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Celebrated media personality, staunch Made-in-Ghana campaigner, entrepreneur and PR practitioner, Kobi Hemaa Osisiadan-Bekoe on May 1 reached out to three communities in the Greater Accra Region with her Pad for All Project. Speaking to the media, Kobi Hemaa, who is also the founder of Angeles Foundation, explained that many menstruating girls and women face inadequate access to toilets and water and often lack the most basic materials needed for managing blood flow, such as sanitary pad hence the action. “We’re in the middle of a pandemic, this even makes menstrual hygiene a more pressing concern,” she said. “People will continue…

Yaw Sarpong has said on Onua 95.1FM that featuring an artiste like Sarkodie is a blessing and he has indeed been blessed for featuring him on his latest single ‘Ahobraseɛ’. After Yaw Sarpong had one of the biggest collaboration early this year with multiple award winning artiste Sarkodie, many have argued that it has really projected the legendary gospel musician and has also revived his career as a musician. Expressing his joy on Anigye Mmre, an entertainment talk show hosted by Christian Agyei Frimpong, Yaw Sarpong noted that all those who think his music career was over before featuring Sarkodie “is…

The Member of Parliament for Salaga South Constituency, Adam Braimah Salifu, has debunked claims by former President John Mahama that work on a 60-bed capacity hospital in Salaga has stalled. According to him, work has been steadily progressing since the New Patriotic Party (NPP) took over office in 2017. The project since its commencement has had more than three contractors working on it. Venus Allukin Is the fourth contractor on site. Former President John Mahama in his recent Facebook live interaction last Thursday claimed in Gonja that President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government has abandoned most of his projects with specific emphasis…

Rapper Sarkodie was the biggest winner at the 2020 edition of the 3Music Awards. The rapper swept awards that saw the organisers make history by holding the event virtually from the Fantasy Dome of the Trade Fair Centre in Accra. Organisers were forced to hold the event virtually Saturday night due to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. Sarkodie bagged the ‘Music Man of the Year’, ‘Hip-hop/Hiplife Act of the Year’, ‘Fan Army of the Year’, ‘Best Rap Performance’, and ‘Best Collaboration of the Year’ awards. Even though it was Sarkodie’s night, Kofi Kinaata walked him with the biggest award for the…

Ghanaian boxer Isaac ‘The Royal Storm’ Dogboe has debunked claims that he visited a fetish priest right before his fight against Emanuel Navarrete last May. Dogboe won the WBO Super Bantamweight title in April, 2018 after beating Jessie Magdaleno in an 11th round knockout only to lose the title to Magdaleno’s compatriot Navarrete that same year after just one successful defence against Japanese, Hidenori Otake. A rematch was also not successful. Those two defeats exposed the relatively young boxer’s weakness in the sport with many other blaming it on different things; mainly supernatural. A few days ago, Paul Dogboe, his…

A new drug developed by UK scientists to treat Covid-19 patients is being trialled at University Hospital Southampton. Developed by UK bio-tech company Synairgen, it uses a protein called interferon beta, which our bodies produce when we get a viral infection. Initial results from the trial are expected by the end of June. There are currently few effective treatments for coronavirus with doctors relying on patients’ immune systems. What is the new drug? Interferon beta is part of the body’s first line of defence against viruses, warning it to expect a viral attack, explains Richard Marsden, chief executive of Southampton-based…

Loudmouthed politician Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has sent a stern warning to popular fetish priestess Nana Agradaa that he will deal with her after he is done with Bishop Daniel Obinim. “I will not attack [Nana] Agradaa now,” he told host of 100 Degrees on Onua TV Bright Kwesi Asempa on the maiden edition of the show on Friday, May 1. “I am building my case.” He said so far the testimonies received from people against the fetish priestess are damning and wiill land her in jail. The Assin Central Member of Parliament seems to be recently on a warpath with…

Gella Foundation, a registered community-based charity organisation on Friday, May 1, launched a $100,000 fundraiser to cater for food aid for about 1,550 disabled children and their families in Tarkwa, three months’ supply of insulin for 200 diabetic people, one ventilator, five patient monitors for the Tarkwa Municipal Hospital and personal protective equipment (PPEs) for CHPS compounds within the Tarkwa Nsuem Municipality. As part of activities marking the launch, the Foundation donated relief items worth GH¢10,000 to the Tarkwa Municipal Hospital. The items included 120 pieces of 2-litre gallons of liquid soap, and 60 pieces of –litre gallons of sanitizers,…

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given emergency approval for the drug remdesivir to be used as a coronavirus treatment, US President Donald Trump has said. Trump said that the CEO of Gilead, which developed the drug, had described the move as an important first step and would donate 1.5 million vials of remdesivir. Vice-President Mike Pence said distribution of the drug to hospitals would begin on Monday. The drug, which was originally developed as a treatment for Ebola, cut the duration of coronavirus symptoms from 15 to 11 days in one US trial involving hospitals around the…

Kim Jong-un makes first public appearance in 20 days, North Korean state media say, amid speculation over his health. KCNA news agency reports that the North Korean leader cut the ribbon at the opening of a fertiliser factory. It adds that people at the factory “broke into thunderous cheers of hurrah” when he appeared. The reported appearance – his first since a Workers’ Party Politburo meeting on 11 April – comes amid global speculation over his health. More to follow. . .