April 7: Uhuru rules out total lockdown Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta explained further why he had not locked down the entire country averring that it was in the interest of the greater public good. According to him, doing so will mean depriving a sizeable number of the population from feeding. He stresses that it would be the last resort if ...

Private Legal Practitioner, Francis Kwarteng Arthur is questioning the rationale behind the government’s request for the personal information of Ghanaians as part of the contact tracing process to identify persons affected by the Coronavirus. Mr. Kwarteng Arthur believes that the government’s contact tracing exercise does not give President Nana Akufo-Addo the right to access anyone’s private details, particularly bank details. ...

Shatta Wale’s statement that rap music in Ghana cannot stand the test of time has awakened the monster in Yaa Pono as the rapper has described the dancehall artiste’s comment as “rubbish”. While expressing disappointment in rapper Sarkodie for releasing a track that takes a swipe at some artistes at a time the country is striving to conquer the deadly ...

Up to two million jobs may be lost in the country amid the coronavirus pandemic, Executive Director for the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) Kosi Antwiwaa Yankey has projected. According to her, analyzing both the formal and informal sector, a lot of jobs will be lost, but the number will be drastically controlled with the GHC90 million facility ...

The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic across Africa is heading towards 500 as of April 7, 2020. The casualties cut across age groups. From the death of a 6 year-old in Kenya, older patients in most instances and persons in the youth bracket. Whiles each death is reported with a sombre mood and with condolences to affected families, some of ...

Director of Communication of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, says an NDC government would have given Ghanaians free electricity if the party was still in power. President Akufo-Addo in his fifth update to the country said the government has directed that there is a constant flow of water to the homes of Ghanaians. The President further announced that the ...

IMANI Policy Brief: Don’t let the short-term crisis measures reverse regulatory gains made in supporting prudent fiscal behaviour The Ghanaian government through the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning on 30 March 2020 outlined a strategy – fiscal measures to mitigate the impact of coronavirus pandemic including the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP), to manage the impact of the crisis on ...

He calls himself a shoe manufacturer who majors in the production of different shoes, locally made, for mass consumption. He is passionate about what he does but beyond that, he is a problem solver, who looks around for an opportunity to help in whatever situation wherever he finds himself. It was such an occasion that motivated Richard Kwarteng to produce ...

The coronavirus pandemic has been confirmed in over 180 countries globally since it was first discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019. The World Health Organisation, WHO, has since declared it a pandemic due to its spread. All except three African countries have recorded cases as governments roll out measures to combat the spread. In this article, ...

The Institute for Security, Disaster and Emergency Studies, ISDES has called on government to extend urgent support to foreign students caught up in the partially lockdown regions of Ghana over covd-19. The institute paints a rather worrisome picture of the triple bitter pill of a lockdown, an imposition of travel restrictions and the closure of all schools shoved down the ...