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The management of Ghana Water Company Limited has indicated through a statement that it is experiencing some challenges with water supply in Accra and most cities during this high demand period. It has therefore admonished consumers to increase storage of water while it is flowing through their taps, so in the event of low pressures or no flow, consumers can ...

The Sekondi-Takoradi Metro Director for Health Services Dr Alfred Tachie-Menson is advising the general public especially commercial drivers to desist from consuming locally brewed gin (akpeteshie) as a measure of protecting themselves from contracting the novel fast spreading covid-19. This was after the assembly member of Airport ridge electoral area in Takoradi, Micheal Doku, at a Press conference by the ...

The backlash against pharmacy managers and the call to reduce the prices of hand sanitizers may have fallen on deaf ears but journalist Nana Aba Anamoah is not drawing her sword yet as she has launched another attack on pharmacies for hiking up the price of the product. Labelling them as hypocrites, the popular newscaster stated that, “Some of our ...

Two Italians who were set to enter Ghana Monday night were stopped from entering the country, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed. The move is part of Ghana’s effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the country. Europe is currently the epicentre of the virus with more recent deaths recorded in Italy. ” There were two Italians who ...

The US embassy in Ghana has announced it is suspending routine immigrant and nonimmigrant visa appointments as part of efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Ghana. In a statement, the embassy said appointments of such visas is suspended effective March 17,2020. It however noted emergency visas will still be processed. “Out of an abundance of caution and in ...

Information reaching DGN Online indicates that three more persons suspected to be linked with the gruesome murder of the Sogakope South Assemblyman, Marcus Mawutor Adzahli, have been arrested by the Police. The three are reported to have been arrested on Sunday, March 15, 2020 at their hideout at Obom, near Kasoa in the Central Region. The suspects who appear to ...

Almost 48-hours after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo temporarily banned social gathering and shut down schools due to an increase in Coronavirus cases in Ghana, the Judicial Service is yet to provide hand sanitizers at the entrance of Law Court complex and any courtroom. The facility that houses about 42 High Courts and receives about 3,000 visitors, lawyers and Justice ...

The flagbearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has called on the Akufo-Addo-led government to publish its plans to protect the economy including a possibility of a statement to parliament of the expected impact of the coronavirus on the Ghanaian economy. According to Mahama, although the NDC will support the government’s effort outlined to help ...

Ghana’s Embassy in the United States of America has suspended its visa and passport application effective Today, Tuesday, March 17, due to the coronavirus outbreak. A statement signed by the Head of Information and Chancery, Kofi Tonto, stated that the decision had become necessary as a precautionary measure to protect clients. The United States has recorded over 3000 cases of ...

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has held its Inaugural Joseph Siaw Agyepong Distinguished Lecture on Public Health in Africa. This is in honour of the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong for his initiatives, contributions to, and impact on the Public Health Sector in Ghana. The inaugural lecture was ...