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It was greeted with glee when President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced in his 16th address to Ghanaians the reopening of air borders to international travels on September 1, 2020. Little did travelers know that they would be paying an exorbitant $150 for the mandatory COVID-19 test at the Kotoka International Airport before entry into the country. This made Ghana ...

An outspoken member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Patrick Kwarteng Sarpong, popularly called P.K. Sarpong, has said former President John Dramani Mahama has exposed his lack of concerns towards the Islamic religion after the Mahama campaign team swiftly responded to publications suggesting the NDC flagbearer has promised more mortuaries for the Zongo communities in his next government. Mr ...

Minister for Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has said former President John Dramani Mahama settling on Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemeng as a running mate is a strategy the NDC flagbearer is using to avoid competition in 2024. Deducing his analysis from an analogy used by the former president, Mr Opoku Prempeh said he is suspicious Mr Mahama believing his running ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) on Monday, September 14, 2020, opened online nominations for presidential and parliamentary aspirants for the December 7th general elections. The commission fixed the filing fee for presidential aspirants at GH¢100,000 and that for parliamentary aspirants at GH¢10,000. The figure for the presidential aspirants was a 100 per cent increase over the 2016 filing fee, while that ...

The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has taken a swipe at former President John Dramani Mahama by questioning the rationale behind some promises made by the NDC’s flagbearer in his manifesto for the 2020 elections relative to the education sector. According to the minister, former President Mahama is going about lying to the public and contradicting himself just ...

The “No Payment, No entry” policy for inbound airline passengers, which was deferred last week at the instance of international airlines operating in the country, comes into effect on September 21. By this new policy, incoming airline passengers must pay online for the mandatory COVID-19 test upon arrival at Kotoka International Airport before boarding their flights, according to a directive ...

The Herald, has landed reports from the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra, painting a bad picture about the US$150 per a personCOVID-19 testing of travellers arriving in Ghana by the private company; Frontier Healthcare. The issues range from illegal operations, extortion, lack of staff, tax avoidance among others, some of which the policy research and advocacy group, IMANI Ghana, ...

Mr. Osei Assibey-Antwi, the Metropolitan Chief Executive of Kumasi, has received the ‘Tourism Personality of the Year’ award, for his instrumentality in the development and growth of the sector. His support for the sector, according to the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), had helped to whip up knowledge and awareness-creation of the tourism potentials in Ghana’s oldest and second-largest city. “We ...

Nurses and midwives across the country are beginning a strike today Monday, September 21,2020 over their service conditions. It comes after the failure of government to agree with the healthworkers on their demand for improved conditions of service. A press release by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association noted “having reconvened in the meetings held on 15th and 16th ...

For a typical diplomat, the highest ranking representative of a specific country abroad, many will expect that he or she rides in the most expensive cars, eat at luxurious restaurants, be surrounded by heavy security and have less or no engagement whatsoever with the ordinary citizen of the host country. But this is not the case with Gregory Andrews, the ...