Liverpool wins English Premier League after 30-year wait
Liverpool’s 30-year wait for a top-flight title is over after Manchester City lost 2-1 at Chelsea to confirm the Reds as Premier League champions. Jurgen Klopp’s side needed one victory to seal the league but City’s failure to win means they cannot be caught. It is Liverpool’s 19th top-flight title and their first since 1989-90. Despite being […]
Methodist Church praises Zoomlion
The Methodist Church Ghana has commended waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), for “doing a good job” with the disinfection exercise in its 4,000 churches planted churches across the country. “We can say that Zoomlion has done a very good job for us! They have given us a certificate to show to the medical […]
Supreme Court excludes old voter IDs, birth certificates for voter registration
The Supreme Court has dismissed two suits that were seeking the use of the existing voter identification card and birth certificates as the source documents for the upcoming voter registration exercise. Graphic Online’s reporter, Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson who was in the courtroom reported that in a unanimous decision Thursday, June 25, a seven-member panel of […]
Upsurge in lotto fraudsters on social media
In the midst of a worsening economic hardship due to the coronavirus virus pandemic, the activities of fraudsters are also on the upsurge. Some have now disguised as national lottery authority (NLA) agents or Lotto Writers subscribing the public onto a Whatsapp platform without their consent and promising to give them winning lotto numbers to […]
25th June, 2020
The Daily Graphic says youth unemployment has become a global challenge which threatens the economies of developing countries including Ghana. It is in this vein that the paper lauds the Presidential pitch initiative to give young Ghanaians the opportunity to receive funding to implement their business ideas to help reduce the rate of unemployment in […]
Human trial of new coronavirus vaccine begins in UK
Volunteers have begun being immunised with a new UK coronavirus vaccine. About 300 people will have the vaccine over the coming weeks, as part of a trial led by Prof Robin Shattock and his colleagues, at Imperial College London. Tests in animals suggest the vaccine is safe and triggers an effective immune response. Image IMPERIAL […]
Nasa to name Headquarters after first black female engineer
Nasa is to name its headquarters in Washington DC after its first black female engineer, Mary Jackson. Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said Jackson had helped to break down barriers for African Americans and women in engineering and technology. The story of Mary Jackson was told in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. Born in Hampton, Virginia, […]
DR Congo’s deadliest Ebola outbreak declared over
The worst-ever outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has officially been declared over, almost two years after it began. No new cases of the disease have been reported in the north-east of the country, where dozens of armed groups operate, since 27 April. Some 2,280 people died since the outbreak began in […]
Remdesivir becomes first COVID-19 drug put forward for use in the EU
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended the anti-viral drug remdesivir be authorised for use to treat patients with COVID-19 in the European Union. “Remdesivir is the first COVID-19 drug to be recommended for authorisation in the EU,” the agency said in a statement. EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) said it would be tested on adults […]
Monetization of Politics – A Threat To Ghana’s Democracy
NEWS COMMENTARY ON MONETIZATION OF POLITICS AND THE PLACE OF INTEGRITY IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT The recently-held primaries of the New Patriotic Party continue to grab the media headlines for two major reasons. First is what some have described as a “tsunami”, the political tidal wave that swept forty of the sitting MPs of the NPP […]
