Celebrated media personality, staunch Made-in-Ghana product campaigner, entrepreneur and PR practitioner, Kobi Hemaa Osisiadan-Bekoe, has on 1st May 2020, reached out to three communities in the Greater Accra region with “Pad for All” Project. Speaking to the media, Kobi Hemaa who is also the founder of Angeles Foundation explained that, many menstruating girls and women […]
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Trevor Noah pays his furloughed crew’s salaries out of his own pocket amid COVID-19
Trevor Noah is the boss of bosses. The late-night talk show host is stepping up in a big way to help his normal studio crew, which has been furloughed due to the coronavirus crisis. While Noah is shooting “The Daily Show” remotely, he’s personally paying the salaries of 25 crew members who can’t contribute to […]
El Salvador inmates crammed together in prison lockdown amid COVID-19
Defying social distancing recommendations due to the coronavirus, authorities in El Salvador crammed prisoners – albeit some wearing maks – tightly together in prison yards while searching their cells over the weekend. President Nayib Bukele ordered the crackdown after more than 20 people were murdered in the country Friday and intelligence suggested the orders came […]
COVID-19: Parliament approves ¢288m tax waiver for health personnel
Parliament has approved a ¢288.6 million tax waiver for health care workers to motivate them in the fight against Covid-19. The tax waiver is on personal emoluments of all health care workers for the months of April, May and June 2020, and on additional allowances for front line health personnel covering March, April, May and […]
Touching: Priest gives last rites to COVID-19 patient through window
A New Jersey priest was unable to perform last rites on a coronavirus patient in person or over the phone, due to a bad connection — so he decided to administer the prayer through the window of the man’s nursing home room, according to a report. “I was shaking as I was doing it. I […]
Video: Landlord caught offering free rent to women in exchange for sex amid COVID-19
A Long Island landlord was caught offering free rent in exchange for sexual favors from tenants after he shared an advertisement for ‘submissive females.’ The landlord, identified as ‘Eddie’, made the unsavory post on Craigslist in a post titled ‘Room Share for Submissive Female,’ Inside Edition reports. ‘During these hard times Covid-19 has thrown many in a […]
COVID-19: Will history be repeating itself?-Prof. Anthony Sallar asks
According to David Patterson and David Killingray (The Influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in the Gold Coast, and The New Imperial Disease: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 and its impact on the British Empire”) the Gold Coast was totally unprepared for the influenza epidemic. On August 28, 1918, the Governor of Sierra Leone sent a wire […]
COVID-19: Woman drinks sperm smoothies to fight off virus
A personal trainer claims she is fighting off coronavirus by drinking smoothies containing her boyfriend’s sperm. Tracy Kiss, 32, reckons that the refreshing drinks that contain a shot of semen have boosted her immune system. In a bold move she is urging others to do the same saying that the unusual combination will help stop […]
UN launches Covid-19 aid flights to vulnerable developing nations
The U.N. World Food Program has sent a first plane loaded with medical supplies for developing nations especially vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic, aiming to ramp up the service to 350 flights per month. WFP chose nine airports across the world to take part in the special humanitarian air bridge, which will also feature up […]
COVID-19: Poultry farmers in Upper West Region donates 82 crates of eggs towards fight
The Upper West Regional branch of the Ghana National Poultry Farmer Association have donated some poultry products to the Regional Coordinating Council as their contribution towards the fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic. The group donated some 82 crates of eggs to the Regional Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin-Salih at the forecourt of the Regional Coordinating Council […]
COVID-19: Ghana performs first two autopsies on bodies
Ghana on Thursday morning conducted two autopsies on two Covid-19 bodies to help unravel the mysteries surrounding a virus that has killed thousands worldwide and derailed the global economy. The move pathologists say is to help improve treatment of survivors in Ghana and possibly the world. In what could potentially change the treatment of coronavirus […]
Just in: Ghana records 403 new COVID-19 cases; total now 2,074 with 212 recoveries
Ghana’s COVID-19 case counts has surged to 2,074 after 403 new cases were recorded according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The Ghana Health Service’ COVID-19 website explains that 212 people have so far recovered from the deadly virus. BestNewsGH.com reports the GHS as indicating that one more death has been registered, bring the total […]