Unemployment Situation In The Wake Of COVID-19
NEWS COMMENTARY ON THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19 ON THE LEVEL OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN GHANA Undoubtedly, the greatest of all disruptive viral infections in history is coronavirus, popularly known as COVID-19. In fact the World had witnessed all kinds Infections, but none has ever caused as much headache for virologists and epidemiologists as COVID-19. The strange […]
Manchester City appoints Juanma Lillo as assistant coach
Juanma Lillo has joined Manchester City as assistant coach to boss Pep Guardiola. Lillo’s arrival ends City’s search for a number two to replace Mikel Arteta, who left to take on the top job at Arsenal in December, with Rodolfo Borrell stepping up to assume extra duties in the interim. Former captain Vincent Kompany and […]
EC gets Parliamentary approval to compile new voter register using NIA card and passport
Parliament has given the green light to The Electoral Commission to accept only Ghana Card or Passport as evidence of citizenship as captured in The Constitutional Instrument (C.I) 126. This follows an adoption of the report of The Committee on Subsidiary Legislation on the public elections (Registration of voters) (amendment) regulations, 2020 (C. I. 126) […]
Greenstreet to contest for the CPP Flagbearer
The Election 2016 Presidential Candidate of the Convention Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, People’s Party (CPP), has declared his intention to contest the party’s flagbearer with a mission to re-organise and position the party to win Election 2020. He acknowledged the need to overhaul the party, strengthen the structures, with resources to undertake effective campaigns to […]
COVID-19: 16 out of 48 dead bodies buried in Accra
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has so far buried 16 persons who had died from COVID -19 in the city with the youngest and the eldest being nine [9] and eighty-four [84] years old respectively. Head of the Environmental Health Department of the AMA, Madam Florence Kuukyi, who disclosed this said Twenty-Seven [27] families of […]
Burundi announces a week of mourning for president
Burundi has announced seven days of mourning following news of the death of President Pierre Nkurunziza aged 55. Mr Nkurunziza was due to step down from the presidency in August after 15 years in power. The government says he died after suffering a cardiac arrest after being admitted to a hospital on Saturday. Announcing a […]
3 In court for illegal registration of Kumasi Club
Three persons have been put before a Circuit Court in Kumasi for illegally registering a 93-year-old social club in their names in the Ashanti regional capital which has the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, as its Life Patron. Known as the Kumasi Club, the social club, which has been in existence since 1927, was originally […]
Legislative Instrument CI 126 matures today
The controversial Constitutional Instrument C. I. 126 will be maturing by close of day today. The C. I. which is Public Elections (Registration of Voters) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 was laid in parliament by the EC in March before the House went on recess. Under the law, the CI must be in Parliament for 21 sitting […]
Four persons held for killing an elephant
Four persons are in the grips of the police in the Sissala East Municipality for allegedly killing an elephant. DSP Gbelle Kumpe, the Municipal Police Commander, in an interview said that the four would be arranged before court for allegedly killing the elephant at the Gbele Game Reserve. “There was a report from the Forestry […]
Airline industry headed for $84bn loss
IATA Tuesday estimated a collective industry net loss of $84 billion for 2020. The figure, which surpasses the $30 billion loss made during the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, confirms the extent of losses suffered by airlines during the crisis and brings a 10-year run of profits to an end. IATA had in December […]
