Author: Krobea

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) last week intercepted two cargo vehicles that had on board a total of 67 passengers, out of whom 17 tested positive for coronavirus. The vehicles were intercepted in the Oti Region, precisely in Nkwanta. This was revealed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday, April 26 when he addressed the nation in a televised broadcast. It was his eighth nationwide broadcast on the measures taken by government in the fight against coronavirus. Since his first address on Wednesday, March 11, when Ghana had no cases yet of the deadly coronavirus, there have been 1,550…

Ghana continues to lead the pack on the continent as the country with the highest number of tests for coronavirus. In a nationwide broadcast on Sunday, April 26, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo revealed that so far the country has tested 100,622 coronavirus samples. “From this pool, the total number of confirmed infections have risen from 1,042 to 1,550,” the president said. There have been controversy over Ghana’s testing figures with critics raising doubts about the capacity of the country’s major research laboratories to conduct as many tests in a few weeks. This forced the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical…

Government has resolved to build 88 new district hospitals as well as six regional hospitals across the country. The Effia Nkwanta Hospital in the Western Region will also be rehabilitated to serve its rightful purpose as a regional hospital. All these are expected to be completed within one year. “Each of them will be a quality, standard design 100-bed hospital with accommodation for doctors, nurses and other health workers and the intention is to complete them within a year.” These were made known by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Adoo on Sunday, April 26 in his periodic update to the nation…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has by Executive Instrument (EI) 64 extended by another two weeks the ban on public and social gatherings in the country. This takes effect from 1:00am Monday, April 27. The president had decreed a ban on all social gathering in his second televised address to the nation on Sunday, March 15, 2020. It was for a four-week period. This was extended by two weeks on Sunday, April 12. In his eighth broadcast to the nation on Sunday, April 26, President Akufo-Addo said there is a consensus to have that measure still in force after engaging…

One more person has lost their life to the deadly coronavirus disease as Ghana’s case count continues to rise. This brings to 11 the total number of deaths while the total case count reaches 1,550 from the previous figure of 1,279. Ghana’s epicentre, the Greater Accra Region, has recorded 258 more cases from its last count just two days ago. The Region’s total tally of 1,347 went beyond the previous national tally. These are results from the backlog of tests being run by the major laboratories in the country, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has clarified. There’s a steady surge…

Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has expressed disagreement at those justifying an alleged meeting of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) despite an injunction filed at an Accra High Court against it. He said he has a varying opinion regarding interpretations by some lawyers that the injunction was location-specific. The Commission’s scheduled workshop on the controversial new voters’ register to be held at the City Escape Hotel in Prampram was stopped after Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Constituency Sam George secured a court injunction on Friday. According to the law maker, he felt obliged to take the legal action against the…

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Constituency Sam Nartey George says he is weighing his options to file an order of contempt against the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) for allegedly going ahead with a workshop despite a high court injunction. On Saturday, April 25, reports came through that officials of the country’s election-management body were meeting at the City Escape Hotel at Airport for a workshop, which was originally scheduled to be held in Prampram. The workshop, according to an internal memo by the EC, is to prepare its officials for the controversy-strewn compilation of a new voters’ register this year.…

The Minister of Health by the Public Health Act, 2012 (Act 851) has directed the wearing of face masks by all and sundry to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Section 170(1) of the Act clothes the Minister with powers to order an individual to take a preventive measure in respect of public health matters. In pursuant to this, the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, issued a statement on Saturday, April 25 directing the wearing of face masks “in all public places where it may be difficult to maintain social distancing”. “The general public is…

Barely 48 hours after its release, Stonebwoy’s 4th studio album ‘Anloga Junction’ is working some ‘magic’. If not for nothing at all, the birth of the album appears to be rekindling the love and friendship that once existed between Stonebwoy, his former manager – Blakk Cedi and onetime signee, Kelvyn Boy. In 2019, the acclaimed musician parted ways and cut all ties with Blakk Cedi, who was his manager and agent at Burniton Music Group. His signee Kelvyn Boy was also ‘sacked’ from the Burniton Music Group label. Many have suggested that their dismissal created a toxic relationship between the…

More than 200,000 people worldwide have now died with the coronavirus, figures from Johns Hopkins University show. There are more than 2.8 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, according to the tally. It comes after the number of fatalities in the US passed 50,000, as Americans endure the world’s deadliest outbreak. Chinese state media reported the first known death linked to the virus on 11 January. More than 210 countries and territories have since reported cases. Five countries have now reported death tolls above 20,000 although the way fatalities are counted varies widely. The US, Italy and Spain have seen the…