The vetting of the Minister designate for Public Enterprises, Mr Joseph Cudjoe, was briefly put on hold yesterday after the Minority Leader questioned the legality of the portfolio the nominee would occupy.
The world’s first and only national-scale drone delivery service, Zipline has announced the delivery of over 1 million program vaccine doses to rural and hard-to-reach areas of Ghana.
The vaccines were delivered within Zipline’s catchment areas at Omenako, Mpanya, Vobsi, and Sefwi Wiaso.
According to the company, in addition to their original mandate of delivering emergency medical components, they have partnered with the Expanded Program on Immunization to be the sole distributor of vaccines to a number of facilities within their operational areas that have challenges with cold storage and/or are hard-to-reach.
So far, a total of 1,174,227 vaccine doses have been delivered.
A former Health Minister and Member of Parliament(MP) for Sefwi Wiaso, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie has disclosed that the creation of vaccines actually started in Africa.
He says though the methods of its application were crude, they proved to be very effective when they were applied in the olden days to fight smaller diseases like smallpox and other African diseases.
Speaking on
Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia programme, he explained the whites got to know about it when our forefathers introduced it during their slave trade period and they were found to be effective. If Africans have invested a lot into its studies, the vaccine for even COVID-19 might have been found in Africa, he added.
Mahama condemns high military presence at polls
Former President John Dramani Mahama, the Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has condemned what he described as high military presence in the just-ended elections.
He said that contributed to the post-election violence, recorded in parts of the country that claimed more than six lives.
Mr Mahama said he was a President before and it was not allowed anywhere in the constitution to use the military to ‘intimidate citizens’ during peaceful elections adding it was the duty of the police to maintain law and order at polls, not the military.
He emphasised Ghana had gone through eight successful elections, saying election 2020 was the worst form of elections the country had conducted since 1992.
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