Will COVID-19 finally trigger a long-overdue technological disruption of higher education? Throughout the world, sudden mid-semester lockdowns aimed at combating the pandemic forced universities to switch to distance learning almost overnight. But while this rapid transition has been tough for faculty and students alike, some good might yet come...
The Covid-19 test result for the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Marfo has returned positive, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed.
He made this known during the media briefing on the country’s Covid-19 situation and matters arising.
“In a separate development that has come to us this morning, Senior Minister Osafo-Marfo has...
The low-wage workers who make up nearly half of the US workforce have long been neglected, steadily falling behind highly educated workers in expanding industries such as technology, finance, and entertainment. Since the 1970s, real (inflation-adjusted) wages have stagnated for prime-age men with less than a college education, and...
The Electoral Commission has initiated a queue management system at its registration centres to prevent overcrowding and the breach of anti -COVID-19 social distancing rules by anxious applicants seeking to acquire their Voters Identification card.
A statement copied to the Ghana News Agency explained that under the queue management system,...
The usage of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Mobile Renewal Service has been increasing on monthly basis since the lockdown was lifted.
The latest summary report indicates an increase of 8.2 percent for the month of June 2020 which stood at 482,314 being the total number of Mobile Renewals...
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has paid GHs784, 809,164.70, covering Claims and withholding taxes to service providers.
These payments were effected within the period of January 1 to July 1, 2020, in which National Health Insurance Scheme (|NHIS) service providers in the public sector received GHs422, 809,355.80 million, an...
Zero Malaria Business Leadership Initiative supports global movement for malaria elimination in Africa
Ecobank Group confirmed its commitment to support ending malaria, launching the first-of-its-kind Zero Malaria Business Leadership Initiative in partnership with Dakar-based not-for-profit strategic communications and advocacy organization, Speak Up Africa, and the UN-hosted RBM Partnership to End...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for caution as African airlines begin operations in various countries.
The WHO said strict measures should be observed to prevent surges in coronavirus infections.
The organisation urged governments to ensure airlines take information of passengers travelling and follow up with them to prevent outbreaks.
The...
…urges players not to stop drug supply to NHIA
The Ministry of Health has made a last-minute step to stop the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Ghana (PMAG) and the Chamber of Pharmacy Ghana (CPG) from halting their supply of drugs to health care facilities funded by the National Health Insurance Authority...
