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At least 10 people on board a cruise ship docked in the Japanese port of Yokohama have tested positive for coronavirus, health authorities said. Almost 300 of the 3,700 people on the Diamond Princess have been tested so far. The number of infected could rise as testing continues. The checks began af
The First Lady of Lesotho has been charged with murdering the prime minister's previous wife. Maesaiah Thabane turned herself into police on Tuesday and is expected to appear in court on Wednesday. Her husband, Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, has also been questioned. His estranged wife, Lipolelo Tha
The government has disclosed 2. 5 million cedis has been allocated for the preparedness and response action towards the fight against the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus infection which the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a global crisis. At a news conference in Accra, Minister for He
The Inter-Party Resistance Against the New Voters Register is leading another demonstration dubbed #Wokp3n33Demo, in the Greater Accra Region after several other successful ones in other regions. The motive of the demonstrators who are composed of members of various opposition parties is to resist a
Hundreds of hospital workers in Hong Kong have gone on strike, demanding the border with mainland China be completely closed to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spreading. Hong Kong has suspended cross-border rail and ferry services, but health workers want a total border closure. Authorities say
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has referred the Airbus bribery scandal which fingered the government of Ghana to the Special Prosecutor, tasking him to investigate the matter. On January 31, Ghana was cited as one of five countries in which global aerospace group, Airbus SE, allegedly bribed
The Media General Group, owners and operators of TV3, 3FM, Onua TV, Onua FM, wordpress-1521877-5855257.cloudwaysapps.com, Connect FM, Akoma FM and Adesa Productions Limited (APL), have given word to their clients and potential clientele that they will receive an increased value for their money. Mana
Former president John Dramani has described as unnecessary, the committee set up by the government to among other things, investigate the instability of the Ghana cedi. On the back of consistent depreciation of the Ghana cedi, the government through the Finance Ministry inaugurated an FX Development
The Member of Parliament for the Tamale North Constituency in the Northern Region has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo “wears a crown of shame” following Transparency International’s assessment of Ghana’s fight against corruption. Ghana was recently ranked 80th out of 180 countries on the
Google is temporarily closing all of its offices in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan as a result of the coronavirus. Other tech giants, including Amazon and Microsoft, have also taken action to protect staff from infection. This week global corporations have been shutting operations in China and advisin
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it will not prevent anyone, including foreigners, who wish to pick nomination forms and contest the party’s upcoming parliamentary elections slated for April 25. General Secretary of the party John Boadu in a press conference last week warned party executives h
Ekua Mends Bannerman, winner of Ghana's Most Beautiful (GMB) 2019 has rallied the support of all residents in the Cape Coast Metropolis to tackle the menace of increasing drug abuse among the youth. The 23-year-old entrepreneur, who is also the third person from the Central Region to win the crown s
A payroll audit by the Auditor General has uncovered that over 10,000 employees have either no justification or sufficient information to continue drawing salaries from the public purse. It has therefore asked the affected employees to make themselves available for enumeration from January 28 to Feb
A young couple together with their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter living at Borga Town in the Ga East municipality of the Greater Accra Region has been rendered homeless and helpless after their only room was burnt to ashes Monday evening. Phillip Asante and Eunice Agyalawa, and their daughter Asa
