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The country manager for Asky Airline, Worlanyo Afadzinu, has confirmed that one person has been picked up and handed over to the Police over the fake covid-19 test results handed over a traveller on the Nigerian-bound flight. Speaking on the Morning Starr on Thursday, Mr Afadzinu said investigations are still underway to arrest the perpetrators at the Kotoka International Airport ...

Ghana’s COVID-19 death toll has now hit 433, according to the latest figures by the Ghana Health Service. A total of 777 new COVID-19 cases have also been recorded, shooting up the active cases to 5,786. 497 persons have also recovered from the disease bringing the total number of recoveries to 62,340. Currently, Ghana has 126 and 46 persons in ...

Ghanaian striker, David Accam, has revealed how his former Black Stars teammate, Sulley Ali Muntari, demanded flight tickets for him and other players to travel back to their clubs when they were dropped from the 2014 World Cup squad whiles in camp with the national team. David Accam, along with Jerry Akaminko and Jeffrey Schlupp, were cut from the 23-man ...

Alpha Lotto Limited, a private lottery operator licensed by the National Lottery Authority (NLA) in partnership with Veterans Administration Ghana has taken its operations to a higher height following the grand commissioning of an ultra modern-hall for the live telecast lottery draw. It will be the highest transparency and professional level draw which would come off from its headquarters located ...

National-scale drone delivery service Zipline has announced the delivery of over 1 million program vaccine doses to rural and hard-to-reach areas of Ghana. The vaccines were delivered within Zipline’s catchment areas at Omenako, Mpanya, Vobsi, and Sefwi Wiaso. According to the company, in addition to their original mandate of delivering emergency medical components, they have partnered with the Expanded Program ...

The seven-member Supreme Court panel hearing the 2020 election petition has dismissed a motion by former President John Mahama seeking to inspect some documents of the Electoral Commissions. The six point-motion was asking for the originals of all constituency presidential election results collation forms and summary sheets of all constituencies in Ghana. The court in its ruling among other reasons ...

A Philanthropist who is also a Medical Pharmacist, Mr. Clement Clinton Blay has distributed over 2,000 reusable nose masks to 8 Basic and Junior High Schools in Ellembelle district to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. About 1340 Basic students and 660 Junior High School students benefitted from Tuesday, 2, distribution package in the Western Region. Mr. Clement ...

A seven-member of the Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah has dismissed a motion for inspection of documents filed by lawyers of the petitioner. The unanimous decision of the panel states that the applicant has not been able to demonstrate that he does not have duplicate copies of those documents. The panel chaired by Chief Justice ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is to step down as chief executive of the e-commerce giant that he started in his garage nearly 30 years ago. He will become executive chairman, a move he said would give him “time and energy” to focus on his other ventures. Mr Bezos, the world’s richest man, will be replaced by Andy Jassy, who currently ...

Parliament has accused President Akufo-Addo of disrespect in his appointments to the Council of state. The House has faulted the President for going public with some category of appointees on the 11-member list without consulting parliament. Per article 89 clause 2(a) of the constitution, appointments of former Chief Justices, IGPs, Chiefs of Defence Staff to the council must be done ...