President Trump spends around two hours attacking the media and Democrats during the coronavirus briefings, according to analysis in two reports. According to studies of the press conferences, Trump devotes 45 minutes on average to praising his own response to the crisis, while designating just four-and-a-half minutes to the victims of the pandemic. Both the […]
Continue ReadingSamples collected for COVID-19 test in the Northern Region will no longer be transported to Kumasi or Accra for testing as the Tamale Public Health Reference Laboratory is set to commence testing of COVID-19 samples by Wednesday. Officials say almost all the equipment necessary for testing are ready and has the capacity to test over […]
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England, Scotland and Wales have announced a further 639 victims of the coronavirus outbreak today, taking the official total to 21,731. But the real death toll may be 55 per cent higher than the Department of Health’s daily updates show, because they don’t include people dying outside of hospitals. Weekly data shows that deaths outside […]
Continue ReadingThe Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners as part of its Cooperate Social Responsibility has donated some Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other sanitary items to Citi FM and Citi TV. Speaking to Citi News after the donation, the President of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners, Collins Osei Kusi, charged the […]
Continue ReadingChina‘s state newspaper has lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump, accusing him of destroying America’s democracy, freedom, and human rights in an escalating diplomatic dispute over the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Numerous people are wondering how the US system can tolerate such a person as a president,’ state-run tabloid Global Times criticizes in an opinion piece. The […]
Continue ReadingThe Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is set to use a newly Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) at the Tema Port. In a statement dated April 27, 2020, the authority says the deployment takes effect from today, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. It says effective today, all transactions in respect of import and export manifest can be […]
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South Africans did not mark a national freedom day celebration on Monday. Rather, people were tested for signs of COVID-19 in the densely populated Alexandra township under lockdown. April 27, was a day to commemorate the first post-apartheid elections in 1994. ‘‘The community of Alexandra are very vulnerable because they stay on top to each […]
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Just 200 out of 50,000 applicants have taken up roles picking fruit and vegetables on British farms because most wanted ‘part-time roles while they are furloughed’. A staggering 900 have rejected jobs offers in the Land Army and only 6,000 have completed a video interview with the Alliance of Ethical Labour Providers. It raises questions over […]
Continue ReadingKey workers who have lost their lives in the coronavirus pandemic were remembered today in a UK-wide silence. People across Britain paused for a minute at 11am in sombre tribute to the sacrifice made by those on the front line, in roles ranging from doctors and nurses to carers, cleaners, porters and bus drivers. Prime […]
Continue ReadingThe last time Mary Jayaseelan spoke to her husband Rajesh, he was about to be hooked up to a ventilator in a Covid ward. Rajesh was being treated in Northwick Park Hospital in London, the city where he worked as an Uber driver for most of the year. Mary was 5,000 miles away in their […]
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday ordered the renewal for three months of a long-running state of emergency, citing health as well as security concerns. Egypt has been under a state of emergency since April 2017, when twin church bombings claimed by an Islamic State (ISIS) group affiliate killed dozens of people. The new […]
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Captain Tom Moore will get a Spitfire flypast to mark his 100th birthday on Thursday as the Royal Air Force have taken over from amateur aviation enthusiasts for the salute. Pilots from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, are expected to lead a display over the veteran’s home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire. […]
Continue ReadingThe Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNA) on Tuesday denounced an umpteenth “coup” by its rival, East Libyan strongman, Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who had assured the day before that he had obtained the “people’s mandate” to govern the country. In a brief speech Monday evening, Haftar announced that the general command of his self-proclaimed “army” […]
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The United States said on Monday it had killed two civilians and injured three in an air strike in Somalia early last year, in a rare acknowledgement of civilian casualties from U.S. Africa Command military operations in the Horn of Africa country. The deaths were mentioned in a debut quarterly assessment report by AFRICOM on […]
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Humans are to blame for coronavirus and even deadlier pandemics will follow unless the environment is protected, scientists have warned. Scientists said in a report published this week: ‘There is a single species responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic – us. ‘Recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity, particularly our global financial and economic […]
Continue ReadingNot many would have predicted that Kwame Nkrumah’s essay on Class Struggle in Africa was a prophesy waiting to be exposed by a fortuitous event like COVID-19. Writing in 1970, Nkrumah prophesied: “While there is no hard and fast dogma for socialist revolution, and specific circumstances at a definite historical period will determine the precise […]
Continue ReadingFootballers could be on the receiving end of a booking from referees for spitting in games due to the potential spread of coronavirus from saliva, says FIFA‘s Medical Committee Chairman. As well as numerous health concerns with the return of football, spitting may be punishable by a yellow card and banned outright, as saliva which […]
Continue ReadingPrince Harry has recorded a special message to celebrate the 75th anniversary of children’s favorite Thomas the Tank Engine. The Duke of Sussex introduces a new program called ‘Thomas and Friends: The Royal Engine,’ which has a storyline featuring Harry’s father and grandmother, Prince Charles and the Queen, as animated characters. Set when the Prince […]
Continue ReadingUgandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine accused the police on Monday of torturing and blinding one of his allies, shortly before the lawmaker, detained over coronavirus social distancing rules, was brought to court on a stretcher. Wine, a pop star whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is seeking to oust aging leader Yoweri Museveni, 75, […]
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Algeria on Monday extended until 14 May the containment measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, after authorising the reopening of some businesses during the Ramadan period. Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad has “renewed for an additional period of 15 days, namely from 30 April to 14 May, the current containment measures as well […]
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Algeria on Monday extended until 14 May the containment measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, after authorising the reopening of some businesses during the Ramadan period. Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad has “renewed for an additional period of 15 days, namely from 30 April to 14 May, the current containment measures as well […]
Continue ReadingThe total confinement of Gabon’s capital, Libreville, and three bordering communes, put in place two weeks ago to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, will be relaxed, the Prime Minister announced on Monday. This small central African country officially has only 176 cases of Covid-19 positive patients, including three deaths, for some 2 million […]
Continue ReadingThe total confinement of Gabon’s capital, Libreville, and three bordering communes, put in place two weeks ago to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, will be relaxed, the Prime Minister announced on Monday. This small central African country officially has only 176 cases of Covid-19 positive patients, including three deaths, for some 2 million […]
Continue ReadingThe Concerned Freight Forwarders and Traders Association (COFT), has threatened to embark on a massive demonstration at the Tema Port to protest against the failure of shipping lines to heed to government’s directive not to collect ‘demurrage and rent charges’ on cargo for the period of the partial lockdown. Speaking to Citi Business News, the […]
Continue ReadingA new report released by the Bank of Ghana(BoG) on the country’s banking sector performance shows that the largest component of assets of banks, that is investments, recorded a growth of 7.2% as at February 2020. This is lower compared to the 33.3% growth recorded in the same period in 2019. According to the Bank […]
Continue ReadingThe Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Incas Diagnostics, a diagnostic company in Kumasi have created a Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kit to be help test for the novel coronavirus. According to a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the school, Dr. Daniel Norris Bekoe, the creation of this test […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announced Monday evening a gradual deconfinement in Africa’s most populous country from 4 May, but will impose a night curfew and the wearing of masks. “I have decided to put in place gradual deconfinement measures,” he said in a much-anticipated television address. “We will implement a curfew between 8 p.m. and […]
Continue ReadingDozens of workers at a construction site, including that of the refinery built by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, revolted on Monday against the containment measures in Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria. “The employees rose up to protest against the containment measures because they want to return to work,” Bala Elkana, a spokesman for […]
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Doctors are wondering if giving men two female sex hormones could make them more likely to survive the novel coronavirus. Across the globe, women from most countries have been less likely to become abruptly ill with the virus, and less likely to die from it. This has led many researchers to wonder if the hormones […]
Continue ReadingBoris Johnson has mapped out a blueprint to loosen the lockdown which will reopen rubbish tips this weekend followed by garden centres within a fortnight, sources claimed last night. Council recycling centres could be allowed to take customers in a matter of days if the police give the green light they can cope with the […]
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