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President Nana Akufo-Addo will later today lead a three-day cabinet retreat to scrutinize data so far gathered by government on the impact of the deadly coronavirus outbreak across the governance sectors of Ghana. All ministers are expected to present a report on the impact of the pandemic on their various sectors as well as measures and recommendations needed to turnaround the situation, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has announced. “The president has instructed all ministers to report on the impact across their sectors and proffer recommendations for recovery,” he said at a news briefing in Accra to give update on…

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has promoted 18,475 teachers who sat for the maiden Promotion Aptitude Test on February 20 and 21, this year to various grades within the service. The promoted teachers represent 61.0 per cent of the 30,280 who were shortlisted for the test. In the Deputy Director grade, 2,336 candidates took the test, out of which 1,140, representing 48.8 per cent, were successful. For the Assistant Director I grade, 7,170 took the test, with 4,709 (65.7 per cent) being successful, while 10,860 (59.5 per cent) out of the 18,238 candidates who wrote the promotion test for the…

A woman has given birth onboard a flight repatriating Nigerians from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, said that Kafayat Amusan had given birth to a baby boy about 30 minutes after the flight left the airport. The plane returned to Dubai immediately to ensure the safety of both mother and baby. Ms Amusan and her baby are in good condition after they were admitted to a hospital in Dubai. They are scheduled to return to Nigeria after the newborn’s birth certificate is issued and other necessary travel documents are…

A total of 372 test results have been confirmed positive for coronavirus, sending Ghana’s case count up to 3,091 as of the latest update by the Ghana Health Service on Thursday. The Service’s website puts the recoveries at 303 from 294 per the last update. The country’s death toll has not changed at 18 for five days. With Bono region recording its first case of Covdi-19 pandemic, Ghana has only three regions out of the 16 yet to confirm a case. Accra is still the highest hit region. It has recorded 2,759 covid-19 cases. Below is the regional breakdown Greater…

The Bono Region has recorded its first case of COVID-9, 3news.com can authoritatively report. According to the sources within the Bono Regional health directorate, the person who has tested positive is currently at an isolation center at Sampa in the Jaman North District where he has been held after his sample was taken for testing. More soon. Source: 3news.com | Ghana

The largest opposition party, National Democratic Congress (NDC) has suspended Bernard Allotey Jacobs considered by some as a firebrand. The former Central Regional Chairman of the party was suspended for his “persistent anti-party conduct”. Mr. Allotey Jacobs has been criticized by some members of his party for certain utterances he has been making in the media recently, which many said will hurt the fortunes of the party going into the 2020 general elections. The decision to suspend him follows a meeting by the Functional Executive Committee of the party on May 6, 2020. He was informed by the decision through…

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has expressed its indignation at the ‘Rambo style” in which persons suspected to have contracted coronavirus are picked from their homes. According to the GMA, this has created stigmatization in their homes and in their communities, insisting it should be changed. Deputy General Secretary of the GMA, Dr. Titus Beyuo, made the observation in an interview on Onua TV on what should be done to avoid stigmatization among patients of the novel virus. “Picking people in a Rambo style is increasing the stigmatization. We should pick people discretely instead of storming their homes and vicinities…

The Ghana Police Service has partnered waste management giant Zoomlion Ghana Limited to fumigate and disinfect all police facilities and installations across the country against dangerous insects and the deadly coronavirus. More than 1, 200 facilities including the six police training schools, police stations and cells as well as bungalows for police personnel will be fumigated and disinfected to create a safe environment for police officers to perform their duties. Inspector General of Police, COP James Oppong-Boanuh, joined officials of Zoomlion on Wednesday perform the official launch for the takeoff of the exercise at the Police Training School in Accra.…

A Wa Magistrate Court, presided over by Justice Sydney Braimah, has remanded the private security personnel who inflicted multiple cut wounds to his wife at Konta in the Upper West Regional capital Wa. 35-year-old Vitus Sungsolee Kundeyiri was remanded in prison custody charged with attempted murder. The court was told that Vitus Sungsolee Kundeyiri on April 29, allegedly attacked his 30-year-old wife Amanda Abawuro Basinbo with a pick axe, hitting her several times on the forehead, leaving her with deep cuts and injuring her skull. The incident is believed to have occurred after a prolonged misunderstanding between the couple who…