The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) is full, with a limited number of beds to accommodate the increasing number of COVID-19 cases being moved to the facility. In view of this, he cautioned citizens against being “indifferent” about the virus, describing Ghana’s COVID-19 situation as one that has reached a “critical point.” “We ...

A  Dutch tech Company, Tunga has launched a new e-learning platform meant to create more opportunities for African software developers. The e-learning platform  is freely accessible to all tech talents in Africa. Tunga offers high quality yet affordable software services and determined to make a meaningful contribution to Africa and to create more opportunities for African developers. The Tunga Academy offers free ...

President Akufo-Addo has granted amnesty to 794 deserving prisoners. This forms part of government’s efforts to ensure the decongestions of Ghana’s prisons and its related complications. In a statement signed by the Director-General of the Ghana Prisons Service, Patrick Darko Missah, the groupings comprise 772 first offenders, 16 very old prisoners, and four seriously ill inmates. Two death sentence have ...

Stakeholders including the “Champions of Change” in the Wa Municipality have deliberated on the need to harmonize and gazette community child protection by-laws to ensure girls are well protected against any form of abuse. The move is part of the implementation of the Girls Advocacy Alliance (GAA) project by the Centre for the Promotion of Democratic Governance (CENPRODEG) and the ...

As countries continue to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic, a new guide by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) shows how clean energy investment can support countries to ‘Recover Better’ and use this unique moment to reset their economies and close energy-access gaps. According to ‘The Recover Better with Sustainable Energy Guide for African Countries’ that was released by SEforALL, countries that commit ...

Deputy Director of Research, Monitoring and Evaluation at the Electoral Commission, Fred Tetteh has proffered a detailed explanation of the Cluster and Phasing system adopted by the EC in the compilation of a new voters register. On June 30, 2020, the Electoral commission commenced the compilation of the new voters compilation but despite numerous assurances given by the commission to ensure ...

Former General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John, has passed away. He is reported to have died on Wednesday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra after a short illness. Sir John was the CEO of the Forestry Commission. According to sources he tested positive for Covid-19 and succumbed ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says the threat of potential terrorist attacks against Ghana is real and behoves both the military, whose duty it is to defend the territorial integrity of the country, and citizens in border towns to stay alert to the threat. In a statement issued on his behalf by the Communication Directorate of his office, Rawlings said ...

Uganda has opened part of its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo to allow in thousands of people stuck in no-man’s land for more than a month. At least 3,000 of them fled their homes in May after inter-communal clashes in north-eastern Ituri province. But they were unable to cross into Uganda to seek safety as the country had ...

Black market fuel made in Nigeria is less toxic than the petrol and diesel sold to Nigeria by European traders, a report says. Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), a non-governmental organisation, compared 91 samples of imported fuel and black-market petrol from Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta region. Its study showed that imported diesel and petrol sometimes contained more than 200 times more ...