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Apple, Google bring COVID-19 contact-tracing to 3 billion people

Apple and Google unveiled a rare partnership to add technology to their smartphone platforms that will alert users if they have come into contact...

COVID-19: Gbetseli chief feeds aged in his community

Chief of Gbetseli, Nii Teye Kojo Sune (I), as part of efforts to mitigate the plight of the vulnerable in the face of...

PPE donations from China could be contaminated – African leaders told

African leaders have been urged to be wary of donations from China in the form of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and medical supplies as...

COVID-19: Criteria for SMEs to access govt’s GH¢ 600 million soft loan

The criteria for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in the country to access government’s GHc 600 million soft loan has been outlined by...

Jinapor brothers clash over light bills

A relief package announced on Thursday for consumers of electricity has stoked a debate between two brothers on two sides of Ghana’s main political divide. While John...

COVID-19: Sammy Gyamfi makes case for private health workers

National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi, is advocating for the inclusion of private health workers in tax exemptions, salary increments...

Stop spitting into people’s mouths for miracles – Diana Asamoah tells Cecilia Marfo

Gospel artiste, Evangelist Diana Asamoah, has advised colleague gospel artiste Cecilia Marfo to stop spitting into the mouths of people all in the name...

45 passengers escape death as bus burns beyond recognition [Photos]

About 45 passengers on board a bus with registration number AC 1557-17 have escaped death with the vehicle burnt beyond recognition. Information gathered suggested that the incident...

Eastern region records 8 new coronavirus cases; total now 28

Information gathered by Adomonline.com indicates the Eastern Region has recorded eight new additional coronavirus cases bringing the region’s total positives cases to 28. Reports filed...

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...