2020

The Ghana Health Service has confirmed 459 new cases of coronavirus. The new cases have pushed the country’s tally to 15,472 as of Thursday, June 25. The new cases were reported in 34 districts within nine regions of the country.…
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The Government of Ghana has announced plans are underway to rebuild the demolished structure on the premises of Nigeria High Commission in Accra. The measure follows findings of a committee set up to investigate the incident which…
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Ghanaian actor and a Parliamentary Candidate for the National Democratic Congress in Ayawaso West Wuguon, John Dumelo, has refuted the assertion that Nigerians make better films than Ghanaians. Speaking to Umaru Sanda on Citi TV’s ‘Face…
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When a crisis of the magnitude of Covid-19 strikes, it is our role as a responsible lender to put forward various immediate and medium-term solutions to proactively combat the downturn it brings. As an African business, we have sought to…
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It is interesting how party manifestos are becoming the norm rather than the exception in our body politic. Our politics is becoming one of issue-based, and no longer about personalities, insults and mere sloganeering without any form of…
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Senegal’s President Macky Sall has quarantined himself after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. The president tested negative for COVID-19 but will self-isolate for two weeks as a precaution, his office said…
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Mozambique’s main opposition party Renamo has apologised for the embarrassing behaviour of Antonio Muchanga, one of its most prominent MPs, who appeared drunk on a TV political discussion show. Mr Muchanga was so inebriated when he was on…
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A small-scale miner in Tanzania has become an overnight millionaire after selling two rough Tanzanite stones – the biggest ever find in the country. Saniniu Laizer earned £2.4m ($3.4m) from the country’s mining ministry for the gemstones,…
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A tally of figures collated by Johns Hopkins University shows that the total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean is now more than 100,000. More than half of these deaths have been reported in Brazil,…
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In Judges 6:11, Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress when it should be threshed in the wheat-barn all because he had to hide from the enemy. The Midianites had so terrorized them that they did not know who they were any longer. They…
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