South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has eased some restrictions imposed due to coronavirus, including lifting an unpopular ban on alcohol sales. Beaches will reopen and limited religious gatherings will be allowed. The announcement came as Mr Ramaphosa hailed the arrival of the first shipment of vaccines – one million …
Read More »Election Petition: John Mahama Files Application To Inspect EC’s Document
John Dramani, the petitioner in the 2020 Election Petition, has filed an application in court seeking to be granted permission to inspect documents of the Electoral Commission. His lawyers, led by Tsatsu Tsikata, filed the application on Tuesday, February 2, 2021. The documents they wish to inspect include the original …
Read More »20 Coronavirus Cases Recorded In Schools In Accra – GHS
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says twenty positive cases of COVID-19 have been recorded cumulatively in some schools in the Greater Accra Region. According to the Ghana Health Service, there is a limited outbreak of the virus also in some schools in the Upper West and the Western Regions. Providing …
Read More »Today’s Newspaper Headlines; Tuesday, 2nd February 2021
Source: Myghanamedia.com
Read More »Akufo-Addo Accepts Credential of 6 Envoys
President Akufo-Addo has accepted the letters of credence of six new envoys from China, Korea, Canada, Austria, Namibia and Mexico. At separate events at the Jubilee House, Monday, the President congratulated the envoys on their appointments, and expressed the hope that their tour of duty would further firm the ties …
Read More »2 Dead, 1 Injured After Petrol Tanker Explodes In Wa
Two persons have died in Wa in the Upper West Region after a tanker containing petrol blew up. The deceased, 24-year-old Amidu and 20-year-old Issahaku, were welding the leakages on the tanker at the Wa Magazine when the explosion happened. One person who was passing by when the explosion occurred …
Read More »Nana Addo Makes Council Of State Appointments For Second Term
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has made his appointments to the Council of State for his second term. The President named 11 persons including the immediate past Chair of the Council, Nana Otuo Siriboe, to form part of the composition of the Council according to a release from the Jubilee …
Read More »Akufo-Addo Renews Tenure Of BoG Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison
The tenure of the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison has been renewed by President Nana Akufo-Addo for another four years. His current tenure which begun on 1st April 2017 will end at the end of March 2021. But according to Citi Business News sources at …
Read More »I Am Also An ‘Akpeteshie’ Distiller – Asiedu Nketia Tells Chief Justice
General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia yet again, brought humor into the Supreme Court despite the gravity of the ongoing election petition hearing. Mr Asiedu Nketia, who took the stand as one of two witnesses presented by the Petitioner [John Dramani Mahama], in an attempt to …
Read More »Why Accuse Me Of Sacrificing My Daughter? – Anyidoho On GH¢10m Suit Against Mahama’s Boy
Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Koku Anyidoho has broken his silence over his GH¢10 million defamatory suit filed against an aide to former President John Dramani Mahama. Mr Anyidoho on Thursday, January 28, 2021 filed a defamatory suit at the Tema High Court against Dzifa Gunu, for publishing a defamatory …
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