Cameroon’s aged president is coming under fire for his absence from the national stage as the central African country faces a burgeoning coronavirus crisis. A month after the first case of COVID-19 was recorded, 87-year-old Paul Biya has yet to address the nation — a silence that for supporters is a sign of gravitas but […]
The Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Lawyer Justin Kodua Frimpong has shown love and affection to the less privileged in the Ashanti Region. As his contribution towards the fight against the COVID-19 virus which has been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Mr. Kodua Frimpong joined the […]
Truck loads of food items have arrived in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional Capital, Kumasi, for onward distribution to residents as the observe the lockdown announced by government as a result of the outbreak of the COVID-19 Virus. Earlier, the Minister for Children, Gender and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison had announced that government was in the […]
In January 2013, when President John Mahama delivered his first address as President of Ghana, he exuded much confidence and promise—I believe Ghanaians did, too because he (the President) and his charges promised a new kind of governance that promised to change the fortunes of the country. They enjoyed so much goodwill, which goodwill they […]
The Ghana Health Service has announced an additional Twenty six (26) new recorded cases of COVID-19. BestNewsGH.com reports the Ghana Health Service as positing that out the total, six (6) deaths have been recorded. This brings the total case count to Three Hundred and Thirteen (313). See the current regional distribution below: Greater Accra Region […]
South Africa’s communications minister has been suspended for two months – one of which will be without pay – for having lunch with a friend during the coronavirus lockdown. Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has been the talk of the town since a photograph of her eating with Mduduzi Manana surfaced this week. The image, which shows the […]
The President of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Frank Ankobea, has applauded the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the bold measures that he has taken to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic in Ghana. One behalf of the Executive Committee of the Association, Dr. Frank Ankobea stated that “we would like to […]
A small-town Illinois mayor on Sunday sent police officers to break up a social gathering that was being held in violation of the governor’s coronavirus stay-at-home order, only to find his own wife among the revelers. Alton Mayor Brant Walker on Monday issued a statement on Facebook apologizing to the community and saying that he has instructed […]
President Faure Gnassingbé has announced several social, political and economic measures to make life easier for the Togolese people as the coronavirus pandemic keeps spreading worldwide. As part of these measures, starting this month, access to water and power is free for the next three months. In detail, concerning water, households with a monthly consumption […]
People living in Wuhan have finally been able to leave 76 days after draconian measures were imposed to fight the coronavirus outbreak. Anyone who has a ‘green’ QR code on a smartphone health app is now allowed to exit the city that once was the Covid-19 epicentre for the first time since 23 January. Pictures […]
The Guinean government has announced incentive packages aimed at making the country’s citizens comfortable as they observe a lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19 in that country. BestNewsGH.com reports President Alpha Conde as ordering the free supply of water, electricity, transport as well a freeze on the payment of rent until December. The President has […]
Barely six days into its operations, the Ghana Private Sector COVID-19 Fund has fed some Sixty One Thousand, Five Hundred (61,500) people. Giving a detailed breakdown of the Fund’s activities with regards to the ‘Feed a Kayayei’ Project, the originator of the Fund, Ms. Julie Essiam, who is the Commissioner for Support Services at the […]
