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The Geneva Airport International on Wednesday marked the 82nd birthday of Mr Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, with dedication and renaming of its protocol lounge as "Espace Kofi Annan."The Kofi Annan Foundation and the...

Professor Margaret Kweku, National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Hohoe Constituency has called on the citizenry to adhere to all preventive and precautionary measures in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease.Professor Kweku who educated...

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a 34-year-old James Chukwuka who failed to comply with the Restriction Order and allegedly took the blood samples of pregnant women and some residents at Gbese in James...

The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, has admitted that he is a colossus when it comes to propaganda and nobody within the political sphere can beat him to...

Parliament has stated unequivocally that the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Hospital, which was built whilst former President John Dramani Mahama was in office, is the legacy of John Dramani Mahama.According to him, even though the hospital was...

The Central Region has recorded its first Coronavirus (COVID-19) case which happens to be a 57-year-old man.The patient, a clergyman by profession, according to the Regional Health Directorate travelled to the United Kingdom (UK) and returned...

President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage to set aside Ksh.100 million ($944,356) to cushion local artistes from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.Addressing the Nation on the state...

Ghana has recorded an additional death from COVID-19 as cases in Ghana crossed the 300 mark.The total number of deaths as of April 8, 2020, is now six.No details have been provided on the...

Coronavirus has killed one more person in Ghana, while 25 more people have tested positive.This brings the total deaths to six, while the overall infection cases rise to 313.Enhanced contact tracing and testing is...

A psychology lecturer at the University of Ghana, Charles Wiafi Akenten says stigmatizing against persons with COVID-19 can affect the fight against the global pandemic.He is of the view that most people may decide...

Funerals are a big deal in Ghana and it is not uncommon, in some parts, for a ceremony to last up to seven days, drawing thousands of crowds adorned in flowing red and black...

Nigeria has recorded another fatality from coronavirus in Lagos state.The deceased is said to be a 66-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom who travelled from India via Dubai to Lagos on 17th of March,...

The World Bank Group has announced the sum of $82 million funding support for Nigeria's ongoing fight against the dreaded COVID-10 pandemic.The Breton Woods institution stated it would be providing direct and long-term financial...

Two Nigerian software engineers have been fixing ventilators for free at a hospital in northern Nigeria.William Gyang and Nura Jubril, who have experience doing electrical repairs, discovered that there were 40 faulty machines at...

Deputy Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame and his spouse, Dr. Joycelyn Dame, have donated GHC20,000 to support the work of the COVID-19 National Trust Fund set up by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.The cheque for...

Separated parents are now allowed to move their children between houses during the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, provided they meet certain legal requirements.While government had previously been unclear about the issue, new regulations regarding the...

Thirty-three (33) persons placed under mandatory quarantine in Juaso at the Asante Akim South Municipality of the Ashanti region, where former MUSIGA President, Bice Osei Kuffour (Obour) is contesting for Parliamentary candidate on the...

Since the first reported case of the coronavirus in Ghana, there has been several interventions from both government and the private sector all aimed at combating against the spread of the pandemic and managing...

A 34-year-old Nigerian has been arrested for allegedly defying the restriction order by taking blood samples of pregnant women and residents at Gbese Community, a suburb of James Town without legal authority.Chukwuka James, 34,...

Since the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in China last year December, there seems to be a new form of conspiracy theory coming up every week about the origin of the virus.In recent times one of...

Former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service and Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has said that Coronavirus may die off naturally after three months.He says like the life span of any other...

The Minority in Parliament is protesting the Speaker's decision to recall members for a two-day emergency sitting.The Minority threatened to drag the Speaker to the Supreme Court over his decision to suspend the House...

Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, a lecturer at the University of Ghana, is looking for new ways to carry on teaching his students.He has no other choice. Ever since Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ordered last month the...

All contacts that were traced to the only COVID-19 case in the Upper West Region have tested negative for the disease.According to the Regional Minister, Dr Hafiz Bin Salih, about 46 persons who were...

The Centre for Victims of Injustice (CenVI, GH) has called for a thorough investigation into the alleged killing of a civilian by a Military officer at Ashaiman on Monday 6th April 202.Although the Ghana...

The Kumasi Central Market will officially be re-opened for trading activities on Thursday, April, 09, 2020, a statement by city authorities said.Ahead of the reopening,authorities are billed to formalize all arrangements today, April, 08,2020...

The United Press for Development Network (UPDN) has asked the government to provide stimulus package for the media following the role in helping fight against the coronavirus infection in Ghana.The UPDN commended the Government...

President Nana Akufo-Addo says the government will in the coming days give a clear definition of who qualifies as frontline staff in the fight against the coronavirus.Controversy has been brewing over who qualifies as...

18-year-old Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Talisha Non-Diary Milk and Papa Nono Non-Dairy products, Talisha Maipuri, has donated products valued at GHS11,000 to the Accra Regional Police Command.Presenting the items on Tuesday, April 7,...

Eight persons have been remanded into police custody for flouting the legislation on the partial lockdown.The suspects were arrested and arraigned at Circuit Court 11 by the Accra Regional Police Command on Tuesday 7th April...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that some 14 persons have tested positive out of a total number of 7,461.The Minister said the figure shows clearly that the community spread was declining steadily.According to him,...

Information available to MyNewsGh.com is that a nine-year-old girl has been killed by an over speeding Toyota Corolla Saloon CarAccording to an eye witness who gave his name as Anim, the girl was knocked...

The Eastern Regional chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has distributed 50 pieces of locally manufactured nose masks to some media personnel in the region to protect themselves from contracting the deadly coronavirus.A...

The issue of who is a frontline worker has dominated the public sphere especially when the Government of Ghana announced some measures laid down for frontline health workers taking care of patients who have...

The Member of Parliament for Yagaba/Kumori has raised concerns about what he calls inconsistencies from government on the provision for Kayayes and other vulnerable groups suffering the biting edge of the lockdown in Accra and Kumasi.According...

The Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA) has urged government to include every health worker in the stimulus package that has been set aside for frontline health personnel in the fight against Coronavirus.President of the Ghana...

The Ministry of Health has announced the commencement of recruitment for 2017 trained nurses and midwives with a diploma and degree certificates from accredited public and private training institutions on Tuesday, April 14, 2020.A...

Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the Minister of Health, has said Government has selected five local companies to produce 3.6 million nose masks with 15,000 to be supplied daily.This, he said, would increase the availability of...

Dr Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey, the Head of Communication Studies Department of the University of Professional Studies has urged students of the Department to design appropriate communication tools to help fight the COVID-19.She commended the...

Central Region Minister, Kwamena Duncan, has tasked District Chief Executives (DCEs) and health authorities in the Region to designate schools in every district to serve as centres to manage suspected coronavirus cases.The schools, according...

  

The Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) is working with the Ghana Health Service to set up a laboratory in the Northern Region to enable health officials swiftly test for the deadly novel coronavirus...

All contacts that were traced to the only COVID-19 case in the Upper West Region have tested negative for the disease.This was disclosed to Citi News by the Regional Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih.About...

The La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly has announced the closure of the Madina main market for trading activities until further notice.The affected areas include; Doku, Nkulenu, Market Drive, Asante & Asante, and Nkwantanang Roads, the...

Community water providers, and not just the Ghana Water Company Limited, are supposed to provide free water to their customers for the next three months amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.President Nana Akufo-Addo announced that...

The Immigration Ladies Association (IMMILAC) has donated sanitary items to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) for distribution to its academy and training school to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus.The items include...

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers and the Consumer Protection Agency have sued the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) over the introduction of the Cylinder Recirculation Recovery Margin which will allow LPG operators to start charging...

The Ghana Federation for Traditional Herbal Medicine Practitioners Association (GHAFTRAM) says it is yet to receive any feedback from authorities after submitting some 25 medicines to the Ministry of Health for testing and treatment...

Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, Member of Parliament for Klottey Korle Constituency, has donated food items to the vulnerable within the constituency to support them cope with the ongoing Coronavirus lockdown period.The move is to mitigate the risk of...

With people having to observe social distancing and self-quarantine in order to help curb the Coronavirus pandemic, a mast sited on the Management Development and Productivity Institute(MDPI) building at Baatsonaa, Spintex has collapsed on...