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The disease caused by the novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China, has been named  coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)  – ‘CO’ stands for corona, ‘VI’ for virus, and ‘D’ for disease. Formerly, this disease was referred to as ‘2019 novel coronavirus’ or ‘2019-nCoV.’ The COVID-19 virus is a new virus linked to the same family of viruses as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and some types of common cold. Does COVID-19 affect children? This is a new virus and we do not know enough yet about how it affects children or pregnant women. We know it is possible for people of any age to be infected with the virus, but so far there have been relatively few cases of COVID-19 reported among children. The virus is fatal in rare cases, so far mainly among older people with pre-existing medical conditions. Can pregnant women pass coronavirus to unborn children?   At this time, there is not enough evidence to determine whether the virus is transmitt...

Ivy Barley is a Ghanaian digital nomad and an entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and CEO of Developers in Vogue, an organization that trains females in the latest technologies and connects them to real-time projects and jobs. Ivy Barley is a Ghanaian digital nomad and an entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and CEO of Developers in Vogue Ivy Barley A Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum and holds a master’s degree in Mathematical Statistics, Ivy Barley won a $10,000 prize as one of the 10 finalists of the Kwese  # GoGettaz  Competition. Ivy Barley has announce the next stage of her career growth by joining Tech-giant, Microsoft as a program manager. Barley said she was “optimistic about the opportunity to make bigger impact at Microsoft, while taking” her own Organisation, Developers in Vogue “to the next level.” She added that “I’m glad to part of Microsoft, a company that’s leading technological advancement globally. I’m even more proud to be associate...

Today in History, exactly 63 years ago, on 6 th  March 1957. Ghana gained independence from their colonial masters. Happy Independence Day to Ghana. The day is particularly important not only for Ghana but for the whole continent. On 6 th   March 1957, Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country to gain independence, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, ending decades of white colonial rule. Brief History Before the arrival of Europeans, Ghana was the location of the Ashanti, a powerful tribe in the region. The area had an abundance of natural resources, including gold and ivory, which attracted the attention of colonists. While the Portuguese had been the first to establish a settlement in the region, the attractiveness of the local riches led to a struggle for control between many European nations. In 1874, Britain took control over parts of the country, naming them the British Gold Coast. Weakened by the efforts of World War II, Britain had begun the p...

Hannah Kudjoe, Ghana’s leading woman nationalist in the struggle for independence from British colonial rule in the 1940s and 1950s. Life & Background She was born in Busua, in the Western Region of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in December 1918, Hannah Kudjoe was the youngest of 10 children. After finishing school, she became a popular dressmaker in Tarkwa, where she married J. C. Kudjoe. He was a manager of a gold mine near Tarkwa. The marriage did not last, and she began living with her brother, E. K. Dadson, a prominent United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) activist. It was while living with her brother that she met Kwame Nkrumah, shortly after he returned in 1947 from a decade of studying abroad in the United States and Britain in order to take up the position of general secretary of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC). Dadson was a strong UGCC activist and when Nkrumah came to Tarkwa, he lodged at the Dadson house. She started supporting the United Gold Coast...

When news of the coup reached him, Nkrumah was in Peking (today’s Beijing) en route to the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, with plans to end the American war in Vietnam. Leaders of four African countries sent Nkrumah immediate messages of support and invitations. They were the presidents of Egypt (Gamal Abdel Nasser), Mali (Modibo Keita), Guinea (Sekou Toure), and Tanzania (Julius Nyerere). Nkrumah decided to accept Sekou Toure’s invitation. The government of Guinea shared Nkrumah’s Pan-African objectives, encompassing the liberation of the African people from all forms of social injustice and economic exploitation. There also existed a strong brotherly bond between Nkrumah and Sekou Toure. In addition, Guinea was closest to Ghana, to where Nkrumah was determined to return to carry on his work. Sekou Toure came to the rescue of Kwame Nkrumah, the deposed of Ghana and invited him to Guinea where he arrived on March 2, 1966, together with his bodyguards and a few civil servants w...

Ghanaian striker Jordan Ayew scored the crucial winner for Crystal Palace against Brighton on Saturday as they put some more distance between them and the Premier League’s relegation zone. Palace had been on the back foot for much of the match and were lucky not to be behind at several points in the game, mainly due to poor finishing from Brighton striker, Maupay. Playing on the right of a front three with Wilfried Zaha and Christian Benteke, Jordan had very few chances to trouble the Brighton defence. On a rare foray forward in the 70th minute, Christian Benteke, who had himself been guilty of missing Palace’s limited chances, found a lovely reverse pass to Jordan Ayew. The Black Stars striker still had a lot to do but managed to finish past Brighton keeper, Matt Ryan from the angle, although the goalie probably should have kept it out. Despite Zaha and Cenk Tosun failing to extend their lead with a late counter, Crystal Palace held on for the three points to go 1...