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Mahama refuses to donate salary into COVID-19 National Fund (Watch)

Former president John Dramani Mahama has declined to donate his salary into the COVID-19 national fund. Mr Mahama, speaking to Joy News in an...

Yilo Krobo Assembly to go into lockdown

The Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly has declared a lockdown in the area effective Friday, April 10, 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic in Ghana. According to...

Covid-19: ‘Hungry’ women reject govt’s free food, find out why [watch]

Some women in the slummy areas of Maamobi in Accra have done the unthinkable by rejecting food distributed to them by some officials of...

African leaders seek remedies, with 20 million job losses and shrinking GDP expected

The African Union (AU) has projected a contraction across the continent’s economies and the loss of almost 20 million this year amid the fallout...

Lockdown: 8 pastors in court for flouting govt’s directives

Eight pastors, who flouted the government’s directives on public gatherings and went ahead to hold church services, were on Monday, granted GH¢10,000.00 bail...

Coronavirus: Jose Mourinho hot for training in a public park

Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has acknowledged he breached United Kingdom (UK) government guidelines after he and a number of his star players were pictured flouting social distancing regulations by...

Ghana Statistical Service, UNDP partner to track impacts of Covid-19

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has rolled out a Business Tracker, which is...

READ: Contractors write open letter to President Akufo-Addo

ASSOCIATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS PUBLIC SECTOR CONTRACTORS The menace of COVID-19 has brought hardship the world over and governments are putting measures in place to mitigate the...

Coronavirus: 8 pastors in court for flouting lockdown directives

Eight pastors who flouted government’s directive on public gatherings and went ahead to hold church services were, on Monday, granted GH¢10,000.00 bail each...

Lockdown: Kasoa markets shut down for overcrowding

Kasoa New and Old Markets are faced with a temporary closure after traders failed to adhere to directives of social distancing as Coronavirus intensifies. The...

Coronavirus: Ghana records 6th death

One more person has been confirmed dead in Ghana after contracting Coronavirus, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) reports. Details of the deceased, however, are unknown...

Coronavirus: How centuries old tradition of funerals has been affected in Ghana

Funerals are a big deal in Ghana and it is not uncommon, in some parts, for a ceremony to last up to seven days,...

Coronavirus: Unemployed Allied Health Professionals make shocking demands

Members of the Coalition of Graduate Unemployed Allied Health Professionals are threatening to quit contact tracing duties if government does not employ them. The group,...

Real reason why Akufo-Addo delivers coronavirus addresses at night revealed!

A Deputy Minister of Information, Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, has explained that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s evening broadcasts on the Coronavirus situation in...

Vehicle runs over 9-year-old girl at Anyinam

Information available to MyNewsGh.com is that a nine-year-old girl has been killed by an over speeding Toyota Corolla Saloon Car. According to a...

Coronavirus: Kingdom Exim Ghana Ltd donates to Techiman North district

Techiman North District in the Bono East Region is the latest to benefit from Kingdom Exim Ghana Limited’s series of donations towards the fight...

Ghana, center of academic excellence soon – Envoy

The government of Ghana is making frantic effort to reposition the country as regional center of academic excellence, technological innovation and human capital development. Consequently, the necessary infrastructures...

A day after Old Fadama fire; hundreds rendered homeless [Video+Photos]

Slum dwellers at old Fadama who were affected by Tuesday dawn's fire outbreak are asking government and the public to assist them with some...

Covid-19: Stay at home or I will shoot you –Angry security officer warns

An angry security officer has had to use unsavory words on persons believed to be violating the lockdown directive with a threat to shoot...

Coronavirus: Akufo-Addo woos doctors

The President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Frank Ankobea, has applauded the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the bold measures...

Punishment for loitering during lockdown (Photos)

Some 50 individuals have been made to desilt chocked drains in the Central Business District of Kasoa after they were found loitering during the partial lockdown...

Good Friday, Easter Monday declared declared statutory holidays

The Ministry of the Interior has reminded the public that Friday, 10th April 2020, and Monday, 13th April 2020 are statutory...

Listen: Cause of Old Fadama fire will shock you

Slum dwellers at Old Fadama in Accra are hunting for a couple whom they claim are responsible for a fire outbreak Tuesday dawn. ALSO READ: Photos:...

Video: Man caught stealing liquid soap after using it to wash his hands

A video of a youngman stealing a liquid soap after using it in broad day light has surfaced online. In the video, sighted by Adomonline,...

Over 1,000 people served with food in Weija-Gbawe constituency [photos]

The Member of Parliament who doubles as Deputy Health Minister, Hon. Tina Naa Ayeley Mensah, today, April, 6, 2020, led a team of...

Photos: fire guts parts of Old Fadama; over 800 slum dwellers homeless

Over 800 wooden structures, which serve as accommodation for residents of Old Fadama, have been gutted by fire. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: China reports no Covid-19 deaths...

NCCE director arrested for allegedly producing fake hand sanitisers

A director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti region has been arrested...

COVID-19: Ghana’s age group distribution of recorded cases

Dr Badu Sarkodie, Director for Public Health at the Ghana Health Service, has disclosed the country’s age group distribution of recorded cases of the...

Coronavirus: Organise private burials, mortuaries could be congested – Korle-Bu Mortuary Manager warns

Coronavirus: Organise private burials, mortuaries could be congested – Korle-Bu Mortuary Manager warns The Mortuary Manager at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Mr George Denkyi, has...

COVID-19: Ministry begins recruitment of nurses, midwives, check out application process

The Ministry of Health will on Tuesday, April 14, commence recruitment for trained diploma and degree nurses and midwives. The recruitment will involve only those...

COVID-19: Minister vows to unleash soldiers with horse whips on prostitutes

Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, has vowed to stamp out prostitution in the Northern region by all means necessary. Mr Saeed, speaking at a press...

Police officers enforcing lockdown to be served food

The Ghana Police Service has announced that personnel deployed to enforce the restriction of movement will be provided with food and water. According to a...

Two employees of Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, test positive for coronavirus

Jeff Bezos' space venture Blue Origin confirmed on Monday that two employees at its Seattle-area headquarters tested positive for the coronavirus. The employees, who are married...

Coronavirus wreaks havoc in US black communities

Stark statistics from Chicago health officials have underscored the heavy toll of coronavirus on black Americans. Black Chicagoans account for half of all coronavirus cases...

Hon Aponkye shares ‘Koko’ to residents of Adukrom Nima amid lockdown (Video)

Disappointed Assembly Man of Adukrom Nima, Ibrahim Issah Ampim, aka Hon Aponkye, is back again in the news headline, but this time around, fulfilling...

Why Some Ghanaians want to ‘beat up’ Bridget Otoo over her comment about Akufo-Addo

Controversial broadcaster, Bridget Otoo, has been a subject of social media trolls for saying that her tap has not been running for two weeks. Her...

Just in: Okoe Boye appointed Deputy Health Minister-Designate

Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku constituency, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, has been appointed Deputy Minister for Health, a statement from the presidency has...

Bees storm drinking spot; kills one at Nyanyano

Bees have attacked some men in a drinking spot at Suncity near Kasoa leaving one person dead and injuring two. ALSO READ: Coronavirus fight: NDC...

Double jeopardy: Police officer serving 20 years jailed again!

A High Court in Koforidua has sentenced a police officer who is already serving a prison sentence of 20 years for robbery to additional...

Ashaiman MP demands justice for constituent soldier accidentally ‘murdered’

Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashaiman Constituency, Ernest Henry Norgbey, is demanding for justice to be served for a constituent who was allegedly shot and killed...