12/05/2020
🇬🇭🖱 *THE JOURNAL*🖱🇬🇭
*Tuesday, 12 May 2020 | General News*
📖 *Soul Food*
```"Your words can become your reality therefore say positive things."```
_Proverbs 18:20-21_
_Psalm 63:5_
✍ *Wisdom Quote*✍🏾
```"The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire."```
_Swami Vivekananda_
📔 *Let's Communicate*📔
*Frequently Used Words in 2020*
*_Mutate_*
[make something develop a new form or structure, because of a genetic change]
```All viruses mutate and the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is no exception.```
🚩 *Tidbits*
▫Claim of Covid-19 infection peak in Ghana is a myth – KCCR Virologist
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▫We’ll compile new register; Nobody can control us – EC
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▫We’ll resist compilation of new register amid COVID-19 – Haruna Iddrisu
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▫No whistleblowing policy in 59% of companies in Ghana – KPMG Report
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▫Armed security officers face-off with angry Obuasi residents who blocked access to isolation centre
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🌏 *International*
🔹WHO has 7-8 'top' coronavirus vaccine candidates: Live updates
bit.ly/aljazeera0247
🔹Coronavirus vaccine may ‘never’ arrive and restrictions may have to remain for long haul, Boris Johnson admits
bit.ly/independent0464
🔹Trump abruptly ends press conference after contentious exchange with reporters
bit.ly/cnn00484
🔹China hits back at so-called coronavirus 'lies' by US politicians as war of words escalates
bit.ly/cnn00485
🔹Mexico's president orders military on streets for four more years
bit.ly/aljazeera0248
🔹Bitcoin goes through third 'halving', falls vs U.S. dollar
bit.ly/reuters0270
🔹Musk defies orders and reopens California plant
www.bbc.com/news/technology-52627744
🔹Nigeria’s Dollar Shortage Pushes Manufacturers to the Brink
bit.ly/bloomberg0443
⚽ *Sport*
🔸Transfer rumours: Ozil, Ceballos, Todibo, Gomes, Vinicius, Mahrez
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🔸Premier League teams face £340m repayment to TV companies
www.bbc.com/sport/football/52579299
🔸La Liga president Tebas hopes for 12 June restart
www.bbc.com/sport/football/52617493
🔸PL: All clubs want home and away matches
bit.ly/skysports0079
🔸CK Akonnor ready to work with 'prodigal son' Kevin-Prince Boateng
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📉 *Treasury & the Markets*
*_Current Monetary Policy Rate_* - ```14.5%```
*_Inflation Target_* - ```8.00% ± 2%```
*_Current Inflation Rate_* - ```7.8%```
*_91-Days Treasury Bill Rate_* - ```13.5500%```
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💰 *Interbank Rates*
US Dollar *5.6049*
Pound Sterling *6.9187*
Swiss Franc *5.7620*
Canadian Dollar *4.001*
Japanese yen *0.0521*
South African Rand *0.3051*
Euro *6.0587*
Yuan Renminbi *0.7902*
Naira *64.3187*
Ecowas *0.0543*
bit.ly/bog0002
⛔```These figures may be much higher at a forex bureau near you.```
🛢 *Commodities*
*_WTI Crude Oil_* - ```$24.41```
*_Brent Crude Oil_* - ```$29.73```
*_Natural Gas_* - ```$1.82```
*_Gasoline_* - ```$0.92```
*_Heating Oil_* - ```$0.87```
*_Gold_* - ```$1695.30```
*_Silver_* - ```$15.64```
*_Copper_* - ```$2.38```
📰📰 *Today's Front Pages*
📃 *Daily GRAPHIC*
○●VETTING SUPREME COURT NOMINEES: COMMITTEE REFERS HONYENUGA TO PLENARY, APPROVES AMADU
○●FAITH-BASED ORGANISATIONS LAUD GOVERNMENT FOR EXTENDING BAN ON PUBLIC GATHERINGS
○●THE MIRROR SURPRISES MOTHERS IN ACCRA, TEMA
📃 *Daily GUIDE*
○●WE’LL COMPILE NEW REGISTER – EC ASSURES
○●EX-NCA BOARD MEMBERS JUDGMENT TODAY
○●MAHAMA DODGES MILLS’ DEATH – ABRONYE
○●JUDGE SORRY FOR NANA COMMENT
○●AUDITOR GENERAL CONTEMPT RULING TODAY
📃 *The Daily STATESMAN*
○●YOUR CONDUCT IS TROUBLING – EC CHARGES AT MINORITY LEADER OVER FALSE CLAIM
○●SUNYANI RESIDENTS GET NOSE MASKS FOR FREE
📃 *B & F T*
○●COVID-19 IMPACT: MORE BUSINESSES ADOPT SALARY CUTS, LAY-OFFS TO SURVIVE
○●TO REVIVE IT, LOCAL CASHEW PROCESSING INDUSTRY REQUIRES SPECIAL ATTENTION
○●COVID-19: WITH NO SOURCE OF GROWTH AND NO CURE IN SIGHT, INSURANCE RECAPITALISATION REMAIN IN LIMBO
○●GHANA’S TAX MEASURES IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19
📃 *The FINDER*
○●TUC: PUMP GHS18BN INTO ECONOMY
-SUPPORTS BORROWING FROM HERITAGE FUND
-WANTS LAW ON BoG FINANCING BUDGET DEFICIT BE RELAXED
○●EC ACCUSES HARUNA IDDRISU OF PEDDLING FALSEHOOD
○●BUSINESS OF COFFIN MAKERS, HEARSE DRIVERS IN SHARP DECLINE
○●PRELIMINARY JOB LOSSES LISTED BY TUC
👉🏿 *Source*: ```myjoyonline, citinewsroom, ghanaweb, starrfm, bog, cnn, reuters, bbc, bbcsports, aljazeera, bloomberg, independent/uk, skysports, mcmillan dictionary, joyce meyer daily devotional```
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🇬🇭🖱 *THE JOURNAL*🖱🇬🇭
A virologist with the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) has said Ghana’s number of cases of the novel coronavirus cases in Ghana has not yet reached its peak.
