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Walewale residents under self-quarantine after possible contact with Covid-19 victim

Health authorities in Walewale in the West Mamprusi Municipal Assembly of North East Region have asked residents within a community where a...

Bizarre: Lady allegedly kills hubby for breaking blood covenant [audio]

A 30-year-old woman has allegedly killed her husband for breaking their blood covenant. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Papa Owusu Ankomah tests positiveWoman reveals what makes her reach...

Ghana loses renowned doctor to Coronavirus

Professor Jacob Plange-Rhule, the Rector of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the early hours of Friday succumbed to complications from COVID-19, at...

COVID-19 Trust Fund: More money in coffers as Amponsah Effah Pharmaceuticals, others donate

As the Board of Trustees for the COVID-19 National Trust Fund officially begin their work today after their swearing-in yesterday, more companies and groups...

Coronavirus: Papa Owusu Ankomah tests positive

Ghana's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland, Papa Owusu Ankomah, has tested positive to coronavirus. Joy News' Baaba Tandoh confirmed this on...

Coronavirus: Obinim commits GH₵2 billion to needy church members [audio]

Members of International Godsway Church will be smiling to the bank after their man of God says he has committed GH₵2 billion to support...

Coronavirus: CSIR assists with testing of cases

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR, is assisting with the testing of COVID-19 cases. ALSO READ: Shatta Wale gives out GH¢ 200 to 50...

Mother, two children burnt to death on Good Friday in Takoradi [photos+audio]

A mother, her one-year-old and eight months old children, have been burnt to death at New Takoradi in the Western region. Reports indicate the incident...

Rebecca Foundation presents relief boxes to Greater Kumasi

The Rebecca Foundation today presented two thousand boxes of relief items to the Mayor of Kumasi for distribution to the needy in areas affected...

Zongo chief pledges food, relief items to subjects in lockdown

Chief of the Zongo Communities in Ashanti region, Sultan Umar Farouk, has pledged to support his subjects with food and other relief items until...

Covid-19: US Embassy registers citizens to evacuate them out of Ghana

The United States Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan, has asked lawful or permanent United States (US) residents interested in potential Embassy-organised flight to...

Lockdown: I feed on food prepared for the vulnerable – Gender Minister

Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison, has revealed she has been feeding on food meant for the vulnerable in the areas...

COVID-19: Hospital, funeral players cry over congested morgue

Authorities of the Bono Regional Hospital in Sunyani say the morgue in the facility is full and they are unable to take any more...

Lockdown: Meet the Ghanaians feeding thousands of people everyday

Two Ghanaians, Gloria Owusu and Clement Gyato, following the lockdown in some parts of Ghana, have taken it upon themselves to feed people each...

This Easter Goodwill message from Akufo-Addo will melt your heart

Christians around the world, who celebrate Easter, the commemoration of the death of Christ Jesus, would have been meeting together in sanctuaries to celebrate...

Coronavirus: Details about those who will enjoy electricity for free

President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced plans to absorb the electricity bills of low-income consumers in the country for April, May and June. ALSO READ: Coronavirus:...

Akufo-Addo trends on twitter; this is why

The hashtag ‘Nana Addo’ is trending number one on Twitter following President Nana Akufo-Addo’s sixth national address on measures his government has taken...

Infographics: Reason for Accra, Kumasi lockdown extension

Restrictions on movements in Accra and Kumasi by one more week from Monday, April 13, 2020. ALSO READ: Akufo-Addo extends partial lockdown by...

Coronavirus: Ghana’s borders remain shut – Akufo-Addo

Ghana will close all land, sea and air borders to human traffic until further notice, President Nana Akufo-Addo has reiterated. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Runaway ‘kayayo’ who...

Akufo-Addo extends partial lockdown by one more week [Video]

President Nana Akufo-Addo has extended the restrictions on movements in Accra and Kumasi by one more week from Monday, April 13, 2020. Delivering his sixth...

Coronavirus: Runaway ‘kayayo’ who tested positive found [video]

One of two persons who have been on the ran after testing positive for Covid-19 has been found with the assistance of the...

Tema COVID-19 cop shooting: The inside story

DETAILS are emerging about what triggered the shooting of a policewoman, Lance Corporal Francisca Tengey, by a soldier during lockdown duties last night. The identity of the soldier...

Kingdom Exim: A Ghanaian company that is silently fighting Covid-19 from its own resources

Perhaps it is the first time you are hearing about the Kingdom Exim Group Limited but whatever the case, you are hearing of it...

Free water supply: How Ghana Water will deal with defaulters[audio]

The Ghana Water Company Limited has devised an innovative way of dealing with individuals who fail to supply water to their community for free...

Coronavirus: Effutu residents defy social distancing over choice of isolation centre [video]

Residents of Effutu in Cape Coast in the Central region are protesting over the choice of Effutu Senior High School (SHS) as an isolation...

BoG Hospital saga: Kweku Baako replies Ato Forson

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako Jnr, has attributed the collapse of the nine indigenous banks during the banking sector...

Coronavirus: Why some residents in Cape Coast are in quarantine [audio]

Some residents in Cape Coast in the Central region are calling for a partial lockdown after recording its first coronavirus case. ALSO READ: Police deployed to...

Coronavirus: Why some fishermen think virus attacks only rich people [audio]

Copyright © 20 Some fishermen in the Central region have resolved not to observe safety protocols put out by the World Health Organisation as cases...

Ablekuma MCE threatens to shut down Mallam Market

The Ablekuma North Municipal Assembly says it may be forced to shut down the Mallam Market over persistent breach of social distancing ...

Coronavirus patient has run away in Kumasi – Says MP

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia North, Collins Owusu Amankwah, has disclosed that an individual, who has tested positive for COVID-19, is in hiding in...

Paridox Cosmetics donates hand sanitisers, detergents to support Covid-19 fight

The Nsawam Prisons and Nsawam Government Hospital have taken delivery of hand sanitisers and antibacterial hand washing soap from Paridox Cosmetics, a subsidiary of...

How Rebecca Naa Dedei Aryeetey became the face on the 50 pesewas coin

It takes great work and achievements for anybody, particularly a woman in a male-dominated world to win a place on a national currency. Many have...

Coronavirus could push half a billion people into poverty

The economic fallout from the coronavirus could increase global poverty by as much a half a billion. This bleak warning comes from a United Nations...

Covid-19 Fight: Why I’d rather donate towards provision of PPEs – John Mahama

Former President and flag bearer of opposition National Democratic Congress, says he prefers buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) for frontline health workers to making...

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...