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Dickson Agyemang, Operations manager for Wetland under the Forestry Commission has revealed that consistent desertification of lands and building in water ways may lead the country into food crisis in the coming years. Ghana is losing more than 20 percent forest reserve every year due to desertification such as mining activities, felling down of trees and the likes, he revealed when speaking on Omanbapa show with Nana Ampratwum. He added that Ghana is in a risk of food crisis and extreme poverty if we continue the activities that destroy farmlands and forest reserves. Mr. Agyemang therefore encouraged Ghanaians to report people who build in water areas for legal action to be taken against them.

Director of research and elections for the ruling NPP, Evans Nimako says the party has put in place all measures to ensure coronavirus safety protocols as the party elects Parliamentary candidates this weekend. Speaking in an interview ahead of parliamentary primaries slated for Saturday June 20, 2020, Mr Nimako said all is set for the big day as veronica buckets, soap, alcohol base hand sanitizer ETC. would be provided in all centers. Social distancing protocol would also be observed as advised by our health committee, he stressed; Hon. Alexander Afenyo Markin, MP for Effutu constituency also appealed to all aspirants to take the party’s interest at heart irrespective of the outcome of the result in order to unite and defeat NDC come 2020 elections.

Deputy registrar for Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Dr. Bekoe has told Nana Ampratwum that only final year students would be studying on campus whilst others continue studying online. Speaking on the Omanbapa morning show, he said the 6th year medical students would spend 3 weeks on campus for exams before they end the semester and the 5th year also follow suit afterwards due to social distancing. This follows the easing of Covid-19 restrictions to enable educational institutions to re-open for final year students on June 15. Dr. Bekoe also clarified that no students has been asked to come for their belongings at the campus as speculated on the social media.

Two Persons is feared dead after a Kia   truck with registration number GT 5361-16 suspected to have failed its brake run into five parked   cars before fallen on the road on Monday June 17, 2020 morning at Adehyeman market in the Ashanti region. The loaded truck was heading towards Kejetia after offloaded boxes of soaps when it veered off the road and fell onto the opposite side of the road. The drivers of the five cars that were badly crashed escaped unhurt, according to one of the victims. The accident caused damage to 2 cars. Speaking to Silver FM's Akwadaa Nyame monitored by Africanewsgh.blogspot.com, one of the victims Mercy said, the Kia truck driver's brakes developed a fault and while trying to save pedestrians on the road, it failed it's brake and run onto five seven people including kayayo and yam seller and eventually Killed one instantly while one died on way to Okomfo teaching hospital while the other five persons is under critical condition. Some th

Mayor of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Hon. Osei-Assibey Antwi, has advised the general public to abstain from the stigmatization attitude towards the covid-19 recovered victims According to him, some countries have adopted the habit of giving ovation to their recovered covid-19 victims but he lamented that the opposite happens in Ghana . He added that, if the recovered victims of Covid-19 are stigmatized, it becomes very difficult for them to integrate into society He made this known to the media today after the launching of Anti-Stigma Campaign on covid 19 patients at Kumasi Rattray Park. Meanwhile the chief Executive Officer of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Dr. Oheneba Danso also said that, they find it difficult to get isolation centers all because of stigmatization so he is pleading to Ghanaians to stay away of that bad behavior. The Ashanti Regional Minister Hon. Simon Osei Mensah on his part advised Ghanaians especially residents of Kumasi to strictly adhere to t