2021

The 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by the Transparency International (TI) shows the increasing corruption is undermining healthcare systems and contributing to decline in democracy as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the…

The RTS,S malaria vaccine, described as a partially effective vaccine with potential for high impact, is expected to be subjected to a policy decision by mid-2021, to assess its wider use in other countries. The World Health Organization…

The Child Health Directorate of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Ghana’s second-largest health referral facility, has recorded 25 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic. Fourteen (14) of the cases…

Ghana's COVID-19 death toll has risen to 390 following the confirmation of thirteen new deaths, the Ghana Health Service has announced. The country has also witnessed an addition of 127 new actives cases since the last update on January…

Ghana has recorded 18 more deaths from COVID- 19 infections since the last update, bringing total fatalities to 390, as of January 25, 2021. The active cases stood at 3,940 after 625 new cases were recorded in six out of 16 regions.…

MTN Group has donated an amount of $25 million to support the African Union’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. The donation will help secure up to seven million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines for health workers across the continent, which…

The Accra Regional Police Command has gunned-down a suspected highway robber and arrested two others in an operation on the Spintex Road, in Accra. Blessing Stephen, about 38 years, died from gunshot wounds he sustained in the capture…

An Accra Circuit Court has adjourned to February 23, the case of Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson aka Bulldog who is accused of threatening President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in a video recording. Hanson, an artiste manager, is said…

The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has announced the launch of commercial flights to Ho during the Easter holidays. Madam, Amma Faake Gadzekpo, Head of Business Development Services of the GACL said the facility had long been…

The Supreme Court has struck out, “as withdrawn”, a stay of proceedings filed by lawyers of the Petitioner in the 2020 Election Petition case. The Court also struck out abridgment of time filed by the Electoral Commission to hear the…