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The Information Ministry is scheduled to provide the nation with an update on the latest case count and mitigating measures in governments fight against the coronavirus pandemic, today May 21, 2020. Meanwhile, the issue of recoveries in Ghana’s Coronavirus situation has recorded a rather elating effect pertaining to the figures the Ghana Health Service has recently released. Currently, the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 stand at ...

COVID-19 cases in Ghana have now moved to 6,269 after 173 new cases were recorded, according to figures by Ghana Health Service. 125 more recoveries have also been confirmed taking the total number of recoveries to 1,898. The death toll still stands at 31. Below is the regional breakdown Greater Accra Region – 4,582 Ashanti Region – 921 Central Region ...

Monday, May 25 has been a public holiday to mark the Eid-al-Fitr celebrations by Muslims, the government has declared. The day marks the celebration by Muslims worldwide to mark the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting. “The general public is hereby notified that Sunday, 24th May 2020 marks EID-AL-FITR which is a Statutory Public Holiday. “However, 24th May ...

The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the CID Headquarters has started investigating the Bono Regional Chairman of the NPP, Kwame Baffoe Abronye otherwise known as Abronye DC. The investigation concerns an alleged case of publications of false news reported against Abronye DC by former President John Mahama. As a result, the Criminal Investigation Department, in an invitation letter dated May ...

The Chiefs and Queen mothers of Kome and Shime in the Anloga District of the Volta Region, have observed that the social interventions of the Akufo-Addo led administration are impressive and “have bettered the lives of Ghanaians”. The traditional leaders made the observation when they paid a courtesy call on the President at the Jubilee House Wednesday, 20th May 2020. ...

Two persons who have offered to stand as sureties for the bail execution of the self-styled televangelist and founder of the International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, are accusing the Ghana Police Service of deliberately frustrating the process in order to keep the popular pastor in custody. Madam Elsie Asiedu and Madam Jennifer Yawa Quartey who are family members ...

Daniel Israel Kakou is one of the 17 Ghanaian students who were awarded with the European Union Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to study in some notable universities in Europe. The European Union’s Erasmus Mundus programme aims at enhancing quality in Higher education through scholarship and academic cooperation between European Union and the rest of the world. This scholarship gives them the ...

Two illegal miners have died after a mining pit caved in on them. The incident occurred May 18, 2020, around 9:00 am at a mining site of Nawara mining Company in Akyem Osino in the Fanteakwa South District of the Eastern Region. The bodies of the deceased persons -Atwere Emmanuel, 29, and Gyimah Samuel have been deposited at Kibi Government ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Omni Media Limited, mother company of Accra-based Citi FM, Samuel Atta Mensah has labeled persons mounting pressure on the government to give churches the green light to operate despite the surge in Coronavirus cases in the country as ‘jokers’. Government, as part of stringent measures to fight the pandemic, announced a ban on public gatherings, including schools, ...

Parliamentarians from both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have come to a consensus on the 2020 general elections. Both sides of the chamber have pledged their support to the Electoral Commission to conduct the 2020 general elections in December despite the Coronavirus pandemic. The Majority Leader, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, was responding to calls by the Minority for ...