Managers of the COVID-19 Private Sector Fund who are embarking on the ‘Feed a Kayayei’ Project at all vantage points of the partial lockdown, following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, have as of Friday, April 3, 2020 fed more than Twenty Six Thousand (26,000) head-porters and homeless persons in Accra and Kumasi. Ms. Julie […]
The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, in conjunction with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and ESPA have kick-started a three-day clean-up exercise of the Accra metropolis. The exercise – which is simultaneously being done in Accra and the Kumasi metropolis – is aimed at ensuring that lorry stations, market centres, streets among other public […]
A number of European governments have rejected Chinese-made equipment designed to combat the coronavirus outbreak. Thousands of testing kits and medical masks are below standard or defective, according to authorities in Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands. Europe has reported hundreds of thousands of cases of coronavirus. More than 10,000 people have died in Italy since […]
The International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), an Evangelical, Charismatic Christian church headed by Ghanaian theologian, motivational speaker and entrepreneur, Pastor Mensa Otabil, has made a contribution of one hundred thousand Ghana Cedis (GHc100,000.00) to the Covid-19 National Trust Fund. Three members of the Presbytery of the Church, Prophet Christopher Yaw Annor, Rev. Anthony Cudjoe and […]
Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé has declared a three-month state of emergency to stop the spread of coronavirus. He said the seriousness of the situation warranted the measures, which include the immediate start a curfew from 19:00-06:00 local time. A 5,000-strong unit of security agents was also being set up to tackle the pandemic as well […]
An Indian couple have named their newborn Twins ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’ despite the sadness and pain the Coronvirus disease brought unto the face of the earth. The two words ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’ were derived from ‘Coronavirus’ and ‘COVID-19’. The couple from Chhattisgarh, a City in India said the reason why they gave such names to […]
The Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International Ministry, Nicholas Duncan-Williams has revealed that he has had to reject two very expensive Rolls Royce cars as gifts because of the loud nature of Ghanaians. BestNewsGH.com reports the man who has been touted as the founder of the Charismatic Movement in Ghana as saying […]
Dutifully performing its role in a highly-choreographed display of political theatre, Russia’s highest court on Monday approved constitutional changes that opened the way for President Vladimir V. Putin to crash through term limits and stay in power through 2036. With a dense 52-page ruling clogged with legalese, the Constitutional Court removed one of the last, albeit very flimsy potential […]
Dolly Parton, on Wednesday, announced she was making a $1 million donation to Vanderbilt University’s coronavirus research. “My longtime friend Dr. Naji Abumrad, who’s been involved in research at Vanderbilt for many years, informed me that they were making some exciting advancements towards research of the coronavirus for a cure,” she wrote in a statement […]
Oil marketing giant, GOIL has reduced its petrol price by a margin of 10 percent. The reduction comes as the two weeks partial lockdown of Kumasi, Accra, Tema, due to the outbreak of coronavirus enters its fourth day. The reduction is taking effect at all its pumps with Diesel XP now selling at GHC4.32 and […]
Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of GIHOC Distilleries Company Limited, Maxwell Kofi Jumah has suggested that election 2020 should be cancelled so Ghana can concentrate on fighting COVID-19. According to him, President Akufo-Addo and his team have been able to brilliantly contain and manage the spread of the disease unlike other parts of the world underscoring the need […]
Ghana is facing a diplomatic hurdle as it attempts to repatriate Burkinabe and Guinean citizens who tested positive for coronavirus in Tamale, the Northern Region capital. Northern Region Minister, Salifu Saeed, has disclosed that authorities in Guinea are reluctant to receive eight of their citizens who tested positive for coronavirus in Ghana. The eight Guineans […]
