Author Archives: larryehu

‘Show some respect’ – Zapp Mallet blasts Sarkodie

Legendary sound engineer, Zapp Mallet has taken a swipe at the celebrated rapper, Sarkodie for pairing him with some music producers. There is a current trend of music producers and musicians challenging each other to hits they have as a way of calming down nerves. Sarkodie in this vain, decided to call on some award-winning music producers to also jump ...

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COVID-19: Using Heritage Fund a ‘wholesale theft’ – IES

The Institute for Energy Security (IES) has described as a wholesale theft of the prospects of generations to come, as the government wants to withdraw from Ghana’s Heritage Fund to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The Institute further added that the move would be seen as an assault on the well-being of future generations. On March 30, 2020, Government through the ...

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Porridge seller dies in freak motor crash in Kumasi

A porridge seller has died after she was struck by a vehicle at Adiebeba, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Suweiba Jibrim, 28, was selling at her usual joint when the incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday, April 1, 2020. She was confirmed dead by officers who were called to the horrifying scene. Her body was ...

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Coronavirus: We’re employing 2017/18 batch of nursing trainees – Abban

The Human Resource Directorate of the Ministry of Health has begun the enrollment of all 2017/18 batch of nursing trainees for deployment into various health facilities across the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. President Akufo-Addo after one of his televised address to the nation attracted criticism for announcing plans of deploying retired health professionals to fight the ...

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Over 50 coronavirus vaccine trials ongoing – WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that there are more than 50 trials for Coronavirus vaccine (COVID-19). When she appeared on a Channels Television programme on Tuesday, Fiona Braka, the country officer for WHO in Nigeria, said there is also a multi-country trial for a drug for the virus. Over 828,000 persons have so far been infected while more than 40,700 ...

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COVID-19: British Airways to suspend 36,000 employees

British Airways will today suspend around 36,000 of its 45,000 staff as coronavirus left the airline on its knees. The airline has reached a broad deal with the Unite union that will include the suspension of 80 per cent of its cabin crew, ground staff, engineers and those working at the head office in Harmondsworth, near Heathrow. The furloughed UK staff are ...

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Angry residents chase out lockdown escapees

Angry residents of Apantem, a farming community near Aburi in Akuapem South Municipality of the Eastern Region, on Wednesday, chased out four escapees from Accra, which is currently under lockdown over Coronavirus pandemic. The four made up of a native of the community fled to seek refuge. Their arrival in the community triggered agitations as residents fear they may infect them with ...

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Coronavirus patients from Ghana denied access in home countries

A significant number of Ghana’s active cases of the novel Coronavirus have come from foreign nationals who travelled into the country with it. Currently, most of the cases recorded in Northern Region are from Burkina Faso and Guinea, and there are threats by Ghanaian officials to repatriate them back to their home countries. This decision, however, has become very tough as the ...

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Parliament approves $35m World Bank loan for Covid-19 fight

Parliament has approved a $35 million World Bank loan for Ghana’s fight against Coronavirus. The World Bank will disburse the funds under the rapid credit facility aimed at fighting covid-19 The money will augment government’s budget for the fight against the deadly virus. Government has faced resistance over the possibility of resorting to the Heritage fund in its fight against ...

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Our hospital open to all not just VIPs – BoG clarifies

The Bank of Ghana has clarified that its hospital being availed to Government for the Covid-19 fight will serve all Ghanaians and not VIPs. The central bank is reacting to comments by the Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu that the facility will only cater for the treatment of VIP patients and staff of the Bank in the wake of the ...

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