2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Africa’s education systems were making slow, but steady progress in getting kids into school and keeping them beyond the primary grades, a new analysis of Afrobarometer data shows. Many governments received…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Monday swore into office, Dr Bernard Oko Boye, Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku, as Deputy Health Minister. At a short ceremony at the Jubilee House, Accra, at which the President administered…

The Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Professor Peter Quartey, says President Akufo-Addo's decision to lift the ban on partial lockdown will save the Ghanaian economy from potential…

The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he is encouraged that several countries are now starting to plan how to ease social restrictions that restricted the movement of their citizens…

It is certainly too soon to draw some lessons on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, since it continues to dramatically affect significant segments of the world population and still remains a puzzle, an enigma for the world scientific…

The coronavirus pandemic has swept all over the globe in the last couple of months, there is no country that hasn’t been affected by it. While African nations are yet to see as many cases as the rest of the world, the impact on their…

An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the arrest of Enoch Amissah, a 38-year-old marketing assistant at COCOBOD, for failing to comply with the Restrictions Order of the President. Amissah is said to have travelled from Kumasi to Accra to…

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has refuted claims that the Authority has unlawfully issued Ghana cards to some foreign nationals, specifically to a Chinese national. This follows a video circulating on social media…

The Northern Regional Police Command has arrested two guests at a wedding ceremony at Kukuo, a suburb of Tamale, for violating social distancing protocol. The suspects are Iddi Ibrahim, 34, staff of the Northern Regional Coordinating…

The Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly in the Upper East Region, is targeting to close down drinking spots and game centers to avoid communal drinking and gathering to suppress the spread of COVID 19. Information reaching the Ghana News…