POLITICS

Staff of 56 treatment centres under the Ghana Health Service and Teaching Hospitals including the University of Ghana Medical Centre and also the Bank of Ghana Hospital are to benefit from the increase in basic salary recently announced by the president, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has said. Staff of Noguchi Memorial Institute, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research as well ...

Former President John Mahama has called on government to consider reducing the costs of power and LPG gas as part of social intervention for Ghanaians as the country fights coronavirus. According to Mr Mahama, the cost of electricity is more of a burden to Ghanaians than water, which has been absorbed by the government. “Clearly electricity tariffs are the more ...

The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has revealed that Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has been chairing Ghana’s COVID-19 Daily Monitoring Team. The Minister stated this when he met the media in Accra on Tuesday to address latest issues on Ghana’s battle against the spread of the Coronavirus. The COVID-19 monitoring team, made up of members from key stakeholders ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who through the Ghana Prisons Service granted some 808 prisoners amnesty over the deadly coronavirus pandemic, has shockingly said he is not in a position to grant “amnesty” to some radio stations shut down by the National Communications Authority (NCA), and order their return on air to aid the fight against the global crisis. His position has ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said there would be no water shortage and power outages during the lockdown period. “The Ghana Water Company Ltd and the Electricity Company of Ghana have been directed to ensure the stable supply of water and electricity during this period”, the President announced on Sunday in his fifth national address on the coronavirus situation, adding: “In ...

The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has assured that the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) will adhere to the President’s directives of providing adequate and constant water supply to Ghanaians in the wake of COVID-19. The Minister said the GWCL does not work in isolation and as such the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) which provides ...

Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Atta-Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has showered praises on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his sterling leadership, powerful addresses to the nation in the midst of the deadly coronavirus. The former director of communication at the presidency under the late Mills era said the messages and speeches by the president inspired hope. ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has announced governments intention to procure local production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) as a means to intensify measures aimed at curtailing the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana. In his regular televised addressed to the nation on Sunday [April 5, 2020], the president said, government is actively engaged with local manufacturing companies to assist them ...

Former President John Mahama has appealed to government to distribute food to deprived households in the lockdown communities in Ghana in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. According to him, there is the need for trickle-down effect of the economic measures being broached by government in supporting citizens in the affected communities. “We need a proper trickling down economics to ...

The National Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Sammy Awuku says coronavirus cases in Ghana would have worsened if Ghana had a President flip-flopping with decisions to contain the pandemic. According to him, Ghana is blessed to have President Akufo-Addo at this crucial time which requires pragmatic decisions to tackle the pandemic head-on. “Under our circumstances government has ...