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Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has advised former President Mahama to speak to incontrovertible data in his public utterances to avoid embarrassing himself.  The former President has been making statements on the Ghanaian economy in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, suggesting in a number of his engagements that he superintended a better economy than the NPP is currently doing. Dr. Bawumia has however laughed off the former President’s claim and has advised him to look at data on his own record in government, as well as data on the economic management and performance of the Akufo-Addo government before speaks.…

Latest update published by the Ghana Health Service puts the country’s coronavirus pandemic count at 2,719 as of Monday, May 4, 2020. This means 550 new cases have been confirmed since Saturday. However, the number of recoveries has improved from 229 per the last update on May 2 to 294. The death toll stood still at 18, the Service reported on its website. Greater Accra still leads the pack of regions with the most infected cases, recording a total of 2,332, followed by Ghana’s populous region, Ashanti, with 124 cases. Meanwhile, four regions – Savannah, Bono Region, Ahafo Region, and…

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says the economy former President John Mahama superintended between 2012 and 2016 was so fragile that he couldn’t even mitigate and cushion people from an internally created problem like dumsor.  The former President last week claimed the economy under the leadership of Nana Akufo-Addo is weak and has been exposed in just one month by the Coronavirus pandemic, which has affected several countries around the world. Speaking to journalists at the Jubilee House on the sideline of a Covid-19 meeting on Monday, Vice President Bawumia wondered how a former President whose administration and economy could…

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has challenged anyone who has data to prove that any first term government has provided more infrastructure than the Akufo-Addo administration to step up and provide the evidence. Speaking on the sidelines of a Covid-19 meeting at the Jubilee House on Monday, 4th May, 2020, Vice President Bawumia indicated that some members of the opposition NDC, especially former President Mahama, have sought to downplay the infrastructure achievements of the Akufo-Addo administration in the vain hope that Ghanaians would not independently check. “But I can say without any fear of contradiction, the data shows that…

As the ruling New Patriotic Party is yet to set the date for holding its parliamentary primaries, the incumbent Member of Parliament for Bantama, Daniel Okyem Aboagye is alleged to have physically assaulted some delegates who are opposed to his re-election bid. The Sofo Line Police Station in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region has commenced investigations into a case of assault brought against the Bantama MP. The complainant, Julius Kyei Sekyere told ABC News that he was assaulted by the incumbent MP on Sunday morning. “Yes it’s true, he assaulted me near our Church at Adoato so I’ve been given a…

Management of Media General Group has surprisingly noticed the misinterpretation by some section of its cherished viewing public and on social media of the content of this week’s edition of The Day Show aired on TV3 on Saturday 2nd May, 2020. The episode focused on educating the viewing public on whether the behavior and/or lifestyle of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is as a result of some underlining medical and/or psychological factors. To enrich the show and to help educate the viewing public on the subject, the producers invited ASP Foster Nanewotor, a Clinical Psychologist of the…

Minister for Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea, has disclosed that about 10 billion dollars will be required to construct subterranean drainage system to help deal with the country’s perennial flooding. Although he said a subterranean drain is capital-intensive, he indicated “we do not have a choice”, adding “we would have to tackle this by going to the capital/bond market to raise about US$10 billion to undertake such a project.” “I am of the humble view that in the long-run constructing subterranean drains would pay off instead of the country having to pay more money for the yearly desilting of…

The Covid-19 Disinfection Team from the waste management giant Zoomlion Ghana Limited has fumigated schools and churches in Accra and Nsawam in the Eastern Region as part of measures to control the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country. Various teams on May Day moved to the Regional Maritime University in Accra, Action Chapel headquarters in Accra and the Christ Cathedral which is the Tema branch of the church as well as the Nsawam SHS and the Nsawam NHIS office to disinfect the place against the virus. The exercise at the Action Chapel headquarters which was in collaboration with…

The UN Secretary-General is calling for greater protection of journalists who are providing the “antidote” to what he has characterized as a pandemic of misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 crisis. António Guterres made the appeal in a video message for World Press Freedom Day, observed this coming Sunday, in which he underscored the crucial role media has in helping people make informed decisions. Accurate information, a life and death issue He added that under the current circumstances, those decisions can make the difference between life and death. “As the pandemic spreads, it has also given rise to a second pandemic of…