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A Deputy Chief of Staff at the Presidency, Francis Asenso-Boakye has been declared the winner of the NPP Parliamentary Primaries held in the Bantama constituency, Ashanti region after results showed that he claimed over 70% of the total votes. Polls had earlier predicted his victory considering his experience in the party and several development interventions he has initiated within the constituency. He defeated the incumbent, Daniel Okyem Aboagye who had come under heavy criticisms from a section of the delegates in the constituency for making some unsubstantiated allegations of votes buying against his opponent. With ballots from all voting centres…

Director General of the Ghana Health Service Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye has disclosed that the number of deaths reported on their website do not represent real-time figures, but old numbers that have gone through an audit process. Ghana’s case count currently stands at 14,154 with over 10,000 recoveries and 85 deaths. The death toll rose from 70 on Friday, June 19 to 85 on Saturday, June 20, a situation many interpret as 15 deaths within 24 hours. But Dr. Kuma-Aboagye clarified that such interpretation is inaccurate. Speaking to Alfred Ocansey on 3FM’s Sunrise Monday, June 22, the Director-General of the Service…

Fellow Ghanaians, good evening. It has been three and a half months since we begun our fight to defeat the Coronavirus pandemic in the country. It has, so far, been a co-ordinated and enhanced response, with tracing, testing, isolating, treating, and the maintenance of the relevant social distancing and hygiene protocols being the weapons we continue to employ to help contain the spread of the virus. We are all agreed that this novel disease has thrust the whole world into unknown and unchartered territory, and we are having to learn as we go along. As part of the phased approach…

Ghana coronavirus count has gone up again with 147 new cases, taking the national toll to 14,154. It is the second figure to be announced in a day; just few hours after 290 cases were released by the Ghana Health Service on Sunday, June 21. Ghana’s covid-19 cases jump to 14,007 while active cases drop by 109 No new fatalities have been recorded since the last 15 deaths were announced Saturday evening to put the total figure at 85. Active cases however have shot up, taking the figure from 3,449 to 3,596 The new figures were released few minutes after…

Final and second year students who are returning to school Monday have been cleared to undertake religious activities despite strict protocols to prevent them from contracting the deadly novel coronavirus. Mass gathering and sporting activities have already been banned and visitors will also not be allowed to the schools during the six weeks that final year and gold track students will be on campus. Addressing the nation on measures taken by the government to combat the spread of the virus in schools, President Akufo-Addo said students will however be permitted to hold religious activities like church service while on campus.…

Government has announced it will absorb examination fees for all final year students sitting for this years’ West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). A total of 313,837 students, who are the first batch of the Free SHS programme, will benefit from the relief package set to cost the state some 75.4 million cedis, President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Sunday while addressing the nation ahead of resumption of academic activities for final year students from Monday. “For the first time in our nation’s history government will absorb the WASSCE examination fees of the 313,837 students who will sit for the…

President Nana Akufo-Addo has directed all senior high schools across the country to designate one dormitory block each for use as isolation centre as final year students return to school Monday for resumption of academic work. Also, each of the over 1,100 senior high schools have has been assigned to a health facility within their locality to respond to suspected covid-19 cases to be identified. “Each such senior has school has been mapped to a health facility and care will be provided to the sick by nurses assigned to these schools,” President Akufo-Addo announced Sunday in his latest update on…

Coronavirus cases in Ghana have jumped up by 290 cases taking the national count to 14,007. The number of recoveries has also shot up from the previous 10,074 to 10,473, latest figures released by the Ghana Health Service Sunday evening showed. The increment in the number of recoveries has caused the number of active cases in the country to drop from 3,558 to 3,449 cases within the last 24 hours. Recovered Covid-19 patients may have remnants of virus but can’t infect – GHS Casualty figures however remain at 85. Meanwhile President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is scheduled to address the…

Heads of senior and junior high schools in the Ashanti Region have assured government of their readiness to support it to enforce coronavirus safety protocols in their respective schools as final year students return for academic work. They gave the assurance when waste management experts Zoomlion Ghana Limited disinfected schools in the Ashanti last Wednesday ahead of the reporting of students from June 22. The exercise, a collaboration between the Ministry of Education and Zoomlion Ghana Limited, was part of measures by the government to protect students and pupils in SHSs and JHSs from contracting the virus. President Nana Addo…

Ghana has commenced investigations to establish motive and persons behind the demolition of a property belonging to the Nigerian High Commission in Accra. The structure which was being constructed by the High Commission to house staff and diplomats was allegedly bulldozed Friday night by some unidentified armed men who allegedly claim to have the backing of the National Security. Government has expressed concern about the issue, describing the act as being in contravention of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR, 1961. The Foreign Ministry in a statement Saturday said “investigations are ongoing to unravel the facts of the matter…