The United Nations (UN) Peace Ambassador to Ghana, Bishop Samuel Owusu has expressed gratitude to the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo for the decision to allow free COVID-19 testing for Ghanaians. It will be recalled that on 18th January, 2021, the UN Peace Ambassador issued a press …

Ghana’s Speaker of  8th Parliament, Mr Alban Bagbin, has chastised the Office of the President for failing to communicate three particular names on his recently-released list of Council of State nominees to his office first, as part of the constitutional requirement to consult Parliament on such, before publication in the …

A Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Yaw Apaw, has told the second witness of the petitioner in the ongoing election petition hearing, Dr Michael Kpessa-Whyte that he did not take his training on the elections seriously. This comes after Dr Kpessa-Whyte had told the court that the chair of …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

Source: Myghanamedia.com

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 …

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 …

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 …