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The never-ending drama between RuffTown Records signees, Wendy Shay and Fantana has reached its echelons. The beef between the two female acts has gone from bad to worse forcing the label to call for an emergency meeting on Monday. According to a letter sighted by 3news.com, management of the label is set to meet Fantana at their offices in East Legon to abrogate its contract with her. For several months now, RuffTown Records, owned by Bullet, has managed to live with the tension between the two acts. But things took a turn for the worse after Fantana claimed in an…

Former National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) insists the Electoral Commission (EC) and the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government are bent on compiling a new voters’ register for their parochial interest. He explained that while the EC believes there is money and so they have to spend it, the government wants to use the register to suppress the opposition political parties and remain in power. Kofi Adams who is the NDC parliamentary candidate for Buem Constituency in the Oti Region made the observations on Onua TV’s Maakye on Monday while contributing to the debate on whether…

Peter Famiyeh Bozah, known in showbiz as Fameye, says although he does not smoke Indian hemp mostly referred to as wee, he will not mind eating food that is mixed with the narcotic substance. He explained the smoke from the illegal substance will make it difficult for him to smoke directly. Although the “Nothing I Get” hit maker claimed he does not smoke wee, he told Dr Prekese on Onua FM’s Efie Ne Fie with Dr. Prekese, he is an advocate for its legalization for the benefit of his friends and colleagues. He thus joins a long list of celebrities…

They don’t come any bigger than Herve Renard on the African coaching scene and the past weekend, the Frenchman opened up to Juliet Bawuah of Media General about his time on the continent which begun with the Black Stars of Ghana and how his return could be with Ghana too. He also spoke about managing Zambia to an unlikely Africa Cup of Nations triumph, beating Ghana to another Afcon title in 2015 and his unending admiration for Ghana striker Jordan Ayew. The beginning of an African adventure  Renard: Claude Le Roy was the key of my career because without him,…

Managing Editor of the Dispatch and Pollster, Ben Ephson has challenged herbal medicine producers who claim to have cure for the coronavirus to infect and heal themselves with their products. Mr Ephson said this is the only way most Ghanaians will believe the herbal medicine practitioners who claim to have a cure for the COVID-19. Some herbal medicine petitioners have asked the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) and the Ministry of Health to adopt the use of herbal medicine in treating COVID-19 patients because in their view, these medicines are potent enough to wipe the virus from the patients. But…

A virologist at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Dr Kofi Bonney, says Ghana is recording high recoveries of the novel coronavirus because most of the people who contracted the disease are asymptomatic. Of the 5,735 cases recorded in the country as at last Saturday, recoveries stood at 1,754 with 29 deaths. Health authorities say a 1,000 more people are expected to recover in the coming days. The high recovery rate has got a section of the Ghanaian public raising doubts over the credibility of the numbers. A special aide to former President John Mahama, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, questioned…

The mayor of Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, has said its health system could collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with coronavirus cases. Bruno Covas said the city’s public hospitals had reached 90% capacity and could run out of space in two weeks. He accused those who flouted lockdown rules of playing “Russian roulette” with people’s lives. São Paulo is one of the country’s worst-hit regions, with almost 3,000 deaths so far. On Saturday, Brazil overtook Spain and Italy to become the nation with the fourth largest number of infections. The health ministry reported 7,938 new cases…

Source: 3news.com

Nigeria has impounded a British aircraft that is alleged to have flouted a ban aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika said the plane, operated by FlairJet, was allowed to fly humanitarian aid but had contravened a ban that has been imposed on almost all passenger flights. Describing Flairjet’s action as callous, he said the crew was being questioned and maximum penalties could follow. The company has not commented on the seizure. Nigeria’s ban on passenger flights – except for returning nationals – is due to run until 4 June. Source: BBC

Ever since the Covid-19 outbreak occurred, little emphasis has been put on the paediatric population. This is mainly because, unlike other infectious diseases, Covid-19 tends to cause milder disease in children compared to adults. In some cases, affected children do not even show symptoms even though they may spread the disease. There have however been some reports of atypical and severe disease in children which makes it necessary for every parent/guardian to acquaint themselves with how Covid-19 presents in children so that interventions can be started early. Covid-19 as many know by now, is an illness caused by the novel…