2021

The Majority New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Parliament has debunked claims by the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) that it did not support the motion to provide reliefs to students of public tertiary institutions. The…

Ongoing tests for Members of Parliament (MPs) have revealed that some MPs are COVID-19 positive, yet some are unwilling to go for the test being done for members. Reports have it that less than a third of the membership of the House have…

The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) has urged government and the Ghana Health Service to make data available on children who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Institute said such data would…

An Accra Circuit Court has admitted Patrick Ato Botchwey, the Operations Officer of Hans Nef Cocoa Limited, to a bail term of GH¢500,000.00 with three sureties. Mr. Botchwey initially pleaded not guilty to all the charges. The Court…

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has distributed 10 million facemasks to schools, with each student entitled to two reusable masks per semester. It also distributed 9.9 million hand sanitizers, 1.65 million packs of tissue papers,…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Rear Admiral Seth Amoama to act as the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). Rear Admiral Amoama, who until his appointment was the Chief of Naval Staff,…

Parliament has rejected a motion to request the President to take urgent steps to absorb the fees of students of public tertiary education institutions for the 2000/2021 academic year. Additionally, the relief package was to be extended…

Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, on Thursday said the Assembly’s COVID-19 taskforce would arrest school children without nose masks. Assembly officials, she said, would subsequently identify and…

During the last few weeks, countries all across the world have been busy inoculating thousands of people every day against Covid-19, hoping to finally curb the spread of the coronavirus. But with almost 450 million people living in the…

India has supplied over 5.5 million doses of indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccines to other countries, and will supply 10 million doses of the vaccines to African countries in the coming days, Ministry of External Affairs spokesman,…