Ghana has recorded 393 new cases of the novel Coronavirus. The total case count according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) official website is now at 18,134 with 117 deaths. 13,550 persons who tested positive for the virus have either recovered or discharged, the GHS reported. As of July 1, 2020, the country’s …
Read More »Ghana loses boxing great, GBA, WBO pay tribute
The Ghana Boxing Authority has described as ‘sad and unfortunate’ news of the passing of Ghanaian boxing great Alfred Kotey. Kotey’s demise according to reports occurred on Tuesday, June 30 in the United States. Unconfirmed reports indicate Ghana’s fifth world title winner had been unwell for some months now and …
Read More »Akufo-Addo directs Auditor-General to proceed on leave
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ordered the Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo to proceed on his leave which has accrued to 123 days, a statement by the presidency has said. According to the statement signed by Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, per the records available, the leave will take …
Read More »Ghana, Nigeria excluded from list of travellers permitted to enter Europe from July 1
Ahead of the planned reopening of its borders to international travellers on July 1, the European Union (EU) Commission has released a list of 54 countries that qualify for travels into Europe. Nigeria and Ghana are conspicuously missing. Schengenvisainfo.com reports that citizens from Nigeria, Brazil, Qatar, the United States, …
Read More »COVID-19: Ghana records 9 new deaths, 16,742 cases
Death toll of the fast-spreading Coronavirus in Ghana has risen to 112, with additional positive cases of 311, new update has revealed. This brings to total a case count of 16,742. Additionally, the number of recoveries has also shot up to 12,720. Regional breakdown Greater Accra Region – 9,326 Ashanti Region – …
Read More »Kufuor versus Kennedy Agyapong feud goes deeper than partisan politics – Adom-Otchere
Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana says the fall out between former President John Agyekum Kufuor and Kennedy Ohene Agyapong is not only because the latter decided not to support Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, the preferred candidate of Kufuor. According to Adom-Okyere, the real problem has to do …
Read More »From Ghana’s first female MP till date: Women representation in parliament since 1951
From recent developments and agitation to get more female representation in politics, it wouldn’t be far from right to state that the coiner of popular quote, “what men can do women can do better” had quite a good reason. Despite the remarkable heights reached in Ghana’s democratic development over the …
Read More »COVID-19: Eight more dead as death toll hits 103
Eight more Ghanaians infected with the deadly coronavirus disease have died as the death toll hits 103. According to the latest figures released by the Ghana Health Service 361 new cases have been recorded shooting the country’s tally to 15,834. Meanwhile, 11,755 people have recovered from the highly infectious …
Read More »Doctors, nurses laughed after prescribing wrong medication to my dying wife – Man narrates
The Director of the Ghana Institute of Languages, Dr Emmanuel Kuti has got emotions running high after he took to Facebook to share a story about how some nurses and a doctor at the Ridge Hospital made a mockery of his dying wife after she had been prescribed with …
Read More »Ghana doubles its Gas production
In 2019, gas production witnessed its greatest boost since the inception of natural gas production in Ghana with a total of 169,509 million standard cubic feet of associated and non-associated gas produced from all fields in 2019, an 85% increase over 2018’s volume of 91,459 MMSCF. While the Jubilee …
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