READ: Why partial lockdown was lifted
PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO LIFTS PARTIAL LOCKDOWN, BUT KEEPS OTHER ENHANCED MEASURES IN PLACEThe President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, 19th April,...
Ban on social gatherings still in force
President Nana Akufo-Addo has lifted the three-week lockdown imposed in some parts of the country in order to control the spread of the deadly...
Coronavirus: Partial lockdown lifted!
President Akufo-Addo has lifted the partial lockdown on Greater Accra, Tema, Kasoa and Greater Kumasi.According to the President, the decision to enforce the...
Ghana’s coronavirus case count skyrockets to 1,042
Ghana’s coronavirus case count has jumped to 1,042. The previous figure was 834. This means 208 new cases have been confirmed.This was announced...
Kind landlady surprises tenants with 3 months’ rent waiver to ease lockdown pressure
A landlady of an apartment building at Teiman in Accra, Joyce Terkper, has given three months’ rent waiver to her tenants due to the...
Man loses job due to coronavirus then wins £2.4million on the lottery
A young dad, who lost his job as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, has won millions of pounds on the lottery.The unnamed man,...
Banks contribute GHS2M to Ghana COVID-19 private sector fund
As part of efforts to mitigate the financial impact of the corona virus on the government and the people of Ghana, the Ghana Association...
Pastor Adeboye passes new prophecy on Covid-19
Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has declared that Nigeria will survive the scare of Covid-19 before...
Motor rider shot after forcing his way through security barrier
A motor rider was shot and wounded by a soldier after he run a security blockade at Dobro near Nsawam and attempted to speed...
Covid-19 Lockdown: Victory Bible Church supplies food items to over 2,000 homes in Awoshie
Victory Bible Church International (VBCI), one of the leading charismatic and pentecostal churches in Ghana, has given out food items to over 2,000 homes...
Britain’s oldest patient, aged 102, leaves hospital after defeating coronavirus [Video]
The heartwarming moment one of Britain's oldest coronavirus survivors, aged 102, left hospital after defeating the deadly disease has been caught on camera.The poignant footage shows...
Lockdown: Akufo-Addo to address Ghanaians tonight
President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo will tonight address Ghanaians with updates on measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease.This will be the president’s...
49 new Coronavirus cases recorded in Nigeria, total confirmed cases now 542
Nigeria has recorded 49 new cases of the novel coronavirus, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).In a tweet on Saturday April...
Coronavirus: Landlords and tenants association in Kenya orders all tenants to stop paying rent
The Landlords and Tenants Association (LATAK) in Kenya has directed all tenants to stop paying their rents until further notice due to the impact...
Beggars defy coronavirus to beg on street (Photo)
We are scared but if we don’t come out, we will starve to death. We couldn't buy food to save before the lockdown because...
Video: There’s no Coronavirus in Ghana – Pastor Prince Osei
Pastor Prince Elisha Osei Kofi, the Founder and Leader of Springs of Grace Executive Fellowship, says in spite of Ghana recording 834 cases of...
Soldiers storm mosques, public gatherings in Covid-19 operation at Walewale
Soldiers have stormed mosques and other public gatherings as part of a Covid-19 operation at Walewale, in the North East region.The military operation, which...
COVID-19: Meridian port services staff tests negative after conflicting results
An equipment operator at Meridian Port Services (MPS) in Tema, who was asked to self-isolate over suspected COVID-19 symptoms, has tested negative in what...
Covid-19: NDC team writes to govt over isolation centres in Ghana
The National Democratic Congress' (NDC) technical team on Covid-19 has asked the government to make public all COVID-19 isolation centres in the country.According...
We have pastors faking miracles in churches today – Ashimolowo
The senior pastor of the Kingsway Church, Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, has attacked fake pastors in Nigeria, describing them as charlatans and fakers of miracles.In...
Fears for missing journalist in Mozambique
Rights campaigners are urging Mozambique's government to find a radio journalist who went missing last week."Ibrahimo Mbaruco's apparent forced disappearance is of grave concern,...
Lockdown: Techiman market to be shut
The Municipal Chief Executive of the Techiman Assembly, John Donyina, has announced a one-week closure of its main market amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Speaking at...
Zoomlion donates US $20,000 to Noguchi to help fight COVID-19
Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), a subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), has donated US$ 20,000 (GHC120,000.00) to the University of Ghana Noguchi...
Covid-19: Queen Elizabeth cancels birthday tradition for first time
The Queen has decided there will not be any special occasion to mark her 94th birthday this year due to the Coronavirus crisis.A spokesman for Buckingham...
Israeli drug ‘Opaganib’ successful in treating patients with COVID-19
Opaganib is a 'new chemical entity' administered orally to patients with Covid-19 and it performs “anticancer, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory activities.”The experimental drug from the Israeli biopharmaceutical...
I’m quarantined with my abuser; here’s what I want you to know
This was supposed to be the year I left an unhappy marriage of almost 20 years that came with psychological and emotional abuse.I...
Ghana’s Covid-19 deaths rise to 9
One more person has died as Ghana's Coronavirus cases have surged to 834, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has reported.According to the GHS, the...
Ghana’s coronavirus cases jump to 834
Ghana’s Coronavirus case count has increased to 834.This comes after 193 new cases were recorded from various parts of the country. This is the...
200 pregnant ‘Kayayei’ should be tested for coronavirus – Association President
Government is to decide the fate of over 200 pregnant head porters also known as ‘Kayayei’, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia...
COVID-19: Family weeps, abandons search for missing child over lockdown
Tetteh Ocloo family at Klagon in the Greater Accra region, like many other families, 2020 is certainly a year which is pregnant with so...
No vaccine for new strain of bacteria causing meningitis outbreak in Upper West – GHS
It has emerged that there is no vaccine for the strain of bacteria that has caused an outbreak of meningitis in the Upper...
U.S. lab tests confirm that ‘sunlight destroys coronavirus quickly’
American scientists have confirmed earlier assumptions that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and humidity.The assumption has long been spoken of but without...
Buhari’s Chief of Staff who died from coronavirus buried [photos]
The Nigerian president’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died on Friday after contracting the new coronavirus, has been buried in Abuja.He...
Sex workers slash rates to attract customers despite lockdown
The noisome ambience reeked of marijuana and cigarettes as our correspondent walked down Ipodo Street on Tuesday evening.Sitting on the outskirts of Allen,...
Shatta Wale donates to James Camp Prisons
Ghanaian musician, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale and his Shatta Movement team on Friday, April, 2020 made a donation to...
Lockdown diaries: Young girls arrested on their way to visit boyfriend [watch]
Some three teenage girls around the age of 17 were held by the police detailed at Abeka Lapaz in Accra to ensure compliance of...
Female driver arrested for knocking down cop
A female motorist has been arrested by the East Legon Police for refusing to stop at a COVID-19 snap checkpoint, knocking down a police...
Nigerian President’s Chief of Staff dies from coronavirus
The Nigerian president’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died on Friday after contracting the new coronavirus, two presidency spokesmen said on Twitter.Kyari, who was...
Coronavirus vaccine will take ‘many months’ and ‘there are no guarantees’ one can be found
A coronavirus vaccine will take 'many months' and there are 'no guarantees' one will ever be found, ministers warned tonight.Business Secretary Alok Sharma gave the sobering warning at Downing...
At least 300,000 Africans expected to die in coronavirus pandemic – UN agency
The Covid-19 pandemic will likely kill at least 300,000 Africans and risks pushing 29 million into extreme poverty, the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa...