producers’ tariff-free access to the UK market as exists under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Ghana and UK failed to …

The fire had gutted parts of the Ghana Commercial Bank at Dzodze in the Volta Region of Ghana  The fire reportedly started around 6:45 pm on Monday evening, February 08, 2021, according to an eyewitness who spoke to My News Ghana By 7:20 pm, the fire had gone out of control …