U20 AFCON: Ghana beat Cameroon on penalties to reach semifinals
The Black Satellites of Ghana are through to the semifinals of the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations following a penalty shoutout victory over Cameroon. After 120 minutes of football, the game ended 1-1 with extra time goals from Kevin Prince Milla and Frank Boateng respectively. The three times champions were faultless in the shootout scoring […]
Meet the Ghanaian man who turns coconut shells into arts and crafts
If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. For Mr. Joseph Tetteh, that is what spurs him on in life. He majored in Psychology at the University but found out later in life after school that his passion was in vocational skills, […]
Traders appeal to government to prioritise sanitation at markets
Traders at the Mamobi market in Accra have called on the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources to prioritize sanitation at various markets in the capital, Accra. The traders who complained that they have endured selling under insanitary conditions due to lack of attention from relevant stakeholders, said they are scared of contracting diseases. The […]
Tuberculosis rate rises in Ejisu
Tuberculosis or TB has become endemic in the Ejisu Municipality of the Ashanti region as high cases of the diseases continues to be recorded at healthcare facilities. However, health authorities in the Municipality say the COVID-19 pandemic which broke out early last year seriously affected their efforts to subdue the disease. The Municipal Disease Control […]
WHO supports Ghana’s Covid-19 response plan
WHO has donated 500 IT tablets worth ¢800,000 to support surveillance outbreak response management of the Covid-19 pandemic. The organisation also donated 6,000 six dignity kits to the tune of more than ¢447,000 for onward distribution to Ghana’s treatment centres. The dignity kits are personal effects ranging from Sanitary packs for women, toothpaste, hairbrush among […]
Ghana Health Service trains more than 46,000 persons to undertake Covid-19 vaccinations
The Ghana Health Service is currently training about 12,000 vaccinators mainly personnel from the Ghana Health Service to be deployed to carry out the Covid-19 vaccination. Also 34,000 volunteers are undergoing the same training as part of the campaign to roll-out the vaccine. This is to ensure that no Ghanaian is left out in the […]
Mixed reactions trail arrival of Coronavirus vaccines in Ghana
Ghanaians have received news of the arrival of the AstraZeneca vaccine with mixed reactions. The country on Wednesday, February 24, received 600,000 doses of the vaccine in an attempt to control the Covid-19 pandemic. GBC NEWS went round sampling the views of a cross-section of the public on the vaccines. While some are of the […]
NEDCO begins installation of new smart prepaid meters
The Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo), is installing new smart prepaid meters in the homes of its customers in Bolgatanga, in the Upper East Region. The over fifteen thousand new smart prepaid meters to be installed across the region, would operate simultaneously with the old ones already in use in the region until all the […]
LGSWU unhappy with exclusion of Environmental Health Officers from Covid-19 package
The Local Government Service Workers Union (LGSWU) of TUC-Ghana, has expressed dissatisfaction with the non-inclusion of Environmental Health Officers in the list of COVID-19 package for frontline workers. This comes after government announced a special package for health workers at the forefront of the Covid-19 fight in the country. A statement signed by the General […]
Zimbabwe praises China for vaccine supplies
Zimbabwe is set to receive a further 800,000 doses of the Covid-19 jab from China, indicating the “excellent relationship” between the two nations and the Asian giant’s willingness to give the southern African state “preferential treatment” amidst a global “stampede” for vaccines, Zimbabwe’s presidential spokesman George Charamba is quoted by the state-owned Herald newspaper as […]
