News of Tuesday, 19 January 2021
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- 97 persons arrested for not wearing face mask
- You cannot compare Ken Agyapong’s attack on judge to Muntaka’s bribery allegation - JUSAG
- Mastercard Foundation Scholars assist Bosomtwe-Oyoko Community Day SHS
- Supreme Court must compel Muntaka to substantiate his allegation – Maurice Ampaw
- Mahama files another motion demanding original collation forms, others
- Coronavirus shouldn’t be allowed to ruin our lives – Ghana Medical Association
- Election Petition: Supreme Court dismisses Mahama’s motion for EC Chair to admit errors

- Newly detected coronavirus variants are from UK, South Africa – Senior Researcher
- Fidelity's Head of Corporate Finance succumbs to coronavirus
- We were not ready to reopen schools - Kofi Asare
- Nana Fredua blasts Ghanaians over coronavirus protocols
- TEWU suspends strike
- No-nonsense Sophia Akuffo would have dealt with Muntaka by now – Maurice Ampaw
- Coronavirus teaches us to bridge gap between rich, poor in accessing education - Ablakwa
- China deploys frontline doctors to Ghana to combat coronavirus
- UNICEF donates relief items to basic schools in Greater Accra region
- Every school must set up 'CoronavirusCompliance Committee' - Prof. Joseph Osafo
- COVID-19: Akufo-Addo’s ‘88 hospitals within a year’ promise ‘empty’ – Policy analyst
- Clergyman appeals to president to cut down ministerial appointments
- Gov't should reexamine coronavirus punishment - Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists

- Election petition: NDC supporters storm Supreme Court ahead of hearing
- No PPE: IFEST wants reopening of basic schools suspended amid coronavirus fears
- Mfantseman MP murder: We’re analysing evidence – Prosecution
- TEWU suspends nationwide industrial action
- Today in History: Get your undercover agents to find Ahmed’s killers - Anas told
- Majority of students in Adaklu Circuit resumes school without masks
- COVID-19: New variant travels 50-70 times faster - GHS
- GES unaware some schools don’t have PPE - Dep. Director General claims
- Mfantsiman MP robbery case: Police awaits three reports
- Election Petition: GBC needs over GH¢600,000.00 for live coverage
- ‘Incompetent’ MoE, GES should’ve sent PPE to schools ahead of reopening – IFEST
- Today in History: Menzgold saga: Government delegation returns without NAM 1
- IFJ remembers Ahmed Hussein-Suale
- Stop wasting time; lockdown the country again - Odike
- Reopening of Schools: 80 Per cent of early childhood centres ready
- NDC, NPP split seats on parliament's Appointment, Business committees
- Akufo-Addo appoints Opare Duncan as Acting National Security Boss
- Atmosphere amidst School Reopening In Takoradi
- 2020 Election Petition hearing enters day two today
- Ghana playing with new coronavirus variant – Franklin Cudjoe
- Mahama’s legal team intends to delay hearing of Election Petition – Oppong Nkrumah
- Coronavirus: We’ve not recorded any case on campus - Private University
- President Akufo-Addo to open 72nd Annual New Year School
- Education Ministry urges parents to support gov’t in providing PPE
- GJA, others, mark second anniversary of slain journalist
- EPA poised to safeguard the environment in 2021
- Police caution youth against lawlessness
- Schools to run shift in Lower-West Akyem Municipality
- We are excited to see our children go back to school – Parents

- Reopening of schools: Pupils happy to be back, tidy classrooms for lessons
- NDC caucus demands copies of handing over notes from govt appointees
- Supreme Court rules against Mahama’s motion for EC Chair to admit to results errors
- Lead by example, let your children go to school – Kofi Asare to political leaders
- Let’s bury our differences, develop Ghana – NDC’s Lawyer Evans Amankwa rallies NPP
- Protocol non-compliance by schools will trigger closure - NaSIA
- President Akufo-Addo opens 72nd New Year School today
- FlashBack: 42 days’ timeline to adjudicate possible 2020 election petition was not set by judiciary – Yoni Kulendi
- Akufo-Addo’s order for police to enforce mask-wearing is a huge ‘bonanza’ for them – NDC Lawyer
- US CDC warns travelers to stay away from Ghana over rising coronavirus cases
- Security agencies must be resolute in enforcing COVID-19 - Peace Council
- Election Petition: Mahama presses EC to admit to errors made in the declaration
- Coronavirus: Ashesi University, GIS lose staff
- Vice President Bawumia shows gratitude to staffers
- Odeefuo Boa Amponsem III to be buried in April
- Coronavirus: Throwback to how some political parties ‘carelessly’ campaigned
- Don’t call Ghanaians reckless, show leadership – Senyo Hosi berates gov’t on Coronavirus fight
- Pre-trial: Give us certified copies of ruling to advise ourselves – Lawyers of Mahama demand
- Senyo Hosi ‘dresses down’ Oppong Nkrumah for calling Ghanaian public ‘reckless’
- There is no data to support claims that political activities contributed to rising COVID-19 cases – Oppong Nkrumah
- Collins Dauda’s Nananom Radio Station robbed
- Close friend of dead slay queen Ama Broni provides 'true' details of how she died
- Workplan for Coronavirus vaccine deployment to be ready next week - Oppong Nkrumah
- We are ready for case management despite delay tactics – Oppong Nkrumah

- Show us the land for community mining – GNASSM to Akufo-Addo
- Massive turnout of students despite pandemic
- Two kids drown at Offinso
- Election Petition: NDC’s comments about panel unfair, baseless – Nana B
- We are joking with new strain of coronavirus – Franklin Cudjoe laments
- Today at the news stands
- Coronavirus spike: Re-impose ban on large funerals, weddings - Prof. Awandare to Akufo-Addo
- Political activities contributed to surge in Ghana’s coronavirus cases – Dr Yankson contradicts Oppong Nkrumah
- ‘This pandemic is not a joking matter’ – Former Chief Justice cautions
- Here’s how school authorities are combating the coronavirus as schools resume

- Fight against Coronavirus is a collective responsibility – Oppong Nkrumah
- Government in breach of Presidential Transitional Act – Haruna Iddrisu
- There is a plot to assassinate me on Thursday – Kennedy Agyapong alleges
- Free COVID-19 mass testing best way for Ghana – Ablakwa
- AMA distributes PPEs, stationery to mark 'My First Day at School’
- Election Petition: We are gladdened by Supreme Court’s ruling – Frank Davies

- Drama at Supreme Court as Tsatsu Tsikata trades ‘legal blows’ with judge
- Close down Kindergarten and primary schools to avert coronavirus spread - Prophet
- Audio emerges of Ama Sey’s aide campaigning for NDC Parliamentary candidate in 2020 elections
- Election Petition: I have not targeted Jean Mensa – Tsatsu Tsikata
- Educationist ‘fires’ govt over delay in distribution of PPE to schools
- Ghana to source suitable COVID-19 vaccine
- Armed robbers shoot dead young Policeman escorting bullion van, steal cash, Ak 47
- Election Petition: Supreme Court calm ahead of pre-trial
- Coronavirus: UK, South Africa variants found in Ghana – Senior Researcher
- 33 people killed in road accidents on Wenchi road - Report
- Online porn publication increased post-coronavirus lockdown - Police
- Coronavirus: We need to wear our masks - First Lady
- Ablekuma Shooting: Govt shielding Lord Commey’s bodyguard after he killed our son – Family of Ibrahim Abass
- Dismissal of our motion shocking – Mahama’s Legal Team
- Rawlings should ‘join’ Mills at Asomdwee Park – Effah-Dartey
- Uniformed military fingered in Manso Forest illegal mining; providing cover for Chinese
- Baba Jamal reacts to Supreme Court’s dismissal of Mahama’s interrogatories
- Parliament to decide on scrapping of 2021 fees for tertiary students tomorrow – Speaker

- Twitter erupts with trolls as Mahama’s lawyers allegedly commit another mistake in election petition
- It is irresponsible to say rallies did not increase coronavirus cases - Gane
- No masks, no entry – GPRTU tells passengers
- Supreme Court adjourns Mahama-Akufo-Addo election petition hearing to January 20
- LIVESTREAMED: Day 2 of 2020 Election Petition hearing

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