Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is pleading with the President,Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo not to lift the ban on social gatherings for religious activities, schools, marriage ceremonies, funerals and other social events. GMA also wants the continued closure of the country’s borders to prevent the importation of new COVID-19 cases from other jurisdictions. This, the GMA believes will help in the ...

Former member of the Council of State, Ama Benyiwa Doe has said the main reason for the closure of schools, churches and the freeze on all forms of public functions by President Akufo-Addo in the wake of COVID-19 is meant to stop the 2020 election campaign of John Dramani Mahama. The Government of Ghana has on Monday, March 16, 2020, ...

The European Union has blacklisted four African countries over money-laundering concerns as it says their financial transactions require further scrutiny. Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius and Zimbabwe were part of 12 countries placed on the EU’s blacklist. The other countries blacklisted are Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Cambodia, Mongolia and Myanmar. But the blacklisting will have to be approved by the European ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has petitioned the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to investigate murder allegations made against him by the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe popularly known as Abronye DC. In a letter sighted by GhanaWeb, his lawyer, Tony Lithur said Abronye DC has accused ...

Following the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, the political scenes have been affected worldwide including the rescheduling of elections. It is in this light that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) suspended its 25th April parliamentary primaries indefinitely. However a developing story suggests that the party is aiming at conducting a hand picking elections to avoid the spread of the disease. ...

Four chiefs of the Akropong Traditional Council were on Friday arrested by the Akropong police for allegedly organising the installation of a new Okuapemhene in violation of the President’s directive on social distancing. Odehye Kofi Aseidu Adu-Mfum, 59, Nana Odi Asempa Krobea Asante, 76, Nana Samanhia Ohene Ansah Krofa II, 43, and Ohene Nana Bennett Osei Opoku, 55, were alleged ...

An Afrobarometer Survey has revealed that 72% of Ghanaians do not see the media as free to report news without government interference. It said in its report that even in 10 Ghanaians (72%) say the media is “not very free” or “not at all free” to report or comment on news without government censorship or interference. “Only two in 10 ...

The Ghana Police Service (GPS) has rebuked Accra-based radio station, Adom FM, for breaching the law during the celebration of this year’s May Day. To celebrate frontline workers in the fight against Coronavirus, some presenters of the radio station dressed up in uniforms of nurses, doctors and security personnel for this year’s May Day. But the Ghana Police Service took ...

Spaniards flocked the streets on Saturday after being allowed out to exercise Italy is to follow tomorrow by opening parks and restaurants can offer takeaways Germany to continue its easing, with schools in some areas expected to reopen Slovenia, Hungary and Poland to allow public spaces and restaurants to open France to partially lift lockdown on May 11, including opening primary schools ...

Tension is mounting in Fomena and Kumawu in the Adansi North District and the Sekyere Kumawu District respectively in the Ashanti Region over uncompleted hospitals in the areas. Angry residents claimed the projects had been abandoned after they had continuously waited for construction works to commence on the projects, which were part of the six hospitals in the “Build to ...