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Seven people infected with COVID-19 in Ghana have died, taking the country’s death toll to 270, the Ghana Health Service. Also 95 new cases have been recorded with Ghana having a total of 43,717 cases since COVID-19 first entered the country in March. The active cases have drastically reduced to 1,604 with a total of 41,843 recoveries or discharges. Cumulative ...

The Association of Pentecostal and Charismatic Clergy (APCC) has apologised to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for saying that persecution of the Church will be one of his legacies in a communiqué it issued a few weeks ago. In a statement signed by its General Secretary Rev. John Armaah, APCC said: “Upon sober reflection on the heading of our recent ...

Despite significantly higher credit impairments and the material impact of the lockdowns on transactional volumes, Absa Group, including all business units, remained profitable. In addition, revenue increased by 3% while cost-to-income ratio reduced from 56.7% to 53.9%. The group also reported an 82% decline in normalised interim earnings after impairments increased four-fold to 5.01 billion cedis. Impairment charges rose as ...

Results of a fact-check conducted on #As3mYiDziKa on Connect FM 97.1MHz in Takoradi indicate that 31 out of the 66 urban roads completed in Sekondi-Takoradi Metro on the delivery tracker were duplicated. Only 4 of the 66 were not duplicated. Interestingly, there was one project titled unknown road. The data, however, could no longer be accessed after the Member of ...

The infrastructure debate between the opposition NDC and the governing NPP seems not to be going away anytime soon, as the vice-president has dared the opposition party to also set up a website to showcase what they did while in government. Speaking on Accra-based Peace FM, Dr Bawumia who was responding to claims by the opposition party that twenty-six of ...

Tension is mounting in Obom Domeabra in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region after some irate youth in the area clashed with soldiers over a disputed parcel of land. This incident is said to have occurred when three armed men in military uniform opened fire on a group of unarmed men who had massed up and were ...

The Electoral Commission has said it is unfortunate that every opposition party thinks the Commission is in bed with the government. EC’s Director of Electoral Services, Dr Serebuor Quaicoe, said it is strange that when political parties are in power, they seem to support the Commission but quickly turn against the EC when they lose elections. “How come that when ...

Fishermen in the Central Region have expressed anger over what they say is an untruth peddled by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that over 300 outboard motors have been given to the fishermen in the Central Region. Their leader, Chief Fisherman of the Central and Western Regions John Manoma Quayson addressing a press conference on Tuesday, August 25, 2020, said ...

The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has been explaining the structure of the Agyapa Royalties transaction and its benefits. In an interview on PM Express on the Accra based Joynews channel, Mr Nkrumah said the deal raises no debt financing for Ghana and bears no loan interest expenses. He added that Ghana retains a majority stake in future royalties. ...

Berlin authorities have announced they are to rename Mohrenstraße (“Moor Street”) in the city’s Mitte district after the country’s first black philosopher, Anton Wilhelm Amo. The decision follows years of protest by postcolonial campaigners, including historians and ethnologists, who had criticised the street name as racist. Campaigners welcomed the decision on Friday, which comes in the wake of a worldwide ...