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An aspiring parliamentary candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ayensuano Constituency in the Eastern Region has expressed shock that the incumbent Member of Parliament is the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Roads and Transport while 99 per cent of roads in the Constituency are in deplorable state. Madam Josephine Awuku Ansaah said the name of the District capital is ‘Coaltar’ but none of the roads in the constituency has not seen tarring with coal. The aspiring candidate made the observations in an interview on Onua FM’s Election Command Centre on Monday. The Ayensuano Constituency…

Sudan’s prime minister has survived an assassination attempt after his convoy was attacked in the capital, Khartoum. “An explosion hit as Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s car was driving by but thank God no-one was hurt,” Ali Bakhit, in the PM’s office, told AFP. Mr Hamdok was appointed to head Sudan’s transitional government last August, a few months after the overthrow of long-time President Omar al-Bashir. He has reportedly been moved to a safe location. Pictures on state television showed several damaged vehicles at the site of the blast, the AFP news agency reports. According to the Reuters news agency, witnesses…

A German tourist has died from the coronavirus in Egypt, becoming the first fatality of Covid-19 to be recorded in Africa. The 60-year-old had arrived in Egypt a week ago and complained of a fever. He was taken to a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada for treatment where he was diagnosed with coronavirus. The AFP news agency reports that his breathing was affected by “acute pneumonia”. The patient died after refusing to be transferred to an isolation ward. On Saturday, Egypt’s ministry of health announced that there were 45 new cases of coronavirus involving travellers who were…

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers-Ghana (COPEC) is demanding that government make the recent steady decline in oil prices on the international market reflect at the pumps. The Chamber said the prices appear to be manipulated by the powers that be while the deregulation programme seems ineffective. “The implication of paying higher prices in the current window when prices should have declined at all pumps means that the expected reliefs petroleum consumers in Ghana should have benefited from the full price deregulation programme is hardly being realized nor sustainable and thus unexplainable as prices have often headed south anytime these two…

Twenty-eight people were burnt beyond recognition from an accident involving a Yutong bus and a Mercedes Sprinter on the Kintampo highway of the Bono East Region. The Yutong bus was from Bawku to Kumasi while the Mercedes Sprinter was from Kumasi to the northern part of the country. Six of the victims who survived the accident have been rushed to the Kintampo Government Hospital for medical care. The accident occurred in a head-on collision at around 3:30am Monday on the Kintampo to Gulumpe stretch of the road. The Kintampo Divisional Police Crime Officer, DSP Prosper Gbagbo, who revealed this to…

The Western Region Office of the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC) has disbursed loans to some 625 petty traders in Takoradi. Each person received GH¢1,000 to help them continue with their trading activities. “Government cannot employ all Ghanaians. So, one of the many initiatives it has initiated aimed at bringing financial independence to the masses is to give soft loans to especially petty traders. So, these monies we are giving to these women is to support them in their trading activities,” Western Region Director of MASLOC McDaniels Nyame said. At a ceremony to hand over the cheques to the…

Western Region recorded a total of 23,000 disaster cases in 2019. Regional Director Abdul Ganiyu revealed his outfit was able to offer relief items to only 10,000 of the victims. “The remaining victims, we could not support because there were no items to give,” he said. “It is unfortunate but we could only help 10,000 of the victims. That is why it is important that people become conscious of their actions and do well to protect themselves and property from disaster. Of course, sometimes the disaster is natural but largely what we have is man-made. So, we all have to…

 Cameroon is the latest African nation to confirm a case of the deadly coronavirus disease. In a statement on Friday, the Central African country’s health ministry said the case involved a French citizen, 58, who arrived in the capital Yaounde on Monday, February 24. He has been immediately quarantined. “All measures have been taken by the government to contain potential risks of the virus spreading,” the statement said. Cameroon becomes the fourth sub-Saharan African country to confirm the deadly viral disease. Already, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa have recorded cases. Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco have also recorded cases. The disease,…

Former presidents John Dramani Mahama and Jerry John Rawlings were conspicuously missing at the celebration event to mark 63 years of Ghana’s independence from British rule. The event was taken to the Ashanti Region capital of Kumasi for the first time in the anals of the nation. In attendance was His Royal Mejesty, Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the King of the Ashanti Kingdom. https://twitter.com/ManhyiaPalace/status/1235856121027416064?s=20 Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Christopher Rowley was the Guest of Honour. But the event did not have most of the members of the opposition in attendance. Most of the Minority Members of…

South Africa has detected its first case of the coronavirus, a 38-year-old man who visited Italy with his wife. This brings to 27 the number of coronavirus cases reported in Africa. Algeria is worst-affected, with 17 cases, followed by Senegal with four. The South African couple, who have two children, were part of a group of 10 who returned from Italy on 1 March, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said. The man and the doctor who checked him were both in self-isolation, he added. A tracer team had been sent to the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal to identify people who might…