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The Akufo-Addo government has said it will not be sidetracked by what it deems as former President John Dramani Mahama’s continuous invitation to dabble in partisan politics with the COVID-19 situation. Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said on Monday, 27 April 2020 that honouring such invitation would mean losing focus on the fight against a “very complex global problem” being ...

Seth Terkper says it will be a tall order securing funds for President Akufo-Addo’s promised 88 district hospitals and 6 regional hospitals. Mr. Terkper pointed to provisional and actual fiscal data for the year 2019 which suggested that government used 98.2% of tax revenues for wages, statutory payments, earmarked funds and payment of interests on loans. He pointed out that ...

President Akufo-Addo has extended the ban on social gathering in Ghana in the wake of Covid-19 by two weeks. The decision, according to the president, was made after he conferred with the relevant stakeholders in the country. “The strong consensus is that the existing measures must be maintained for now until we have a firm grip on the spread of ...

The Government of Ghana has announced plans to construct 88 new district hospitals and six new regional hospitals within a year. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said that this is a major investment his government has taken within the country’s healthcare infrastructure and it is by far the largest in the history of the country. “There are 88 districts in ...

One more case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in the Ashanti region bringing the total number of positive cases in the region to 70. Officials of the regional health directorate who confirmed the development to Starrfm.com.gh said a media briefing will be held in the coming days to offer details on the new case. The figure in the region stood ...

A former Chief Executive Officer of the Ridge Hospital in Accra, is claiming that 60% of samples taken from suspected Coronavirus cases for test at Noguchi and other research centres across the country were pure saliva, whose result are not mostly accurate. This, Dr. Thomas Anaba, explained was because the people who were recruited to take the COVID-19 samples are not competent ...

Anti-graft campaigner, Kwame A Plus, has called on the Akufo-Addo-led government to cut down the size of his ministers to save the public purse. Ghana has over 100 ministers – the largest ever under the Fourth Republic. In a recent Facebook post, the maverick musician wondered why some ministries are still in existence when the country is struggling to service ...

It appears that the host of Good Evening Ghana was factually inaccurate with his attempt to explain the $100,000 bribery allegation he levelled against investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni. Paul Adom-Otchere on his show last Tuesday indicated that, he only called up Manasseh after the latter’s alleged ‘exclusive’ meeting with Joseph Siaw Agyepong, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jospong Group ...

Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Communications Minister, has hit back strongly at Captain Smart, a radio presenter, after the latter rained curses on her for allegedly not being candid with expenses on the virtual concert to launch the COVID-19 Tracker App. The minister, in a Facebook post indicated that she returns Captain Smart’s curses back to him, “he and his family will suffer, not me.” ...

The Chief Justice of Ghana, Justice Anin Yeboah has directed that “caused list should be reduced drastically for few cases to be listed for hearing” to prevent congestion at the court. The CJ in a press release regarding what management of the court is doing to curtail the spread urged that “Judges and Magistrates should endeavour to adjourn cases to ...