2020

Management of the Upper East Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga has called on government to supply the facility with non-contact thermometers and disposable face masks to beef up their emergency preparedness towards any possible spread of the…

The US Embassy in Ghana has temporarily suspended routine immigrant and nonimmigrant visa appointments, effective March 17, 2020, in keeping with the Government of Ghana’s efforts to prevent and contain the spread of COVID-19. The…

The National Executive Council of the Conference of Heads of Private Second-Cycle Schools (CHOPSS) has called for the closure of all private second-cycle schools across the country by Wednesday, March, 18, 2020. The decision is in…

Ghanaians are angered and dismayed as it has emerged that the $100 million announced by the President to fight COVID-19 isn’t available. Apparently, the government is now going to look for the money – and just when the number of…

An Accra High Court hearing the trial of Dr Stephen Opuni, the former CEO of COCOBOD and two others on Monday dismissed a motion seeking the trial judge, Justice Clemence Honyenugah to recuse himself from continuing with the matter. The…

The Centre for Plant Medicine Research (CPMR), Mampong Akuapem, has debunked claims that alcoholic bitters can substitute hand sanitizers in preventing an infection with the novel Coronavirus upon exposure. “This is because, for a…

Tullow Ghana Plc has joined the list of oil companies making wrongful lodgments of oil revenues due the government of Ghana. The 2019 Semi-annual Report of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) cited Tullow of having…

The Chief Justice, Justice Kwesi Anin Yeboah has directed all Judges and Magistrates to hear cases which are of extreme emergency. He has also asked them to exercise “great restraint” in remanding accused in order to avoid…

Parliament will continue to sit to legislate and perform other duties expected of it despite the suspension of all public gatherings in response to the COVID-19 scare. The country had confirmed six cases of the COVID-19 as at March 15,…

Health authorities in the Ashanti Region have directed 30 people who have come into contact with the Convid-19 victim in Obuasi to go into self-isolation as part of measures to curtail the spread of the virus. All such people are being…