The cedi over these past weeks has experienced some level of stability and in some cases, slight appreciation against some of the major foreign currencies. Last week, the cedi was stable against the dollar for most part of that week. On Tuesday, on the interbank foreign exchange market, the cedi was at GHC 3.19peswes while ...

About 50 MPs have stormed out of Nigeria’s lower house of parliament after a motion to discuss an alleged South African arms deal was blocked. Last week it was reported that government agents took $9.3m (£5.7m) in cash to South Africa to buy weapons. The deputy speaker of the House of Representative said that, as ...

New figures suggest 70% of those infected with Ebola in West Africa have died, higher than previously reported, says the World Health Organization. Ebola infections will treble to 20,000 by November if efforts to tackle the outbreak are not stepped up, the UN agency has warned. In the worst case scenario, cases in two nations ...

Nigeria’s military has retracted its statement that some of the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok town in April by Islamist militants had been freed. Army spokesman Brig Gen Chris Olukolade told the BBC there were girls in military custody, but not those from Chibok as originally thought. More than 200 girls were seized by Boko Haram ...

A private legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong has disagreed with calls for the immediate prosecution of some witnesses who have appeared before the Presidential World Cup Commission of inquiry. The president of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe on the Citi FM’s news analysis programme, The Big Issue over the weekend suggested that the Commission’s ongoing investigations must be ...

Philips AVENT is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Born in 1984 with the introduction of the first anti-colic feeding bottle that set the standard for feeding bottles worldwide, Philips AVENT has been there for each and every precious first, supporting moms and babies from pregnancy to playground. Whether you are expecting your first baby or ...

President John Mahama has revealed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout process expected to elevate Ghana from its economic woes will begin in January 2015. According to the President, the IMF and the World Bank would collaborate to ensure a sustainable growth path for Ghana’s economy. Ghana’s economy has faced numerous challenges recently, amidst rising inflation, ...

The Managing Director of Graphic Communications Group, Kenneth Ashigbey is urging journalists in Ghana to boycott a planned press conference to be addressed by the family of Black Stars Captain, Asamoah Gyan. The press briefing which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday is expected to address questions on the disappearance of Hiplife artiste, Theophilus Tagoe, ...

The Attorney General, Marietta Appiah Brew Oppong has downplayed reports of rising tension between Ghana and Ivory Coast after filing a lawsuit against Ivory Coast. Ghana has initiated arbitration proceedings under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), seeking a declaration that it has not encroached on that country’s territorial waters in ...

The Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is demanding that the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) complies fully with its load shedding time table to allow for programmed production. Industries in the last two weeks have expressed concerns with the rise in production cost following the current power crisis. According to the Chamber it ...

A move to officially impeach the Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice Lauretta Lamptey has been initiated by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsawam/ Adoagyiri constituency. The MP, Frank Annoh-Dompreh has petitioned President John Mahama  over Ms. Lamptey’s decision to spend about $180,000 on rent alone with a space of ...

Freedom is a good thing. Most of us would agree to that. And having a wide variety of options to choose from is ideal, right? Not always. Too many choices or options can actually cause inactivity or paralysis. You may have experienced this phenomenon when trying to decide what to order at a deli that ...

Newmont Ghana’s Ahafo Mine has emerged winner of this year’s Zone I Mine Safety and first Aid competition. The annual competition, organized under the auspices of the Ghana Chamber of Mines and the Inspectorate Division of the Minerals Commission, was hosted by Ghana Bauxite Company Ltd in Awaso under the theme: If it’s not safe, ...

While doing a news segment on the Alaska Cannabis Club, a medical marijuana organization in Alaska, reporter Charlo Greene made a grand exit from her position at CBS affiliate KTVA in Alaska (caution: the video is NSFW). Greene revealed that she actually owns the marijuana club she was reporting on, and then quit her TV gig with ...

An Accra Fast Track High Court has adjourned an application seeking an interlocutory injunction on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) congress on October 18. The Congress will give the party an opportunity to elect its flagbearer to lead the party in the 2016  general elections but two members of the party; Rexford Agyei Frimpong and ...

The office of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flag bearer aspirant, Alan Kyeremanteng has said his supporters who have recently defected to his opponent, Nana Akufo Addo are doing so under the influence of money. Some known supporters of Alan Kyeremanteng have recently declared their support for the 2012 flag bearer, Nana Akufo Addo over ...

The Minister of Energy, Emmanuel Kofi Buah has told Citi News he is unable to make specific pronouncement on when the current load shedding exercise will end. This is despite government’s earlier claim that the labour unrest in Nigeria, which affected gas supply to Ghana had worsen the power crisis in Ghana. Gas supply to ...

Recall that the Psquare brothers had a misunderstanding few months back which broke out to the hearing of the public and caused lots of controversies between them. While some were blaming it on Peter’s wife, Lola Okoye, some were blaming it on other deep issues. Well, the music duo have come out to clear the ...

Liberia is to become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid. Norway will pay the impoverished west African country 150 million dollars to stop deforestation by 2020. There have been fears that the ebola crisis would see increased logging in a country desperate for cash. ...

A student convinced her family and friends she was on a five-week trip around South East Asia – but, in reality, she had never left her bedroom. After waving goodbye to her family at the airport, Zilla Van Den Born, 25, went to extraordinary lengths to fool her friends into thinking she was travelling through ...