The Deputy Ranking Member for the Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs has called on the government to take a second look at the cost of the mandatory test for coronavirus at the Kotoka International Airport. Dr. Alfred Oko Vanderpuije said “the $150 per test is too high. It should be reduced”. “What test would cost $150? So many places ...

A Senior Research Fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Dr Kofi Bonney, has downplayed the accuracy ofCOVID-19 test being conducted at the country’s international airport. The Kotoka International Airport(KIA) reopened for regular international passenger travel on Tuesday, September 1, 2020. As part of measures to reduce the importation of coronavirus, the government has rolled out a mandatory ...

Former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute Gabby Asare Otcthere-Darko has noted that nine years ago, the Mills-Mahama administration sought to introduce a deal in the form of the current Agyapa Royalties agreement to monetize Ghana’s gold royalties. He noted that unlike the current agreement, which went to Parliamentfor deliberations, the one that was drafted by the National Democratic Congress ...

A former lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Richard Amoako Baah, has wondered why President Nana Akufo-Addo’s cousin, Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, is the one purporting to speak for Attorney General Gloria Akuffo with regard to the controversial Agyapa deal following the leakage of the AG’s scathing legal opinion on the agreement. Mr Otchere-Darko ...

A communication team member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Eric Sosu has described as outrageous the cost of COVID-19 test for travellers who are returning to Ghana. According to him, the cost is not only outrageous but a fleece on the travellers who have been hit by the economic challenges of the coronavirus. Travellers coming to Ghana by ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo addressed the nation for the 16th time on the measures his government has taken to combat the spread of the novel Coronavirus among Ghanaians. In his address, delivered Sunday August 30, the President announced the reopening and resumption of operations at the Kotoka International Airport effective Tuesday, September 1, 2020. President Akufo-Addo told Ghanaians that ...

The Ghana Committed Drivers Association (GCDA) has said former President John Dramani Mahama might as well legalise sakawa (fraud) if he wants to legalise the Okada business (use of motorcycle for commercial purposes). The group’s leader, Mr Charles Danso, told Odiasempa Apomasu Mensah on Accra100.5FM’s midday news on Thursday, 27 August 2020 that if the flagbearer of the National Democratic ...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has admonished NDC flagbearer John Dramani Mahama to assure Ghanaians that the mistakes that happened under his tenure as President will not be repeated if he is re-elected in the upcoming December polls. The Asantehene made the comments during a visit by the former President to introduce his running mate, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang ...

PNC General Secretary, Atik Mohammed has waded into discussions about the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2020 manifesto which the party launched in Cape Coast. The manifesto catalogues a list of previous promises made and executed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and future promises when given a second term in office. As the nation draws near towards the 2020 ...

The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama says the new Births and Deaths Registration Act which has been passed by Parliament will help improve collation of vital information for national development. At a Meet the Press engagement Wednesday [August 26, 2020], Hajia Alima Mahama said in 2019, the Registry registered 707,064 infant births (359,532 males and ...