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Ghana has received an initial tranche of deliveries of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine at the Kotoka International Airport. The first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccines from Covax, a World Health Organization-backed effort to procure and distribute inoculations for free to poor countries. “These 600,000 Covax vaccines are part of an initial tranche of deliveries of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine ...

The coalition of NGOs in water and sanitation (CONIWAS) has called on the government to set a realistic target and a blueprint aimed at achieving the clean Accra promise made by President Akufo-Addo in 2017. This comes on the back of the sector minister-designate Cecilia Abena Dapaah’s assertion at her vetting Tuesday that the Akufo-Addo administration is on course to ...

Ghana has become the first country to receive COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization’s COVAX program on Wednesday, a joint statement issued by UNICEF Ghana and WHO Ghana said. The shipment, consisting of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines, arrived at 7 am GMT Wednesday on an Emirates flight at Kotoka International Airport, in Ghana’s capital Accra. The Minister ...

Former broadcaster Robert Nii Arday Clegg has revealed that he rejected a cash gift of 6000 dollars from a former government official while he hosted the Morning show on Starr FM. According to the legal practitioner, although the said official had no conditions attached to the gift, he did not want to feel compromised. The former Morning Starr host who ...

When Dr Dominic Ayine mounted the podium during the usual post-Supreme Court sitting address on Monday, 23, 2021 there were two unfamiliar faces among the people who stood with him. Ordinarily Ayine during these press briefings which have become a feature of the ongoing Election Petition will answer questions from the media from the perspective of the petitioner’s legal team, ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has cautioned the public against doing business with Wiseling Online Investment Company, a Finnish-based company operating in Ghana A statement by SEC stated that it has not licensed the company to carry out any Capital Market activity including investing or trading for returns as mandated by Section 3 of the Securities Industry Act, 2016 ...

Lawyer Moses Foh-Amoaning has challenged Gabby Otchere Darko to speak up on what he really believes when it comes to the LGBTQ+. He dared the politician to rather not hide behind the argument that people should stop hating gay people even if they do not support their action. His challenge comes after Gabby Otchere Darko took to his social media ...

MountCrest University College (MountCrest) has held its 10th matriculation ceremony with a call for an overhaul of Ghana’s legal education system, and the immediate scrapping of the entrance examination for the Ghana School of Law. Addressing the fresh students at the ceremony which was held online (virtual), Mrs. Irene Ansa-Asare Horsham, the Rector of MountCrest, the first private university in ...

Government of Ghana is receiving the first batch of 600,000 AstraZeneca Coronavirus vaccine at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra. The Minister for Health Designate, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, is leading the government delegation to receive the vaccines. Ghana is among the 145 countries listed to receive vaccines from a number of suppliers through the COVAX Facility according to the World Health Organisation ...

“We still have challenges of the phenomenon of illegal mining, popularly referred to as ‘galamsey’, corruption in public life, and we need to enhance the efficiency of the State’s administrative machinery. In all these, I expect you to be proactive partners in our common efforts to find solutions that will improve the lives of our people, and safeguard the integrity ...