Tag: March 17
Namibia to extend visas to foreign visitors compromised by travel bans
Namibian Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration Frans Kapofi on Tuesday said the government will extend visas to foreign visitors who are compromised by...
Angola and Republic of Congo discuss maritime border delimitation
Angola and Republic of Congo are since Tuesday debating here issues related to the delimitation and demarcation of the maritime border between the two...
Akple Festival has come to stay – Organisers
The first-ever "Akple" Festival - a food festival that promotes one of the nations staple food "Akple" was held in Accra on March...
COVID-19 Control: Police Administration suspends recruitment
The Ghana Police Service, as part of measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, has suspended recruitment until further notice.
"Police training schools,...
Ekow Aggrey Foundation donates to Twin-City Special School
Mr Bernard Ekow Aggrey, the President of the Ekow Aggrey Foundation, an NGO, at the weekend donated items worth hundreds of Ghana...
Infantino tells football: Use power of our game to help society fight coronavirus
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has urged all of football worldwide to put the popularity of the game at the service of public health in...
AMA rolls out measures to contain and prevent COVID-19 in Accra
The Public Health Emergency Response Management Team (PHERMT) of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has rolled out precautionary measures to contain and prevent the...
Schools in Koforidua react to President’s directives on coronavirus
Schools in Koforidua remain partially closed in response to the directives of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo on the country’s response to the coronavirus...
Bibiani Health Directorate ready to combat COVID- 19
The Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Municipal Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service is holding a meeting to put in place appropriate mechanisms to implement the directives...
Ho Teaching Hospital receives PPE against COVID-19
Dr Emily Boakye-Yiadom, a microbiologist and laboratory physician at the Ho Teaching Hospital (HTH) says an initial 100 Personal Protective...
Akpeteshie replaces ‘un-available’ hand sanitizers in Bolgatanga
There is shortage of hand sanitizers in the Bolgatanga Municipality following President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's directive to managers of public places to put...
Let’s stop negative comments on NHIS
Mr Jarvis Coffie, Ketu South Municipal Public Relations Officer of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has cautioned against negative comments in the media...
COVID 19: Akatsi District Hospital bans multiple visits to patients
As part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID- 19, management of the Akatsi District Hospital in the Volta region has banned multiple...
Shopping centres in Tamale not observing Covid-19 precautionary measures
Some supermarkets and shopping centres within the Tamale Metropolis have defied the President’s directives on enhancing personal hygiene to prevent the spread of Coronavirus...
Ghana records 7th COVID-19 case
Ghana has recorded its seventh case of COVID-19, the country's health service said here on Tuesday.
"The patient is a 35-year-old male,...
Senegal reports 4 new cases of COVID-19, 31 in total
Alyose Waly Diouf, spokesman of the Senegalese Ministry of Health and Social Action, announced Tuesday evening that four new confirmed cases of the novel...
Cameroon’s electoral body urges tight security before partial legislative elections rerun
Security needs to be tightened in the troubled Anglophone regions of Cameroon before Sunday's partial legislative elections rerun, Chairman of the Electoral Board of...
Somalia calls for unity to tackle COVID-19 epidemic
Somali President Mohamed Farmajo has called for public support and unity among people after Mogadishu reported the first case of COVID-19.
Farmajo...
South African president postpones meeting with AU commissioners due to COVID-19 epidemic
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his capacity as Chair of the African Union (AU), has requested a postponement of a meeting with AU...
We need face masks and non-contact thermometers- UE Regional Hospital
Management of the Upper East Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga has called on government to supply the facility with non-contact thermometers and disposable face masks...
U.S. embassy in Zimbabwe stops processing visas for traveling via Europe
The United States Embassy in Harare has said that it has stopped processing visas for those intending to travel to the U.S. transiting Europe...
Late referrals; cause of perinatal deaths – Director
The Upper East Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) Dr Winfred Ofosu, has attributed neonatal deaths in the Region in 2019 to...
KNUST gives students ultimatum to leave campus
Authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), have given students a five-day ultimatum to vacate the campuses of the University.
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Government urged to increase Adolescent Reproductive Health budget
The National Population Council (NPC) has called for media advocacy for government to increase budget for Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) programming and limit donor...
Government hands over Dzolokpuita-Saviefe Gbedome road to contractor
Construction work on Dzolokpuita-Saviefe Gbedome road in the Ho West District of the Volta Region is set to begin after government, through the District...
STMA sets committee to implement directives on COVID-19
The Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly has constituted a committee to ensure surveillance and strict adherence to the directives announced by President Akufo Addo in...
National Tourism Awards /Kwahu Paragliding called off
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has called off the 2020 Kwahu Paragliding Festival, scheduled for April 10 to April 13 following the directives of...
Kumasi residents commend government for its directives on covid-19
Some residents in the Kumasi Metropolis have commended the government for taking bold decisions to manage and contain the spread of the coronavirus (covid-19)...
Kwasuagya, Apesika rural communities get electricity supply
Mr. William Owuraku Aidoo, a Deputy Minister of Energy at the weekend inaugurated electricity projects for the Kwasuagya and Apesika communities in the Tano...
Deputy Sanitation Minister assesses water situation at Tema General Hospital
The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources has assessed the water situation at the Tema General Hospital as directed by the President as part...