Elizabeth Danso

Reports reaching us indicates that due to Nigeria's ban on twitter some businesses in the country are doing so poor. According to a report by Reuters news a Lagos-based entrepreneur Ogechi Egemonu was selling more than 500,000 naira ($1,219) worth of watches, shoes and handbags on Twitter per week. The report indicate that resulting from Nigeria's ban on twitter Egemonu doesn't know how she will cope. "Social media is where I eat," she told Reuters. "I depend on social media for my livelihood." Meanwhile the ban…

In Zabzugu District of the Northern Region, some supervisors of the ongoing Population and Housing Census have threatened to boycott the exercise over unfair distribution of enumerators in the area along tribal lines. According to the supervisors, the personnel who Konkombas and have been recruited for the exercise are less-something they feel is unfair. According to them owing from the questionnaires being used in executing the work it will be difficult for personnel who are not Konkombas to work in Konkomba…

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayokor Botchway has jumped to government's defense over its decision to use middlemen in the procurement of Sputnik-V vaccines. Speaking at a Press conference on Monday June 14, she stated emphatically that its been very tough getting the vaccines directly from manufacturers. “It has not been easy at all. Not just for Ghana, but for any of our country and not just for Africa but also for other countries around the world. “Whether we were involved. Yes we were involved and I can assure…

An Accra High Court on Monday, June 14 2021 adjourned the case filed to court by the Ghana Police Service seeking to halt a street protest by the #fixthecountry campaigners June 21. The court presided over by Justice Ruby Aryeetey adjourned the case to 21st June 2021 over late filing of documents and after the State attorney prayed the High court to give them time to file their affidavit in opposition to the one filed by lawyers of the conveners. One of the conveners of the #fixthecountry campaign Brownson Adatsi…

The Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare has revealed that Ghana is set to produce its own covid-19 vaccines. He disclosed that government will achieve its purpose of producing covid-19 vaccines in due time because all necessary efforts to this effect is in progress. Dr. Asare noted that a committee has been formed for the Covid-19 production and they meet several times in the week so very soon the country will produce its own vaccines. “The committee is working hard, we meet several times in the…

The Ghana Police Service filed a case to court seeking to halt a street protest by the #fixthecountry campaigners and an Accra High Court has adjourned the case to June 21. The court presided over by Justice Ruby Aryeetey adjourned the case to 21st June 2021 over late filing of documents. Regardless, last week a Supreme Court ruling set aside the ruling of an Accra High Court asking the protestors not to protest indefinitely. The Supreme Court presided over by Justice Yaw Appau noted that the indefinite bar by the…

The Navorongo Forestry Division Manager, Emmanuel Owusu has labeled illegal logging contractor's activities as a threat to the Green Ghana Programme. An initiative by Government that was recently launched to replace forest that have been depleted with 5 million trees. On Friday at Navorongo, the capital of Kassena-Nankana Municipality the Forestry Manager mentioned that the prrogramme is going to be threatened by the activities of illegal logging contractors while his outfit was started the programme. He disclosed…

A Private Legal Practitioner, Martin Kpebu has charged President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo to sack Ghana's Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu. He noted that the Health Minister hasn't exercise caution in handling the procurement of the Sputnik-V vaccine for the national inoculation exercise. This comes after a Norwegian news tabloid reported that Ghana has requested to purchase 3.4 million doses of the Sputnik-V vaccine through two businessmen who are selling it to Ghana at $19 per dose instead of $10 per dose on the…

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has landed in trouble showing off the picture of the brother of Hawa Koomson on camera during vetting and also making comments which allegedly sought to cast a slur on his reputation. Prince-Kamal Gumah, brother of Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Mavis Hawa Koomson has written a letter to the Chairman of the Appointment Committee of Parliament asking Okudzeto Ablakwa to apologize for making him look ''barbaric'' during his sister's vetting. …

The President of Zambia Edgar Lungu fainted on Sunday during the country's televised official annual ceremony for the National Defence Forces Day. The 64-year-old head of state who is running for re-election in August, suffers from the rare disease achalasia. The condition affects the oesophagus and causes hypoglycaemic attacks. According to Dr. Miti during the observation of the 45th Defence Force Day Commemoration and Investiture Ceremony, the President experienced sudden ''sudden dizziness'' but recovered…