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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...

Nigeria quarantines 15 Chinese doctors

The 15 Chinese medical doctors who arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday, April 8, have begun a 14-day mandatory quarantine. The Nigerian Government made the announcement on...

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...

Pastor who fled after allegedly killing 5 people arrested

Pastor Henry Ezidinma of Arena GoodNews Church, Bayelsa State, Nigeria has been apprehended after allegedly killing five people in a hit-and-run accident. It’s reported that...

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...

Sarkodie donates foodstuffs, sanitisers to residents in Tema [Video+Photos]

Rapper Sarkodie, on behalf of his Sarkcess Foundation, has donated food items such as bags of rice and cooking oil among other essentials like...

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...

How the ‘murdered Justice’ set an innocent man free

Justice Cecilia Koranteng Addow is one of three Justices immortalised by Ghana’s Judiciary. On the night of June 30, 1982, Mrs Addo who was...

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...

Lockdown: Sex tape of a drunk married woman with 3 guys leaks online

There is a trending video of a married woman having sex with three strong men fast going viral on social media. In the video, the...

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 ...

Police deployed to St. Augustine’s College as teachers oppose isolation centre [audio]

There is heavy police presence at the St. Augustine's College in the Central region after it was chosen as an isolation centre for COVID-19...

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...

Lockdown: Soldier in detention for shooting policewoman

A military man in Tema is currently in detention after allegedly firing at a policewoman at a checkpoint whilst enforcing the COVID-19 lockdown at...

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...

Coronavirus: Couple name their newborn baby boy ‘Lockdown’ [photos]

A couple in India has named their newbown baby son 'Lockdown' in a nod to the coronavirus pandemic.  ALSO READ: Why Mahama refused to donate salary...

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...

Kasoa traders cry to MCE to open markets for business

Market women at Kasoa Old and New Markets have appealed to the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE)  for Awutu Senya East, Michael Mensah, to give...

Fake nurse busted by Nkwanta police for fraud

A 19-year-old unemployed man, who allegedly posed as a nurse working at the St. Joseph's Hospital in Nkwanta South of the Oti region, has...

Coronavirus: President of Nigeria pardons 2,600 prisoners

The Federal Government of Nigeria has granted amnesty to no fewer than 2,600 inmates as part of measures to decongest prison facilities during the coronavirus...

Lockdown: Soldier allegedly shoots policewoman at Tema New Town

A military man, who is yet to be identified, has reportedly shot a policewoman at Tema New Town. Reports indicate that they are both members...

Man’s manhood bitten in roadside attack

The penis of a man has been bitten in a roadside attack at Oyoko in the New Juaben North Municipality of the Eastern region.The...

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...

COVID-19: Soldier arrested for not wearing face mask begs for his life [Video]

According to reports, a soldier was driving on the Kubuwa expressway in Nigeria and was seen without a face mask. He was questioned by security...

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...

Drivers swerve coronavirus security barricade

Some commercial and private drivers plying the American House - Madina road have created remote routes to avoid security barricades mounted at the Social...

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...

Ghana Statistical Service, UNDP partner to track impacts of Covid-19

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has rolled out a Business Tracker, which is...

Check out Drake’s extravagant Toronto mansion (Photos)

A one-ton bed, a two-story closet and a 4,000-pound bathtub carved from a single slab of black marble -- Drake's Toronto mansion is a case study...

Covid-19: Obour’s household, contacts test negative as pressure mounts on Ridge Hospital

Former Musicians Association of Ghana (MUSIGA) president, Bice Osei Kuffour, popularly known as Obour, has been vindicated as results of coronavirus tests conducted on...