Author: Krobea

The Minister of Health by the Public Health Act, 2012 (Act 851) has directed the wearing of face masks by all and sundry to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Section 170(1) of the Act clothes the Minister with powers to order an individual to take a preventive measure in respect of public health matters. In pursuant to this, the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, issued a statement on Saturday, April 25 directing the wearing of face masks “in all public places where it may be difficult to maintain social distancing”. “The general public is…

Barely 48 hours after its release, Stonebwoy’s 4th studio album ‘Anloga Junction’ is working some ‘magic’. If not for nothing at all, the birth of the album appears to be rekindling the love and friendship that once existed between Stonebwoy, his former manager – Blakk Cedi and onetime signee, Kelvyn Boy. In 2019, the acclaimed musician parted ways and cut all ties with Blakk Cedi, who was his manager and agent at Burniton Music Group. His signee Kelvyn Boy was also ‘sacked’ from the Burniton Music Group label. Many have suggested that their dismissal created a toxic relationship between the…

More than 200,000 people worldwide have now died with the coronavirus, figures from Johns Hopkins University show. There are more than 2.8 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, according to the tally. It comes after the number of fatalities in the US passed 50,000, as Americans endure the world’s deadliest outbreak. Chinese state media reported the first known death linked to the virus on 11 January. More than 210 countries and territories have since reported cases. Five countries have now reported death tolls above 20,000 although the way fatalities are counted varies widely. The US, Italy and Spain have seen the…

Ghanaians and viewers of Onua TV, a subsidiary of Media General Group, Ghana’s leading media company, will soon have a lot more exciting television viewing experience as the network is set to introduce new and refreshing content. In the coming weeks, Onua TV will introduce new programmes with two of them starting from Monday, April 27: Onua Maakye (Morning Show) and Covid-19 Nkomo. A third show, 100 Degrees, will start airing on Friday, May 1. Onua Maakye (Morning Show) is a daily three-hour show from Monday to Friday between 6am and 9am. It is an informative and entertaining television magazine…

About 50 fishermen who were put under mandatory quarantine for coronavirus took to the streets of Moree in the Central Region amid singing and dancing after being declared virus-free. The fishermen had been quarantined at the Moree Senior High and Technical School after returning from fishing exploration in Ivory Coast. Tests performed on all those who have completed the 14-day quarantine came out negative. Though a majority is still in quarantine, those who completed their session were full of joy. Chief Fisherman at Moree Nana Kwagya told TV3’s Thomas Cann on Saturday that the fishermen have been happy with the…

International Brent Crude plummeted momentarily on Tuesday, 21st April, the lowest since 21 years ago but recovers a day after to hover around $20 a barrel. As the novel Coronavirus lockdown grind down many facets of our lives i.e. a grounded airline industry, a drowning hospitality sector, a quandary health industry, a crumpled supply chain industry, etc. The energy industry is not an exemption as the lockdown spurt through the world’s largest economies, leaving the market swamped by cratering demand and unmanageable oversupply. Crude oil price plunged by 54.18% on average terms, starting the year on a high of $66.74…

BBC teams are fact-checking some of the most popular fake and misleading coronavirus stories on social media. Jack Goodman and Flora Carmichael bring together what’s been debunked this week by BBC Monitoring, Trending and Reality Check. Fake Facebook posts about The Rock Thousands of posts have been circulating on Facebook offering huge cash prizes to “help” people financially affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Although the competition is clearly fake, it is being shared in many languages. Most examples include unrelated video footage or photos of Dwayne Johnson, an actor known as The Rock. Participants are invited to select a “prize”…

The Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Professor Peter Quartey, says government must target the agricultural sector in its economic efforts to recover from the Covid-19 crisis in the near future. According to him, all sectors of the economy will suffer as a result of the pandemic but the easy shot for government will be the agriculture sector. He, therefore, advised that more investment must be put in that sector when the recovery efforts begin. Prof. Quartey made these recommendations via Zoom on TV3/3FM’s The Key Points on Saturday, April 25. He was contributing to…

More than 20,000 people have now died with coronavirus in UK hospitals, the Department of Health has announced. The latest figures showed a total of 20,319 deaths in the UK, up by 813 on the previous day. At the government’s daily briefing, the home secretary described the figure as a “tragic and terrible milestone”. Last month, the government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said keeping deaths below 20,000 would be a “good outcome”. At the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: “As the deaths caused by this terrible virus pass another tragic and terrible milestone, the entire…

Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance Limited Ken Kwamina Thompson says it will take Ghana more than three years in getting the economy to bounce back after the coronavirus crisis. He, therefore, called for immediate steps to ensure that businesses get back to normal. “We need to act now and we need to act fast.” Mr Thompson was speaking on TV3/3FM’s Saturday current affairs analysis programme The Key Points. He bemoaned the fate of the informal sector, observing that it will be the hardest hit in this crisis. Already, government has made available a stimulus package of about GH¢600 million…