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The Ashanti Regional Police Command has stated that it will not shield any of its officers found culpable in the death of a civilian who was allegedly beaten to death for breaking the lockdown directives. A police statement indicated that the said officers had spotted the deceased Tweneboah Koduah, aged 33years at Konkori a village near Trede in the Atwima ...

Reports reaching DGN Online indicate that the Police Administration took the decision to convert the cash allowance for officers participating in the two weeks partial lockdown operation to food following the explosion in the number of officers. According to a police source, the administration originally budgeted for 2800 officers of which the government released funding of Ghc 100 per day. ...

Cassiel Ato Forson, a ranking member of the Finance Committee of Parliament has stated unequivocally that the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Hospital, which was built whilst former President John Dramani Mahama was in office, is the legacy of John Dramani Mahama. According to him, even though the hospital was built with public funds, the former president provided the needed leadership ...

President Akufo-Addo has charged the board of trustees of the Novel Coronavirus National Trust Fund to spend all monies that would be realized through the fund judiciously. The President gave the admonishing to the trustees after he administered the oaths of Office, Allegiance and Secrecy to them at a brief ceremony at the Jubilee House on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. ...

The Regional Health Director of the Ashanti Region, Dr Emmanuel Tenkorang says the upsurge in COVID-19 cases in the region is down to active surveillance. The Ashanti Region has seen an increase in cases from 17 as at Monday, April 6 to 25 as of April 7, 2020. Dr Tenkorang says they have identified some hotspots in the region and ...

The Finance Committee of Parliament has granted request by finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta to spend over GHC1.2 billion from the contingency fund in government’s fight against Covid-19. The approval was done by consensus in spite of reservations by Minority. Explaining the breakdown to the House, the finance minister said GHC280 million will be spent on food packages and hot meals ...

The Akufo-Addo government is busily purchasing cars and customizing them in the name of the deadly Coronavirus instead using the money to provide the much-needed medically certified Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) which Ghanaian health workers continue to cry as their only amour in the fight against the pandemic. Aside the benevolence of churches, politicians, private companies and businessmen, Ghanaian health ...

Coalition of Graduate Unemployed Allied Health Professionals is threatening to pull its members out of the COVID-19 tracing teams due to what they described as neglect by the Ministry of Health. In a press statement signed by the group’s General Secretary, Vincent Amponsah Gyamfi, the group has issued a one-week ultimatum to the government to fulfil the necessary obligations or ...

The Central Region has recorded its first Coronavirus (COVID-19) case which happens to be a 57-year-old man. The patient, a clergyman by profession, according to the Regional Health Directorate travelled to the United Kingdom (UK) and returned to Ghana on 17th March 2020. The man, being a diabetic patient was asked by his doctor to run some tests. It was ...

One more person has been confirmed dead in Ghana after contracting Coronavirus, bringing the death toll to six (6), the Ghana Health Service (GHS) reports. Details of the deceased, however, is unknown as the GHS is silent on that. Meanwhile, there has been an increase in the number of cases as 26 new cases have been confirmed. The case count has ...