2021

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) of Ghana has approved a herbal medicine known as Cryptolepis Sanguinolenta for clinical trial of COVID-19 treatment.  In a statement, FDA disclosed that the herbal medicine was submitted by the “School…
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Doing a regular column is no easy undertaking. Sometimes, settling on a theme or subject alone, can be as intellectually and creatively taxing as writing out the detailed article. I was in that kind of state of mind this past Thursday, and…
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Recently Madam Desoso claimed to speak for Ewe traditional leaders in an attempt to insult the widow of the late President Rawlings regarding his funeral and pretending as if for some ethnic reasons it could somehow not be the privilege of…
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s mobile telephony was not in vogue. Many a people relied on communication centres for their telephone needs. To save the situation the then Ghana Telecom Company Ltd brought in telephone booths and…
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Absa Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs Frances Adu – Mante as Board Chair of Absa Bank Ghana after securing the necessary regulatory approvals. Mrs Adu-Mante, who has served on the Board since September, 2017 succeeds…
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The positive performance of the Ghana Stock Exchange in the last quarter of 2020 has continued into the first month of 2021, with the local bourse returning to investors a gain of 4.3 % in January 2021. This is the first gain recorded in…
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The Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association is calling on the government to introduce a quota system that would mandate retailers of poultry products to sell local produce. The association believes this would help grow the local…
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Myanmar military has taken control of the country after staging a bloodless coup. The country’s senior politicians including Aung San Suu Kyi had also been arrested by the army during predawn raids on Monday. Military-owned Myawaddy…
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The EU says UK-Swedish drug firm AstraZeneca will now supply an additional nine million COVID-19 vaccine doses by March, after days of criticism of the bloc’s vaccination programme. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was a…
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Nine people died in an attack at a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the Reuters news agency reports quoting the police spokesperson. The security forces ended the assault early Monday after a gun battle with Islamist militants,…
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