Author: Krobea

Coronavirus infections in Ghana have now hit a total of 24,248 cases. This is according to the latest update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) released on Sunday, July 12. This was obtained after 414 new cases of the disease were confirmed across the country. Out of this, a total of 19,831 have recovered and been discharged with 135 succumbing to the disease. This leaves the country with a total of 4,282 under management as active cases. Out of this number, 22 are in “severe” conditions and six are in “critical” conditions. Five are surviving on ventilators. Regional breakdown According…

Academic work for final year pupils of St James Preparatory School at Maame Krobo in the Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region has gone down despite resumption from the long break due to the coronavirus pandemic. This, according to school authorities, was as a result of the fact that the children had no means of learning while on the forced break. Headmaster Emmanuel Yeboah, who made the revelation to Onua TV in an interview, explained that most of the parents took their children to farms during the period. Mr Yeboah admitted to Onua TV’s news anchor Afia Tagor…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) as part of steps to include Senior High School students in the ongoing voter registration exercise has planned to capture 2,442 students in four Senior High Schools in the Walewale Constituency. The schools are Walewale Technical Senior High School, Walewale Vocational Technical Senior High School, Nasia Senior High School and Wulugu Senior High School. The exercise started on Friday, July 10 and ended Saturday. In an interview, Municipal EC Director Rauf A. Adam indicated that the EC was set for the exercise in all four Senior High Schools. According to him, students captured included final…

Seven senior high schools in the Western Region have recorded cases of coronavirus, the Regional Health Director has confirmed. Speaking on News 360 on TV3 on Saturday, Dr Jacob Mahama said the reports were picked by the respective district health directorates. He said the various students in question showed symptoms of the disease and their samples were immediately taken after quarantine. The samples were brought to Accra for tests, he told host Issa Monnie, and “we had the results yesterday.” While some tested negative, a few others tested positive, Dr Mahama said. All the students who had their samples returning positive…

Ghana international Sulley Ali Muntari has asked FIFA to put in more effort in fighting racism in football as they did in inventing VAR. Across the world, protests have been launched against racism after a video of the killing of a black man, George Floyd, went viral. Players and clubs in various leagues have also staged subtle on-field protests. The midfielder added his voice to the ongoing campaign by stressing that VAR was invented to correct the existing wrongs in football. “For instance, they have invented VAR, which helps to take alternative views on decisions. “So why don’t you put…

Norwich City became the first club to be relegated from the Premier League this season as Michail Antonio scored all four goals to ease West Ham’s troubles near the bottom of the table. A seventh successive league defeat left Daniel Farke’s side anchored at the foot of the table, 13 points from safety with only three games to play. Having struggled to adapt since winning the Championship last season, Norwich’s third relegation in seven seasons was sealed by Antonio’s superb performance in front of goal. The forward volleyed the first from inside the six-yard area after Issa Diop’s flick from…

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is facilitating the construction of two sanitation courts to ease the prosecution of sanitation-related offences. City Mayor Osei Assibey Antwi says the projects would help in implementing the Assembly’s campaign of reducing breaches of bye-laws on environmental sanitation. “The Assembly has awarded on contract the construction of two courts in the metropolis to help speed up the adjudication of cases relating to the breach of sanitation bye-laws,” he told the media in Kumasi. The KMA has, meanwhile, presented 15 motor bikes to the Assembly’s Sanitation and Environmental Units to support in addressing waste management challenges…

Former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, who is also Member of Parliament for Tema West Constituency, has been declared recovered from Covid-19. This was contained in a letter signed by the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, to him. Mr Ahenkorah came under pressure and condemnation for breaching Covid-19 isolation rules by visiting some polling stations at the start of the new voter registration while a carrier of the virus. He had justified this by explaining that he had self-isolated for more than 10 days as all asymptomatic carriers of the…

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama is in the Volta Region to tour some centres mounted for the ongoing voter registration exercise. He is scheduled to be in some select constituencies to monitor the exercise. The registration began on Tuesday, June 30 and it is already in its second phase. It is scheduled to end on Thursday, August 6. According to the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), 2,215,816 eligible voters registered at the end of Phase One. Mr Mahama, who is going to be the Presidential Candidate of the NDC for the December 7 polls, will tour…

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia Mamle Morrison, has called on the National Media Commission to ensure that one George Lutterodt, popularly known as Counsellor Lutterodt, does not appear on media programmes. “We also call on the Ghana Psychology Council to take appropriate action against him.” These were contained in a statement issued by Madam Morrison on Friday regarding proclamations attributed to counsellor-cum-pastor and said to have been made on an Adom TV show. Counsellor Lutterodt had suggested on the programme that rape victims enjoy the act despite resisting initially. But this has received wide condemnation from…