Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta says the speech delivered by President Akufo-Addo on April 5, in a broadcast to the nation, has reassured citizens in the fight against Coronavirus. According to him, the speech removed any premonition of ‘sinking into Dante’s Inferno’ and reassured the nation that we indeed have a wartime leader, ‘our Moses, to lead us to the promised ...

The outcome is still uncertain for a large group of patients in intensive care.But the first Dutch figures show that Covid-19 is more deadly than comparable diseases. Marten van de Wier April 7, 2020, 1:00 am   The death rates in intensive care are much higher in Covid-19 than in other pneumonia caused by a virus. According to Niels Gritters ...

Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Atta-Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has showered praises on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his sterling leadership, powerful addresses to the nation in the midst of the deadly coronavirus. The former director of communication at the presidency under the late Mills era said the messages and speeches by the president inspired hope. ...

“There is the right to information law and there is accountability; being open. This is a high public interest case and so there was nothing wrong for Martin Amidu to disclose those details,” Maurice Ampaw said while defending the Special Prosecutor. The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has invited four individuals to assist in investigations into an alleged act ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Friday night, affirmed that 78 of the persons put under mandatory quarantine had since tested positive for the COVID-19. He said it was the additional confirmations that increased dramatically, the country’s total number of cases to 137 as of March 27, 2020. The President who was addressing the nation for the fourth time to ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has been compelled to withdraw a Constitutional Instrument (CI) it laid in parliament two weeks ago. The CI which was was expected to give legal backing to the commission to compile a new register had defects which were highlighted at a meeting between the EC and the subsidiary legislation Committee on Thursday. Consequently, the commission was ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has suspended the Ghana card registration exercise in the Eastern region indefinitely. The NIA through a statement noted that the indefinite suspension of the mass registration exercise in the Eastern Region is until further notice. “This decision follows a careful assessment of the registration exercise carried out in the Eastern Region between Wednesday, 4th March ...

Accra High Court has dismissed an injunction application seeking to stop the National Identification Authority from continuing with its Ghana Card registration in the Eastern Region. According to the court, the NIA’s decision to go ahead with the registration is not against the President’s directive suspending all public gatherings. The Judge, Justice Anthony Oppong explained that the directive did not ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has rubbished fears by the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), saying its decision to continue with the mass registration exercise after the government’s ban on all public gatherings in the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, does not constitute a violation of President Akufo-Addo’s strict directive. The NIA, has come under criticism for going ahead with ...

A Ghanaian passenger aboard a KLM flight which arrived in Accra on Saturday night, has revealed how all passengers aboard the flight have been quarantined by the government upon their arrival at the Kotoko International Airport. Saturday night’s KLM flight was one of the final flights into the country as the government of Ghana has announced the closure of all ...