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About 20 schoolchildren are feared to have drowned in the Apam sea in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region while swimming today Monday, March 8,2021. Speaking to EIB Network’s Central Regional Correspondent Yaw Boagyan, an eyewitness said the children were school Pupils whose ages are between 9 and 13 from a basic school in the Apam area.  ...

Former President John Mahama and former First Lady Lordina Mahama have received their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Police Hospital in Accra. On Monday, President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia took their first doses of the vaccine to shore up public confidence in the vaccine. The Ghana Health Service will today begin the national rollout ...

The minority members on the Appointments Committee of Parliament have rejected three ministers-designate, put on hold the approval of five others and unanimously approved 22 nominees. Below are the full reasons by the Minority 1 SUMMARY OF REASONS FOR THE DECISIONS BY THE NDC CAUCUS ON THE APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE (MARCH 2021) REJECT LIST 1) Hawa Koomson (MP) a) The Minister-designate ...

A painting by former British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, which was owned by Angelina Jolie, has sold for £7m at auction in London. The sale price was almost four times the top pre-sale estimate and beat the previous record for a Churchill painting, which was just under £1.8m. The Tower Of The Koutoubia Mosque, painted in Marrakesh during World ...

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Her Honour Evelyn Asamoah has warned it would be forced to strike out the case in which Chief Executive officer (CEO) of Menzgold Ghana Limited Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1) has been arraigned for defrauding. The court is unhappy about the delay on the part of the prosecution to file the necessary documents ...

The Chairman of the National Media Commission, Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh has called on both the Ghana Journalists Association and the Judicial Service to be focussed on working in the interest of the nation. According to him, the Judicial Service has no control of the Media and vice versa adding that the brouhaha between the two institutions could have been handled better. ...

The Ghana Health Service will today begin the national rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine which arrived in the country last week. The service is targeting persons most at risk and frontline state officials in 43 districts for the vaccination. President Akufo Addo and Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia took their first doses of the vaccine against the COVID-19 on Monday ...

Ghana has joined the world to mark this year’s 2021 Global Rare Disease Day which falls on the 28th of February every year. On Sunday 28th February 2021, a symbolic observation of the 2021 edition of the Rare Disease Day, saw the lighting up of the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, a national monument performed by the Rare Disease Ghana Initiative team. ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central Kennedy Agyapong has disclosed how he pleaded with the Ministry of Communications and the National Communications Authority to give owners of Radio Gold and other pro-NDC radio stations a fair hearing. According to him, during the period in which the Radio stations were closed down, he was the Chairman of the Communications Committee in ...

The Judicial Service has rejected claims by the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) that its recent statement asking the media to remove from their system incendiary and vengeful stories about judges on the election petition case constituted a threat to journalists. A statement signed by lawyer for the Judicial Service Thaddeus Sory said the GJA misled the public on the intention ...