NDC’s general secretary, Mr Johnson General Asiedu Nketiah who was the first witness for the Petitioner (John Mahama) is said to have allegedly betrayed his party’s figurehead with reference to the answers he gave to the supreme court judges inside the witness’ box . During the cross-examination by the lawyer of the Electoral Commission(EC), Mr Asiedu Nketiah responded to all the questions that were put to him and made a critical statement “I’m not the petitioner” and for that fact, he can’t answer the questions form the lawyer.Because of his awkward and unexpected answers, the lawyer fo ..read more

A new coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be 89.3% effective in large-scale UK trials. The Novavax jab is the first to show in trials that it is effective against the new virus variant found in the UK, the BBC’s medical editor Fergus Walsh said. The PM welcomed the “good news” and said the UK’s medicines regulator would now assess the vaccine. The UK has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in Stockton-on-Tees in north-east England. The doses are expected to be delivered in the second half of this year, if approved for use by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulato ..read more

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has cautioned that the outbreak of the COVID-19 at workplaces is increasing at a worrying rate. It has, therefore, appealed to businesses and organizations to employ the use of online mechanisms that will help reduce human contact in their operations, while enforcing strict adherence to other preventive and safety protocols, such as the wearing of face masks and social distancing. Addressing the Minister’s Press Briefing, a national platform for providing updates on the COVID-19 response in Accra yesterday, the Director-General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagy ..read more

Five more patients have died from COVID-19, according to updates by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). This brings the country’s death toll to 377. As of 23rd January 2021, 616 new cases have been recorded raising the active case count to 3,813. So far, a total of 58,561 persons have recovered and have been discharged. 79 cases are in severe conditions, 29 critical.  Meanwhile, positive cases from international travellers at the Kotoka International Airport is 1083 and 601 have recovered and discharged. Regional breakdown below Greater Accra Region – 36,205 Ashanti Re ..read more

Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) has announced a temporary closure of its Ringway campus after two staff members tested positive for COVID-19. The closure will be from 25th to 29th, January 2021. A press statement from the management of the school indicated that “the temporary closure is due to two members of staff testing positive for COVID-19. Work will resume on Monday, 1st February 2021, after fumigation of both the Ringway and North Dzorwulu Campuses are complete”. “To ensure that academic work does not grind to a halt, the IT Directorate and Academic Affairs ..read more

Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says if Ghanaians fail to adhere to COVID-19 safety protocols, more restrictions will be introduced which will be tougher than earlier. “More restrictions could be introduced if this trend continues . . .  it will be tougher than before and that will make lives difficult for the less privileged. So we need to adhere to the protocols,” he urged. Ghana currently has 3,613 active cases with 58,150 recoveries. According to the Ghana Medical Association, unlike an earlier indication that 200 new cases were recorded daily, it h ..read more

A hilarious video of Ghanaian dancehall artiste Shatta Wale teaching elective mathematics has popped online causing a traffic of laughter and reactions. The video shows the “ALREADY” hitmaker, Shatta Wale, intensively teaching elective maths were he is hilariously trying to find “x”. The video captures Shatta Wale in his apartment with his personal assistant, Nana Dope, acting as a serious student. The artist and his P.A were watching an educational program that had a teacher lecturing elective mathematics. Without breaking grounds with the teacher, Shatta Wale got up, headed straight to the ..read more

Politicians are becoming well known for ‘bribing’ the electorates with gifts when we get to the times of elections and once they win, they won’t know the very people they begged until the next elections come. It is very common in Ghana. But if you think it’s only down here that it’s practiced, then you must be mistaken as our dear Politicians in Nigeria also make use of these vote-buying tactics. Viral photos spreading on social media see the moment the incumbent Governor of Ondo State in Nigeria, Rotimi Akeredolu, shared branded Ludos with his face on them to the people in his Stat ..read more

The Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, Ernest Henry Norgbey has indicated that his name and that of some 21,000 voters in the constituency cannot be found in the provisional voter register currently being exhibited by the Electoral Commission of Ghana. According to the MP who is the National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate in the upcoming December general elections in the Ashaiman Constituency, the missing names is a deliberate move by the EC to disenfranchise some citizens. “We have identified over 21,000 names that have been deleted from the register and it is just unfortunate t ..read more

A 16-year-old girl identified as Mariam Batuley, a JHS Three(3) student has committed suicide by hanging, yesterday , the 18th of September 2020 at Abesewa, a Community at Dunkwa On Offin in Upper Denkyira East. According to a relative, she left the house last night around 10 pm to attend to nature’s call which is a few meters from the house of which she didn’t return. It’s so unusual for Mariam not to sleep at home so a search hunt was launched for her the following morning only to find her hanging dead on a tree. READ ALSO: Rapper D-Black Sex Tape: Lady In Video Reveals What Happened Many ..read more