The Health Ministry has disclosed that local pharmaceutical company, Tobinco Pharmaceuticals has re-exported the substandard drugs and unregistered drugs was sized to the manufacturers. The pharmaceutical company last year was involved in a media war with the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) over the importation of substandard and unregistered drugs which was later seized by ...

Global mass surveillance conducted by the US and other governments is “setting fire to the future of the internet”, Edward Snowden told a packed auditorium of technology innovators via video link in Austin at the South by Southwest Interactive conference on Monday. He said: “You guys are all the firefighters, and we need you to ...

The Education Ministry has pledged its support to all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) to effectively oversee basic education in their respective areas. A Deputy Education Minister in charge of pre-tertiary Education, Alex Kyeremeh on the Citi Breakfast Show said the Ministry is “solidly behind them and we are only praying that they ...

The US state of Colorado collected $2m (£1.2m) in taxes from newly legalised recreational marijuana businesses in January. Colorado became the first US state to legalize the commercial sale of cannabis in 2012, and stores opened for business on 1 January 2014. In total, 59 marijuana firms filed tax returns on an estimated $14m in ...

Nigeria are planning to spend over $11 million for their fifth World Cup campaign this year. The General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) revealed this in his defense to the legislative house committee of the country’s parliament. “We expect that one point two billion Naira will come from government, while the football house ...

Kwesi Nyantakyi has backed the Black Stars players’ demand to be paid in dollars, but will not comment on claims that the players want a bonus increase. This comes in the wake of increasing reports that the players are asking for a 30% increment. Ghana’s economy has taken a hit in the last quarter, leading ...

Vehicles travelling from Accra to Kasoa have been asked to return to Accra due to fears of a possible explosion after a collision between a fuel tanker and a Sprinter bus. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, an eyewitness at the scene, Kwabena  Danquah said: “Four cars travelling from Accra to Kasoa had so far been ...

The police administration is embarking on a public confidence re-affirmation campaign. The campaign is aimed at reducing unprofessional practices and preventing the public from compromising the police among others. The Public Relations Officer of the Public Affairs Department of the Service, DSP Cephas Arthur in an interview with Citi News explained that the detention of ...

The Northern Regional Police Command has identified a group known as Kandaha, as being the brain behind the shooting of a 26-year-old man in Aboabo in the Tamale on Monday. The deceased, identified as Mustafa Abdul Rashid was shot on Monday leaving residents in a state of fear. A similar incident occurred last Saturday where ...

Four out of the six boats being operated by the Marine Police Unit of the Ghana Police Service have been grounded due to lack of maintenance, barely nine months after the creation of the unit. As a result, about 30 out of the 70 specially trained police officers of the unit are either idle or ...

Authorities searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have widened their search, with the west coast of Malaysia now “the focus” of the hunt. The airline said in a statement it was looking at the possibility that the plane tried to return to an airport at Subang, near the capital, Kuala Lumpur. But the statement ...

Uli Hoeness, president of European football champions Bayern Munich, has admitted in court to defrauding Germany’s tax authorities of 18m euros (£15m; $25m). Prosecutors had earlier accused him of evading a far smaller sum of 3.5m euros in taxes and are seeking a jail term. The former World Cup-winning German international footballer, 62, kept the ...

The Ghana Meteorological Agency has rendered an apology to the nation for its inability to notify Ghanaians of the rainstorm which marred the 57th Independence Celebrations in Accra ahead of time. According to a statement signed by the Director General of the Agency, Group Captain Stephen Komla (rtd), the agency apologised, especially to the President ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is under pressure from some business groupings to relax its directives meant to discourage the use of forex in the country and stabilise the weakening Cedi against the major trading currencies. Although the bank had previously clarified the directives, which it issued in the wake of a consistent depreciation of ...

Controversial afro-pop artiste Wanlov Kubolor has professed that Ghanaian politicians, in­cluding the President, are thinking about their individual benefit and not the nation. He said the NPP and the NDC, the two main political parties, are busily playing table tennis with the people of Ghana. Speaking on Radio Universe in Accra, the award winning Afro-pop mu­sician ...

Professor Azumah Nelson, a retired professional Ghanaian Boxer, was involved in an accident at Odorkor on the Kaneshie-Mallam road Saturday night. Professor Nelson, the former two-time WBC featherweight champion, according to infor­mation gathered, was severely injured and is currently on admission at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital receiving treatment. Eyewitness account indicat­ed that Professor Nelson, who ...

The policeman involved in last Saturday’s shooting incident at the Derby Avenue branch of Cal Bank has been detained. This is to enable investigations into the incident which involved the policeman and a customer of the bank. Corporal Bernard Frimpong, is said to have fired his AK 47 rifle at the banking hall repeatedly following ...

The Ashanti Regional Police Command headed by DCOP Kofi Boakye has apprehended 35 suspected criminals at separate swoops in Kumasi; a strong indication that the law enforcement agents are firmly in control of the secu­rity situation in the area. The police have also declared 20 people, believed to be notorious hoodlums terrorizing innocent people in ...