2020

As efforts are put in place to curb the possible spread of the coronavirus, most government agencies and departments in the Bolgatanga Municipality are not well prepared in their quest to protect employees against the virus. When the…

Parliament on Friday evening, under a Certificate of Urgency, passed the Imposition of Restrictions Bill, 2020 to give legal backing for the imposition of restrictions on persons in the event of disaster, emergency or similar circumstances,…

Ghana has confirmed three more cases of the COVID-19, bringing the number to 19 with no deaths, as updated by the Ghana Health Service portal on the disease. The three new cases were confirmed on March 20. Two were reported from the…

The Republic of Togo has shut her borders to passengers on the Abidjan-Abuja Corridor to prevent the spread of the COVID-19. The closure of the country’s land borders at midnight of Friday, March 20, came hours after the shutdown of the…

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has suspended the mass registration exercise in the Eastern Region from Saturday, March 21, following an interlocutory injunction restraining it from doing so. A statement signed by the acting…

In a growing effort to protect the world’s most vulnerable against the rapid global spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), World Vision, an international aid agency, said it has increased its response in 17 countries. A statement copied to…

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), says it has put in place measures to curtail the spreading of COVID-19 to ensure a continuous trading on the market. A statement issued, on Friday, and copied the Ghana News Agency said this was in…

A third of children around the world are failing to brush their teeth twice a day, according to new global study released to mark World Oral Health Day. Five thousand parents and children were surveyed across eight countries, revealing…

Africa has confirmed 905 cases of COVID-19 in 36 countries on the continent as of March 20, compared with 147 cases one week ago. Although the region has seen a significant increase in confirmed cases recently, there are still fewer…

Professor Henrietta Joy Abena Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu, a Professor of law at the University of Ghana has been nominated to the Supreme Court by President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In her profile, it stated that Prof Mensa-Bonsu’s…