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The Tokyo Olympic Games will start on 23 July, 2021 and run to 8 August after being postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive board met on Monday to make the decision. The Olympics will still be called Tokyo 2020 despite taking place in 2021. The Paralympic Games, originally due to start on 24 August, 2020, will now take place between 24 August and 5 September, 2021. IOC president Thomas Bach said: “I am confident that, working together with the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Japanese Government and…

The Confederation of African Football has no plans to cancel any of its forthcoming competitions because of the coronavirus pandemic, hoping it can reschedule all. This would mean that the next Africa Cup of Nations will still be played in January-February 2021, despite this week’s 48 qualifiers being indefinitely postponed. Meanwhile, great uncertainty surrounds this year’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, a competition which was in trouble prior to the outbreak – with no host selected and the competition earmarked to start in November. Elsewhere, Caf is awaiting welcome developments regarding coronavirus prior to rescheduling dates for both Africa’s leading…

The Bank of Ghana has extended almost all deadlines for financial institutions, including when to meet its minimum capital requirement. Though no reasons were given, it is apparent that this has been necessitated by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. A notice issued by Sandra Thompson, the Secretary of the Central Bank, said the deadline for meeting the minimum capital requirement by all existing payment service providers and electronic money issuers as well as banks and specialised deposit-taking institutions has been extended from June 30, 2020 to December 31, 2020. The deadline for meeting the Payment Card Industry Data Security…

The family of the late Nana Osei Boansi Kuffour is requesting an autopsy report from the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, where he died. Nana Osei Boansi Kuffour, who is the father of renowned musician Obour, died at the Hospital on Friday, March 27. He is said to have tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease. There was controversy surrounding the death as the family was accused of failing to share necessary information on the deceased’s travel history with the hospital staff. He was taken to the hospital after only testing positive for malaria, Obour said in a statement after the…

The former president of the Republic of Congo, Jacques Joaquim Yhombi-Opango, has died in Paris from complications related to coronavirus. He was 81 years old. His family said he had been ill before contracting the virus. Mr Yhombi-Opango led Congo-Brazzaville from 1977 until he was toppled in 1979 by the country’s current leader, Denis Sassou Nguesso. He spent several years in prison before multi-party democracy was introduced in 1991 and served as prime minister until civil war broke out in 1997. He went into exile in France, before being allowed to return home 10 years later. Source: BBC

Four metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in the Eastern Region have heightened surveillance after recording a sharp increase in guests, probably due to the lockdown in Accra, Kumasi, Tema and Kasoa. Four municipal assemblies in the Eastern Region have issued out a directive to check and curb Covid-19 following the influx of persons into some parts of the region after the lockdown announcement by the President. The Assemblies are Akuapem North Municipal Assembly, Okere District Assembly, Akuapem South District Assembly and New Juaben South Municipal Assembly. The assemblies’ directive in collaboration with the Public Health Emergency Committee include check…

The President of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA), Professor Francis Dodoo, has been appointed as Chairman of the new Governance Commission of World Athletics. The decision to appoint the former President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) was taken at the sport’s world-governing body’s Council Meeting in Monaco on March 11-12. The decision was subsequently communicated in a circular from World Athletics Chief Executive Officer Jon Ridgeon to member federations on Friday, March 27. Prof. Dodoo, who is also a Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, will chair the 12-member Commission. The members include personalities from the athletics world…

The joint security and Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) Monitoring Team have arrested and detained a total of 73 children who were found selling in and around the various markets and transport terminals in the metropolis. The team arrested 32 of these children at the Central Business District of Takoradi while the remaining 41 were arrested at the Kojokrom Market and environs. The arrested children are aged between 9 and 17 years and were hawking foodstuff and other items. For those arrested at Kojokrom, they were detained at the Kojokrom Methodist Church while those arrested in Takoradi were sent to the…

Ghana’s music maestro, Kojo Antwi, has warned that the novel coronavirus has a nice name but it is a very wicked disease. Mr Music Man, as he is affectionately called, is therefore urging Ghanaians to stick to the directives by the Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization so that the virus can be contained. Ghana has recorded 152 cases of the virus with five deaths, while globally over 700,000 cases have been confirmed with over 37,000 deaths as of March 31, 2020. Currently, four cities in Ghana are on a two-week lockdown, which began on…

It is certainly an exciting time for lovers of quality and thrilling television programming as Ghana’s Number One television station TV3 Network introduces two new exciting telenovelas.  The two telenovelas, Naagin and Wildflower, are scheduled to premiere on Tuesday, 31st March 2020. They are both classified as high quality production with a unique subject matter, exceptional style and content. Naagin is a 45-minute show, premiering at 6:00pm and will air from Tuesdays to Fridays. It chronicles the story of Shivanya, daughter of a shape-shifting snake couple who sets out to avenge the murder of her parents. While on her mission,…