One American, two Russians set off to International Space Station
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and successfully reached orbit, live footage broadcast by Russia’s space agency Roscosmos showed. The crew members traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) are Kate Rubins, a NASA microbiologist who in 2016 became […]
Dialysis Unit of Effia-Nkwanta Hospital closed down over non-payment for supplies
The Dialysis Unit at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi has been shut down due to non-payment of consumables supplied to the unit. This has left kidney patients in the region stranded and who without dialysis may die within weeks, as they are forced to travel long distances to either the Central or Greater Accra […]
AGRA pushes for more investment in Agriculture on World Food Day
The Alliance for Green Revolution Africa (AGRA) on the celebration of World Food Day today (Ocotber 16) is calling on governments across Africa to invest more in Agriculture as it is the lifeline to every economy. A statement from the West Africa Regional Head of AGRA, Forster Boateng stated that the COVID-19 pandemic struck Ghana […]
Twitter: Major outage affects users around the world
Twitter has experienced a major outage, with users across the world affected. The social media giant said the issue was caused by an “inadvertent change” it made to its internal systems. People in countries including the US and UK were unable to use the platform for more than an hour, with many receiving error messages. […]
Second Lady, Hajia Samira Bawumia tours Afram Plains
The second Lady, Hajia Samira Bawumia has asked the people of Afram Plains North and South Constituencies to change their voting pattern and give the NPP the opportunity to improve their lives. She said all major projects were started by the previous NPP government led by President John Agyekum Kufour and have been completed by […]
WhatsApp hacking: the new method hackers are using
Who would have thought that the way of logging into WhatsApp accounts could be misused to hack user data without their knowledge? How is it done? If you receive a message on your phone explaining that an error has been made and that you have received a message containing a code from another person allowing […]
Fifth session of Ghana-Switzerland Political Consultations held
The Fifth session of the Ghana and Switzerland Political Consultations has been held, a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, copied the Ghana News Agency said on Thursday. The Chief Director of the Ministry, Mr Albert Yankey, led Ghana’s delegation to the virtual meeting while the Swiss side was led […]
We will not accept results of flawed electoral process, Mahama warns
The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has reiterated his earlier warning that his party will not accept the results of a flawed electoral process. Addressing NDC supporters at Abura on Thursday as part of his five-day campaign tour of the Central Region, he said the Electoral Commission (EC) from […]
CSOs urged to reinvent themselves to remain relevant
The Majority Leader, Mr Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has urged Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to reinvent themselves to stay relevant in Ghana’s 2020 general elections and beyond. He said the role of CSOs in the use of “soft power” and dialogue in promoting tolerance within and among political parties could not be overemphasized. “I have learnt in my […]
Iran Clinic provides free medical services at Mamfe
Iran Clinic, a medical organisation, in collaboration with the Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) has provided free medical services to the aged and vulnerable people at Mamfe in the Akuapem North municipality. They also provided medicines and consumables worth GH¢45,000, in addition to the various medical screening to over 250 aged and vulnerable in the […]
