POLITICS

The Akufo-Addo government has said it will not be sidetracked by what it deems as former President John Dramani Mahama’s continuous invitation to dabble in partisan politics with the COVID-19 situation. Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said on Monday, 27 April 2020 that honouring such invitation would mean losing focus on the fight against a “very complex global problem” being ...

Seth Terkper says it will be a tall order securing funds for President Akufo-Addo’s promised 88 district hospitals and 6 regional hospitals. Mr. Terkper pointed to provisional and actual fiscal data for the year 2019 which suggested that government used 98.2% of tax revenues for wages, statutory payments, earmarked funds and payment of interests on loans. He pointed out that ...

President Akufo-Addo has extended the ban on social gathering in Ghana in the wake of Covid-19 by two weeks. The decision, according to the president, was made after he conferred with the relevant stakeholders in the country. “The strong consensus is that the existing measures must be maintained for now until we have a firm grip on the spread of ...

The Government of Ghana has announced plans to construct 88 new district hospitals and six new regional hospitals within a year. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said that this is a major investment his government has taken within the country’s healthcare infrastructure and it is by far the largest in the history of the country. “There are 88 districts in ...

Former Director-General of Ghana Health Service, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa has argued that lifting of the partial lockdown by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo falls short of the President’s own profound statement that the economy can be brought back to life but human lives cannot be brought back. In the view of the health expert, lifting the lockdown was not ...

Ghana has recorded 1042 positive cases of COVID-19 and 99 recovery cases. More than 60,000 people whose samples were collected through contact tracing and other enhanced testing approaches have tested negative for the virus. However, rumormongers have cast doubts over the number of positive cases, saying the samples of some of the people who have tested positive might not be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...