News of Thursday, 30 April 2020

Popular Articles

Ghana records 403 new cases of Coronavirus, tally now 2074 Don’t dare me – Ken Agyapong warns Opuni Old voters’ register assures NDC 1.5million automatic votes – Ken Agyapong reveals Is sobolo the magic cure for coronavirus? Sam George takes Atik Mohammed to the cleaners Pastor banished from Awutu, fined GHC5,000 for sleeping with another man's wife

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Press Releases

• Enterprise Group encourages patronage of digital channels even as company re-opens some branches
• Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG) donates to COVID-19 National Trust Fund
• Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa eulogizes Ghanaian workers ahead of May Day celebration

Opinions

• Welcome to the new normal: Business beyond COVID-19
• GSMA report: COVID-19 pandemic puts digital transformation back on agenda
• Mahama to choose a dark horse as running mate?
• Akufo-Addo, Solberg write: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, SDGs more relevant today than ever
• Lessons for tomorrow
• Could the fight against COVID-19 be the watershed in our attitude towards hygiene?
• When the EC becomes a tool for executive manipulation
• Family life in time of a pandemic (coronavirus): The benefits and the challenges {Part 1}
• Family life in time of a pandemic (coronavirus): The benefits and the challenges {Final Part}
• Did the BoG do a disservice to the Ghana Stock Exchange?
• Migration in the midst of COVID-19
• Do we have to compare our children?
• 'Irreplaceable' George Quaye’s void at GhOne still not filled
• Paul Adom-Otchere should be a patriotic journalist
• Lawyer Sam Okudjeto please come again!
• Letter to Paul Adom-Otchere
• Money management lessons from Coronavirus
• How coronavirus took my daily bread but took everything he ever loved
• Can emerging economies afford a ‘green’ recovery from Coronavirus?
• Coronavirus and the education sector in Ghana: A brief analysis

General News

• Road projects commence in parts of Accra to ease traffic
• Coronavirus: Swipe, insert prepaid cards before visiting vending points – ECG
• 20 Burkinabés arrested after entering Ghana illegally
• Runaway coronavirus patients found – Ghana Health Service
• Coronavirus: 221 foreigners arrested in Ashanti Region – REGSEC
• NYA calls for fast-tracking of work on Resource Centre
• 53 Ivorians refused entry into the country
• Nsawam Prison Clinic desperately needs gun thermometers
• Coronavirus: FDA approves eight more masks
• Household Registry begins emergency data collection
• Order Telcos to reduce internet prices - Akufo-Addo urged
• We’ve not taken any decision to lift the ban on social gatherings - Akufo-Addo
• Coronavirus has exposed Ghana’s knowledge in technology – Angel Carbonu
• 53 uncompleted health facilities resurface after govt denied abandoning Mahama projects
• Accra Psychiatric Hospital records first coronavirus case, treatment center rejects her
• Harry Sawyerr’s widow passes on
• Ghana’s coronavirus numbers surging daily
• Account for lockdown brutalities – Francis-Xavier Sosu to govt
• Noguchi needs initial amount of $3m for coronavirus vaccine – Director
• Tension at GRIDCo as staff reject Oath of Secrecy
• Ban ‘Okada’ for flouting social distancing directive - Public urges govt
• Coronavirus patients will hide their status, spread if stigma continues – AIDS Commission boss
• Coronavirus more dangerous than HIV/AIDS – AIDS Commission
• EDC donates GH¢100K to COVID 19 Trust Fund
• Ghana records 403 new cases of Coronavirus, tally now 2074
• 88 Hospitals: Akufo-Addo scoring cheap political points - Alex Segbefia
• 88 new hospitals nothing but a 'broken fake promise' - Sammy Gyamfi
• Akufo-Addo saved economy by lifting lockdown - Allotey Jacobs
• Coronavirus: Isolation Center to be sited at Odupong Ofaakor get push back from locals
• Listen to 'elderly wisdom' - Allotey Jacobs to NDC
• Coronavirus: Kennedy Agyapong advises government about health sector
• 212 coronavirus patients recover
• COCOBOD takes delivery of more donations for the fight against coronavirus
• Coronavirus: Gaps in lockdown led to spread in other regions - Former Noguchi Director
• Akufo-Addo's 88 new hospitals in a year not feasible - Former NDC Chairman
• Easing restrictions on mobility not the right thing - Kwesi Pratt
• Coronavirus patients will hide their status, spread if stigma continues – AIDS Commission boss
• Coronavirus patients will hide their status, spread if stigma continues – Kyeremeh
• 'Donate your PPE to frontliners, dead people don’t vote' – Apaak to EC
• Fact Check: Were Ghanaian ‘kayayei’ caught washing and selling used surgical facemasks?
• Building 88 hospitals in a year not possible - Dr Sipa Yankey
• We don’t have running mate due to coronavirus – Asiedu Nketia
• Akufo-Addo's 88 district hospitals in a year not feasible - Allotey Jacobs claims
• Anyaa lorry terminal not in use four years after completion
• Nestle Ghana supports coronavirus relief efforts with GHC2.4 million
• 113,497 people in Ghana tested for coronavirus
• Coronavirus: UNESCO, UNICEF, WFP provide roadmap for safe reopening of schools
• Ghana to conduct first dog census
• Summon EC to brief MPs on preparedness for election 2020 amid coronavirus – Haruna Iddrisu
• Korle-Bu: Child Health Dept. closed down after child died of coronavirus
• Coronavirus: Rolider supports Ayawaso West with GHC20,000
• 1.7 billion students affected by coronavirus worldwide - Professor George Oduro
• Here's what Ghana has achieved in its fight against coronavirus
• Sam George’s injunction against EC wrong and dangerous – Maurice Ampaw
• Tension at Fomena, Kumawu over uncompleted hospitals
• Greater Accra, Ashanti and Eastern Region lead in coronavirus cases in Ghana
• It’s a lie: MPs deny GHS120,000 COVID money
• Know your African Ministers: The health ministers at the forefront of Coronavirus in your country
• Five suspected car snatchers nabbed
• Coronavirus: Value human life over elections – Ken Agyapong to government
• Don’t dare me – Ken Agyapong warns Opuni
• Akufo-Addo will deliver May Day address regardless of no celebration – NPP MP hints
• Cut the politics; complete Mahama hospitals first – Odike tells Akufo-Addo
• My barber told me light was off but I could see his TV on - Coronavirus survivor
• What happens to NHIS when taxes are waived? – Kwesi Pratt quizzes
• Kweku Baako exposes NDC on Euroget, BoG hospital projects
• Old voters’ register assures NDC 1.5million automatic votes – Ken Agyapong reveals
• WHO says very concerned at community spread of coronavirus in West Africa
• Ghana to conduct first dog census
• LIVESTREAMED: John Mahama speaks on healthcare, infrastructure

Politics

• Keta NDC demands accounts of GH¢166k for coronavirus fight
• We'll speak out when Nana Addo errs and eulogize him when he performs - Allotey Jacobs
• Ghana’s parliament resumes sitting today
• Don’t put up CHPS compounds or convert polyclinics as regional hospitals - Akandoh to Akufo-Addo
• Sam George takes Atik Mohammed to the cleaners
• I’ve not endorsed Mike Oquaye Jnr - NPP Kwabenya Secretary refutes claims
• Mahama's advisors on economic matters are untruthful to him - Sammi Awuku
• EC becoming lawless – Lawyer Sosu
• Akufo-Addo's advice noted, I won’t discuss election matters now – Asiedu Nketia
• Selecting a running mate was the easiest decision for Mahama – Edudzi Tamakloe
• Navrongo NDC condemns military brutality on residents of Nayagnia
• Do we still need 129 ministers? - Twum Boafo asks Akufo-Addo
• Your claims cannot be backed by data - Awuku replies Mahama on economy
• NPP NEC may handpick parliamentary candidates if coronavirus stays longer – John Boadu
• Asiedu Nketia–Chairman Ampofo leadership most bogus NDC has ever had – NPP Chairman
• NPP Primaries: Minister cries over ‘witch, ashawo and drunkard’ tag from Kofi Adda boys
• Coronavirus: Minority demands election 2020 roadmap from EC
• Kyei backs health minister
• The elephant is the biggest animal in the forest but not the strongest – Ken Agyapong

Crime & Punishment

• Two alleged Awudome robbers remanded
• Police officer, five others arrested for robbery
• Pastor banished from Awutu, fined GHC5,000 for sleeping with another man's wife
• Two alleged robbers freed by court
• Police arrest 1,326 nationwide for flouting public gathering, social distancing directives
• Court issues bench warrant for 9 Okada riders, 1 convicted, 4 get bail

Health News

• GMA calls on government to upgrade KHRC to test coronavirus specimen
• Immunisation against diseases intensified amidst COVID-19
• Don’t neglect non-communicable diseases - Wiafe Addai
• Upper West Regional Hospital operating under capacity - Medical Director
• Is sobolo the magic cure for coronavirus?
• CSM patients don’t return to normalcy after recovery – Rashid Pelpuo

Regional News

• Community banishes 17-year-old boy for stealing
• 1-year-old boy drowns in a well
• Sunyani MCE inaugurates ‘Mask Ambassadors’
• Communities chasing recovered coronavirus patients with land guards
• Stop distribution of rice, sugar, others and work on Damongo markets - Chief Kantara
• S/R: Minister donates bottled water to Damongo hospital
• Pentecost deacon hit by stray bullet in Takoradi
• Zaconut donates to Ga East Municipal Hospital
• Curfew hours on Nkonya and Alavanyo townships renewed
• Curfew hours on Nkonya and Alavanyo townships renewed
• Kofi Adda requests for cessation of Doba-Kandiga curfew
• Bodies of Salugu riot victims released to families after two years
• Man in police grips for murder and robbery at Asankragua
• Bono East minister urges compliance despite zero case of coronavirus
• Military, Police raid shrine; arrest two spiritualists over ritual murder
• Heavy security ahead of Akuapem chieftaincy case judgement