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An audit report into the sustainability of sports stadiums in Ghana has concluded that the National Sports Authority and the Ministry of Youth and Sports have not done enough to maintain sports stadiums in Ghana and manage them on a sustainable basis. The damming verdict, issued by the Auditor-General in a 63-page report, effectively concludes that there has been no plan for the operations, maintenance and sustainability of stadiums particularly those upgraded or built for the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana. The Executive Summary of the report said: “The MoYS did not have a policy on operations and…

The Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin has ordered for the removal of alien shrines and ban on alien ritual activities. In a statement dated May 15, 2020, he said over the past decade there have been influx of immigrant ritualists guised as traditional priests and engaged in activities that threatened the lives of residents, social order, health and the economy of the people. He pointed to several reports the traditional council has received and a recent case at Adeiso involving two fetish priests and the burial of a resident at a shrine. Okyenhene ordered that the alien shrines should be…

The Nsawam Medium Security Prisons in the Eastern Region were Sunday, May 17, fumigated and disinfected as part of measures to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. Since the outbreak of the virus and its subsequent declaration as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) some five months ago, prisons have come under the spotlight for the fear of being hotspot. Some countries including Iran took deliberate steps to decongest prisons by freeing about 54, 000 prisoners to mitigate the spread of the virus. In Ghana, President Akufo-Addo in March granted amnesty to 808 prisoners in accordance with a recommendation…

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye has directed that all 275 Members of Parliament and other parliamentary service staff should be tested for COVID -19. At the resumption of the second meeting of the fourth session of the 7th Parliament, the Speaker said MPs must lead the way in the fight against COVID-19. A week ago, the ranking member of the Health Committee asked the Speaker of Parliament to get all MPs tested for the virus as numbers are on the rise. More soon By Komla Klutse | 3news.com

Energy Minister, Peter Amewu says the NPP-led government overpaid debt owed power distributor, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as at the end of 2019. Government in fact paid ECG in excess of 500 million cedis, the minister said on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. He was speaking at the regular media briefing organized by the Information Ministry in Accra to update Ghanaians on the Covid-19. “The NPP government from assumption of office, it ensured that it was current on all the bills incurred during its tenure from 2017 to date, on the average, the government under His Excellency Nana Addo…

While we think about Covid-19 today we must also think about tomorrow when it is gone. But to write the story of today and tomorrow without bringing in yesterday may lead to an incomplete story. Why? Yesterday, today and tomorrow are necessary inseparables. To understand the current and the future, the past plays an important role. It is important then, to look at our world and its eras and why Covid-19 is going to be one of the remarkable stuffs used to mark one epoch from another. Indeed, the world and its power structures as we have them today are…

The total confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Ghana is now 5,918, the Ghana Health Service announced on May 19, 2020. The country’s death toll has also climbed to 31 from 29 when the last update was given on May 16, with five patients said to be in critical condition now. According to the Ghana Health Service, 1,754 persons have also recovered from the deadly pandemic in Ghana. Regional breakdown: Greater Accra Region – 4,422 Ashanti Region – 881 Central Region – 212 Eastern Region – 100 Western Region – 98 Western North Region – 57 Volta Region – 41 Northern Region – 31 Oti Region – 26 Upper…

Mr Marcello Risi, Director of Communications at the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), has indicated that the tourism sector across the globe has been grounded following the Coronavirus pandemic. This, he said, has led to the collapse of several jobs since the sector is a big employer around the globe. He told Francis Doku on the Travel Pass Show on 3FM that about 80 per cent of small and medium scale businesses have gone under after the sector was grounded over the pandemic. He said: “Tourism has completely stopped from everybody’s perspective. We understand that this virus is highly…

A 95-year-old Second World War veteran from Ghana has set himself the challenge of walking two miles a day for a week to raise money for coronavirus charities. Private Joseph Hammond hopes to raise $600,000 (£500,000) for frontline workers and vulnerable veterans across Africa. Private Hammond fought with the British army in Burma, in the Gold Coast Regiment of the Royal West African Frontier Force. Now, he says, he has joined the fight in a different type of war to help health workers defeat Covid-19 on the continent. The money he raises will be used to purchase PPE for covid-19…

Source: 3news.com | Ghana