There was chaos at Nkurakan in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region Tuesday afternoon after Police blocked a burial procession over COVID-19. Dozens of mourners mostly Okada riders were in procession to Nkurakan cemetery to bury their colleague Okada rider who died a week into starting Okada operation. However, upon reaching the Police checkpoint, they were blocked by ...

Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a leading member of the NPP has lashed out at Tsatsu Tsikata, the Lead Counsel for the Petitioner in the ongoing Election Petition at the Supreme Court that, he should admit that he has been outsmarted by Counsels for the 1st and 2nd Respondents. According to him, Tsatsu Tsikata does not expect the Respondents to make their case on a ...

Dr. Paa Kwasi Baidoo, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana Medical Association, GMA, is concerned about the role of drinking spots, bars, and pubs in the spread of coronavirus. According to him, people who have contracted the virus have admitted that the only time they have removed their masks was to either drink or eat in public places. “One difficulty ...

Management of Victory Presbyterian Church School in Frafraha, a suburb of Accra, has taken exception to a video making rounds about one of its pupils contracting coronavirus. “While confirming that the child is a pupil of our school, reports of the pupil having contracted Covid-19 is false,” management said in a disclaimer on Monday, February 8. It explained the facts ...

Third witness for the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing, Mr Rojo Mettle-Nunoo, has insisted that the Chair of the 1st Respondent, the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa, is fully aware that she instructed the representatives of the petitioner in the string room to leave before the announcement of the final election results. During cross-examination by the lawyer for the EC, Mr ...

This year, Ghana’s premier tertiary institution, University of Ghana, recorded a huge drop in the number of international students who enrolled in the institution to pursue various academic programmes. This was indicated at a matriculation ceremony held on Saturday to officially welcome newly admitted students into the academic community. According to figures from university authorities, a total of 96 international ...

Kwesi Pratt Jnr, the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper has questioned what informed the president’s directive on private funerals with a maximum of 25 mourners. “Funerals are being organised in the churches at church services where you have 200, 300, 400 people congregating. So, that restriction of funerals to 25 people, how does it apply when the funerals can ...

The announcement by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) that the public debt stock as at the end of November 2020 has risen to GH¢286.9 billion is once again the subject of public debate about prudent management of the public debt stock. The figure represents 74.4% of Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The sustainability of ...

A driver of a saloon car died after his car crashed head-on with an articulated truck on the Teacher Mante New Town Community stretch of the Accra-Kumasi Highway. The victim driving Chevrolet Prizm with registration number GR 2698-16 was heading towards Kumasi junction but on reaching Teacher Mante, he reportedly overtook some vehicles ahead of him and crashed head-on with ...

Sources close to the Osu Palace have expressed displeasure at swift media reports that Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, President of the Osu Traditional Council has died without recourse to the palace. “Where on earth in our traditional setting does a stranger bypass a child’s parents and announces its death?” an elder at the Osu King Dowuona’s palace asked, in ...