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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has removed Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng from the position of the Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM). In his place, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kweku Asomah-Cheremeh, has been asked to Chair the IMCIM. The Head of Public Relations, Lands Ministry, Abraham Otabil, in a telephone conversation, confirmed to DGN ...

The Military High Command says news that seven serving soldiers have contracted the deadly coronavirus is false. A statement signed by Director of Public Relations of the Ghana Armed Forces, Colonel E Aggrey-Quashie, said the attention of the military was drawn to the “false publication” on social media. “We wish to inform the public that the story is false and ...

According to official statistics, China has defeated the coronavirus. Over the last five days, health authorities have reported only one new locally transmitted case of Covid-19 – a patient in Guangdong province infected by someone travelling from abroad. In Wuhan, the centre of the outbreak and the country’s worst-hit area, officials on Monday reported a fifth day without new cases. The figures ...

Hundreds of British nationals are trapped in Accra after the UK was forced to cancel a planned evacuation flight. A commercially chartered British Airways flight 78 was due to depart from the Ghanaian city on Monday to send some 360 British nationals home. The flight was asked to turn back to Ghana after three hours into its journey. Joynews reports ...

The Nkawkaw District Magistrate Court presided over by His Worship Albert Kwasi Owusu has convicted Pastor of Kingdom of God Church who was arrested for holding Church Service Sunday despite the ban on public gathering to a fine of Ghc1,200 in default serves eighteen(18) months imprisonment in hard labour. The convict, Pastor John Jeremiah Addo, pleaded guilty to charges of ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong has promised to put the leader of International God’s Way Church, Daniel Obinim in jail. According to him, he has evidence to justify that the man of God is into money laundering. Ken Agyapong further threatened to submit all documents he has as evidence to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) ...

Education minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh has asked Ghanaians to stop moving around since the coronavirus needs humans to transmit. “The virus doesn’t move, it needs me and you to move. If you stop, the virus stops,” he said at a press briefing on the pandemic and government strategies. Meanwhile, twenty-five more cases of the deadly COVID-19 have been recorded, the ...

Presidential Advisor of Health Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare has stated that 30 students of the University of Ghana were tested as part of contact tracing. He made this statement on Asempa Fm’s Ekosiisen. Students of the University of Ghana were asked to go home following a directive by President Akufo Addo to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus Covid-19. ...

Three more confirmed cases of the global pandemic, coronavirus have been recorded, Ghana Health Service has said. The number of active cases, however, is 25. All the 25 confirmed cases are receiving treatment in isolation. A statement on the Ghana Health Service website indicated that “As of 23rd March 2020, [14:00 GMT] a total of 521 suspected cases have been ...

A final year metallurgical engineering student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been killed allegedly through electrocution in her apartment. Bernice Akyeama Baah, was said to be preparing to take her bath in her rented Ayeduase apartment when the incident occurred at about 8:30 pm, on Wednesday. She was discovered unconscious and was rushed to ...