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A drink or tea made from hibiscus flower, known in Ghana as sobolo and in Nigeria as sobo/zobo, according to a viral video, has been used by China to cure the novel coronavirus, Covid-19. The video, which we also found on One Ghana TV via Facebook showed the Executive Director for Soul Health and Wellness Center, Nana Okogyedom Ntim-Barimah, popularly ...

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Her Honour Ellen Aryeh has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of nine Okada riders who were part of some 14 persons accused of violating the lockdown restrictions imposed by the President to contain the spread of Covid-19. The nine persons are Rabiu Ibrahim, Kwesi Guiso, Isaac Owusu, Mohammed Jamal, Hahaha ...

Coronavirus is more dangerous than HIV AIDS, the Director-General of Ghana AIDS Commission has said. According to Kyeremeh Atuahene, while patients of AIDS can live for many years with medication and healthy lifestyle, COVID-19 does not offer such an opportunity to victims with weak immune systems. Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Thursday, Mr Atuahene appealed to Ghanaians ...

There is uneasy calm at the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO) as management is on the neck of employees to sign an oath of secrecy. Irate staff have vowed to resist any attempt that seeks to gag them. According to the staff, they will have a showdown with management if they are forced to sign the document. A staff member who ...

The Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission Kyeremeh Atuahene has warned COVID-19 will spread rapidly if people continue to stigmatise victims of the virus. According to him, patients of viral diseases who cannot stand societal neglect often keep mute over the status so they can be accepted in society. “If you stigmatise them, they will hide their status and spread ...

The Circuit Court in Accra has granted bail to a 22-year-old scrap dealer, Osman Amadu who sprayed a liquid substance into the eyes of a policewoman at Zongo Junction in Accra in the sum of GHc50, 000. In addition to the bail sum, the accused person is to provide two sureties, all of whom must be justified and be persons ...

Founder and General Overseer of the Zion Army Church at Awutu Bontrase in the Awutru Senya West District of the Central Region, Pastor John Mark has been accused by a church member of hypnotising and having sexual intercourse with her for a year. The female church member [name withheld] who is married claims she was hypnotised by the pastor for ...

The Ghana Immigration Service has arrested 20 Burkina Faso nationals at the Babile inland post near Lawra in the Upper West Region after they illegally entered the country. They were onboard an O.A branded bus with registration number AS 699- 09 from their home country en route to Sampa, Techiman and Kumasi on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, GIS officials stated. ...

Since the announcement by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to construct 94 districts and regional hospitals, about 53 abandoned, uncompleted health projects have surfaced in public discussions. The projects – mostly started during the erstwhile NDC administration, have been left unattended to by the Akufo-Addo administration, says the Coalition of NGOs in Health. Dr Gabriel Bernaku, the chairman of the ...

Ghana’s Coronavirus case count has leaped from 1671 to 2074 after 403 new cases were recorded. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced the new figures on its website Thursday morning. The Greater Accra region remains Ghana’s epicentre with 1,795 cases followed by Ashanti with 99. Eastern is next with 70, Central has 21 while Oti and Upper East have 19 ...