General Overseer of the Makers’ House Chapel, Dr Michael Boadi Nyamekye is pushing for churches to remain closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. His position supports that of Dr. Mensah Otabil of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) who a few days ago posited that it is not a good time lift the ban on social […]
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COVID-19: President Akufo-addo commends Military for exemplary fight; commissions housing apartments
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 12th May, 2020, commissioned the ‘New Douala Barracks’ at Burma Camp in Accra, whose construction commenced in 2017, as part of the Barracks Regeneration Project. It will be recalled that upon his assumption of office, and in the Asempa Budget, President Akufo-Addo announced the […]
COVID-19: Ghana’s case count now 5,127
Ghana’s COVID-19 case count is now 5,127, from 4,700 previously. The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Aboagye who made the announcement a while ago, said 427 new cases were recorded. According to Dr. Aboagye, 277 of the new cases were recorded on May 9, 160 on May 10 and the rest […]
Tema: Pioneer Food Cannery resumes operations after shutdown
Pioneer Food Cannery in Tema has resumed, albeit partially after it was shut down for three weeks when 533 of its workers tested positive for the coronavirus disease. An internal memo signed by the Plant Director of the company, Johnny Ladouce, on May 9, to all workers, announced that the factory would resume partial production, […]
COVID-19: Anyone who kicks against the re-opening of churches will die-Bishop David Oyedepo declares
Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church has once again kicked against the continued closure of Churches in Nigeria due to coronavirus pandemic. Days ago, the clergyman spoke against the closure of Churches while markets are allowed to operate after the Federal Government eased the lockdown period. In a video sighted by the popular Nigerian […]
COVID-19: Idris Elba launches fund to support farmers in poor Countries
The agriculture agency will give $40 million to a fund launched by Idris Elba to help farmers in poor nations. The Thomson Reuters Foundation spoke to IFAD’s president ahead of the announcement. Since the coronavirus pandemic began to hit developing nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been finding ways to help rural […]
COVID-19: Ghana has been very proactive in handling crisis-Lawyer Sambian
Legal Practitioner and politician, Mr. Sulley Sambian says Ghana’s handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic has been very proactive. According to the North East Regional Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), this is evidenced by the commendations that are pouring in from across the globe. The NPP North East Regional scribe described Ghana;s current […]
COVID-19: Gov’t to present more money and logistics to NCCE today-President Akufo-Addo
As part of measures to empower the National Commission on Civic Education to enable it carry out its mandate of educating the masses on the COVID-19 Pandemic, government will be giving the Commission more money and logistics today, Monday, May 11, 2020. The package which was announced by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during his […]
COVID-19: Boost your immune system by eating dawadawa, crabs, kontomire, plantain and brown rice-President Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the generality of the Ghanaian people to eat foods that will boost their immune systems in order to help them fight off the COVID-19 Virus. These foods according to the president include dawadawa, kontomire, crabs, plantain, brown rice and okro. The president who made the suggestion during his […]
Full text: President Akufo-Addo’s 9th address to the nation on Covid-19 crisis
Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. It has been eight (8) weeks since our nation embarked on a co-ordinated, enhanced response towards combating the Coronavirus pandemic, after we recorded our first two (2) confirmed cases. We have taken the necessary measures of aggressively tracing, testing, isolating and treating infected persons and their contacts, as a means of […]
COVID-19: George Lutterodt uses his wife’s underwear as nose mask
Rev. Cyril George Carstensen Lutterodt has scaled up his controversial tag by appearing on a radio program with his wife’s underwear as a nose mask. Widely known as Counselor Lutterodt, the public figure who was on Accra-based Neat FM to discuss a topic about mothers as the world commemorates Mothers’ Day on Sunday was clad […]
COVID-19: Financial impact on churches
Churches all over Ghana have been hardly hit by the lockdown, government restrictions on social gathering and social distancing protocols. Many churches have had to forgo in-person services to follow government orders not to gather in large groups and maintain social/physical distance of at least 2 meters between individuals in an effort to curb the […]