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Revealed: Why Accra ‘Cleaner City promise may be just a dream

An Executive Member of the Environmental Service Providers Association, Dr Edward Asadu, has cast doubt on the success of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s promise of...

Coronavirus: Kakum National Park shuts down

Ghana’s popular national forest reserve, the Kakum National Park, has been temporarily closed following the increasing recorded cases of coronavirus in the country. This...

BoG scraps charges on mobile money transfers for the next three months

Charges on mobile money transfers below GH¢ 100 have been scrapped by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) effective Friday, March 20, 2020. This follows...

‘Trotro driver who run over and killed police officer putting himself in more trouble’ [listen]

The Ghana Police Service has cautioned relatives and friends against providing safe refuge for Osei Bonsu, the trotro driver who run over and killed Sergeant Moses...

Coronavirus: Ministry of Health issues new directives to schools

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has directed all Directors and Principals of all schools in Ghana to allow their final students to go home. ...

Duncan Williams’ prayer against the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana [watch]

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has said a powerful prayer for Ghana against the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana. At a breakfast prayer meeting organised at the...

Coronavirus kills NPP elder in Denmark

The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has registered its first coronavirus death as one of its elders in Denmark has been killed by the...

Checkout men of God invited to Jubilee House’s prayer meeting over coronavirus

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Thursday morning March 19, 2020 invited a host of prominent Ghanaian clergymen to seek God's face on the fast spreading...

Akufo-Addo holds prayer breakfast over coronavirus [watch]

President Akufo-Addo this morning at the Jubilee House led a host of prominent pastors in the country to pray against the spread of the novel COVID-19...

Coronavirus cases in Ghana hit 9

Ghana has confirmed two more cases of coronavirus. This brings to nine the total number of cases in Ghana. Information Minister...

We’ve heard you but church service will still happen – Prophet tells Akufo-Addo

The leader and founder of Creator’s Hand Chapel (CHC), Prophet Eric Boahen has announced how church services will be held following the ban on...

Government denies claims Akufo-Addo has tested positive for Coronavirus

Government has denied claims making the rounds on social media that President Nana Akufo-Addo and some of his appointees have tested positive for coronavirus. Speaking...

Listen: ‘Innocent’ man lynched over GH₵250

A 25-year-old man has been gruesomely murdered by some irate youth at Awutua Akrampa in the Central region. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: 381 contacts traced test negativeNDC...

UG announces closure of halls

University of Ghana (Legon) has directed all resident students to vacate their halls of residence by Saturday March 21, 2020. The school in a...

NDC declares 3 days nationwide prayer and fasting

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has declared three days of nationwide prayer and fasting over reported cases of the deadly novel coronavirus in Ghana. In...

Coronavirus: 24 Chinese nationals refused entry into Ghana

Some 25 foreign nationals - 24 Chinese and 1 German-were denied entry into Ghana on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. This was revealed by the Deputy...

Coronavirus: 381 contacts traced test negative[audio]

The about 381 people deemed as contacts to the six people who have tested positive for coronavirus have not exhibited any symptoms of the...

Coronavirus Church Ban: Prophetess arrested! [Photos]

The Akuapim South District Chief Executive and some security personnel have arrested the leader of The Break of Mountains prayer camp and an elder...

Coronavirus: Why prisoners cannot be freed [audio]

The Ghana Prisons Service has said it does not have the power to release prisoners in spite of the coronavirus outbreak. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Lawyer wants...

Coronavirus: GMA joins calls to stop Ghana Card registration

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has asked the National Identification Authority (NIA) to hold on with the Ghana Card registration due to...

Coronavirus, a force majeure to China-Ghana Sinohydro trade deal?

Dubbed the Master Project Support Agreement, Ghana in 2018 signed a barter trade deal with Chinese state-owned company Sinohydro to ultimately solve Ghana’s infrastructural...

Coronavirus: Veteran journalist demands appropriate sex positions amidst scare [audio]

Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has expressed worry about how the coronavirus scare is affecting intimacy among couples. ALSO READ: Pastor arrested...

Beware! Houseflies can transmit Coronavirus – GHS (Video)

It has been revealed that houseflies can transmit the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Aboagye,...

Immigration Service receives items to support fight against Covid-19

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has received support in the form of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to fight the deadly coronavirus. The items, presented by...

Pastor arrested for defying Akufo-Addo’s coronavirus order [video]

Head pastor of Open Arms Ministry, Apostle Anthony Kofi Sarkodie, has been picked up by the Ashanti Regional police command for disobeying the President’s...

Coronavirus: VRA suspends visits to Akosomba Dam site, others

Ghana’s power generation company, Volta River Authority (VRA), has suspended visits to its power generating and recreational facilities across the country. “Management of the...

NDC reacts to EC’s latest press release on voter registration date

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, has described the Electoral Commission (EC)'s decision to push its intended voter registration exercise...

Coronavirus: Mortuary workers to boycott dead bodies if …

The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG), following the confirmation of seven cases of Coronavirus in Ghana, are threatening to boycott dead bodies if...

Asiedu Nketia gives convid-19 indigenous ‘Twi’ name [Audio]

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has given a new name to the deadly coronavirus disease. According to him, though...

New Register: EC to announce new date

The Electoral Commission (EC) says it will in due course announce a new date for the compilation of the new voters' register following the...

Lady found dead at Awutu Bontrase; body parts missing

The decomposed body of a 30-year-old woman has been discovered at Awutu Bontrase in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central region. According...

Coronavirus: Govt condemns sanitiser price hikes

The government has condemned the abnormal hike in prices of goods such as hand sanitisers on the market in the wake of recorded cases...

Ghana records 7th Coronavirus case

One more case of the deadly Coronavirus has been confirmed in Ghana. This makes a total of seven cases so far. The victim...

Waala Traditional Council bans Friday congregational prayers, funerals

The Waala Traditional Council has, with immediate effect, cancelled all public events in the area including the performance of Friday Muslim congregational prayers (Jummah)...

Coronavirus: Lawyer wants prisoners freed

A human rights lawyer has called on government to decongest prisons across the country in a bid to curtail the spread of the novel...

Check out when coronavirus vaccine will be ready [audio]

The hope of getting Covid-19 vaccine to save the world may be ready in 2021, Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick...

Viral photo: Obinim wears mask during counseling session

Controversial prophet, Bishop Daniel Obinim, is leaving nothing to chance following the ban on social gatherings. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Obinim reveals next plan of action after...

Suspected case of Coronavirus at Weija-Gbawe Hospital proves negative

The suspected case of Coronavirus at the Weija-Gbawe Hospital involving a 38-year-old woman, who returned to Ghana from the United Kingdom on March 6,...

Railway Company postpones reopening of Kojokrom-Tarkwa line

Management of the Ghana Railway Company has announced the postponement of the Kojokrom-Tarkwa railway opening which was scheduled for Monday, March 16, 2020. It has...

Coronavirus: US Embassy in Accra suspends visa appointments

The United States (US) Embassy in Accra is temporarily suspending routine immigrant and non-immigrant visa appointments, effective March 17, 2020.  According to...