The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that once a Covid-19 vaccine is approved, Africa will get at least 220 million initial doses. The first batch will prioritise front-line healthcare workers and vulnerable groups, according to the WHO Africa Program Area Manager Richard Mihigo. He said distribution will be based on the population of each country. Mr Mihigo said all ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong has alleged that the former president John Dramani Mahama inflated the cost of the Kasoa interchange and used the money to buy 350 land cruisers to bribe some Chiefs in Ghana. “They used the extra money from the inflated contract sum to buy 350 land cruisers and shared it amongst ...

Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang said it is high time the will of the people was brought to main stream governance. She further said that is what was at the heart of the NDC’s consultations to form the ‘People’s Manifesto’. She intimated that the times where leaders sit in Accra and draft ...

A Ghanaian technology entrepreneur, Charlette N’Guessan, has won this year’s Royal Academy of Engineering Africa prize for engineering innovation. She is the first ever woman to win the Africa Prize and the first winner from Ghana. The 26-year-old and her team’s invention, Bace API, uses facial recognition and artificial intelligence to verify identities remotely, the academy said. It uses live ...

The Deputy Minister for Information, Enam Pious Hadzide has reiterated government’s respect for traditional authorities in the country, especially Chiefs in the Volta region. While commenting on the disagreements and controversies that characterized the deployment of the military into the Volta region during the recent Voter’s registration exercise, the Deputy Information Minister noted that it will be inappropriate for him ...

Chairman of the Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas, Dr Steve Manteaw has said he finds his recent comment that the elections this year will be about choosing between a thief and an armed robber ill-considered. He said he is sorry for his utterances and retracts those words accordingly. In a statement dubbed ‘Clarification Re: 2020 Contest is between ...

President  Akufo-Addo has pledged to do whatever is necessary to strengthen the already-strong relations between Ghana and the Federal Republic of Nigeria. According to President Akufo-Addo, it is important for the progress of West Africa and, indeed, Africa, that Ghana and Nigeria are seen to be working together, and has assured that the two countries will continue down that path. ...

Gabby Otchere Darko has sued former Information Minister Sabah Zita Benson for publishing ‘false’ claims against him in the Agyapa royalties deal. In a writ filed at the High Court, lawyers of Mr Otchere-Darko said the former Minister took to Facebook and made allegations of corrupt conduct against their client in the deal which has garnered massive public attention. The suit ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress has accused the ruling New Patriotic Party of plotting to resort to violence to win the 2020 polls. According to the party, the violence that characterised the voter’s registration exercise is a dress rehearsal of what the ruling intends to do during the elections. “These violence ridden registration exercise coming on the heels of an ...

Outspoken Ghanaian journalist, Afia Pokuaa, popularly known as Vim Lady has sent a solid warning to party footsoldiers and certain individuals who like to verbally attack journalists when they question them about politics. According to Afia Pokuaa, she’s had enough, and she is ready to face squarely anybody who insults her. Speaking during her show on Okay FM, Vim Lady ...