The Winneba District Magistrate Court, presided over by His Worship, Isaac Oheneba Kuffuor, has ordered Kofi Annan, the Effutu Constituency Parliamentary Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), to deposit an amount of GH¢100,000.00 to the Court as a condition for aligning same to his bail. The Court on April 21st, 2020 admitted Kofi Annan to a self-recognisance bail …

When US Democrats in Congress proposed legislation to reform the police following weeks of protests over the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of a white officer, commenters on social media only wanted to talk about one thing: what they were wearing. Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and other Democratic lawmakers were draped …

The funeral of George Floyd, an African American whose death in police custody spawned global outrage, has heard impassioned pleas for racial justice. Speakers in the church in Houston, Texas, lined up to remember a man whose “crime was that he was born black”. Mr Floyd died in Minneapolis last month as a white police officer held a knee on …

Zoomlion Ghana Limited has been commended for using World Health Organisation (WHO) approved standards, and state-of-the-art equipment, in its dis-infection and dis-infestation exercises. Deputy Minister of Defence, Major (Rtd) Derrick Oduro, made the commendation when he launched the nationwide disinfection and dis-infestation of military facilities and Garrisons at Burma Camp, Accra, on Monday. According to him, the use of such …

“I think it’s very, very important that we tailor a specific Ghanaian, African response to the handling of this pandemic, and not necessarily copy blindly the methods that are being adopted by countries to the north of us and elsewhere.” These were the words of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday, when he joined colleague West …

The additional funding brings foundation commitment to more than $250 million to support development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines; help strengthen African and South Asian health systems; and help mitigate the social and economic impacts of the virus The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced an expansion of its funding for the global response to COVID-19. The increase includes …

President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus. On Twitter, he cited “the attack from the invisible enemy”, as he calls the virus, and the need to protect the jobs of Americans, but did not give details. It was not clear what programmes might be …

More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University – another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic. Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university’s figures. The US accounts for the most cases; Italy the highest death …

SITUATION UPDATE, CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES IN GHANA AS AT 02 APRIL 2020, 14:00HRS Since the last situational update, Ghana has confirmed nine additional COVID-19 cases, all from Greater Accra region. Four (4) of them have no history of travel nor contact with any confirmed case. Other four (4) have no travel history but are contacts of confirmed cases in Ghana; …

The Ministry of Health has announced that two cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Ghana. The cases, according to the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, were confirmed on Thursday, March 12, 2020. In a televised addressed from the Ministry of Health on Thursday evening, the Health Minister said the two cases are the first cases to be recorded …