Argentine football legend Diego Maradona has asked the “Hand of God” to deliver the world from the coronavirus pandemic and allow normal life to resume. The World Cup winner referred to his hand-assisted goal in the 1986 World Cup after Argentine football chiefs voted to end the current season as well as suspend relegation, saving Maradona-managed bottom club Gimnasia from ...

This week, Ghana’s entertainment industry has been filled with a lot of beefs between some female musicians on one hand and some actors on the other hand. While some of these entertainment artists have taken to their social media pages to come up with ways to entertain their fans during the fight against COVID-19, others have been trading insults and ...

A drink or tea made from hibiscus flower, known in Ghana as sobolo and in Nigeria as sobo/zobo, according to a viral video, has been used by China to cure the novel coronavirus, Covid-19. The video, which we also found on One Ghana TV via Facebook showed the Executive Director for Soul Health and Wellness Center, Nana Okogyedom Ntim-Barimah, popularly ...

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has urged the government to accept more students into medical school as the country does not have enough doctors. Mr. Agyapong stated that the deadly coronavirus pandemic has exposed the weakness in Ghana’s health sector, and one of them is the insufficient number of practicing health professionals. “The virus has exposed ...

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Her Honour Ellen Aryeh has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of nine Okada riders who were part of some 14 persons accused of violating the lockdown restrictions imposed by the President to contain the spread of Covid-19. The nine persons are Rabiu Ibrahim, Kwesi Guiso, Isaac Owusu, Mohammed Jamal, Hahaha ...

Social Commentator, Bernard Allotey Jacobs, says even though the 88 district hospitals yet to be constructed by the ruling government is commendable, he strongly believes that it cannot be done in a year. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced plans to construct 88 new district hospitals and six new regional hospitals within a year. In his eighth address to the nation ...

Private Legal practitioner, Edudzi Tamakloe, has firmly established that the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, had already chosen his running mate. This was in reaction to claims made by the party’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, that the party does not have a running mate yet due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus. In an interview with ...

Coronavirus is more dangerous than HIV AIDS, the Director-General of Ghana AIDS Commission has said. According to Kyeremeh Atuahene, while patients of AIDS can live for many years with medication and healthy lifestyle, COVID-19 does not offer such an opportunity to victims with weak immune systems. Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Thursday, Mr Atuahene appealed to Ghanaians ...

The General Secretary of the largest opposition (NDC) party Johnson Asiedu Nketia has stated categorically that he will not comment on matters relating to the December 7 general elections when the fight against COVID-19 in Ghana has not been won. According to him, being a good and responsible citizen he’s strictly going by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s advice to Ghanaians to ...

There is uneasy calm at the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO) as management is on the neck of employees to sign an oath of secrecy. Irate staff have vowed to resist any attempt that seeks to gag them. According to the staff, they will have a showdown with management if they are forced to sign the document. A staff member who ...