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A member of the Greater Accra Covid-19 burial team and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus. Speaking in an interview on 3FM Tuesday, September 22, the Director of Greater Accra Metro Public Health Department, Florence Kuukyi, disclosed that the member and his spouse are self-isolating after contracting the virus. “As I’m talking with you one of us has been infected. But we are just keeping quiet because we don’t have anybody to run to. “The person was sick and went to the hospital and the person was asked to go do a test. It will interest you to know…

An Accra High Court has issued a substituted service to be given the members of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) over their strike action. The Court said the injunction notice should be published by three media houses, notices posted on the gates of the GRNMA office or copies should be left with the security guards. This comes after the nurses proceeded with their intended strike, claiming the Association has not received any injunction from any court. After the Association and its allies announced their intention to embark on an industrial action by withdrawing their services, the National…

The 96th meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Bank of Ghana (BoG) is scheduled to begin Tuesday, September 22, the BoG has announced. The meeting is expected to end Friday, September 25. The BoG at its last MPC meeting in July this year maintained the policy rate at 14.5 percent. A statement issued by the central bank said: “The Committee’s assessment of the situation and interventions shall be communicated accordingly on Monday, September 28, 2020.” By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana

Director of Elections for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Evans Nimako has said the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has lost focus going into the December 7 elections. Therefore, he said, the NDC has resorted to allegations and claims against the Electoral Commission (EC) just to make the elections management body unpopular ahead of the polls. The NDC has expressed dissatisfaction with the way the Electoral Commission is handling the ongoing exhibition exercise, claiming there are too many anomalies in the register. Former President John Mahama has truncated his campaign tour to address claims that there are anomalies in…

The Ghana Football Association (GFA)  Communications Director, Henry Asante Twum, has said there will be a meeting between the body and its Medical Committee and Competitions’ Department to determine the way forward for Premier League clubs before October 30. This comes on the back of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s decision to lift the ban on all contact sports. In an interview with 3sports, Henry Twum said it is essential for the meeting to take place because the players have not been active for a while, adding there will be mandatory mass testing to ensure their safety. “We held a…

Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has suspended her campaign tour of the Central Region, effective Tuesday, September 22, her spokesperson has said. This is to enable her join her flagbearer who has also suspended his campaign of the Bono Region to address anomalies in the ongoing voter exhibition exercise being carried out by the Electoral Commission, Mawuena Trebah said. “The Running Mate will suspend her campaign tour of in Central Region. There are a number of issues for that. However, it is a National decision taken in consultation with the Flagbearer who has also suspended his campaign activities for today. Details…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the chair of the Electoral Commission (EC) as incompetent leader. He noted that there is so much chaos and disorder in the work of the EC, a situation that can plunge the country into chaos. He was speaking in reaction to developments regarding the ongoing voter exhibition, which began on Friday, September 18 and it is expected to end on Friday, September 25. The NDC had raised a lot of concerns with the way and manner the exercise is being conducted. The Director of Elections for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Elvis Afriyie…

Chief Executive Officer of Asante Kotoko Nana Yaw Amponsah says the aim of the management team is to restore the club’s image and develop it into a club that modernly appeals to their fans. Addressing the new management at an inauguration ceremony at the Sports Hotel in Kumasi on Tuesday, September 22, Amponsah said it will all begin with providing ultra modern infrastructure for the team. In his submission, he said he will improve on the standards of the team. “The Board has approved for us to get an ultra-modern training facility at Adako Jachie within the next three months.”…

The Executive Director of Child Online, Awo Aidam Amenyah, has cautioned political parties against the use of children as campaign props to pursue a party-political agenda ahead of the 2020 general elections. Child Online Africa has  said it has taken note of a trend on the internet especially social media which has seen many under-aged persons either being coerced or lured into making political party endorsements or being propped. Ms Amenya said in a statement on Tuesday September 22 that, “These parties ought to be reminded that much as they do not want minors to vote in the general elections,…

IMANI Africa has noted that there is a brewing “civil war” among scientists at Noguchi Memorial Institute and a new company, Frontiers Healthcare Services over COVID-19 testing. “We have received worrying complaints from Noguchi scientists and others urging us to ‘publicise their grievances’ over this matter as they cannot do so themselves for fear of retribution. “IMANI strongly advocates as follows: Noguchi immediately begins to take steps to regularise the relationship between its Department of Virology and Frontiers Healthcare Services, so that the institution itself benefits directly for the use of its personnel and expertise in this biomedical collaboration, however…