General News of Wednesday, 21 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comSelf-styled and outspoken priestess Patricia Asiedu known widely as Nana Agradaa has been arrested, according to TheGhanaReport. The news portal states that Nana Agradaa was arrested as part of efforts by security agencies to clamp down on the activities of spiritualists. Her two television stations Thunder TV and Ice 1 TV have also been shut down by state security with equipment and other assets seized. The teenagers who murdered their friend supposedly mentioned an advert on TV as an influence for their crime. TheGhanaReport states that the priestess was arrested in the late hours of April 20, 2021 and is currently in the grips of the police.

A corruption risk assessment conducted by the Community Development Alliance has cited Professor Ampofo who is the head of Virology at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for conflict of interest. The contract between GACL and Frontiers Health Services was one of the issues that dominated the vetting of some appointees of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Following this, Frontiers Healthcare Services Limited expressed the preparedness to provide such service to the public, whilst indicating that its equipment had been tested by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA). It sought to verify and confirm the due certification of the equipment of Frontiers Healthcare. On 20th August 2020, the MD of GACL wrote to FDA to confirm the certification of Frontiers Healthcare.”

General News of Wednesday, 21 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comVeteran journalist Kwesi Pratt and Eric Amoako Twum of the New Patriotic Party are guests to Randy Abbey on today’s edition of Good Morning Ghana. The controversial towing levy has found its way back into the media space again so both guests will have a bite at it. There appears to be some divisions in the NDC again with some Cadres on one side and the National Executives on the other side; that should be an interesting topic for Pratt in particular. The issue of road accidents is yet to disappear from the media scene so it could be discussed. Watch out for host Randy Abbey’s occasional takes on some of the issues.

People don’t know today, what exactly are the collated figures,” he said in a Joy FM report monitored by GhanaWeb. But Ade Coker was unhappy with his utterances, indicating that looking at the experience of Dr Kunbuor who knows the accepted procedures in the party, must follow to request the said election results. Ade Coker said such utterances should be expected from anonymous or serial callers and not “an elderly person like Kunbour”. But if serial callers were doing that, that is fine, but if an elderly person like him wants to know, he knows what to do. So we should always think about the collective and not about our individual self, ” he told Evans Mensah.

Speaking to Citi TV on Tuesday, April 20, Kumbuor said: “As to whether Ministers are approved or not approved, I will not be doing that as a measure of the quality of a Parliament. The 8th Parliament of Ghana can be described as a hung parliament with equal numbers of both ruling and opposition members. The opposition party now has the Speaker of Parliament but many opposition party members are unhappy about how the opposition leadership is running the affairs of parliament. Sammy Gyamfi, a Communications Director of the NDC in a Facebook post criticized the NDC caucus in parliament following the controversial approval of some ministerial nominees. He further suggested that he was in favour of changes in the leadership of the NDC in parliament.

Amaliba, who is director of legal affairs at the NDC headquarters told Joy News in an interview monitored by GhanaWeb that the party arrived at the court premises with their own photocopier and generator. The party’s Parliamentary candidate, Christopher Beyere Baasongti, is challenging the Parliamentary vote in the 2020 election at the Wenchi High Court. The court had earlier ordered that the EC provide the NDC with original copies of documents used to declare the results. It is just a simple process of EC producing originals of some documents for our inspection, so we have inspected and made photocopies." So that one, we think that we will have to deal with it during cross-examination," Amaliba also reiterated the General Secretary's disclosure.

General News of Wednesday, 21 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comFormer Defence Minister, Benjamin Kunbuor says John Dramani Mahama remains the opposition National Democratic Congress' (NDC) best bet going into any election at the moment. “I think John is tried and tested. [I think he is our best bet into any election] definitely. “So when things don’t go well and we criticize John Mahama, when things go well we have to credit him,” he added. Mahama won the 2012 election after succeeding his boss – President John Evans Atta Mills – who died months to the elections.

Health News of Tuesday, 20 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe construction of a special purpose hospital ward at the Amanfro polyclinic in the Ga South Municipal hospital in the Greater Accra region has been announced. While the Joberg Foundation is the main sponsor of the project, it is at the suggestion of the MP for Bortiano Nglishie Amanfro constituency, Sylvester Tetteh. He stressed that there is a non-partisan approach to the Joberg Charity projects. Nii Kwashie Gbolo, thanked the Joberg Ghana Foundation for undertaking such a project in his traditional area. Joberg Ghana foundation is currently undertaking many other such charity projects in other constituencies in Ghana.

General News of Tuesday, 20 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cut sod for the construction of 20 townhouses for Court of Appeal Judges in Kumasi. The communication added that, "Once completed, it will mean that appeals from Upper West, Upper East, Savannah, North East, Northern, Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Western North and Ashanti Regions will be conveniently heard within a much shorter period." The event was attended by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and the Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin Yeboah, among other personalities. On 20th April 2021, H.E @NAkufoAddo cut the sod for the construction of 20 townhouses for Court of Appeal Judges in Kumasi. This will serve as permanent residences for Court of Appeal Judges based in Kumasi, who will be mandated to handle cases in the northern part of the country pic.twitter.com/az40QPx6Fx — Ministry of Information (@moigovgh) April 20, 2021

General News of Tuesday, 20 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comA teacher at the St. Paul’s Senior High School at Techiman, Paul Dwamena has been found dead in the school’s Staff Common Room. “Some students on Monday morning went to the staff room to greet Mr. Paul but unfortunately they found the teacher’s body dangling in the room. Mr. Paul has been our favorite teacher on campus and has been teaching here for the past 10 years” the eyewitness said, reports dailyguidenetwork.com. His body has since been deposited at the Holy Family Medical Hospital morgue for preservation as the Techiman Police Command commences investigations into the death. The news threw the school into a state of shock although it has not halted teaching and learning.

General News of Tuesday, 20 April 2021Source: GNAThe LAIF Fisheries Company Limited has petitioned the Minister of National Security to conduct a full-scale investigation into the arrest of its workers and subsequent search of the company’s premises by operatives of National Security. The petition, dated April 16, 2021, was signed by Mr Richster Nii Amarh Amarfio, Director of LAIF Fisheries Company Limited, and copied to the President, Vice President, and the Speaker of Parliament, among others. The petition, made available to the Ghana News Agency, said on Thursday, April 15, 2021, at about 1200 hours, a team of National Security Operatives with armed uniformed Police and Military men invaded the residence of the Chairman of Laif Fisheries. The petition alleged the operatives broke into Laif Fisheries Company Accountant’s safe, and other rooms and took away money and valuables. The petition implored the National Security Minister to ensure that the US$15,000.00 and GHC80,000.00 allegedly taken from the residence and office premises of the Company were returned.

Sports News of Tuesday, 20 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comMore than twenty-four hours after news broke that the Ministry of Youth and Sports has settled the salary arrears owed former Black Stars coach Kwasi Appiah, his spokesperson tells GhanaWeb the amount is yet to hit the coach’s account. Asante Fokuo told GhanaWeb in an interview that Kwasi Appiah received a message from the Minister that payment has been affected but it is yet to reflect in Kwasi Appiah’s account. “Yes, we have received a notification from both the Minister and the Ministry of Youth and Sports that the amount owed Kwasi Appiah has been paid. Thanks in advance to the President of Ghana, the Minister and Ghanaian,” Asante Fokuo told GhanaWeb. Reports on Monday indicated that the Ministry of Youth had cleared parts of the debts owed current Black Stars coach CK Akonnor and former coaches Kwasi Appiah and Ibrahim Tanko.

1) gazetted on 19th January 1996 compulsorily acquired Sempe Stool lands at New Weija. In a press release issued by SSNIT, it stated 12 key concerns on the acquisition of the land. “SSNIT set up a subsidiary known as GICEL as one of its investee companies to manage the Light Industrial Estates that SSNIT had assumed lawful ownership of. The Lands Commission which is the body mandated by law to deal with lands allocated the land to GICEL and the lease was paid for by SSNIT. The land was registered in the name of GICEL at the Lands Commission.

Since March 12, when the country recorded its first case of the deadly virus, the government and the Ghana Health Service as well as other agencies have rolled out measures to ensure protection of the populace. The West African State has so far recorded 771 Coronavirus death cases as of April 20, 2021. If you still don’t take the safety protocols serious, it is possible you can be reinfected. If you are reinfected you may get severe disease and possibly you may also lose your life,” he said. The media, government, Ghana Health Service were, however, able to reduce common myths and misconceptions on the vaccine with public education.

The ongoing Premier League has been hard on King Faisal who are lying at the bottom of the 18-team competition. Ahead of the restart, King Faisal made a number of signings with the hope that it will help them turn around what was a terrible first round of the season. King Faisal got goalkeeper Ibrahim Danlad, Seidu Salifu and Atta Kusi are some of the new players drafted in to help the club beat relegation. In a Peace FM interview, Alhaji Grunsah appealed to Muslims across the globe to remember King Faisal in their prayers. I am making a passionate plea to my Muslim brothers to remember King Faisal in your Ramadan prayers,” he told Accra-based Peace FM.