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COVID-19: Group calls for inclusion of mental health patients in awareness

Chief Executive Officer of Mensah Mental Health Rehabilitation Project (MEMHREP) is calling on the government to include people with mental health problems and those...

NSS releases 2020/2021 nurses’ postings

The National Service Scheme (NSS) has announced the release of national service postings for over 9,000 nurses for the 2020/2021 service year to various...

Kumasi pastor who defied church ban granted GH¢ 10,000 bail [photos]

The Asokwa District Court has granted bail to eight ministers of the gospel and church elders who congregated in contravention to presidential ban on...

Coronavirus: Cassava starch, Akpeteshie sold as hand sanitizers

Criminals are taking undue advantage of the mad rush for hand sanitizers and defrauding unsuspecting Ghanaians through various schemes. In view of the novel coronavirus...

Coronavirus: Parliament to relocate [Audio]

Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye has revealed arrangements by the House to relocate parliamentary. Legislative sessions will now be moved to the Accra...

Coronavirus: Allow journalists to work from home – GJA urges media houses

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has urged media houses to adopt new work systems that will allow journalists to work from home. “We...

Fire guts immigration office at Elubo [Photos]

Fire has razed the offices of Ghana Immigration Service at the Elubo border in the Western region of Ghana. The fire, which started in the...

Registrar Department closes down over fumigation exercise

The Registrar-General’s Department, due to the fumigation exercise being undertaken by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly at selected markets in Accra, including the Tema Station,...

GAF deploys personnel for covid-19 disinfection

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has deployed about 500 personnel for the Covid-19 disinfection exercise carried out in over 1,000 markets in Greater Accra...

Coronavirus: More infections and deaths to be recorded – Public Health Specialist [video]

A public health specialist has told Ghanaians and the world at large to brace themselves for more recorded cases and deaths from the novel...

ACEP predicts $830m drop in oil revenue due to coronavirus pandemic

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) is forecasting a dramatic drop in the government’s projected revenue for the year 2020. This is because of...

COVID-19: AMA begins market fumigation [Photos+video]

(VIDEO): COVID-19 disinfection underway at the Mallam-Atta Market. pic.twitter.com/WDdatyD4Pq— Adom TV (@adom_tv) March 23, 2020 Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has begun its fumigation...

Don’t accept free nose masks from untrusted sources – Expert

An Investigative Expert, Mr George Dosoo Doyen, has cautioned the public not to accept nose masks from untrusted sources in this period of the...

Pregnant woman dies in accident near Apam

A pregnant woman travelling with her husband from Accra towards Cape Coast died on the spot when their vehicle got involved in a tragic...

1,000 markets shutdown for fumigation against coronavirus

A major disinfection exercise is taking place throughout the country on Monday, March 23, 2020. The exercise, the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development...

I won’t allow shoddy roads work in Prestea-Himan – Nana Nteboah IV warns

A recent tour by the Divisional Chief of Prestea-Himan Traditional Area in the Western Region, Nana Nteboah Prah IV, to inspect ongoing Prestea-Himan inner-city...

COVID-19: Kumasi pastor arrested again for defying ban on public gatherings[Video]

Head Pastor of Open Arms Ministries in Kumasi has been arrested for the second time for defying the Presidential directive on public gathering. Police sources...

15-year-old girl shot dead at Aboabo

A 15-year-old girl, Mary Rober, has been shot dead at Aboabo bus stop, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti region. According...

Pastor Mensa Otabil holds service online [Video]

The International Centre Gospel Church, led by Pastor Mensa Otabil, today, Sunday held a virtual church service. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Ghana shuts all borders effective...

NDC experts will collaborate with govt in combating coronavirus – Mahama [Video]

Former President John Dramani Mahama says the National Democratic Congress (NDC), under his leadership, has assembled a technical team to collaborate with the government...

COVID-19 could be a game-changer in the dynamics of world power- Mensa Otabil

Founder and General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Pastor Mensa Otabil, says the COVID-19 pandemic could potentially be a game-changer in...

COVID- 19: Reality will force you to speak truth to your people – NDC man to Akufo-Addo

General Manager of Pluzz FM and National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the Tarkwa Nsuaem Constituency in the Western Region, Seth Kwame Dzokoto,...

Coronavirus cases in Ghana now 21

Ghana’s coronavirus cases have increased to 21. Read all stories on coronavirus here “Ghana records two(2) new cases of COVID-19 with 1 death, this leaves ...

Coronavirus: Ghana shuts all borders, one death confirmed by President Akufo-Addo!

Ghana has shut all borders to human traffic effective Sunday, March 22, 2020 in the country’s renewed strategies to fight the deadly coronavirus. President Nana...

Coronavirus: Ghana shuts all borders effective Sunday

Ghana has announced the closure of all its borders effective March 22, 2020. The President, Nana Akufo-Addo, who announced this Saturday, said the decision is...

Ghana records first coronavirus death

Ghana has recorded its first death from the novel coronavirus. The deceased is the Lebanese male trader who reported to a health facility in Kumasi...

Kwame Jantuah calls for 20-year development plan for energy sector

Former Chairperson of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the African Consortium Limited, Kwame Jantuah, has advocated...

Sociologist reveals positive side of COVID-19 [watch]

“One of the positive sides of COVID-19 is that it will make families develop stronger bonds,” says Dr Sylvia Esther Gyan of the Sociology...

Coronavirus: No patient has recovered yet – GHS

The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has debunked reports that eight out of the 19 recorded coronavirus patients have recovered. Speaking on Newsfile...

God won’t listen to prayers of some pastors who went to Jubilee House -Owusu-Bempah

Founder and Leader of Glorious Word Power Ministry International, Rev. Isaac Owusu-Bempah, has lashed back at critics who mocked him for not being invited...

BoG threatens to sanction banks that defy ‘COVID-19 liquidity policies’

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has indicated that it would not hesitate to sanction banks that fail to comply with rules governing the recent...

Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly inaugurates emergency health response team

The Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly has inaugurated an emergency response team as part of efforts to contain the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 virus...

Herbalists, Traditional Priests scout for coronavirus cure [watch]

Some herbalists and traditional priests in the Bono East region have declared support to the government as well as health professionals in the fight...

Police officer hops onto a moving car [watch]

A video on social media, sighted by Adomonline.com, shows an unidentified police officer with the Motor Transport and Traffic Department of the Ghana Police...

Coronavirus: VIP lounge at Kotoka Int’l Airport shuts down

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has temporarily shut down the VIP lounge of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) effective 21st March...

Coronavirus: Ghana won’t be on lockdown – Oppong- Nkrumah

Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has allayed fears of a possible lockdown of the nation due to increasing recorded cases of the novel coronavirus...

Court dismisses 3 applications brought before it by Hajia Fati

Three applications brought before the Adjabeng Magistrate Court by New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Hajia Fati have been dismissed. Applications filed before the court by the...

ECOWAS to establish National early warning and response centre in Ghana

The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will establish a National Early Warning and Response Centre in Accra, Republic of...

A Ghanaian coronavirus patient’s plea [listen]

A Ghanaian infected with the novel coronavirus has cautioned the public against spreading fear and panic over the virus. “I am pleading with Ghanaians to...

KNUST student electrocuted in bathroom

A final year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has died through electrocution in her apartment, reports Dailymailgh. Bernice Akyeama Baah, a Metallurgical Engineering student,...