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Covid-19: Check out what travellers do with coffins just to avoid arrest

Travellers have ferried an empty coffin from Nairobi to Homa Bay county with the pretence that they were going for a funeral, to evade...

Abrantie Amakye Dede has a message on Covid-19 fight

Legendary Highlife musician, Nana Okyeredom Abrantie Amakye Dede, has urged Ghanaians to adhere to the safety protocols regarding the Covid-19 fight if Ghana is...

I’ll continue to give free meals till Friday – Philanthropist named ‘MTN’ assures

A businessman and philanthropist who has been giving free meals to persons during the recently-terminated lockdown, Paa Kwesi Jerry Nyamekye, says he will continue...

Kasoa traders have a message for gov’t on ‘Social Distancing’

Some market women at Kasoa New Market in the Central Region have appealed to President Nana Akufo-Addo to provide them funds and shed before...

BoG directs banks, SDI’s not to pay dividends to shareholders

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has directed Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions (SDIs) in the country not to declare or pay any dividend to...

Coronavirus: Lockdown, curfews to be imposed if….

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has revealed lockdowns and curfews may be imposed if the country begins to experience increase in cases after the...

3-year-old boy drowns at Ngleshie Amanfro

Residents at American Farm, a suburb of Ngleshie Amanfro in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have been thrown into a...

TUC backs lifting of lockdown

The Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress, Dr Anthony Yaw Baah, says the decision taken by the President Akufo-Addo, to lift the ...

Coronavirus: Akuapem North records 2 cases

The Akuapem North Municipality in the Eastern region has recorded two positive coronavirus cases. ALSO READ: Govt to support Ghanaian scientists to develop vaccinesLifting Lockdown:...

Lifting Lockdown: GHS to embark on new preventive testing

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, says the government, despite the lifting of the lockdown, is not reducing the preventive etiquette to curb the spread...

The lockdown has worked; Akufo-Addo is right to move our Covid-19 fight forward

In the wake of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo lifting the order restricting movement in parts of the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions, there...

Watch: Why coronavirus cases in Ghana will increase – Information Minister explains

Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has disclosed that there will be an increase in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the...

Policeman blasts Chinese man for defying lockdown order, blames him for being behind Covid-19 (Watch)

An obviously angry policeman, who will have none of the misbehavior of people who flouted the President’s directive during the lockdown, poured his anger...

Checkout taxi driver’s hand-washing invention to keep passengers safe [Video]

An unidentified taxi driver has created a new hand-washing technique to keep passengers clean before entering in for a ride. The innovation, planted on the...

Okyenhene issues one-month ultimatum to families to bury their relations

The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Ofori Panin II, has issued a one-month ultimatum to families within the Akyem-Abuakwa state to retrieve bodies of relatives so as...

Lifting of lockdown: Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko’s take

The President was clear in his 7th speech on covid-19, delivered Sunday. He says, the fact that we are lifting the ban does...

Okada rider bites head of taskforce officer over social distancing argument

An Okada rider has allegedly wounded the Deputy Operation Commander in-charge of Kasoa Central Business District during an argument over social distancing rule. Desmond Korankye,...

Rotary Club supports Ayawaso North in fight against coronavirus

The Accra Rotary Club of Kanda has donated GH¢5,000 to the Ayawaso North Municipal Health Directorate. The team, led by the President of the Club,...

Social media on fire as partial lockdown is lifted

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has lifted the ban on restricted movement in some parts of the country including Greater Accra region and Kumasi. According...

Infographics: All you need to know about Akufo-Addo’s address on lockdown

President Nana Akufo-Addo has addressed the nation for the seventh time since the country began its fight against the novel coronavirus. Throughout his addresses, the...

READ: Why partial lockdown was lifted

PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO LIFTS PARTIAL LOCKDOWN, BUT KEEPS OTHER ENHANCED MEASURES IN PLACE The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, 19th April,...

Ban on social gatherings still in force

President Nana Akufo-Addo has lifted the three-week lockdown imposed in some parts of the country in order to control the spread of the deadly...

Coronavirus: Partial lockdown lifted!

President Akufo-Addo has lifted the partial lockdown on Greater Accra, Tema, Kasoa and Greater Kumasi. According to the President, the decision to enforce the...

FDA recalls COA FS products from the market

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is recalling all batches of COA FS Food Supplement manufactured by COA Herbal Centre in Cape Coast and...

Kind landlady surprises tenants with 3 months’ rent waiver to ease lockdown pressure

A landlady of an apartment building at Teiman in Accra, Joyce Terkper, has given three months’ rent waiver to her tenants due to the...

Covid-19 Lockdown: Victory Bible Church supplies food items to over 2,000 homes in Awoshie

Victory Bible Church International (VBCI), one of the leading charismatic and pentecostal churches in Ghana, has given out food items to over 2,000 homes...

Lockdown: Akufo-Addo to address Ghanaians tonight

President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo will tonight address Ghanaians with updates on measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease. This will be the president’s...

Florence Obinim flaunts her backside in new photos after Ken Agyapong bashing

Florence Obinim, the wife of Bishop Daniel Obinim, has released new stunning photos on social media. The new photos have Mrs Obinim looking gorgeous...

Video: There’s no Coronavirus in Ghana – Pastor Prince Osei

Pastor Prince Elisha Osei Kofi, the Founder and Leader of Springs of Grace Executive Fellowship, says in spite of Ghana recording 834 cases of...

Residents turn church into public place of convenience [photos]

The Central Tongu District assembly is worried about increasing trend of open defecation despite measures to mitigate it. It comes as some residents of Adidome...

Joy Prime’s Covid-19 Series Giveaway: Free Lunch GH partners station to donate foodstuffs to residents of Dansoman

The donations being undertaken by Multimedia Group’s subsidiary, Joy Prime, has encouraged sponsors to partner the channel to reach more of its audience. Free Lunch...

Lockdown: Techiman market to be shut

The Municipal Chief Executive of the Techiman Assembly, John Donyina, has announced a one-week closure of its main market amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at...

Israeli drug ‘Opaganib’ successful in treating patients with COVID-19

Opaganib is a 'new chemical entity' administered orally to patients with Covid-19 and it performs “anticancer, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory activities.” The experimental drug from the Israeli biopharmaceutical...

COVID-19: Family weeps, abandons search for missing child over lockdown

Tetteh Ocloo family at Klagon in the Greater Accra region, like many other families, 2020 is certainly a year which is pregnant with so...

Journalist reportedly shot as security forces raid Changli in Tamale

A journalist with Accra-based TV Africa has been reportedly shot during a joint security operation on Saturday, April 18, 2020 at Changli, a suburb...

134 arrested in dawn raid for brutalising female police officer in Tamale

Police sources at the Northern Regional Police Command have revealed that about 134 suspects were on Saturday dawn arrested in connection with the brutality of...

Female police officer collapses after suffering beatings from Tamale residents

A female police officer has gained consciousness after she blacked out following an attack by some residents of Changli, a suburb in the Tamale...

Coronavirus escapee captured in Wa

The Covid-19 carrie,r who escaped mandatory quarantine in the Upper West Region, has been arrested. ALSO READ: Too many empty past promises — Grace NorteyFemale police...

Female police officer collapses after mob attack in Tamale

A female police officer has gained consciousness after she blacked out following an attack by some residents of Changli, a suburb in the...

Covid-19 Private Sector 100-bed isolation, treatment facility [Video+Photo]

All is set for the construction of a 100-bed Covid-19 treatment and isolation facility, to complement efforts by the government to contain the coronavirus...