May 24, 2020 - Ghana News Express

Timo Werner scores three in Leipzig rout

24May

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Timo Werner scores three in Leipzig rout

Timo Werner scored his first goals since the Bundesliga returned from a two-month break amid the coronavirus pandemic as RB Leipzig thumped Mainz. The 24-year-old Germany striker took his tally for the season to 30 with a superb hat-trick as his side won 5-0 to move third in the table. Elsewhere on Sunday, pressure is mounting on Schalke boss David Wagner after his side lost 3-0 to Augsburg. Schalke are now winless in nine games, and have scored only twice in that run. Struggling Fortuna Dusseldorf travel to Cologne in the day's late game (17:00 BST). Werner punishes Mainz again Timo Werner scored three goals and made three assists when Leipzig beat Mainz 8-0 in November to record their biggest ever Bundesliga win, and they again found him in devastating form. He had ...

Isreali PM Benjamin Netanyahu corruption trial begins in Israel

24May

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Isreali PM Benjamin Netanyahu corruption trial begins in Israel

The Israeli public is seeing its prime minister in the dock for the first time as Benjamin Netanyahu's long-awaited corruption trial begins. The case against him has divided the country. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in last Sunday for the fifth time in his long political career as the head of on Israeli government. This Sunday he appeared in an East Jerusalem district court for the start of a widely anticipated trial on charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery. Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing and repeatedly described the allegations against him as a witch hunt aimed at him and his family. "I remember very well when three years ago, the police came to Netanyahu's residence for the first time," said Aviad Glickman, a court reporter who has covered Netanyahu...

Ghana records nearly 2,000 recoveries from COVID-19

24May

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Ghana records nearly 2,000 recoveries from COVID-19

Ghana has recorded 1,998 recoveries out of the total number of 6,683 confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), with 32 deaths. The Savannah Region, which was among the three regions (Ahafo and Bono East) with no confirmed case, has recorded its first single case. The Greater Accra Region has 4,798, Ashanti has 1,049, Central has 299, Western has 210, Eastern has 106, and Western North has 61. The Volta Region has a record of 47 cases, Northern has 36, Oti has 26, Upper East has 26, Upper West has 21, North East has two, and Bono has one. According to the Ghana Health Service, 16 patients out of the unrecovered are in a severe state but not on a ventilator. It noted that the 32nd death is a 66-year old female who was hypertensive. She died a day after ad...

Five foreign nationals arrested for entering Ghana illegally

24May

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Five foreign nationals arrested for entering Ghana illegally

Five foreign nationals have been arrested for entering the country through an unapproved route at Hamile in the Lambussie District of the Upper West Region. The Upper West Regional command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) told the Ghananewsexpress in that the foreign nationals, who were all Burkina Faso nationals aged between 15 and 27 were arrested at the weekend on two motorbikes with registration numbers 32-UJ-6586 and 32-JW-5633 at Beat 2 unapproved route bordering Burkina Faso. Mr Ibn Yussif Duranah Abdul-Mumin Seidu, the Upper West Regional Public Relations Officer for the Service said “Preliminary investigations revealed that they were travelling to Kumasi and Techiman for farming purposes”, he said. Mr Seidu explained that the illegal migrants were screened by the P...

Deputy Chief of Staff Donates Ambulance & Health Equipment to Suntreso Government Hospital in Kumasi

24May

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Deputy Chief of Staff Donates Ambulance & Health Equipment to Suntreso Government Hospital in Kumasi

The Deputy Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, Mr. Francis Asenso-Boakye, over the weekend, donated an ambulance and other health equipment to the Suntreso Government Hospital in Kumasi. The items included ambulance, hospital beds, infra red thermometer, metallic sterilizer, and other Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs). He indicated that the deplorable nature of the hospital and due to lack of an ambulance for the facility informed his decision to make this donation to assist the hospital to deal effectively with emergency cases in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The Medical Superintendent of the hospital, Dr Thomas Agyarko-Poku thanked the Deputy Chief of Staff for this generous intervention. He revealed that this is the sixth time Mr. Asenso-Boaky...

Kumasi Mayor commends deputy Chief of Staff for continuous support to his community

24May

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Politics

Kumasi Mayor commends deputy Chief of Staff for continuous support to his community

The Metropolitan Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Osei Assibey Antwi has commended the Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Francis Asenso-Boakye for his continuous contribution to and support for the development of his locality. He made this known at an event on Saturday where Mr. Asenso-Boakye made a donation of an ambulance and various medical equipment to the Suntreso Government Hospital in Kumasi, Ashanti region. The items comprised of a fully-equipped ambulance, hospital beds, infrared thermometers, metallic sterilizers, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and other items. The Kumasi Mayor commended the Deputy Chief of Staff for his kind gesture, and urged all public officials to emulate the example of Mr. Asenso-Boakye. He re...

Address By The President Of The Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, At The Virtual Eid Ul-Fitr Celebration, At The Forecourt Of The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, On Sunday, 24th May, 2020.

24May

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Address By The President Of The Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, At The Virtual Eid Ul-Fitr Celebration, At The Forecourt Of The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, On Sunday, 24th May, 2020.

Vice President, Greater Accra Regional Minister, Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs,Minister for Inner City and Zongo Development,Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly,National Chief Imam,Zongo Chiefs,Ulama,Jama! I greet you in the name of Islam, Salam Alaikum! We give thanks and praise to the Almighty for guiding us through the month of Ramadan. I send hearty congratulations to the Muslim Ummah in Ghana and around the world for a successful completion of the fast of Ramadan, even under the very difficult and trying circumstances occasioned by the Coronavirus pandemic, which has, inter alia, curtailed the conventional celebration of the Eid at Black Star Square. However, I commend the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation for stepping up to the plate, and makin...

May Salary will be paid on schedule – CAGD

24May

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May Salary will be paid on schedule – CAGD

The Controller and Accountant-General Department has assured government workers that the salaries for the month of May 2020 will be paid on schedule without any delays. The CAGD department, in a statement, urged the public to dismiss publications making rounds on various social media platforms of a supposed delay in the payment of May salary for government Workers. “Management wishes to assure the public that payroll run is ongoing and that salaries for the month of May will be paid on schedule” the statement said.

FDA destroys COA-FS drugs and other unwholesome products in Cape Coast

24May

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FDA destroys COA-FS drugs and other unwholesome products in Cape Coast

The Food and Drug Authority (FDA) has destroyed several quantities of confiscated COA-FS food supplements and other assorted products declared unwholesome to public health and safety. The Central Regional Office of the FDA destroyed four tons of items valued at GH¢54,300, including food products, drugs mainly herbal, orthodox, medical devices, and cosmetics. The Central Regional Director of FDA, Mr. John Odai-Tettey, the Regional Director of the Authority disclosed in an interview with the Ghana News Express. The products were seized from markets, warehouses, shops, voluntary submission of expired items, and manufacturing and retail shops through intensive market surveillance and swoop across the Region. He said the exercise was to serve as a wake-up call to all manufacturers...

Former President J.J Rawlings wishes Muslims a Happy Eid ul-Fitr

24May

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Former President J.J Rawlings wishes Muslims a Happy Eid ul-Fitr

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings have congratulated the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Nuhu Sharabutu and the entire Muslim community on the successful comlpletion of the sacrificial month of fasting. "Today’s celebration is devoid of the usual congregation of Muslims at various communities to offer prayers and later to celebrate the successful conclusion of the month of fasting with get-together, because of the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and its social distancing protocols". "We commend the Muslim community for their commitment to the protocols instituted by government to stem the spread of Covid-19 and urge that as we offer our prayers to Allah today, we seek his grace to heal us of the afflictions of the virus," the former P...