CPP re-opens nominations for flagbearer, national positions
The Interim Oversight Committee of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has re-opened nominations for contest of various positions of the party including; Flagbearer ship and National Executive Positions. Picking and filing of nominations started from Monday July 6th to Wednesday, July 15, 2020 a statement signed by the Chairman of the Interim Oversight Committee Comrade […]
Burkina Faso: 180 bodies found in ‘killing field’
Bodies of at least 180 men have been found in mass graves in northern Burkina Faso. According to a Human Rights Watch report, the graves were found in a region where government forces are fighting a jihadist insurgency. The men had been buried under bridges, in fields and along major roadways near the town of […]
Ghanaian Covid-19-inspired fashion print designs launched
A Ghanaian fabric company has launched a new line of designs inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic. “[We] put a positive twist on a negative phenomenon” Stephen Badu, from Ghana Textiles Printing (GTP), told BBC Focus on Africa radio. The new fabrics have symbols like padlocks, keys and planes to reflect some of the measures implemented […]
U/ER: 12 persons jailed over clashes at Kassena-Nankana
Twelve out of twenty suspects have been sentenced in connection with the renewed clashes over land between the people of Doba and Kandiga in the Kassena-Nankana Municipal and Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region. The Navrongo Municipal Police Commander, Superintendent Francis Agyare, who made this known believed the conflict in the two communities […]
Catholic Bishops call for more security personnel at registration centers to enforce COVID-19 protocols
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC), says it has observed with concern the high level of disregard for observance of the COVID-19 protocols at the recent NPP parliamentary primaries, the ongoing voters’ registration exercise, the announcement of the running mate of the Flag-bearer of NDC at the party’s headquarters in Accra, and some other public […]
Coronavirus: WHO rethinking how Covid-19 spreads in air
The World Health Organization has acknowledged there is emerging evidence that the coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air. The airborne transmission could not be ruled out in crowded, closed or poorly ventilated settings, an official said. If the evidence is confirmed, it may affect guidelines for indoor spaces. An open […]
GRIDCo employee tests positive for COVID-19
One employee at the Tema office of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has been infected with COVID-19. The said member of staff, who has been working at the office since the 15th of last month has since been isolated and is receiving treatment in accordance with infection control protocols. GRIDCo in a statement said the […]
WAEC releases WASSCE timetable; Examination begins July 20
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the timetable for the August 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The timetable, which has been submitted to the Ministry of Education, indicates that the exams are expected to begin on Monday, July 20, 2020 with Project Work for Visual Arts candidates, while the theory […]
KNUST SHS students protest over death of colleague
Students of KNUST Senior High School went on a demonstration over the death of one of their colleagues on campus yesterday. They accused school authorities of leaving the boy, who complained of stomach upset unattended to for almost three hours in the care of his colleagues due to fear of Covid-19. Armed Policemen were later […]
8th July, 2020
The Daily Graphic calls on the Electoral Commission to give heed to the caution by the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to ensure that security persons manning the registration centers enforce adherence to the COVID-19 safety protocols. This is to ensure that community spread of the virus is halted. The paper says in as much as […]
CSOs Coalition: Reconsider decision on Auditor-General’s leave
A Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) championing the fight against corruption, has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to reconsider the decision to force the Auditor-General (AG) to take his ‘accumulated leave’. The CSOs coalition included: the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), SEND-Ghana, Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC), Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), […]
Ghana receives sufficient reagents to ramp-up COVID-19 testing
The Ghana Health Service (GHS), on July 4, received adequate supplies of reagents and other medical logistics from China to help ramp-up the country’s Covid-19 testing. The Director-General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, giving an update on COVID-19 case count and management situation at the bi-weekly media briefing in Accra, said the medical supplies […]
Western Region registers 145,741 voters in the first phase
A total of 145, 741 people were registered by the Electoral Commission in the Western Region during the first phase of the exercise which ended last Sunday. Also, 125 challenge forms were filed across the 237 registration centers challenging the eligibility of the persons involved to be registered and issued with a voter’s ID. The […]
COVID-19: Accra Girls SHS cases quarantined; 600 contacts traced
Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum says the six students of Accra Girls Senior High School and an instructor and his wife who tested positive to COVID-19 have been quarantined and are receiving the best of health care. Speaking at the Media briefing on the pandemic, Dr. Adutwum said about six hundred contacts […]
