Новости за 05.04.2020

Some 17 Burkinabes have been arrested by security personnel at the Babile inland checkpoint in the Upper West Region for attempting to sneak into Ghana. Their arrest was effected around 1830GMT on Saturday . The 17 persons were on board a bus with registration number AAS 5603-C en route to Wa when the security officials took action to arrest them. The Burkinabes subsequently moved to hide in a nearby bush but there were arrested by the officers. Accordin ...

A group calling itself the Northern Development Forum (NDF) has among other things, asked government to conduct a mandatory test for the novel coronavirus on all persons who returned from Accra to the regions up north last minute to the partial lockdown. President Nana Akufo-Addo announced the commencement of a partial lockdown of Accra and Kumasi, the epicentres of the disease from Monday, March 31 in order to check the spread of the virus. The order also affected Tema and Ka ...

Executives of the ruling New Patriotic Party in the Ellembelle Constituency have denied receiving bribes from illegal small scale miners in the area. A group of illegal small scale miners who were destroying three water bodies including Ankobra River from their activities in and around Teleku-Bokazo and Anwia in the Ellembelle District alleged that Constituency Executives have been collecting GHS10,000 worth of bribe every two weeks from them under the pretext of protecting them f ...

The Ministry of Health has been urged to pay attention to the growing number of cases of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) in the Upper West Region. The disease which has claimed some 33 lives in the last few months in the region has not grabbed national attention due to the COVID-19 scare. About 214 cases of Meningitis have been recorded at some health facilities across the 11 districts of the region. Presenting a statement in Parliament today, Saturday, April 4, 2020, to ra ...

The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) has described as ldquo;helpful and resolute rdquo; the show of leadership by President Akufo-Addo in the fight against the growing threat of the COVID-19 in the country. The commendation was done when a delegation from the Academy paid a courtesy call on the President on Friday, 3rd April 2020, at Jubilee House in Accra. The purpose of the meeting was to present a report on the findings, recommendations and assessment of activitie ...