The Northern Regional Coordinating Director, Alhaji Alhassan Issahaku, has appealed to Ghanaians to refrain from stigmatizing  COVID-19 patients. He said stigmatising  COVID-19 patients, has the tendency of drawing back efforts towards the fight against the virus. According to him, stigmatisation has been identified by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the...
Bank unveils plan to finance entire poultry, rice value chains Projects GH¢2bn financing for agribusinesses by 2022 Draw partnerships with MoFA, OVCF, GIRSAL to provide cheaper finance   COVID-19 presents Ghanaians with the best opportunity to localise the entire food production value chain in the country, become less reliant on...
• Global coordination needed to ensure new measures are driven by data and evidence Airports Council International (ACI) World and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have called on governments to ensure any new measures introduced for airports and airlines in the wake of COVID-19 are supported by scientific evidence...
The Coronavirus Pandemic currently ravaging the world presents an opportunity to reset the African continent so that Africans can be empowered to become more productive and self-reliant,  Tony Elumelu, Chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has stated   Mr Elumelu  stated this at the high-level roundtable discussions made up of African...
US president Donald Trump continued his funding threats to the World Health Organization, WHO; with a May 18 letter that threatened outright withdrawal of the US from the organization. The four-paged letter addressed to the WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the body had 30-days to undertake needed reforms. “I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding...
The Ghana Education Service (GES), has called on national teachers’ associations such as the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) for inputs on the strategies to adopt to ensure smooth re-opening of schools. Director-General of GES, Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa - in a statement...
African Students for Interfaith Tolerance (ASFIT) have presented assorted Personal Protective Equipment and other items to the needy and old-age people resident in Walewale and its surrounding communities within the North East Region. The items included hand sanitisers, detergents, boxes of nose masks, foodstuffs and soft drinks which were presented to the elderly and needy people, and were part of a broader...
Like many people around the world, Ghanaians considered the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019 as a distant worry. Economies and healthcare systems did not envisage the impact we are experiencing and it wasn’t until the first case was reported that the reality dawned on the whole nation....
Unprecedented crisis could push up to 60 million into extreme poverty The World Bank Group has announced that its emergency operations to fight COVID-19 (coronavirus) have reached 100 developing countries – home to 70% of the world’s population. Since March, the Bank Group has rapidly delivered record levels of support...
Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of Econet Global, has announced the release of ‘Sasai TeamTalk’ - a voice and video conferencing service that takes up to 20 people on one call. The service, coming at a time many countries have imposed restrictions on movement to curb spread of the...