As we all know, this coronavirus which was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization some few hours in March 2020 seems to still aim at eradicating half of the world’s populace before its final curtailment occurs.

On Sunday, January 17, 2021, H. E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his address to the nation stated emphatically that there had been a rise in the number of people infected with coronavirus as the frontline workers had detected the variant form of the covid-19 which appears to be more venomous than the initial virus which caused the world to quiver.

The development of this new strain virus was elicited after the president of the state reopened the borders of the country to allow citizens who felt stranded in other countries to return home. From the updates on the coronavirus given by the Health Service, 13 out of the 16 regions in the country have had a taste of the new noxious virus with the nation experiencing a total of 1924 active cases with an average of 200 cases on a daily basis.

As the country is about to experience an overwhelming overflow of patients in the various hospitals, China has freighted a medical team comprising of 11 doctors that have received special training in the area of coronavirus to Ghana in an endeavor to aid the health care and medical teams of the country. This batch of the medical team is said to have come from the First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College which was specially designated for covid-19 patients in China.

“In particular, 3 medical specialists of our team have been on the frontline to combat the pandemic in China, whose practical experience I believe, will also work here in Ghana.” Zhuang Shaohin who’s the leader of the dispatched medical team said with regards to Xinhua News Agency on Sunday, January 17, 2021.

He further orated that, “Once we start the work in the China-Ghana friendship hospital, we will do our best to share the relevant experiences with local doctors to help them understand better the route to curb the pandemic. ”

Ghana has had a total of 352 death records as it stands now whilst most of the infected persons are in a rather critical state at the moment.

In Ghana here, some people have been hiding under the disguise of being pastors and are brutally committing atrocities of the highest degrees. Just yesterday, Friday, January 15, 2021, a self-acclaimed pastor known as Pastor Emma connived with a 22-year-old girl identified as Esther’s mum and accused the poor girl of being a witch in Assin Dawomako.

They went as far as stripping her naked all in the name of disgracing the demon inside to cast it out and the pastor together with his council of elders led the procession of the young lady through the entire town as they gathered people to hoot at her.

This baseless devilish act caused the young lady to take her life and this made the police force begin a dog chase to hunt down the pastor but during the hours of late afternoon, news broke out that the self-proclaimed pastor had also committed suicide before the arrival of the police at his residence.

As if that was not enough, in the late hours of yesterday, on Nhyira FM evening news, another self-styled man of God who is known to be a preacher with Heavens Kingdom Palace Ministry sited in Accra, by name Gideon Boakye was arrested in the Bono East region of Ghana by the Nkoranzah police after allegedly killing his 9-year-old daughter with his reason being that the child was a witch.

Speaking with Pure FM’s Osei Kwadwo, the uncle of the deceased child who is called Queenster Boakye ascertained that after the conception of the child, madame Ama as she was affectionately called by her peers and loved ones, the child had been staying with her mum until the first lifting of the lockdown ban where her dad, the presumed pastor, came for her to stay with him for some time.

In mid-November 2020, the pastor called his wife and alleged that their daughter had confessed to being a witch and that she was initiated into witchcraft by her mum. This sparked some intense arguments between the couple and Mr. Boakye blocked all forms of Communications between his daughter and her maternal family until December 25, 2020, where the man returned home for the Christmas celebration without the child and when he was questioned on the whereabouts of the child, he claimed the child had gone missing and was nowhere to be found.

After observing how unconcerned he looked whilst breaking the reportage to the family, the uncle who suspected something wasn’t right reasoned with their father and reported the case to the Nkoranzah police.

On Wednesday, January 13, 2021, pastor Gideon Boakye was apprehended by the police force of Nkoranzah and after denying countless attempts to the charge for murder instigated on him, he finally confessed to murdering their 9-year-old daughter and stated where he had buried the poor girl.

In the late afternoon of yesterday, January 15, 2021, the murder suspect took the police force and some close relatives to the Nkoranzah cemetery where he had buried the young girl and unearthed her corpse for identification. The child had been murdered and kept in a 25kg rice sac which was sealed and placed in a jute bag again for burial.

Pastor Gideon Boakye is currently in the custody of the police aiding in the inquiry and investigations pertaining to this cruelty.

One of the major initiatives of the government’s endeavors to protect our water bodies and forests from inhuman activities is the curtailment of illegal mining.

Information reaching us is that, the Environmental Sustainability taskforce has taken into its custody 7 Chinese persons and seized 10 Excavators as well in the Western region of Ghana as part of implementing the government’s project of saving our forests.

In the late hours of yesterday, January 11,2021,the Government’s Environmental Sustainability platoon received a tip off regarding some illegal Chinese miners who were destroying the forests without permit and demolishing about 10 football fields.
One of the rivers which runs through this forest is the Oda river and the current sight of this river is very devastating looking at how lifeless it has been rendered and full of mud. The thick forest cover had been cut down and buried in the mud alongside other plant species.

The taskforce raided the Taabosere forest in the Western region enclave at dawn today, January 12,2021,where they caught these Chinese miners in the act. Amongst these Chinese nationalities was a Ghanaian illegal miner by name Issah Odartey who when confronted by the team on operation, he alleged that the concession was gifted to him by the Minerals Commission but lacked concrete evidence to relegate his claims. He further stated that he pays 20,000 Ghana cedis every month to the Minerals Commission and once more,had no documents to back his claims.

At the site where the illegal activities took place, a journalist from Luv FM, Erastus Asare Donkor made it known that they discovered close to 12 excavators and there was a supervisor who was identified as Omar who instigated that they were given the permission to mine by some powerful prominent personalities in the country.
Right after Omar spoke with the taskforce, another man who is revealed himself as Charles Owusu, a relative of the late Sir John, made assertion of ownership of the site and requested that the taskforce leave the site but this plea fell on deaf ears as the taskforce removed all the excavators and transported them across the Oda river.

In all, seven Chinese miners were apprehended and taken to Accra for processing whilst 10 excavators were seized from the site.

In the early hours of last year, a deadly virus shook the entire world with the pace at which it swept people off their feet and took millions of lives in a glance at an unexpected hour. This caused the World Health Organization to declare it as a pandemic. One of the countries which lost a lot of its citizens is the United Kingdom which is governed by Queen Elizabeth.

After the UK recorded their very first case of coronavirus, they have had quite a handful of mishaps leading to about 3 million people contracting the virus with a little over 80,000 deaths according to the records from Johns Hopkins University on Saturday, January 9, 2021. In as much the UK is currently under total lockdown, a new variant of the coronavirus was detected on Friday, January 8, 2021, which took the country by surprise and infected 1,325 persons within a day which the Health Section ascertained to be the highest daily
death toll in the year.

In a press release on Friday evening, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, prated that, “The situation in London is now critical with the spread of the virus out of control.
We are declaring a major incident because the threat this virus poses to our city is at a crisis point… If we do not take immediate action now, our National Health Service could be overwhelmed and more people will die”.

Some few months ago, it was announced that Prince Charles, the son of Queen Elizabeth, tested positive for the covid-19 and went into isolation and after his treatment, the second-in-line to the throne, Prince William, also tested positive for coronavirus some few days ago. As we already know, WHO has approved of the covid-19 vaccines they deployed some of the big pharmaceutical companies to experiment on and these vaccines have been requested by a lot of countries to be used in the treatment of their victims.

On Saturday, January 9, 2021, a Buckingham spokesperson made it known that Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip have received some of the vaccines for the coronavirus.
The suffusions were dispensed by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source disclosed.

To avoid inexactitudes, her Majesty who’s spent 94 years on earth decided to let it known that she had acquired the inoculation. The source added.

Abortions, as we all know, are a lawless act that is being frowned upon by society at large. Despite it being illegal, some mischievous persons still go-ahead to take this risk, and mostly, it is the doctors who perform this operation that is mostly dealt with according to the law.

In Suhum which is located in the Eastern Region of Ghana, a confident trickster ascertained to be a doctor with the name David Darko has finally been incarcerated for 4 years by the Suhum Circuit Court after been on the run from the police force for nearly 3 years now.

In December 2017, a warrant was issued for the arrest of this charlatan alongside his accomplices when the Suhum police were alerted on the abortions ongoing and this led to them fleeing from their abode when the personnel from the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit ( DOVVSU ) stormed their facility. The haunt for them had since been in the process until he got arrested some weeks ago.

The culprit who is said to be a ” specialist” had been conducting unsafe abortions for ten good years now without any professional qualifications and certification. He was a health extension officer with the Youth Employment Agency posted to the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial hospital located at Mampong. After his service ended, he was taken in by Rev Bidi Memorial hospital which is popularly known as Setsoafia clinic as a ward assistant but was dismissed after exactly a year, somewhere in 2017, for misconduct and that was when his new found hobby was executed.

The illegal abortion center is found just a few meters away from the private hospital where he used to work. His arrest was made when some of his victims who suffered some complications after the abortions were done filed reports against him at the Suhum police station. Chief Superintendent Joseph Owusu who is the Police Commander for the Suhum division of police confirmed to the DGN Online that the Municipal health directorate informed the police about David’s deeds which led to his immediate arrest.

Presiding over his case yesterday, January 11, 2021, Judge Diana Adu Asare jailed him for 4 years with hard labor after he was found guilty of two counts of practicing medicine without authority and receiving money for the practice of medicine without authority.