New updates released by the Ghana Health Service show another surge in Ghana’s coronavirus cases as 183 more persons have tested positive for the virus. This new update raises the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 5,918. Two more persons who tested positive for the virus have also been confirmed dead, raising the death toll to 31. ...

Nana Yaa Brefo, a former employee of the Multimedia Group Limited has expressed profound gratitude to persons who reached out to her upon hearing news of her resignation from the media outlet. The journalist in a video clip shared on her Instagram page said she was overwhelmed at the number of people who showed concern in diverse ways. “I thank ...

The Managing Director and Executive Vice President for Tullow Ghana, Kweku Awotwi is set to retire at the company after reaching 60. Mr Awotwi will, therefore, leave the firm next month. He will be replaced by Wissam Al Monthiry, a Canadian, the company announced in a statement. Dr Kweku Awotwi was appointed on March 1, 2018, and took over from ...

Versatile South African news anchor and songstress Lerato Charlotte Letsoso has been nominated for the African Authors Awards 2020. Letsoso, who is also an author, is receiving the nomination just four weeks since she published her first novella – A Naija-Southy Affair. The former news anchor of Ghana-based TV network, GHOne TV, expressed delight over the news. She seems to ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has in a no holds-barred statement punctured numerous holes in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) press conference last week which sought to throw spanners in the works of the commission. By the time the commission had exhausted the bullet point treatment of the NDC’s whining accusations, it had succeeded in describing the opposition statement as ...

Residents of Weija are calling on water authorities and government to fix the cracks on the Weija Dam as the rainy season begins. Residents at Tetegu all the way to parts of Dansonman and its environs have been victims of perennial flooding as a result of spillage from the water treatment plant. Hundreds of locals are either displaced or lose ...

Ghana’s former Chief of Staff under the erstwhile Mahama adminstration, Hon. Julius Debrah, has debunked claims being bandied on social media suggesting he contracted the novel Coronavirus. Some apparatchiks of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) mentioned the politician and philanthropist, over the weekend, on various social media platforms, as one of the persons who had recovered from the virus ...

Former Ghana international Michael Essien has revealed that he went to Real Madrid with only a pair of jeans and a shirt. Essien left Chelsea to sign for Spanish giants Real Madrid on a loan deal in 2012. The Sabail FK midfielder made these revelations in an interview with South African sports journalist Carol Tshabalala. “I was with Chelsea in ...

Managing Editor of the Dispatch and Pollster, Ben Ephson has challenged herbal medicine producers who claim to have a cure for the coronavirus to infect and heal themselves with their products. Mr Ephson said this is the only way most Ghanaians will believe the herbal medicine practitioners who claim to have a cure for the COVID-19. Some herbal medicine petitioners ...

Deputy Information Minister Pius Hadzide has called on former President John Mahama to reprimand his spokesperson for questioning the number of COVID-19 recoveries in Ghana. According to him, the former President risks creating the impression that he supports the position of Joyce Bawa Mogtari if he fails to condemn her actions publicly. Mrs Bawa Mogtari asked for further probe into ...