Immunologist and Research Fellow at the West Africa Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), has called for a data collection on the Covid-19 vaccination and a research programme. This, according to Dr Yaw Bediako, is critical at this time if “we are going to really understand how these …

President Akufo-Addo has through the Interior Ministry announced Monday, March 8 as a public holiday. This, according to a statement on the ministry’s website on March 1, is because the country’s Independence Day which is a Statutory Public Holiday falls on a weekend. “The general public is hereby notified that …

Parliament will resume sitting today, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, after a three-week shutdown. The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin suspended activities of the house after some17 Members of Parliament (MPs) and over 150 staff tested positive for the virus. Members and staff have been tested once again ahead of the …

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli State, has appealed to investors to help position the Volta regional capital Ho as a tech hub. He said the region’s leaders planned to fully leverage the strategic location of the transnational road, air and rail infrastructure to develop the city into an industrial …

The National House of Chiefs has added its voice to the current debate on the activities of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) in the country. It says unequivocally that traditional rulers will not throw their weight behind such acts they deem uncultured and non-Ghanaian. “It is pertinent …

Parliament will resume sitting Tuesday following a suspension three weeks ago as part of measures to prevent the spread of the deadly Coronavirus disease in the House. The Speaker, Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, on February 10, this year suspended the plenary following an upsurge in COVID-19 infections among 17 parliamentarians and 156 …

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has reacted to the statement by the Judicial Service of Ghana that advised the media to be measured in the reportage on the ongoing 2020 presidential election petition. The Service is particularly concerned about what it described as hateful, spiteful and offensive statements against the seven Justices …

The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, Most Rev Dr Paul Boafo was among the personalities who took their COVID-19 vaccination first jab on Monday. The move is to reassure the public that the vaccine is safe. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday urged citizens to ignore conspiracy …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the placement of Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates into senior high, technical and vocational schools. The rollout which went live last night, followed rigorous work by officials of the GES to ensure that the exercise went live. When the Daily Graphic visited …

The World Health Organisation prequalified and Ghana Food and Drugs Authority registered antimalarial pyramax (artesunate-pyronaridine), a fixed-dose combination medication for the treatment of malaria, has been approved for clinical trials for Covid-19 in South Korea. It is also being tried in South Africa, Kenya and Burkina Faso to pick African …