President Akufo-Addo appoints former WHO director as co-ordinator for COVID Response Programme
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has appointed Dr. Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, a former Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), as the Presidential Coordinator for the Government’s Coronavirus Response Programme. In that role, Dr. Asamoa-Baah will be President Akufo-Addo’s point man for the response effort, and will be responsible for pulling together and co-ordinating […]
BOG: Mobile money transaction limits increased
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced the increase in transaction limits for mobile money users in the country. This was contained in the latest release of BOG Monetary Policy Committee Statement For March 2020. The Bank of Ghana also announced that there will be no charges on all mobile money transfers of GH¢100 and […]
NDC sues EC over compilation of new voters register
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has sued the Electoral Commission (EC), over its decision to compile a new voters’ register ahead of this year’s general election. The NDC in a writ filed at the Supreme Court is arguing that the electoral management body, can only compile a register of voters only once, and thereafter revise […]
BOG Monetary Policy Committee Release For March 2020
The Bank Of Ghana has released the March 2020 Edition of Monetary Policy Committee Statement in the wake of the outbreak of COVID-19. Click on the link below for the Full Text MPC-Press-Release-March-2020-2
Yoni Kolendi, 3 others appointed to Supreme Court
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in consultation with the members of the Council of State has nominated four (4) Justices to the Supreme Court subject to vetting by parliament. In a communication to Parliament and read by The Speaker, Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye, on March 19, the President noted that in line with Article […]
Coronavirus: South Tongu MP donates PPE to district
Member of Parliament for South Tongu Kobby Mensah Woyome, has presented Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth about ¢100,000.00 to help prevent the spread Coronavirus in his District. The items, which include gloves, face mask, veronica bucket and others, were presented to the South Tongu District Health Directorate for distribution. His intervention comes at a time […]
Ghana enforces travel restrictions to high-risk countries amid COVID-19
The Ghana Immigration Service says it’s enforcing to the letter, the travel restrictions government has put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19. Speaking at a press briefing in Accra, Laud Afrifa said a lot of foreign passengers are being turned away from the country’s airport and other entry points. Meanwhile, two more cases […]
Coronavirus: Senegalese students in Wuhan will not be repatriated
After the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus a “public health emergency of international dimensions”, many African governments took restrictive measures within their own borders, from sanitary precautions in several countries to lockdown in Ghana. The Senegalese government decided not to repatriate its citizens who are students in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the […]
Chad to halt flights and partially shut borders
All international flights to and from Chad are to be suspended for two weeks, starting from midnight on Thursday. Cargo planes would still be allowed to enter the country, the government said in a statement. Chad is also closing its land borders with Sudan and the Central African Republic after both reported cases of coronavirus. […]
Parliament House goes through fumigation exercise over coronavirus
Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, has directed the health directorate in Parliament to disinfect the entire Parliament House before, sitting on Thursday, 19th March, 2020. He asked authority in charge of safety in the House to ensure that, the fumigation is carried out in the Chamber, the Press and Public Galleries, all departments […]
Pastor arrested for holding church service in defiance of government’s directives
Apostle Kofi Nkansah-Sarkodie, Founder and General-Overseer of the Open Arms Ministries at North Suntreso in Kumasi, has been apprehended by the Ashanti Regional Police Command for breach of a Presidential order on the holding of church service. The clergyman, who is currently in custody, was picked up on Wednesday, March 18 this year, following a […]
EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier tests positive for COVID-19
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, has tested positive for coronavirus. Mr Barnier said he was “doing well and in good spirits” in a tweet announcing his diagnosis on Thursday. His diagnosis throws the process of negotiating a post-Brexit trade deal between the EU and the UK into doubt. Mr Barnier had been due […]
Facebook will pay contract staff to work from home
Facebook will pay its third-party US content moderators to work from home. On a call with reporters, Facebook’s chief Mark Zuckerberg said the contract workers would still get their full salaries even if they were unable to do all their normal tasks. The company will also increase use of artificial intelligence to moderate content during […]
Italian doctor dies of coronavirus after working without gloves due to shortage
A 57-year-old doctor who tested positive for coronavirus and who was working in a hospital in the town of Codogno has died. Marcello Natali had been hospitalised in Cremona before being transferred to Milan after developing double pneumonia. In one of the last interviews he gave before he was tested for COVID-19, he told Euronews […]
