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Lockdown diaries: Man punches military man for punishing him [Watch]

A man has paid a military officer in his own coin after the latter subjected him to beating and corporal punishment for defying lockdown...

Lockdown: 15 traders arrested in Kumasi for flouting directives

Some 15 traders have been arrested in Kumasi for defying the government’s two-week restrictions on movement. Traders were ordered not to ply their trade at...

Lockdown saga: Human Rights Reporters condemn acts of security forces

The Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG) has condemned the approach by the police and military officers deployed to maintain law and order and enforce the lockdown...

Coronavirus: Eastern Region records first case

The Eastern region has recorded its first case of the coronavirus in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality. The patient, who is an Indian construction worker...

Coronavirus: GHS gives details on number of tested persons [Audio]

So far 4,560 coronavirus tests have been conducted since the first case was registered in the country, Dr, Badu Sarkodie, Director of the Disease...

COVID-19 lockdown: Govt intervenes for the homeless, vulnerable

Minister for Gender and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison, has announced some stimulus packages for the homeless and the vulnerable in the country following government’s...

Russian doctor who shook Vladimir Putin’s hand tests positive for Covid-19

A Russian doctor, who was in close proximity to Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, according to the...

COVID-19: GhNCDA entreats members, Ghanaians to abide by directives

The Ghana Non-communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA) is entreating its members and Ghanaians to abide by all precautionary outlined measures. The reason, according to the alliance,...

Weija-Gbawe Assembly begins House-to-House coronavirus testing of contacts traced

 The Weija-Gbawe Assembly has announced an on-going 10-day house-to-house enhanced coronavirus testing of contacts traced. According to the Assemblyman for the Tetegu electoral area, Bright...

Bawumia supports stranded ‘Ejisu Kayayei’ with GH¢500 each

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has donated GH¢ 500 to each of the stranded 'Kayayei' (head porters) who were stopped at Ejisu in the Ashanti region on their way...

Nigeria confirms 4 new cases, Coronavirus cases rise to 139

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control has confirmed four new cases of the novel coronavirus in Nigeria. According to the agency, three of the new...

Lockdown: Defiant residents to face court today [audio]

The Ghana Police Service has revealed it will from today, April 1, 2020 put some defiant people before court for flouting the government's lockdown...

Coronavirus: Ghana records 34 new cases; total now 195

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has announced Ghana has recorded 34 new cases of the coronavirus disease. The total number has, thus, risen from 161...

GAF reacts to lockdown social media videos

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has described as fake viral videos on social media which sought to suggest mishandling of civilians by soldiers of the Operation...

Photos: Duncan-Williams feeds farmers at Adjiringanor

The Founder and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, has fed a group of young farmers at Adjringanor, a...

Coronavirus: 3 Ghanaians confirmed dead in US [audio]

Three Ghanaians resident in New York in the United States o f America (USA) have died of COVID-19. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Ghana records 9 new cases;...

Airbus saga: NDC communicators gagged [audio]

Members of the opposition National Democratic Congress' (NDC) communications team have been asked not to comment on the controversial Airbus scandal. ALSO READ: Martin Amidu summons...

Coronavirus: Ghana records 9 new cases; confirmed cases now 161

Nine new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Ghana, Ghana Health Service has confirmed. All nine were reported from Accra, three of them travelled...

Coronavirus: Action Chapel supports over 400 needy members during lockdown

Action Chapel Internationa (ACI)l, led by its founder, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, has reached out to over 400 of its members who needed ...

Covid-19 Lockdown: Interior Minister’s strong caution to security officers abusing citizens [listen]

Interior Minister, Ambrose Derry, is assuring security officials who abuse citizens as part of efforts to enforce the restrictions imposed by the president will...

Suspected Coronavirus cases at KATH test negative

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has announced 10 of its staff, who were exposed to patients with the infectious coronavirus diseases, have tested...

36 foreigners, two Ghanaians arrested for using unapproved routes to Ghana

Officials of the Immigration Service in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region have arrested 38 persons who allegedly entered the ...

Ashanti Regional Police threaten to deal ruthlessly with lockdown offenders

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has threatened to deal ruthlessly with residents who fail to comply with the lockdown directives for the next 13 days. Public Relations...

Students advised not to abandon their books as they stay home

Students across the nation have been advised not to abandon their books as they stay home following the closure of schools by the government...

Man buried in his favourite car according to his last wish [Video+Photos]

Instead of traditional coffin, a man in Eastern Cape, South Africa was buried in his car with a safety belt on. Apparently, two years ago...

Opambour cries on live TV over Coronavirus lockdown

The General Overseer of Ebenezer Miracle Worship Centre, Prophet Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom, popularly known as Prophet One, has reacted to the partial lockdown declared...

Elikem Kumordzie tests negative for coronavirus but… [Video]

Celebrity tailor, Elikem Kumordzie who was placed under mandatory quarantine has tested negative for coronavirus but will remain in quarantine for some more days. The...

Immigration service deploys 3,500 personnel for ‘Operation COVID Safety’

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has deployed about 3,500 personnel to enforce directives for the partial lockdown of Accra, Tema and Kumasi to curb the spread...

Newmont Ghana supports COVID-19 fight with $100,000

Newmont Ghana has announced a US$100,000 support package for Ghana’s public health efforts to minimise the transmission of coronavirus in the country. Newmont Ghana’s...

Coronavirus: 31 positive patients recover in Ghana [Audio]

Thirty-one out of 152 coronavirus positive patients in Ghana have recovered, Minister of Health Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has said. The recovered patients, the minister said, have...

Registrar General extends deadline for filing annual returns

The Registrar General's Department has announced the extension of deadline for the filing of annual returns in the wake of the spread of the...

Coronavirus: Infected patient escapes

One of the eight Guineans who tested positive for the novel coronavirus has escaped from the facility in which they are being quarantined in...

Martin Amidu summons four persons over Airbus scandal

Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has invited four persons to assist in investigations over an alleged act of bribery and other offences in the acquisition...

Lockdown: Over 20 ‘kayayei’, babies caught in Walewale-bound cargo truck [Photos]

Over 20 living head potters and infants have been discovered in a cargo truck parked at Baden Powell Area on the High Street in...

Revealed: Where the LEKMA medical doctor with coronavirus also works

  It has been revealed the LEKMA Hospital doctor, who has tested positive for the infectious coronavirus, also works at a hospital at Airport. The Municipal...

Coronavirus: Why Dept Info Minster thinks increase in cases is good news

Deputy Minister for Information, Pius Enam Hadzie, is of the opinion that the increase in number of coronavirus cases is good news for Ghana. Speaking...

Obour demands late father’s autopsy report from Ridge Hospital

Former President of Musicians Union, Ghana, Bice Osei Kuffour, is demanding an autopsy report of his late father, Nana Osei Boansi Kuffour, who died...

Coronavirus: King ‘isolates’ with 20 women

Thailand’s playboy king has taken over a luxury German hotel to isolate from the coronavirus — along with a harem of 20 women, according...

Coronavirus: 73 children grabbed in Takoradi for hawking

The joint security and Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) Monitoring Team have arrested and detained a total of 73 children who were found selling in...

Coronavirus: Ghanaian police officer’s important message as she marks 12 years in service

Rita Awuku Yirenkyiwaa, a Ghanaian female police officer known to be one of the most beautiful women in the service has popped up with...