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Marburg Virus NCDC On High Alert As 2nd Case Appears In Ghana

Marburg Virus: NCDC On High Alert As 2nd Case Appears In Ghana

July 21, 2022 5:34 am

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has revealed that it has raised its surveillance bar following a second incident of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) which was detected in Ghana.

It explained that MVD is another example of a zoonosis such as Lassa Fever and it causes a rare, highly infectious disease and severe haemorrhage fever in humans and non-human primates just like the Ebola virus, and currently has no treatment or vaccines.

NCDC confirmed that it spreads in humans through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected person, contaminated materials and surfaces, and it can access the …

Anxiety As Ghana Records First Cases Of Deadly Marburg Virus

Anxiety As Ghana Records First Cases Of Deadly Marburg Virus

July 18, 2022 3:16 am

About two cases of the dreaded Marburg virus has been identified in Ghana, the first time the Ebola-like disease has been found in the West African nation, health authorities announced Sunday.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that earlier in the month, blood samples taken from two people in the southern Ashanti region suggested the Marburg virus.

The samples were sent to the Pasteur Institute in Senegal which confirmed the diagnosis, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) revealed.

‘This is the first time Ghana has confirmed Marburg Virus Disease,’ said GHS head Patrick Kuma-Aboagye said in a statement.

No treatment or …

Rising Cost Of Living: Ghana Police Uses Tear Gas On Protesters

Rising Cost Of Living: Ghana Police Uses Tear Gas On Protesters

July 2, 2022 5:43 pm

While dispersing massive crowds of protesters in Ghana, the  police has fired multiple tear gas cannisters and arrested more than two dozen protesters in the capital Accra after a demonstration over soaring living costs turned violent.

Ghana which has been suffering from a pandemic-spurred economic slump and being hammered by the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine, has seen inflation surge to more than 27 percent this month — the highest level in almost two decades.

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President Nana Akufo-Addo is under increasing pressure to address the higher cost of …

ECOWAS Summit: VP Osinbajo Leaves For Accra

ECOWAS Summit: VP Osinbajo Leaves For Accra

July 2, 2022 5:37 pm

 Yemi Osinbajo who is the Vice-President of Nigeria has on Saturday flown off from Lagos to Accra, Ghana where he would be representing Nigeria at the 61st Ordinary Session of the Authority of the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government.

Laolu Akande who is Osinbajo’s spokesman had in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, mentioned that the vice-president would be standing in for President Muhammadu Buhari at the summit which comes up on Sunday.

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The vice-president will also join other leaders to deliberate and take decisions on the political, …

Ghana Appeals To IMF For Support Over Ailing Economy

Ghana Appeals To IMF For Support Over Ailing Economy

July 2, 2022 5:15 am

Ghana on Friday revealed that it was seeking International Monetary Fund (IMF) support for its economy, which has been harmed by inflation, a pandemic slump, and the war in Ukraine in the last two years.

The President of the country, Nana Akufo-Addo had previously rejected calls to seek financial assistance from the IMF.

However, on Friday Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah claimed the president had ‘authorised Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to commence formal engagements’ with the IMF.

Ghana has concluded plans to invite the Fund ‘to support an economic programme put together by the government of Ghana,’ he said in …

Eleven Declared Missing After Fishing Boat Sank In Ghana

Eleven Declared Missing After Fishing Boat Sank In Ghana

May 10, 2022 3:04 am

A search operation is currently under way for 11 people who have been declared missing following the sinking of a fishing vessel off Ghana’s coast on Monday.

Africa Daily News, New York can however confirm that rescuers have so far been able to retrieve the body of the captain, one of six Chinese nationals on board.

An official from the Ministry of Fisheries told reporters on Tuesday morning that the incident occurred after the crew had difficulty hauling in a net full of fish, and stormy weather conditions led the vessel to capsize. Some crew members were able to swim …

Nigeria, Ghana Move To Improve Trade Ties With Business Council (1)

Nigeria, Ghana Move To Improve Trade Ties With Business Council

September 6, 2020 4:01 am

Ghana and Nigeria have agreed to establish reciprocal legislation known as “friendship act” to find a lasting solution to trade hostilities between nationals of the two countries spanning more than a decade.

The deal was reached between the Speakers of Ghana’s Parliament and the House of Representatives of Nigeria on Thursday following a two-day bilateral discussion between the most powerful nations within the West African sub-region.

A joint communique issued after the discussions stated, “a joint committee will be established to compose of members of both legislations to explore the possible passage of reciprocal legislation which could potentially be called …

ECOWAS: President Akufo-Addo Laments Terror Attacks In Nigeria

Ghana: International Flights Resume September 1

August 31, 2020 2:10 pm

The Kotoka International Airport in Ghana will open for international flights from September 1.

It was shut about five months ago after the outbreak of coronavirus.

On Sunday, President Akufo-Addo said public health officials can now conduct rapid tests on passengers.

In his 16th address to the nation on the pandemic, Akufo-Addo said: “I am glad to announce that KIA will reopen and resume operations from Tuesday, September 1, 2020.”

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The president confirmed that the decision and measures to be adhered to have been communicated to international airlines worldwide.…

Group Raises Alarm, Writes FG As Ghana Detains 35 Nigerians Illegally

Group Raises Alarm, Writes FG As Ghana Detains 35 Nigerians Illegally

June 27, 2020 2:04 pm
Barely a week the Nigerian Embassy in Ghana was demolished, another controversy is gradually being stoked, as a group named Concerned Citizens Rights (CCR), has written to the Federal government over alleged detention of 35 Nigerians in the same West African country.

The group, in a letter signed by its National President, Dr. Olusegun Adeola and addressed to the Chairman, Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCM), Hon. Abike Dabiri, on June 26, 2020, said that Nigerians were languishing in a border town of Aflao in Ghana located between the country and Togo Republic.

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Late High Chief (Dr.) O. B. Lulu-Briggs

Autopsy Finally Released, Shows Lulu-Briggs Not Murdered

February 12, 2020 5:11 am

The Pathology laboratory of the ISO-certified 37 Military Hospital in Ghana has finally released the autopsy report for revered Nigerian nationalist, and philanthropist, Chief Dr Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs.

According to the result which was released late Tuesday following the orders of the Supreme Court of Ghana, the deceased reportedly did not die a violent death and this rules out the insinuations by some quarters of his relatives that he was murdered.

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The cause of death of the High Chief as stated in his autopsy report was “right lung infarction and severe haemorrhages …

Border

Ghanaian Traders Lament Over Nigeria Border Closure

January 31, 2020 4:25 am

 

Traders in Ghana have labeled Abuja’s decision to continue shutting its border as needless and un-African. On the contrary, Nigeria claims the border closure has spurred local production and reduced arms smuggling.

 

Gabriel Nartey casts a sad look as he sits idly in his spare parts shop located in Ghana’s capital Accra. The 50-year-old trader complained that he has not seen business this bad. “I am stuck, I am losing customers because I don’t have what they need,” Nartey told DW in an interview. “I don’t know what to do, it’s just a few who can go to …

Traders’ Crisis Bad Omen For Nigeria, Ghana Peace –Expert

December 16, 2019 7:16 am

Thirty-six years after the ‘Ghana Must Go’ episode, the cordial relations between Nigeria and Ghana is being threatened again, this time by the activities of Ghanaian traders under the aegis of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA).

Members of GUTA have accused Nigerians resident in Ghana of not respecting the rules and regulations on doing business by foreigners. They rely on Ghana’s Investment Protection Commission (GIPC) Act. Section 27(1) of the GIPC Act states that any foreigner or enterprise that is not wholly-owned by a citizen shall not invest or participate in the sale of goods or provision of …

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