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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…

The Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA) will from Monday, April 27 ensure that it is a must for all persons to were face masks in the metropolis. This campaign began in the Ashanti Region by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), which deployed a task force to enforce the directive, and was adopted by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA). A statement issued by management of CCMA on Friday said the wearing of face masks will be mandatory in Cape Coast too. It said this is in compliance with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s directive on the wearing of the masks to…

A professor of epidemiology has raised concerns about the kind of testing being undertaken by Ghana in the fight against coronavirus. Professor Fred Binka said Ghana’s testing model has not changed since the first cases of the viral disease were recorded. For him, that same type of testing is not what is needed now as cases have surged over 1,000. Prof Binka made this known when he appeared via Zoom on TV3/3FM’s The Key Points on Saturday, April 25. He was not happy with the president’s decision to ease the restrictions on movement, saying it could see an upsurge in…

Stonebwoy’s latest album ‘Anloga Junction’ is an embodiment of all the influences and experiences that he has gone through over the years as a musician. The award-winning artiste revealed that ‘Anloga Junction’ is not the name of a specific place but rather an artistic representation of what he has been through. Stonebwoy released his 15-track album on Friday to impressive reviews from Ghanaians and the world. The album features artistes like Kojo Antwi, Jahmeil (Jamaica), Zlatan (Nigeria), Diamond Platnumz (Tanzania), Nasty C (South Africa), Chivv (Netherlands), and Alicai Harley (Jamaica-born London-based). Sharing the inspiration behind the album and its name,…

A Virologist with the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) has admonished government to tread cautiously over its assertion that the virus that causes coronavirus has been contained. Dr Michael Owusu said Ghana’s bulwark against the virus will be tested when hospital capacities are exceeded. For now, he maintained, the case fatality is moderate as compared to the number of confirmed cases. Dr Owusu expressed made this known to host Abena Tabi while sharing his opinion on TV3/3FM’s The Key Points on Saturday, April 25. Since the first two cases of coronavirus were recorded in the country…

Popular boxer Braimah Issah Kamoko also known as Bukom Banku says he can rub shoulders with the top dancehall artistes in the country. Admitting, however, that Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy are the real deals, the multi-talented boxer said he also commands a following to deserve the title: ‘Dancehall King’. Speaking on Showbiz 360 on TV3 on Friday, Bukom Banku said his new song The Lighter must be nominated and subseqquently crowned the Dancehall Song of the Year in the next VGMA awards. “If Ghanaians don’t give me this award, I will stop everything in television,” he warned. “I won’t talk…