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Tension is mounting in the Wassa East District of the Western region following the cutting of sod by the District chief executive for Wassa East, Wilson Arthur for the commencement of work on a 1D1F project in the Area without the approval of the chief and elders of the Area. At a community engagement to express their grievances Chief of Wassa Dompim , Nana Kwamina Ennimil said they leased out a stool land to an investor who is into real estate to construct estates in the community. The necessary documentations were done to that effect while the investor was asked…

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu the second, has asked for a moratorium on political activities for the next four weeks as the nation focus attention on battling the coronavirus that has killed over 9000 globally. He expects the media to turn off the heat of political discourse and devote the bulk of space to coverage of the pandemic to help contain spread of the disease. He made the call when Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, visited the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi to observe measures at the palace to help in the coronavirus fight. The palace has announced the suspension of…

American country music legend Kenny Rogers has died aged 81. A family representative said he “passed away peacefully at home from natural causes”. Rogers topped pop and country charts during the 1970s and 1980s, and won three Grammy awards. Known for his husky voice and ballads including The Gambler, Lucille and Coward Of The County, his career spanned more than six decades. He once summed up his popularity by explaining that he believed his song “say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear”. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in…

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has rescinded its decision to carry on with the registration exercise in the Eastern Region following public outcry and a suit filed against the authority. “The Mass Registration Exercise currently underway in the Eastern Region has been suspended effective Saturday, 21st March 2020 pending the final determination of the application for interlocutory injunction,” a statement by the NIA on Friday said. Many, including civil society groups and the Ghana Medical Association, condemned the Authority for going ahead with the exercise in spite of President Akufo-Addo’s directives banning public gathering to stem the spread of the…

A number of US states have ordered shutdowns with one in five Americans soon set to be under a “stay at home” order. Connecticut and New Jersey are joining Illinois and California in ordering residents to stay at home in order to combat the spread of coronavirus. New York State has ordered non-essential businesses to close. The virus has claimed nearly 230 lives in the US and infected more than 18,500 people. Globally more than 270,000 patients have tested positive for the respiratory illness and more than 11,000 have died. What measures are the states taking? On Friday, Connecticut, Illinois…

The West African Examination Council has suspended the timetable for the upcoming West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) until further notice. An internal memo by the Council dated March 20, 2020 from the Office of the Registrar in Accra further stated that “the conduct of WASSCE (SC) 2020 be put on hold until further notice”. This year’s WASSCE was expected to commence on March 30 and end on June 12. The decision was arrived at following approval by the Chairman of the Council to a proposal from the Secretariat on the need to reschedule the 2020 WASSCE. The decision…

Four-year-old girl was killed Thursday evening when a falling tree collapsed a mud house on her and three others. Though the little girl was rushed to Afrikids Hospital in Bolgatanga, she was pronounced dead few minutes after being admitted. The incident which happened during a heavy rainstorm at Kalbeo in the Bolgatanga municipality of the Upper East region left the grandmother of the deceased and the other two occupants injured. Family friends and sympathizers have been visiting the house to mourn with the family. Meanwhile, the grandmother of the deceased, Ayine Ayinbora who is also a widow is recovering from…

Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah has issued new directives to all judges and magistrates in the country to grant long adjournments in court cases not requiring immediate resolution as coronavirus cases in Ghana surge in the last 24 hours. Consequent to that, lawyers with cases in court have been asked to go to court on their due dates without their clients, and request for the case to be adjourned to specific dates in May, June and July. “Alternatively, lawyers on both sides of a case may agree together to adjourn the matter to a specific date to be communicated to…

A mother whose seven year old son lives with a condition called Brain Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) has expressed her strongest desire that she wish his son could go to school. Brain Arteriovenous Malformation is a tangle of abnormal and poorly formed blood vessels. Brain AVMs are of special concerns because of the damage they cause when they bleed. They are rare and occur in less than one per cent of the general population, according to the Toronto Brain Vascular malformation study group. Ms Antoinette Sinzogah, mother of seven-year-old Benjamin Dotu who lives with AVM, said Benjamin is her fourth child.…

Health authorities in Ghana have initiated contact tracing in the five newly confirmed novel coronavirus cases recorded in the country Friday morning. As at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, at the time the country’s national tally of the disease stood at 11, health officials had traced 399 persons who were said to have had contacts with the infected persons and were being monitored. Of the figure, 19 of them developed some symptoms of the deadly virus, prompting authorities to subject them to testing but the results of 15 of them came out negative, while officials said the four were outstanding at…