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Security Analyst Adib Saani has warned that the decision by the President to lift the partial lockdown of Accra and Kumasi is a dangerous gamble that could backfire. President Akufo-Addo on Sunday announced the lifting the 3-week lockdown on Greater Accra and Kumasi, with effect from Monday, April 20. Addressing the Nation on Sunday, April 19, 2020, the President, however, ...

COVID-19 cases in Ghana have jumped to 1042, President Akufo-Addo has announced. Addressing the nation on Sunday, the President said the increase in numbers is as a result of 68, 591 tests conducted. According to the President, nine people have died from the disease while 99 people have recovered and discharged, according to the GHS. He stated that over 900 ...

A man in military uniform who is part of the Security personnel detailed at COVID-19 Barrier at Doboro near Nsawam to enforce the lockdown directive has reportedly shot a motor rider three times. The incident occurred Friday Morning around 8:00 am. It is not clear why the military man shot the rider but an eyewitness said, the ridder ignored orders ...

Old students of Akwamuman SHS in the Asuogyaman district have warned they will resist the decision by government to use the school as a quarantine centre for Covid-19. According to the old students, government failed to consult relevant stakeholders in the area before settling on the school. Speaking to Starr News on the development, acting president of the Akwamuman Old ...

Even as the woes of journalist and host of the Good Evening Ghana show on Metro TV continue to deepen over his unpalatable comments on the person of Dr Zanetor Agyemang-Rawlings yesterday, investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has revealed that Mr Adom-Otchere had lied that he (Manasseh) had demanded a bribe of $100,000 from Zoomlion Ghana Limited in order to ...

Background The picture above shows the Ofankor Health Centre which was constructed by the Mahama Administration with funding from the African Development Bank standing abandoned by the government that took over in 2017. Spread all over the country are similar health projects, schools, roads/culverts that have been left to rot. Some of the health projects include district hospitals at Sekyere Kumawu, Fomena, ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Klottey-Korley Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings is disappointed that the Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Cynthia Morrison has flatly denied claims that food meant for the vulnerable in the midst of the fight against the novel Coronavirus is being shared on partisan lines. For her, the Minister should have, at least, pledged to launch an investigation ...

Klottey-Korley Member of Parliament Dr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings has called on President Akufo-Addo to institute a probe into reports of politicisation of food aid to the vulnerable in the lockdown areas in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. It comes after the Gender minister Cynthia Morrison denied her claims that NADMO officials are demanding party identification before dishing out food to ...

Ghana’s laboratories have been tasked to work round the clock to process a backlog of over 12 thousand samples collected for testing for covid-19. Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in a tweet on Thursday evening said the processing will be in addition to 51,000 samples already tested as at yesterday. Contact tracing teams and lab technicians were tasked to trace ...

Leader and founder of the House of Power ministries, Prophet Francis Kwarteng has claimed that the refusal of some pastors to obey certain God-given instructions is the reason for Ghana’s rise in coronavirus cases. He said the likes of ArchBishop Duncan Williams, Bishop Charles Agyin-Asare, Apostle Onyina, and other church leaders have been given strict instructions by God, which when ...