POLITICS

The NDC Volta chapter is calling on government to as a matter of urgency allow all the nine closed radio stations in the region to operate to enable them step up public education efforts on the novel corronavirus in the region. The party has observed a serious shortfall in public education on the covid-19 pandemic in the region as a ...

In the interest of the nation, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party is appealing to the leadership of the Ghana Health Service to quickly come up with plans to create a special morgue for dead bodies that autopsy reports confirm they died as a result of COVID-19. Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako stated in an interview with Wontumionline.com that ...

As the New Patriot Party (NPP) goes to the polls on April 25, to elect parliamentary candidates for their respective constituencies, one person who is the obvious choice of the people and has made a significant mark in the annals of the NPP administration in the Adenta constituency and poses a threat to the incumbent MP for the area, Yaw ...

The Minority in Parliament is questioning the basis of Dominic Nitiwul’s attack after the side was absent for Saturday’s sitting. Members of the minority had earlier through its leader, Haruna Iddrisu, said they will not be able to attend sitting on Saturdays as working overtime amid the Coronavirus scare as it can weaken their immune system. The side indeed, did ...

Hon. Mahama Ayariga, MP for Bawku Central is appealing to the indigenes of Bawku in Accra, Ashaiman, Tema, Kumasi and all other areas within government’s partial locked down not to immediately rush back to Bawku. He admonished that government does not intend to punish them with such measures but acting in the larger national interest adding that the object of ...

The Ministry of Information is holding a press conference to clarify lockdown orders. On Saturday, the Ministry of Information in its resolve to ensure effectiveness of the lockdown directive urged all to reach out to the outfit for a clarification on the orders. “If you have a specific question that needs clarification, please send to us as a comment on ...

A recommendation has gone to the government to consider locking down only the cities where reported cases of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic have tested positive in Ghana. The Public Health Consult, an organisation of Dutch-trained Ghanaian public health professionals with vast knowledge in global and public health-related issues, gave the recommendation in a press statement issued on Thursday by its ...

A founding member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe has said the principle on which the party was formed, “development in freedom” has been lost. According to the former Ghana Football Association (GFA) boss, he does not believe that the party’s motto actually exists now. Speaking on Straight Talk with Felicity Naana Nelson on Class91.3FM on ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that despite the criticism of the measures his government put in place to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus such as banning of all international flights, closing all of Ghana’s borders to human traffic as well as mandatorily quarantining all persons who entered Ghana from abroad, the number of imported cases of the ...

President Akufo-Addo says government is currently considering a lockdown of the country over the coronavirus pandemic as proposed by organised labour. President Akufo-Addo gave the hint when he addressed a five-member top hierarchy of the Trade Unions Congress (TUC) at the Jubilee House. The TUC members present were the Secretary-General of the TUC, Dr. Yaw Baah; Deputy Secretary-General of the ...