Rolls-Royce has said it will cut 9,000 jobs and warned it will take “several years” for the airline industry to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. The firm, which makes engines for planes, said the reduction of nearly a fifth of its workforce would mainly affect its civil aerospace division. “This is not a crisis of our making. But it is ...

President Donald Trump has argued it is “a badge of honour” that the US has the world’s highest number of confirmed Covid-19 infections. “I look at that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better,” he said at the White House. The US has 1.5 million coronavirus cases and nearly ...

It appears Patience Nyarko is allergic to Joe Mettle. The Ghanaian gospel musician has walked out of an interview after Joe Mettle’s name was mentioned. In a video sighted by Zionfelix.net, Patience Nyarko became furious after a Joy News reporter asked whether Joe Mettle’s ‘Bo Noo Ni’ song is a Methodist or Pentecostal song. This was after the gospel singer had confirmed that ...

Information reaching GhanaWeb indicates that Pastor Emmanuel Kwaku Apraku widely known as “Apraku My Daughter” has died. He is said to have departed to eternity on Wednesday, May 20. According to a source close to the family, he was found dead in his room. The caretaker and some neighbours were said to have broken into the room after they noticed ...

Two illegal miners have died after a mining pit caved in on them. The incident occurred May 18, 2020, around 9:00 am at a mining site of Nawara mining Company in Akyem Osino in the Fanteakwa South District of the Eastern Region. The bodies of the deceased persons -Atwere Emmanuel, 29, and Gyimah Samuel have been deposited at Kibi Government ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Omni Media Limited, mother company of Accra-based Citi FM, Samuel Atta Mensah has labeled persons mounting pressure on the government to give churches the green light to operate despite the surge in Coronavirus cases in the country as ‘jokers’. Government, as part of stringent measures to fight the pandemic, announced a ban on public gatherings, including schools, ...

Parliamentarians from both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have come to a consensus on the 2020 general elections. Both sides of the chamber have pledged their support to the Electoral Commission to conduct the 2020 general elections in December despite the Coronavirus pandemic. The Majority Leader, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, was responding to calls by the Minority for ...

Parliament’s Appointments Committee has approved President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s nominees for the Supreme Court bench. The President in March nominated Prof Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu, Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu and Clemence J Honyenuga; justices of the Court of Appeal and Yoni Kulendi, a private legal practitioner to the Supreme Court. They are expected to replace Justices Julius Ansah, Nasiru Sulemana Gbadegbe ...

About 30 health workers in the Ashanti region have contracted Covid-19, the Ashanti regional health directorate has revealed. They include doctors and nurses. According to the health directories, the affected workers are responding to treatment. The regional case tally is now 888. The death toll in the Ashanti region remains 7. Meanwhile, cases in Ghana have now moved to 6,096 ...

The National Security Advisor to ex-President John Dramani Mahama, has broken his silence on the procurement of the Israeli spy system; Pegasus, which was intended to be used by state security for cyber surveillance by the previous government, but eventually led to the jailing of two former board members of the National Communication Authority (NCA) and a deputy National Security Coordinator ...