President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated the importance of education to the development of the country with a call on parents and guardians to make education of their wards a priority. He noted government was committed in developing the human resource base of the country through provision of educational infrastructure and the construction of Community ...

President John Mahama has reiterated his government’s resolve not to disappoint residents of the Volta Region. Opposition parties  and some residents have argued that though the region is considered the stronghold of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), the government has deprived the region of development projects. Speaking at Kpando as part of his campaign ...

When Apple‘s Project Titan first made its way to the news cycle, folks couldn’t help but imagine the tech giant dipping its toes into auto manufacturing. Now, according to some insider sources, those plans are being scaled back a bit. Project Titan has lost hundreds of team members in recent months, and the project itself ...

UK spy agencies broke privacy rules by collecting large amounts of UK citizens’ data without adequate oversight, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled. Complaints about data collection by GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 were put forward by campaign group Privacy International. The ruling said some data collection did not comply with the European Convention on ...

The Lebanese Community in Ghana has set up a new scholarship scheme that supports 15 students who are beginning their professional course at the Ghana School of Law. The community is also supporting four others who are undertaking the Masters’ Programme at the Ghana Institute of Journalism. This is in addition to a scheme that ...

Aggrieved youth of the La Traditional Area have accused the John Mahama-led government of neglecting Ga-Dangme people and allowing the Ghana Armed forces to illegally acquire their lands. Addressing a press conference in Accra today [Monday], a group calling itself the Coalition of La Youth Association alleged that the Ghana Armed Forces has arbitrary destroyed farmlands without ...

Aggrieved youth of the La Traditional Area have accused the John Mahama-led government of neglecting Ga-Dangme people and allowing the Ghana Armed forces to illegally acquire their lands. Addressing a press conference in Accra today [Monday], a group calling itself the Coalition of La Youth Association alleged that the Ghana Armed Forces has arbitrary destroyed farmlands without ...

Customers of DKM Microfinance have expressed mixed reactions over the payments of their locked up cash by the Official Liquidator. Payments for the first batch of validated creditors commenced this morning at the eight selected branches of GCB Bank. Citi Business News understands that at least 4000 customers will be paid each day starting from ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has launched an online petition to collect one million signatures from Ghanaians to compel the Electoral Commission to reinstate the party’s Flagbearer, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom as one of the presidential candidates in the 2016 elections. The PPP Flagbearer was disqualified by the Electoral Commission last week after it noted that ...

The Ministry of Education is blaming the Heads of some institutions in the three Northern regions for the delay in the payment of  feeding grants for the schools.  The Ministry argues that the failure of the Heads to submit the relevant data to the ministry for the payment of the grants is to blame for the ...

An independent candidate contesting the Wa West parliamentary seat, Patrick Farouk Bandanaa has charged the electorates in the area to vote against parliamentary aspirants who campaign on tribal lines in the run up to the December general elections. According to him tribal politics do not only divide the people but also serves as a means ...

The Ghana Football Association is yet to be formally notified about the Sports Ministry’s plan to franchise rights to Black Stars games. The Sports Ministry last week opened up to the public about these plans in an aim to provide extra funding for the Black Stars, reduce the pressure on government and maximize the brand. ...

Accra Academy Senior High School emerged winners of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) market quiz competition for Senior High Schools. Legon Presbyterian Senior High School came second, St Thomas Aquinas was third and Ngleshi Amanfro Senior High School taking the fourth position. Students from the winning school would have GH¢1000 each deposited into an ...

The Emir of Dubai has flown £300,000 of emergency supplies toHaiti on his private jet. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum sent 90 tonnes of emergency supplies in his Boeing 747 to the Caribbean island in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Around 300,000 Haitians have been forced by the tropical storm to live in temporary shelters after an ...

President John Mahama says he is happy that his government has not overspent its 2016 budget in spite of pressures from various sectors to spend  more on projects not budgeted for. According to him, government remains firm in its resolve not to spend beyond what it budgeted for the year. The President noted that Ghana ...

The National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate for Navrongo Central, Mark Owen Woyongo is hopeful he would be retained as a representative of the people in Parliament in the upcoming general elections. According to him, the area has seen massive development under the NDC government hence another term in office would be in the right direction. ...

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary candidate for the Yagaba-Kubori constituency in the Northern Region, Alhaji Abdul Rauf Tanko has called for ceasefire on tribal politics. As the campaign intensify, he said it is the responsibility of all politicians to abstain from tribal politics which he noted could plunge the nation into chaos. “I ...

The embattled National Democratic Congress(NDC) Parliamentary aspirant for Ketu South who went independent following his disqualification from the party’s primary launched his campaign over the weekend with a reaffirmation of his allegiance to the NDC. Mr. Jim Yao Morti was disqualified and suspended from the NDC on various grounds of purported criminality and inconsistency in ...

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, running mate of the New Patriotic Party has asked residents in the Northern parts of the country to vote against President John Mahama in the December 7 polls. This he said is because President Mahama and the National Democratic Congress government do not love the people in those regions but only care ...

The governing National Democratic Congress’ (NDC)  constituency chairman in the Ekumfi in the Central Region, Ekow Esirifie-Buckman has defected to the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to him, the incumbent MP and the party’s Parliamentary candidate for the area,  Abeiku Crentsil and the regional executives of the party rejected him for refusing to support ...