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The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has advised Government not to rush with plans to reopen schools, explaining that proper planning must be taken in making such a decision. He said, government should forget about reopening for this academic year, while urging them to use this period to access the current situation of schools, especially the lower primaries ...

Mr. Prosper Bani, a former Head of the United Nations Development Programme Crisis Prevention and Recovery Team for Africa, has urged African leaders to invest in Disaster Risk Prevention and Management to ready the continent to respond to unpredicted crises. Africa’s development, he said, was being challenged by the lack of a strategy to link disaster risk reduction to development ...

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has revealed that the President is in talks with stakeholders on reopening schools soon. He made this revelation in an Instagram live Q&A session with Ghanaians today. “The gov’t is looking at reopening schools. The President is engaging with stakeholders to know the way forward.” According to him the government will be considering regular testing ...

The UK High Commission to Ghana has disclosed plans to transport some of its nationals to their home country. In a tweet cited by GhanaWeb, the outfit noted that beneficiaries of the chartered flight consist of “vulnerable British nationals visiting Ghana, and eligible people who registered for standby for their previous flight.” The Commission, however, added that not all persons ...

Ghana’s effective response to the Coronavirus pandemic has gained her a recognition both at home and abroad. The government’s enhanced contact tracing of infected patients and its mass testing has brought the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government plaudits. In a televised speech to Ghanaians last Sunday, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo claimed that Ghana has administered more tests per million of the population than any other ...

President Akufo-Addo has joined a long list of leaders across the globe who have penned their signatures down to make the Coronavirus vaccine, when obtained, available to all persons regardless of their class, social status or race. The global agreement letter put out by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS) was to help make the yet to be developed vaccine for ...

Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Charles Owiredu, has averred that Africans living in China are no longer receiving harsh treatments from the Asian country. In April 2020, there was a widely reported mistreatment of Africans in China where the former were said to have been evicted from their homes, hotels and forced to sleep on the streets amid fear of imported Coronavirus cases. ...

The Ghana Health Service has released new figures of the COVID-19 cases in Ghana indicating that 97 more persons have tested positive for the virus. This brings the total confirmed cases in the country to 5,735. One more person who tested positive for the virus has also died, bringing to 29 the total number of Coronavirus related deaths in the country. 294 more persons ...

The Accra High Court has sentenced three former government officials to various terms in prison after convicting them of willfully causing financial loss of $4m to the state. Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, a former board chairman of the National Communication Authority (NCA) will serve six years imprisonment for his part in the $4m NCA scandal. William Matthew Tetteh Tevie, a former Director-General ...

Ghana’s COVID-19 case count has increased by 427, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 5,127. According to the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kumah Aboagye, 272 of the cases were recorded in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region Dr Aboagye, who made this known at a press briefing in Accra on Tuesday, said the total ...