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The Ghana Health Service says the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research has confirmed nine (9) new cases of COVID-19 on March 31, 2020. All the 9 new cases were reported from Accra, three (3) of them travelled to Ghana within the past 14 days from Germany, France and Hungary respectively but for six (6) of them there is no history of travel outside, it said. “The Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) also reported on tests from 77 samples including samples from 41 asymptomatic contacts of a case from Tamale Teaching Hospital and all are negative for COVID-19,” the…

Angola revises national budget and suspends CAPEX; Senegal’s first oil development faces debt arrangement challenges; Nigeria poised for a major revenue loss; Analysts predict Ghana will get half its projected revenue; Cameroon can expect to see a three percent drop in economic growth. African oil-producing and reliant countries have been among the most hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and declining oil price. In particular, Senegal, Nigeria and Angola continue to face new challenges each day amid the threat of economic fallout. Angola In 2020, the Angolan government led by H.E. President João Lourenço, had set out to focus on…

Family Feud, the popular international television game show is now coming to Africa with Emmy Award-winning entertainer, radio personality, motivational speaker, New York Times best-selling author, businessman and philanthropist, Steve Harvey as the host. Family Feud, an iconic game show adapted in over 50 international markets is scheduled to air every Saturday at 9pm exclusively on Ghana’s number one television station, TV3 Network, starting from Saturday 4th April 2020. The show which has been airing from 1976 has been a beloved part of people’s lives for generations. Two families will compete to name the most popular responses to gathered survey…

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched the Scholarship Secretariat’s Online Scholarship Application and Administration System, www.scholarshipgh.com, in Accra. Beginning April 1, 2020, in just four (4) easy steps, any applicant can apply from the comfort of their homes, take an aptitude test and be interviewed in their own districts without coming to Accra as in the past. The launch of the online portal is in line with President Akufo-Addo’s vision to digitize and formalize government service delivery processes, help to eliminate the inconveniences that applicants experience seeking government sponsorships and also help the Secretariat in proper and efficient…

Lawyers in Accra, Tema, Kasoa and Kumasi have been directed to stay home as they not part of the category of critical staff exempted from the two-week partial lockdown which begun in parts of the country. Although President Nana Akufo-Addo in announcing the lockdown mentioned the judiciary is exempted, the Chief Justice in a new directive Monday said lawyers are to observe the lockdown. “The restrictions imposed on the citizenry of Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi affect all lawyers and litigants and for other court users since these categories of persons were not exempted” Chief Justice Anin Yeboah said in…

All 82 students of the University of Ghana who were quarantined for having contact with a coronavirus infected person have tested negative for the virus that has killed five persons in the country. Additional 12 employees of the University have also tested negative for the virus, the university authorities announced Monday. The students and employees were asked to self-quarantine after they were identified through contact tracing as having come in contact with a non-residential student who imported the virus from an international trip. A statement from the university said all the 94 people “have tested negative for the coronavirus after…

What started off as a very promising night turned out to be a disappointing one for Amos Ogbaro and Michael Yeboah who were the eligible bachelors on this week’s episode of TV3’s Date Rush. After the first session of the episode with Amos who is a Nigerian, the ladies were not too impressed with him. He sadly walked off the stage without a date. Gideon, who came on as the second gentleman for the night, tagged himself as an African king who was looking for his queen. The well-built model and fitness coach was also not lucky as none of…

On the day the World Health Organisation will finally announce containment or an end to the fight against the Coronavirus global pandemic, that day should be an emblem, preserved and observed across the world every year for posterity to know that there was a period in history where thousands lost their lives to a deadly virus, whilst millions sacrificed theirs to save billions of others. We need to, so urgently, mark this day to serve, not just as a memorial to the thousands who fell, but as a sign post to generations yet unborn that there was and will be…

No new case of the novel coronavirus has been recorded in Ghana in the last 24 hours, the Ghana Health Service announced on Monday jut few hours after parts of the country begun a two-week partial lockdown to stem the tide in the spread of the deadly virus. A total of 152 confirmed cases have since March 12 been recorded in the country with five deaths and two recoveries. “As of 30th March 2020, at 08:30 hours, no new cases of COVID-19 have been reported since the last update at 11:00 hours on 29th March 2020,” health authorities said in…

The past few weeks, The Ladies Circle has been characterised by the three hosts daring each other to do an activity they would ordinarily not do. On Saturday’s episode, it was the turn of Anita Akufo who was dared by Abena Korkor Addo and Chrystal Kwame Aryee to look for a popular market, dress like a charcoal seller and sell charcoal. She was expected to make a sale of GHc50 at the end of the challenge. To the surprise of her co-hosts, she took up the challenge and visited the Mallam Atta Market to sell charcoal. After the challenge, she…