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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is meeting members of the Council of State to decide on the future of Ghana regarding the measures put in place in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The president expressed satisfaction with the measures so far and, more importantly, the level of compliance by the majority of Ghanaians but said a decision has to ...

Coronavirus cases in the Ashanti region have risen to 68 from 62 as of Sunday. According to the Ashanti regional health directorate, most of the affected persons are between 20 and 25 years of age. The regional health director Emmanuel Tenkorang addressed the media on the development Tuesday. On Monday, the Akuapem North Municipal Assembly recorded two new cases of ...

Former Minister for communication, Dr Edward Omane Boamah has said the ‘mad rush’ for COA FS food supplement shows that Ghanaians are yearning for the treatment of Coronavirus even though the product does not cure coronavirus. According to him, to ensure that Ghanaians do not take an overdose of the supplements, the government should ensure that it’s only administered strictly ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been meeting identifiable groups including the Council of State over the lifting of the partial lockdown of some parts of Accra and Kumasi. The President during the meeting which ended not long ago briefed the members of the Council about the lifting of the three-week partial lockdown of some parts of the country. He ...

A Circuit Court in Accra has fined six Nigerians who were arrested at a birthday party during the restriction on movement a total of GHc86, 400. The accused persons pleaded guilty to the offence and were convicted on their own plea to a fine of GHc14, 400 each or face five years in jail in default. The accused persons after ...

Journalist and host of Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV Paul Adom-Otchere has promised to open a can of worms about renowned investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni on his show later today as a reply to an allegation by Manasseh Azure Awuni that he ( Mr Adom-Otchere ) had lied about how he(Manasseh) had demanded money in the sum of ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has assured all its customers that they will not be cheated in the 50 percent rebate announced by the President. President Akufo-Addo on April 9 announced that the government will fully absorb electricity bills for customers who consume below 50 kilowatt-hours of power per month as part of a mitigation package for the vulnerable ...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has warned if Ghanaians flout other measures put in place to stop the spread of the virus and there is a spike of infections, a more draconian measure will be imposed. President Nana Akufo-Addo on Sunday lifted a three-week partial lockdown imposed in the Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi districts. Some videos that have emerged ...

The Secretary-General of the TUC, Dr. Yaw Baah, has said the restriction on the movement of people in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Tema, Kasoa and the Kumasi Metropolitan Area due to the coronavirus pandemic has caused a lot of jobs losses in the country. He revealed that the impact of the pandemic in the employment sector is mindboggling, indicating ...

The Chairman of the National Risk Communication and Social Mobilisation Committee of COVID-19, Dr Aboagye da Costa says stigma has become one of the major challenges in the fight against the virus in the country. It comes after staff of the Fanteakwa government hospital in the Eastern region are reportedly being shunned by their communities after a patient tested positive ...