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8 simple habits to help control your weight during lockdown

This period of the Coronavirus pandemic is filled with major uncertainties and how you are going to maintain your health and weight might not...

Stay away from all beaches – Police warn

The Ghana Police Service on Sunday warned henceforth any person found at any beach in Ghana will be arrested as part of measures to...
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Woman, 21, dies of Covid-19 while awaiting liver transplant

A "bubbly" young nursery worker has died after testing positive for coronavirus while in hospital awaiting a liver transplant. Katie Horne's family have been left...
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Pope calls for global solidarity in Easter message

Pope Francis has called for global solidarity to fight the coronavirus crisis in his Easter message read to an empty St Peter's Basilica. "This is...
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South Africa opts for mass testing

South Africa is rolling out mass testing of the population in a bid to arrest the rising number of coronavirus infections. The WHO has in...
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Kenya: Easter mass held in empty Nairobi church

Nairobi’s main Catholic church was empty Sunday as faithful endure coronavirus lockdown. A modest Easter Sunday service was held by a small group of Clergymen...

Lockdown: Police vow to be ‘tough’ from Monday

Police have warned that the ongoing operation to enforce the imposition of restrictions on the movement of people will get tough from Monday, April...

I am getting closer to marrying Rihanna – Don Jazzy

Popular producer and Mavins’ boss, Don Jazzy has said that he is getting closer to his dream of marrying world star, Rihanna. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Western,...

Lockdown dairies: Pastor, 4 others arrested at Lapaz

A pastor of the Apostolic Church Ghana at Abeka Lapaz in Accra has been arrested for defying the Presidential directive on public gathering. ALSO READ: Coronavirus:...

Lockdown dairies: Fake journalist nabbed

A man posing as a journalist of Accra-based Onua FM, owned by Media General Ghana Limited has been arrested. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Akufo-Addo extends ban on...

Trade Minister visits 4 local companies producing PPEs

Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen has visited some four companies selected by government to produce Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) for frontline health workers...

Lockdown dairies: Couple holds wedding online [photo]

A newly wed couple is trending on social media for getting married despite the Covi-19 lockdown. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Akufo-Addo extends ban on public gatherings to...

NaCCA boss applauds UG scientists; challenges other institutions to increase research into public health

The Executive Secretary of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment has described as encouraging the news that scientists from the Noguchi Memorial Institute...

READ: Why Bawumia thinks Ghana’s scientists are the best

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has commended Ghanaian scientists working around the clock to fight the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Ghana scientists obtain critical...

Video: Why an old pauper is ‘smiling to her grave’

An old woman in a deprived community of Saanbona in the North East Region life-long ambition was to sleep on a mattress...

GES sacks Tamasco ‘rapist’ teacher

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has sacked Razak Alhassan, aka Starboy, a sports teacher who allegedly raped a 16-year-old student of ...
Dr Bright Sogbey

COVID-19 has exposed Capitalism, shown Technocracy is best – Scientist

Ghanaian Scientist and Engineer, Dr Bright Sogbey, has noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed capitalism as a bad system and shown that technocracy...

Brafoyaw residents protest use of Aggrey Memorial as isolation centre

 Chief and people of Brafoyaw in the Central region on Saturday blocked the main entrance of Aggrey Memorial Senior High School to protest attempts to use...

Lockdown: Founder of Pure City Int. school supports widows, orphans

Founder of Pure City International School, as part of his corporate social responsibility has donated to widows and orphans at Odumasi and Oshuman in...
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Lockdown: Latest craze in town, pillowcase challenge explodes on social media

Thanks to pillow, a new challenge has hit social media and people are already loving it. While the world is battling with the coronavirus pandemic, some...
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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...

Davido mocks his wife, Chioma after their baby did this [Watch]

Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, famously known as Davido by music lovers, is super excited that his son, Ifeanyi Adeleke made him proud. Davido’s baby boy was first...

Kuami Eugene’s Tik Tok’ video with ‘girlfriend’ will make your day [Watch]

Ghanaian Highlife artiste, Kuami Eugene, has joined the list of popular ‘Tik Tok’ couple challenge with his female friend he disclosed as Priscilla. Rockstar, as...

McBrown joins ‘Tik Tok’, struggles to pronounce name [Watch]

Television goddess, Nana Ama McBrown, has joined the list of popular video-creating-sharing app, 'Tik Tok' but struggled to get the name right in her...
PHOTO: A Red Cross burial team wore protective clothing to visit houses where people were infected with Ebola. (Getty Images: John Moore)

New Ebola case confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo

A new case of Ebola virus disease was confirmed today in the city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “While not...
Beneficiaries of food donations from Chief Gbetseli

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...
Mrs. Theodosia Jackson, Principal of Jackson College of Education

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...
Archbishop leading protest against 5G network

Archbishop leading protest against 5G network goes viral [Video]

Archbishop Samson Mustapha Benjamin, the General Overseer of Resurrection Praise Ministries International, has led a protest against the launch of 5G network in Nigeria.  The...

Checkout Medikal’s reason for buying a new Range Rover amid Covid-19 pandemic

Rapper Medikal is in the news after the AMG rapper took to Instagram to showcase a new four-wheel-drive Range Rover he has purchased. According...

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...
Abu Jinapor (left) and John Jinapor (right)

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...
Mzbel demonstrates how to turn leggings into nose masks

How to turn leggings into nose mask – Mzbel shows the way in this...

Singer Mzbel has posted a video on her Instagram page to teach her followers the simple way of turning their leggings, a tight-fitting stretch...

Pappy Kojo mocks himself over border closure extension [Watch]

Ghanaian Rapper, Pappy Kojo, has shared a hilarious video of how he intends to return to Ghana after President Nana Akufo-Addo’s decision to extend...
The Fifa president Gianni Infantino was speaking to Fifa's 211 member associations on Friday

Restarting football too soon ‘irresponsible’ says Fifa president

Restarting football too early would be "irresponsible", says Fifa president Gianni Infantino. Most domestic leagues around the world are on hold because of the coronavirus...
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Six Barcelona board members resign and criticise club

Six Barcelona board members have resigned and told president Josep Maria Bartomeu they are unhappy about how the club is being managed. In a joint...
Man being checked with a gun thermometer at a checkpoint because of Coronavirus

Nigeria records 17 new cases, total 305, 7 deaths

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 17 new cases of Coronavirus in  Nigeria. Taking to their official twitter account, the Centre posted...

Covid-19: Nurse’s final words before being put on ventilator

A son was forced to say his last goodbye to his dying NHS nurse mum while wearing full protective gear as she who uttered...

Ghanaian nurse dies of Covid-19 [Video]

Freda Ocran, a Ghanaian nurse who worked as the former head nurse at New York City’s Jacobi Medical Centre has died of the Covid-19. Mrs...
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Edwin Gyasi set to hold talks with Besiktas officials – Reports

Ghana winger, Edwin Gyasi, is set to hold talks with Besiktas officials as he edges closer to complete his dream move to the Turkish...