The match-day 13 of the 2020/21 Ghana Premier League continued at various league centres with some shocking results over the weekend.
The biggest surprise of the week so far is Liberty Professionals' shock win against AshantiGold at the…
Bechem United recorded a resounding 3- 1 win over Great Olympics on matchday 13 of the Ghana Premier League on Sunday.
An impressive Bechem performance saw the team score twice before the break with Clinton Duodu and poster boy Hafiz Ko…
Three educational institutions, a College of Education and two Senior High Schools in the Bono Region, have recorded nine COVID-19 cases among students since the re-opening of schools.
Dr John Ekow Otoo, a Deputy Bono Regional Directo…
Mr Joseph Whittal, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Boss, on Thursday charged Members of Parliament (MPs) and government appointees to declare their assets in conformity with Act 550.
In an interview wit…
The Kwahu East District Assembly has improved educational infrastructure in public schools across the district to promote quality education delivery to the people and to enhance enrolment in the schools.
Some of the beneficiary schools …
Kim Kardashian is keeping up with one less person.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians reality star has yet to file for divorce from estranged husband Kanye West, but, according to a source close to Kim, that's a mere formality. The ins…
The Western Regional Health Directorate, in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service, on Thursday paid surprise visits to a number of second cycle schools in the Region to ascertain their adherence to the COVID-19 safety protocols.
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Mr Michael Yao Tsuiatorfe, Ketu South Municipal Director, Ghana Education Service (GES) says there are no reported cases of COVID-19 since schools reopened about two weeks ago.
Ketu South recorded a total of 64 confirmed cases since the…
Production on the third Fantastic Beasts film has been shut down after a “team member” tested positive for coronavirus.
The Harry Potter spin-off, which stars Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law, has been filming at Warner Bros Studios in Leave…
The pandemic-delayed season is in full effect, with this morning’s 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations coming quickly on the heels of Wednesday’s much-flogged Golden Globes noms.
The SAG Awards tend to hold far more weight as an…
Thousands of farmers in a politically important Indian state on Friday rallied in opposition to new agricultural laws, signalling growing support for a months-long campaign to have the government reforms scrapped.
Angry at what they see…
Prices of protective facemasks have inched-up and as they become the quickest and lucrative commodity just as the country records a surge in COVID-19 new infections.
At the time President Nana Akufo-Addo is encouraging the public to mas…
Absa Bank Ghana has begun its 2021 ReadyToWork sessions with a renewed mandate of reaffirming its commitment to education and skills development in Ghana.
Over 35,000 students and youth were supported to upskill with the ReadyToWork pro…
Indonesia has banned public schools from making religious attire compulsory, after the story of a Christian student being pressured to wear a headscarf in class went viral.
The 16-year-old girl was attending a school that had a rule tha…
Volta Region has recorded a total of 70 cases of COVID-19 in the past twenty-four hours, bringing the Region's total active cases to 198.
Out of the total active cases, 155 are mild with the death toll at 13.
Cumulatively, the region…
Microsoft tries to improve corporate intranet, Google will offer new smartphone health measurements and 23andMe is going public via SPAC. This is your Daily Crunch for February 4, 2021.
The big story: Microsoft rethinks corporate intran…
Last year, Highlife musician got the last laugh over his critics when the remix of his song Asew was used in a Netflix holiday movie titled Jingle Jangle, starring the likes of Forest Whitaker.
Before that feat, Bisa Kdei had had to gra…
Mr Saeed Muhazu Jibril, the Minister-designate for the Savannah Region, says he will focus on improving electricity supply, road network and quality education when confirmed as substantive Minister.
Mr Jibril, who is Municipal Chief Exe…
BIMA, the leading provider of mobile-delivered health and insurance services has been awarded, Best Mobile Innovation for Health and Insurance in Ghana by Global Brands Magazine.
Global Brands Awards, part of the UK based Global Brands …
Ghana has made an Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for 2.4 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, licensed to Serum Institute of India (SII), according to the COVAX Facility indicative distribution plan.
The Plan made available by …
Available data on infant nutrition shows decreasing breastfeeding rates, inadequate meal frequency and diet diversity, thereby, increasing wasting among children below five years in the country.
The nation's early initiation of breastfe…
Society is unlikely to return to normal until “well into next year”, one of the world’s leading scientists has warned.
Prof Helen Rees, who sits on the World Health Organization’s committee for Covid-19, says “first generation” vaccines…
The Ghana Airports Company has said the price reduction of COVID-19 testing for ECOWAS nationals will take effect from Monday, February 8, 2021.
This means that travellers from West African countries who arrive at the Kotoka Internation…
The Management of Accra Hearts of Oak, its supporter's body, National Chapters Committee (NCC) has expressed displeasure at football fans after the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) asked them to play their hom…
The Weeknd, who is known for pushing the limits of creativity in his performances, said on Thursday his Super Bowl halftime gig will continue to follow a story he’s been telling but in a more family-friendly way.
The Canadian singer, wh…
Madam Zinabu Yakubu, a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) at Tanina in the Wa West District, has appealed to benevolent individuals and organisations to support the community to complete a maternity unit under construction.
She said the …
PayPal is shutting down its domestic business in India, less than four years after the American giant kickstarted local operations in the world’s second largest internet market.
“From 1 April 2021, we will focus all our attention on ena…
The Ghana Library Authority (GLA) has targeted to reach out to more than 50,000 school children in the Eastern Region through its "Yenko Library" initiative.
The initiative, yet to be out-doored, is geared towards upgrading the reading …
The world's largest record label, Universal Music, has removed all of its songs from the video sharing app Triller.
The company says Triller has "shamefully withheld payments owed to our artists" and refused to negotiate a licence to us…
The Lands Commission has completed digitisation of its manual land records of four land districts in the Greater Accra Region.
The exercise, which was done in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President, aimed at fast-tracking l…
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed concern over the situation in Tigray region during talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Mr Blinken urged Mr Abiy to allow humanitarian access to the region to prevent fur…
Kuaishou, a Chinese video app that’s largely underappreciated outside China, has just completed a massive initial public offering in Hong Kong. The app is by far the biggest rival for Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese version, and unlike many Weste…
Catholic Relief Services (CRS), an international non-governmental organisation, has presented 17 motorbikes to 10 District Health Directorates to help strengthen health care delivery and to improve maternal and child health outcomes.
Th…
The EU has told Russia the case against jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny is a "low point" in their relations, as the dissident faces a new charge in court.
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lav…
Rice farmers at Fumbisi and Tono in the Builsa South District and the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region have attributed heavy losses on the farm to delay in harvesting due to the lack of combine harvesters.
The farme…
The Reverend John Asare, the Presiding Pastor of the Kuotokrom Calvary Baptist Church in the Sunyani Municipality, has urged Christians not to disregard the Coronavirus (COVID-19) protocols despite their level of faith in God.
"We canno…
The month of December witnessed the slowest annual growth rate in bank advances seen in all of 2020.
That’s according to the latest summary of Macroeconomic and Financial data released by the bank of Ghana.
Total amount of loans adva…
The Myanmar military’s shutdown of Facebook access following the ouster of the democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi caps years of tension between the social media company and the most powerful institution in a nation where Facebook is u…
In recent times, Gospel artistes and churches have been engaged in a tussle over how they are treated.
While the artistes say the churches don’t treat them well, that is they don’t pay for their services, they are chastised by the churc…
The Minority in Parliament is threatening legal action over what it calls attempts by Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to unilaterally select members to vote in the upcoming Council of State election.
According to the Min…
Suspected COVID-19 patients awaiting their test results have been urged to stay home to avoid infecting a larger number of people and even without trace.
Dr Ernest Kenu, Director, Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Progra…
Dr Simon Gbene, the Western Regional Director of the Veterinary Service, has confirmed the existence of the new COVID variant in the Western Region.
He said the genetic sequence on some samples had proven that the new variant was presen…
The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has called on government to leverage the expansive expertise of pharmacists in medicines and other health technologies, including vaccines, and their unique accessibility to the general public.
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WaterAid Ghana and Guinness Breweries Ghana Limited have signed a GHC500,000 agreement to build water supply and sanitation improvement facilities in Garu and Jirapa, two communities in the north where Guinness sources some of its raw mate…
Malawi is setting up field hospitals to cope with Covid-19 as the country is facing a resurgence of the virus.
President Lazarus Chakwera lost two Cabinet ministers to the disease at the start of the year. He has said the health system …
Zakaria Mohammed, National Chairman, Senior Staff Association of Ghana-Universities of Ghana (SSA-UOG), on Thursday said the association has not received any order to call off its industrial strike action.
He said the Association heard …
Donald Trump has quit America's Screen Actors Guild after it launched a disciplinary hearing into him, citing the US Capitol attack.
"Who cares!" the former US president wrote in a letter, adding that the union had "done nothing for me"…
PayPal Holdings Inc said on Friday it was cooperating with the U.S. consumer watchdog regarding a civil investigation demand relating to its app Venmo’s alleged unauthorized fund transfers and collections processes.
The demand from the …
A US man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for abusing underage girls in an orphanage in Kenya.
Christian missionary Gregory Dow set up the orphanage with his wife in 2008.
"Gregory Dow was the proverbial wolf in she…
The Sunyani Technical University (STU) has set up a Taskforce to enforce strict adherence to Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) protocols to prevent the spread of the disease on campus.
Also, the university has directed all faculties to ad…
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