Author: Krobea

The Council of State has heaped praises on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over his handling of the Covid-19 crisis. According to the Chairman, Nana Otuo Siriboe II, even the regular updates by way of nationwide broadcasts “really brought encouragement to the country”. These came to light when the president met the Council at the Jubilee House on Tuesday, April 21. It comes a day after the lockdown on some major cities in Ghana was withdrawn. President Akufo-Addo had explained that he decided to lift the lockdown on Accra, Kumasi, Kasoa and Tema following the “constancy” of data churned out…

Western Region Veterinary Officer Dr. Simon Gbene has revealed that the Veterinary Services Department in Sekondi-Takoradi is a Bio-Safety Level 3 (BSL–3) facility capable of handling work involving microbes which can cause serious and potentially lethal disease via the inhalation route. According to him, the facility is as efficient as that of Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR). “In fact, our facility will be able to test about a thousand samples each day,” he stressed. Dr. Gbene explained that the facility “is one of the topmost in the whole of West Africa. In fact, it is Bio-Safety Level 3,…

The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has urged all students to register for the E-Learning programme despite the concerns raised. The SRC had led students to protest against the programme, which is to to serve as the continuation of academic work, from Wednesday, April 22. Authorities had announced the Moodle Platform for use for the programme in order to successfully complete the 2019/20 academic year. But students took to social media to reject the move, demanding free data and provision for persons with visual impairment, among others, before subscribing to it. In a statement…

Ghana’s second-hand clothing trade hub, Kantamanto, is yet to bounce back for business barely 48 hours after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo lifted the partial lockdown in Ghana. A visit to the area by TV3’s Mercydalyne Lokko on Tuesday revealed empty stalls as most of the traders were absent. Those who had come were not engaged in any activity, she reported. They said they are still observing the situation and are likely to start work from Wednesday, which is also a market day. Speaking in an interview, one of the traders, Auntie Maggie, said traders have planned to clean up…

After the President’s address to the nation on 19th April, 2020, the country seems divided into two factions; those who support the lifting of the lockdown and those who do not support that decision. Quite sticky situation but let me put this in some perspective. Accra Metropolis has about 2.3 million people, the number increases to 4.3 people during the day. The additional 2 million is as a result of movement from the peri-urban areas into the city for business. (The Figures from the Mayor of Accra, on Good Evening Ghana, Metro TV, 17th April, 2020). Giving the cosmopolitan and…

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers-Ghana (COPEC) has played down expectations of Ghanaians for a reduction in petroleum prices. Oil prices on the international market have plummeted recently with some Ghanaians demanding a reflection at the pump. WTI is reported to be trading at -$15, which is said to be the lowest in decades. But Brent, whose benchmark the Ghanaian market is largely dependent upon, trades around $26. A statement issued by COPEC’s Executive Secretary noted that despite the development, it is unlikely there will be any reduction in Ghana. “The Ghanaian market is largely Brent benchmark dependent and as such…

Payboy Company Limited has condemned the action of the Coalition of Aggrieved Menzgold Customers after some members assaulted agents of the firm in Tarkwa, Western Region. Payboy is a one-stop digital payments vendor that promotes several digital payment services solution for individual and corporate clients worldwide. The company has so far brokered debt settlement agreements between Menzgold and hundreds of its clients. But on Thursday, April 9 members of the Coalition, numbering 50 and led by one Samuel Agyarko, besieged the offices of Payboy and vandalised some property. But for the intervention of the police on duty, 3news.com gathered, it…

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has dismissed reports that a decision has been taken at a National Steering Committee to hold the parliamentary and presidential primaries on Saturday, April 25. In a statement issued on Tuesday, April 21, Mr Boadu said no meeting has been held at any level of the party to review the date of the primaries since the president lifted the partial lockdown. “Indeed, the last National Steering Committee meeting of the party was held on April 14, 2020, at which meeting, the party decided to suspend its primaries till further…

The number of people officially identified as infected with coronavirus in Italy has fallen for the first time since the country’s outbreak began, authorities have said. As of Monday, there were 108,237 people either being treated in hospital or recovering at home, 20 fewer than the previous day. Authorities say the small but symbolic drop is a “positive development”. Italy’s lockdown continues until 3 May but some businesses have reopened. They include bookshops, stationers and shops selling children’s clothes, as officials see how social distancing measures can be safely applied. Italy has the third-highest number of Covid-19 cases in the…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has explained his decision to lift the lockdown imposed on some cities in the country. He said the decision was as a result of the consistency in data churned out from the enhanced testing carried out by the health workers in the three-week period. According to him, the data gave the same demography as regards the infection rate, death rate, number of infected and those moderately ill and treated, among others. “All those things are remaining quite constant in the data that we have and I think it is that constancy and that robustness of…