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US Embassy in Accra opens thousands of new visa slots; urges World Cup travellers to apply early
Posted on with No CommentThe United States Embassy in Accra has announced an expansion of visa processing capacity, opening “thousands of additional non-immigrant visa appointment slots,” with many said to be immediately available. The move is a direct effort to manage anticipated high demand … Read more →
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Coronavirus: South Africa Smokers fume at cigarette ban
Posted on | CommentThe illicit trade in cigarettes in South Africa is now in full swing after the sale of tobacco was banned at the end of March as part of strict measures imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus, as the BBC’s … Read more →
Landlord allegedly shoots and kills Musician tenant at Ofankor
Posted on | CommentA landlord has allegedly murdered his tenant for refusing to vacate a room he has rented to him. Victor Stephen Nana Kankam according to police extract, shot budding musician Spark Benjamine who was rushed to the police station with multiple … Read more →
Masks too dangerous for infants – Japan medical group
Posted on | CommentChildren under the age of two shouldn’t wear masks because they can make breathing difficult and increase the risk of choking, a Japan medical group said, launching an urgent appeal to parents as the country reopens from the coronavirus crisis. … Read more →
Nigeria has ‘no money’ to import food
Posted on | CommentNigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigerian farmers must produce enough for the country to eat, saying that the country has “no money to import” food. The comments follow concerns around food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic and rising … Read more →
COVID-19: Ghana’s case count now 6,808 (Regional Breakdown)
Posted on | CommentGhana’s COVID-19 cases is now 6,808 with 2,070 recoveries. The country has recorded 72 new recoveries, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) stated in a new update on Monday, May 25, 2020. It further said the country has recorded 125 new … Read more →
Ghana treating frontline health workers better than US – Report
Posted on | CommentHealth workers at the Frontline of the coronavirus fight in Ghana are being treated better than their counterpart in the US, The Washington Post, has revealed, with calls on the US government to emulate the intervention of the Ghanaian Government … Read more →
Takoradi Market Circle to be locked down
Posted on | CommentCity authorities are bent on locking down the central business district of the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis, popularly known as ‘Market Circle’, over what they say is a total disregard for physical distance protocols at market. The temporal market; Jubillee Grounds, … Read more →
COVID-19: Ghana’s case count now 6,683 – Savannah Region records first case (Regional breakdown)
Posted on | CommentGhana Health Service has updated the new case count of COVID-19in Ghana, adding 66 new cases making the total cases 6,683. The Savannah Region which had no case has become the fourteenth region to record a new COVID-19 case. 20 … Read more →
Trump declares houses of worship ‘essential,’ calls On States to reopen
Posted on | CommentPresident Donald Trump on Friday commanded America’s governors to immediately reopen churches and other places of worship shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic, threatening to “override” the state leaders if they refused to follow his directive. Speaking at a previously unannounced … Read more →
A lot of ‘macho’ men are impotent – Military man
Posted on | CommentGhanaian military man, Nana Adu Boafo, has opinionated that a lot of the men who hit the gym, specifically for bodybuilding, are impotent. He explained this notion during an interview with Dr. Cann on Showbiz Xtra, which airs on Happy … Read more →
VIDEO: 241 illegal Ghanaian immigrants, 43 Togolese return from Kuwait
Posted on | CommentThe 241 illegal Ghanaian immigrants deported from Kuwait have arrived in Ghana. Also, some 43 illegal Togolese immigrants have transited to Ghana from Kuwait. Deportees of the two West African states returned on the same chartered flight on Saturday, May … Read more →
Resist attempts to be used by politicians – Prof. Gyampo advises youngsters
Posted on | CommentA Political Scientist, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has urged young people to resist attempts by politicians to use them as agents of smear campaign against political opponents and to foment conflicts in the run-up to the general election. He said such … Read more →
Kofi Abotsi now UPSA’s Dean of Faculty of Law
Posted on | CommentThe University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) has appointed Ernest Kofi Abotsi as its new Dean of the Faculty of Law. Mr Abotsi has experience in the management of legal academia, from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He served as dean … Read more →
COVID-19: Koforidua records first cases
Posted on | CommentThe New Juaben South Municipality, which covers the capital of the Eastern Region, Koforidua, has recorded two cases of Covid-19. The Birim North District in the Region has also recorded a case. Figures from the collated data from the Regional … Read more →
245 deportees set to arrive from Kuwait tomorrow
Posted on | CommentGovernment has granted a special request to the government of Kuwait to deport some 245 Ghanaians who are illegally living in Kuwait. They will be arriving on Saturday May 23, 2020 on a chartered flight sponsored by the Kuwait government. … Read more →
20 Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital staff test positive for COVID-19
Posted on | CommentA total of twenty healthcare workers at the Western Region’s referral center, Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital have tested positive for COVID-19. A confirmed case last week where a staff of the hospital tested positive compelled Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital to … Read more →
Ghana hasn’t received Madagascar herbal cure – Kojo Oppong Nkrumah
Posted on | CommentGhana’s Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has refuted media publications that suggested that government has received consignment of the herbal cure; ‘COVID Organics’ which is being produced by Madagascar. In his media briefing this morning, Hon. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah intimated … Read more →
WHO studying Ghana’s COVID-19 techniques
Posted on | CommentTHE MINISTER of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, says the World Health Organisation (WHO) has begun studying some of Ghana’s techniques, including the potentially time-saving practice of “pool testing” for Covid-19 in which multiple blood samples are tested together and processed separately … Read more →
Prez. Akufo-Addo to Ghanaians – Find ways of living with COVID-19
Posted on | CommentPresident Nana Akufo-Addo is advising Ghanaians to device effective ways of living with the novel coronavirus following indications from the science community that the disease will be around for a long while. The President said the outbreak of the virus … Read more →
COVID-19: Ghana’s cases now 6,269 with 1,898 recoveries (Regional breakdown)
Posted on | CommentGhana has confirmed COVID-19 cases now stands at 6,269, according to the Ghana Health Service’s latest update on the country’s COVID-19 situation. The update also indicated 125 more recoveries, raising the number of recoveries to 1,898 and 31 deaths. The … Read more →
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