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Details of the free electricity relief package announced by government to cushion Ghanaians amid the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, will be announced by the Energy Minister John Peter Amewu on Thursday. Mr Amewu will address all questions that have come up since the announcement of the package last week by President Nana Akufo-Addo, including how much it will cost the country and how customers will access the relief package. President Akufo-Addo announced electricity bills for April, May and June for consumers with up to 50 kilowatt per hour of power in a month will be absorbed by government. Under the…

Twenty-two persons who attempted to cross over from Ghana to neighbouring Togo Tuesday night have been arrested at Ave Hevi, a border town in the Akatsi North District of the Volta Region The 22 people, made up of 17 males, were riding on five unregistered motorbikes when they were intercepted at about 11:00 p.m. by the security taskforce in the district, Volta Online has reported. They are suspected to be nationals of Togo because they had on them Togolese national identity cards, the report said. DCE for the area, Dr. Prince Sedoke Amuzu, told the local news portal that the…

The NPP has indefinitely suspended its parliamentary primaries to elect parliamentary candidates in constituencies where the party has sitting MPs. The decision to suspend the primaries scheduled for April 25 was taken at a National Steering Committee meeting held on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 on the back of the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. It was taken in line with the President’s ban on social gatherings as part of national efforts towards the containment of the novel coronavirus epidemic. The President of the Republic, on April 12, 2020, extended, pursuant to EI 64, the ban on social gathering including religious…

Ghana’s waste management giant, Zoomlion, has begun fumigating and disinfecting all senior high schools across the country in a move to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The fumigation and disinfection exercise at the schools comes followed a similar exercise carried out in various markets across the country by District Assemblies. In all, over 900 market centers were disinfected across 13 regions in the country. The first phase of the exercise launched Tuesday at the Accra Girls’ Senior High School, will see the company fumigate the schools which have since March 16 been closed down by the government following…

Emmanuel Agyemang Badu is a Ghana midfielder playing for Hellas Verona in Italy – where, like most countries, football is on hold during the coronavirus crisis. In March, his sister Hagar was shot and killed in the city of Berekum. He has not being able to go back to Ghana to see his family because of the pandemic. 2019 and 2020 have been the toughest years of my life. I nearly died, I got a lot of injuries – and then I lost my sister in a very painful way. It’s very difficult for me and my family. The guy…

Every Christian knows Jesus was a “show boy”. He did miracles everywhere he went. At a point, his disciples and the people spoke so highly of their master in His absence. He fed 5,000 people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes. And the Bible said He was the King of Kings. If this Jesus were to take His rightful place in recent Ghana, his title would be “Nana” which means a Chief or a King i.e NANA JESUS, alias Show Boy. But after all, “Nana” wasn’t Jesus in a pandemic Ghana; for Jesus and his disciples weren’t this…

President Donald Trump has claimed “total” power to lift the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, contradicting governors and legal experts. “The president of the United States calls the shots,” Mr Trump said during a combative press conference in which he feuded with reporters. But the US Constitution says the states maintain public order and safety. Ten states on the US East and West coasts are planning to lift their strict stay-at-home orders. The US is the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic with 554,684 confirmed cases and 23,608 deaths. What did President Trump say? Mr Trump, a Republican, told the daily White…

The U.S. securities regulator on Monday charged a former banker at Goldman Sachs Group Inc for arranging at least $2.5 million in bribes to be paid to Ghana government officials to gain approval for a client’s power plant project. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Asante Berko, a former employee at a subsidiary of the U.S. lender, arranged the bribes for a Turkish energy company to funnel the money to a Ghana-based intermediary, which then paid the local officials. “Goldman Sachs fully cooperated with the SEC’s investigation and as stated by the SEC in its press release, the firm’s compliance…

People stored food for two weeks. Now, there is a one more week extension and most of them cannot go out because they aren’t able to convince the security at the checkpoints. The market women are crying that their wares are going bad. But the people must feed, because the first law of nature is survival. Here are my suggestions, as endorsed by a few including security analyst, Adam Bonaa: Get the market closer to the people using the local assemblies, online food stuff traders and big trucks/vans, supervised to get into the communities. Schedule the trucks in such a…