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The first novel coronavirus case has been reported at the Kumasi Central Prison in the Ashanti Region. An inmate who was rushed to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) after he fell sick two weeks ago tested positive for the virus. While on admission at the hospital, he was said to have started showing signs of the virus, causing health officials to test him for covid-19. Further details on the condition of the inmate and how the person contracted the virus have not been given yet. A highly-placed source within the Prison who confirmed the case to 3news.com said the…

Deputy Health Minister Benard Okoe Boye has tested negative for the deadly novel coronavirus. The medical practitioner-cum-politician who was rumoured to have contracted the virus from Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu revealed on TV3 New Day Wednesday that results of his covid-19 test came out negative on Tuesday. Dr Okoe Boye recently ‘disappeared’ from the public sphere raising questions about his whereabouts with some people including security analyst Adam Bonaa, asking whether he was receiving covid-19 treatment. Responding to it Wednesday, Dr Okoe Boye, said everyone at the Ministry was tested for the virus after Mr Agyeman-Manu was confirmed to have…

POS Foundation, facilitators of the Justice For All programme and lead organization in the advocacy for the community service law, has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to extend amnesty to petty offenders and nonviolent drug users. The foundation believes this will help in decongesting the country’s prisons in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the foundation, a review of the amnesty criteria under PNDC law 236 will assist in decongesting the prisons in this era of COVID-19 pandemic. Presenting some PPE to the Tamale Central Prisons, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the foundation, Jonathan Osei Owusu…

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako Attah has asked the Ghana Highway Authority to terminate and blacklist contractors who are delaying in executing their contracts. He explained he has the moral right to take such actions against lazy contractors. The Minister who was in the Savannah region to inspect ongoing road projects said, he was unhappy the way some contractors were unnecessarily delaying the execution of their contracts. He explained the ministry will not entertain such lazy attitude from contractors anymore. He charged the Chief Director of the Ghana Highways Authority not to hesitate in terminating all delaying…

More than 200 boxes of government subsidised farm inputs including spraying machines and weedicides, which were being smuggled into neighbouring Togo, have been intercepted. An intelligence-based operation by the Ghana Immigration Service led to the seizure of the inputs at the Saboba border. The driver of the vehicle carting the goods and his mate were arrested at a riverbank where they were offloading the goods. They have since been handed over to the police in the area for investigations. Last year, the Agric Ministry banned the Saboba District from selling fertilizer due to an increase in smuggling cases in the…

A former presidential candidate of the Convention People Party (CPP), Dr Michael Abu Sakara Foster, has observed the ‘winner-takes-all’ politics is thwarting the country’s development and democracy. A chunk of the population, he said, feel neglected from the day-to-day administration of the country, a situation he explained, prevents them from contributing their ideas to the socio-economic development of the country. He told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise morning show on 3FM 92.7 on Tuesday that the constitution will have to be amended to enable more Ghanaians have a full share in the direct governance of the country. This, he said,…

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr Lydia Dsane-Selby, has tested positive for the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19). Dr Dsane-Selby tested positive for the disease on Sunday, June 14, 2020. Speaking in a radio interview with Accra-based Asaase Radio on Tuesday, Dr Dsane-Selby said she tested positive for the disease after experiencing tiredness, body pains and headaches. She said she contacted a colleague at the Noguchi Medical Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR)and “a team came to the house and tested and I tested positive.” “I live with my mother. Luckily, she tested negative and so did the house…

With just three days for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries in some constituencies, aspirants are jostling each other for the attention of the delegates and making a case for their candidature. The situation is not any different in the Manhyia North Constituency where the incumbent, Mr Collins Owusu Amankwah, better known as Sir Randy, is facing a stiff competition from one Akwasi Konadu. Unlike the last primaries which were fraught with lots of acrimonies and legal tussle, this year’s seems to be devoid of that save for few accusations of intimidation here and there. Competition However, the incumbent…

The Ghana Football Association has named its Executive Council member, Madam Habiba Attah and Lawyer Naa Odofoley Nortey to head a special team to come up with a policy document on women football in the country. This is part of the GFA’s efforts to put in place a detailed plan to change the narrative on women’s football by making it attractive to the corporate world and to draw eyeballs to the brand. They have two weeks to come up with a draft that will be considered and approved by the Executive Council. Communications Head at the FA, Henry Asante Twum…