Author: Krobea

General Overseer of Glorious Word Power Ministries International Prophet Isaac Owusu Bempah has cleared the air on the recently held breakfast prayer meeting at the Jubilee House. The man of God says he was invited by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and was even there before the meeting started. “I had a long chat with President Akufo-Addo even before the other men of God came,” he said in local language Twi. “But I left for an equally important assignment,” he disclosed on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Monday, March 23. He said he even returned to the presidency, hoping to…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed a former Deputy Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, as the Presidential Coordinator for Government’s Coronavirus Response Programme. Dr Asamoa-Baah is expected to be President Akufo-Addo’s point man for Ghana’s response effort. He will “be responsible for pulling together and co-ordinating all aspects of the response programme by Government,” a statement said. Dr. Asamoa-Baah holds a Masters Degree in Community Health from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, and a Bachelors Degree in Medicine and Surgery (MB.Ch.B) from the University of Ghana Medical School. He also holds Postgraduate…

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has parried criticism that its ongoing registration flouts a directive by the president against social gatherings in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. “The NIA’s conduct does NOT violate the President’s directives on public gatherings in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,” the Authority said in a statement on Thursday, March 19. “On the contrary, the NIA decision is harmonious with both the letter and spirit of the following equally compelling directive of His Excellency The President.” President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had ordered all public gatherings to cease as Ghana strives to contain the…

English football will be suspended until at least 30 April because of the continued spread of coronavirus. All games in England’s Premier League, EFL, Women’s Super League and Women’s Championship, and all fixtures in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, are currently postponed. The Football Association has also agreed that the current season can be “extended indefinitely”. Under current rules the season had been scheduled to end on 1 June. A joint statement issued by the FA, Premier League and EFL expressed “a commitment to finding ways of resuming the 2019-20 season” and completing all domestic and European matches “as soon…

Following a directive by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for all social gatherings including sporting events to be suspended for the next four weeks, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has halted all its competitions with immediate effect. In a statement released last week, the GFA had announced that while all competitions will go ahead as scheduled, it will continue to liaise with government and follow all national health protocols on the matter. A few moments after President Akufo-Addo’s nationwide broadcast on Sunday, the GFA pledged to immediately follow the new issued protocols and guidelines. “The Association will continue to engage…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced the shutdown of all schools, both public and private, in Ghana in the face of the spread of the deadly coronavirus disease. The decision was taken after he chaired an inter-ministerial committee meeting on the pandemic on Sunday, March 15. President Akufo-Addo announced this in a live nationwide broadcast. All schools including universities and primaries must not open from Monday, March 16, according to the president. “The Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications has been tasked to roll out distance learning programmes,” President Akufo-Addo said. Candidates for the upcoming…

Ghana will from Tuesday, March 17 not allow any traveller from countries that have recorded at least 200 cases of coronavirus. This is part of measures taken to halt the spread of the virus. So far, Ghana has confirmed six cases of the disease with no deaths recorded. All of Ghana’s cases were imported. “All travel to Ghana is strongly discouraged until further notice,” a travel advisory issued by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, said. The ban on visits to Ghana does not, however, affect Ghanaian citizens and persons with Ghana residence permits. But those who have visited…

University of Ghana, Legon has suspended lectures with immediate effect in the outbreak of coronavirus, 3news.com has gathered. Students resident on campus have, however, been asked to stay in their rooms while non-resident students have been asked not to visit campus for now. These were made known by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, in a live broadcast on Sunday, March 15. This comes in the wake of the confirmation of a student as having tested positive for the coronavirus disease. The student, one of six confirmed cases in Ghana, had visited the US…

The Christ Kingdom Ambassadors Church in Takoradi in the Western Region has changed its Sunday Service time as part of efforts to ensure that the church will not serve as a place to contract the coronavirus disease. The church has changed the Sunday Service time from the original 8:00am – 12:00am to 7:30am – 9:00am. Head Pastor Paa Kwesi Hammond told 3news.com that the change was effected a week ago. “Since WHO declared the coronavirus as a pandemic, we had a meeting and looked at ways to protect the church members,” Pastor Hammond intimated. “We considered several measures. One of…

Ghana has now officially recorded six cases of the coronavirus disease as of Sunday, March 15. This was confirmed by the Head of Public Health of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Badu Sarkodie, at a press briefing on Sunday. The new cases came in pairs just like the first two cases confirmed concurrently by the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research on Thursday, March 12. On Friday, two additional cases were recorded while the other two were recorded on Saturday. All the patients have been quarantined and are in a stable condition, Dr Sarkodie said. The first case on Friday…