Statistics from the Ghana health service show a significant rise in the figures for teenage pregnancy every year. In 2013, the Ghana health service reported an alarming figure of seven hundred and fifty thousand pregnancy cases of girls between ages fifteen (15) and nineteen (19). The Central Region from 1993 remained the region with the ...
Google’s self-driving cars are programmed to exceed speed limits by up to 10mph (16km/h), according to the project’s lead software engineer. Dmitri Dolgov told Reuters that when surrounding vehicles were breaking the speed limit, going more slowly could actually present a danger, and the Google car would accelerate to keep up. Google’s driverless prototypes have been ...
Seventeen suspected Ebola patients who went missing in Liberia after a health centre in the capital was attacked have been found, a minister has said. “They were traced and finally they turned themselves in” at a treatment centre, Lewis Brown told the BBC. The government had previously denied they were missing. New UN figures show ...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday it had acquired U.S. air conditioner distributor Quietside LLC as part of its push to strengthen its “smart home” business. It is the South Korean firm’s second such acquisition within a week after it said on Friday it had purchased SmartThings, a U.S.-based platform developer which builds apps ...
Discussions on an economic programme that will be supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to bail the country out of its current economic challenges are to be held this week. A team from the IMF is expected to meet the government at the Peduase Lodge, where formal discussions are expected to open on the ...
The number of cholera cases reported in the Greater Accra Region has increased from 3,600 to 5,000 with 45 deaths since July this year, the Greater Accra Regional Health Director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Linda Van Otoo has said. Out of the number, the Accra metropolis alone recorded about 2,500 cases with about ...
Popular Ghanaian rapper and 2014 MTV base awards winner, Sarkodie has taken a swipe at President John Dramani Mahama over the state of the economy the in his latest song. In the song entitled Inflation, the multi award winner lamented the erratic power supply in the country, the continuous depreciation of the Ghanaian Cedi, and ...
A 40-year-old driver who allegedly fathered a child with his biological daughter has found himself in the grip of the Adentan Police. The man, identified as Edem Fedieley, was arrested after his 17-year-old junior high school (JHS) dropout daughter told the police about the sexual abuse and assault she had suffered from his father since ...
The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the various polytechnics have expressed their displeasure over the failure of government and the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) to re-open the schools after nearly three months of negotiations. POTAG, in May, embarked on a strike, due to what it describes as government’s failure to pay them their ...
Peri-Urban small holder farmers in the Northern Region are disgusted about government’s removal of fertilizer subsidy. In 2008, the government of Ghana instituted a country-wide subsidy on 50Kg bags of four types of fertilizer in an effort to mitigate the effect of rising energy and food prices. Farmers received the subsidy in the form of ...
Ghana’s 17-year old weightlifter Juliana Arkoh has allegedly threatened to commit suicide at the Youth Olympics currently ongoing in Nanjing if her per diem is not paid. The threat,confirmed by Ghana’s chef de mission for the Games, Mr.Arko-Dadzie, was made to officials of the Local Organising Committee of the Games in the Chinese city and ...
All tertiary institutions in the country will establish Ebola screening and isolation centres on their various campuses to curb a possible outbreak of the disease in the country. The decision was taken at a meeting between the Chief of Staff at the Presidency, Prosper Bani and heads of all tertiary institutions in the country. Government ...
Opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) executives in the Tamale Central constituency have commended the Electoral Commission (EC) for the smooth conduct of the limited voter registration exercise. The consistency Secretary, Musah Mutawakil praised the EC in a Citi News interview at a get together organized in Tamale. The occasion was meant to show appreciation for the vigilance ...
A 19-year-old student is in the custody of the Teshie District police in Accra for allegedly stealing from churches in the vicinity. The suspect, Isaac Oppong Asante, is said to have stolen ladies’ bags, laptops and other valuables from congregants of the Light House Chapel International, International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) (Hosanna Temple) and the ...
Scottish champions Celtic have agreed terms over a deal to sign Ghanaian midfielder Mubarak Wakaso on a season-long loan from Rubin Kazan. The 24-year-old will have a medical in Russian capital, Moscow, with Celtic desperate to register him before the Champions League playoff  deadline at 22:00 GMT on Tuesday night. The player joined the Russian ...
Ghana has taken two important steps in the past 3 weeks which are seen as pivotal to the country’s quest to improve her economic fortunes. In this article, Bernard Avle; Host of the Citi Breakfast Show argues that these two important moves; engaging in an IMF program and signing the 2nd MCA Compact worth $498 ...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the provisional results of candidates who wrote the May/June 2014 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Out of the 242,162 candidates who wrote the examination, 68,062 of them, representing 28.11 percent, made grades A1 to C6 in at least six subjects, including English Language and Core ...
Two people were shot dead while two others were injured in a conflict that hit Pathelemie,a surburb of Bawku in the Upper East region on Thursday. Narrating the incident to Citi News, the Divisional Police Commander of Bawku, Chief Superintendent Tefutor Kaletsi said at around 8pm on Monday night, two people went to the town, ...
To try to control the Ebola epidemic spreading through West Africa, Liberia has quarantined remote villages at the epicenter of the virus, evoking the “plague villages” of medieval Europe that were shut off from the outside world. With few food and medical supplies getting in, many abandoned villagers face a stark choice: stay where they ...
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