The National Communications Authority (NCA) has taken note of recent widespread rumours and misinformation about 5G technology and its alleged link with the COVID-19 virus.
The NCA wishes to state categorically that there is absolutely no link between 5G technology and COVID-19. The public is therefore advised to disregard the...
Gov’t set to absorb GH¢1bn monthly
IPPs owed US$1.5bn
Experts describe move as ‘poorly thought'
Government’s decision to take up 50 percent of electricity bills for residential, commercial and industrial users and free electricity for the poor for the next three months, according to energy and power experts,...
Free power for the poor
Halves electricity bills for commercial and private residents
President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo has taken steps to further reduce the social and economic impact that the coronavirus pandemic has brought on businesses and households, this time, adjusting downwards the cost of power.
Speaking at the seat...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board has approved an immediate debt service relief to 25, including 19 African countries, of the IMF’s member countries under the fund’s revamped Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT).
This relief programme forms part of the fund’s response to help address the impact of...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved the disbursement of SDR 738 million (about US$1 billion) to be drawn under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF). The disbursement will help address the urgent fiscal and balance of payments needs that Ghana is facing, improve confidence, and...
- calls for concerted efforts towards tackling the virus
The President of the National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV, has urged traditional and religious leaders to support the national efforts toward stopping and containing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in the country.
He said while the role of both traditional and...
The Western Region has confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at Anto in the Shama District of the Western Region.
The confirmed case in question involves a Chinese foreign national, who arrived in Ghana on Saturday, March 21, 2020, and was in self-isolation for the mandatory period...
FanMilk Ghana Limited, a member of Danone, has made another donation to support the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana.
Last week, FanMilk presented 15,600 bottles of drinking Yoghurt (FanMaxx) to the Ridge Hospital and the Noguchi Medical Research Institute to support their efforts at fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
On...
Ghana’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation has seen a significant jump by 158 new cases, the highest jump over 24 hours, to currently stand at 566 cases.
According to a tweet by the Diseases Surveillance Department of the Ghana Health Service the virus has spread to 10 regions of the country’s 16...
From London to Lombardy, from Madrid to New York, from Lagos to my home city of Accra, streets are empty, businesses are shut and social activities curtailed. The cities are in lockdown. The deadly covid-19 has forced once buzzing cities to go quite like the cemetery in my hometown,...
