All four parliamentary candidates in the Klottey Korle  Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, have taken a selfie together in a rare show of unity between their respective parties in the area. They put up broad smiles as they posed for the camera after a warm interaction earlier this week. The four will be facing each ...

The Electoral Commission (EC), has asked the Independent Parliamentary aspirant in the Lawra constituency, Samson Abu, to change the colours he has been using on is campaign, because they are too similar to that of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Samson Abu, the incumbent MP for the area on the ticket of the NDC, left the ...

The Government, through the Ministry of Petroleum, has so far distributed over 60,000 free gas cylinders and cooking stoves to households across the country, since 2013. Mr. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, the Minister of Petroleum, who announced this in Sekondi, on Wednesday, said the distribution was done under the Rural Liquefied Petroleum Gas Distribution (LPG) Programme. ...

Chief Physiotherapist at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH), Albert Kofi Acquah, has expressed concern over the increasing cases of Cerebral Palsy (CP) disease reported at the facility. He said the Hospital which hitherto recorded maximum of 15 cases of CP in a month, is currently recording as high as 60 cases referred from health facilities ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), has accused the Electoral Commission of bias for allowing the presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akuffo-Addo, they alleged committed the offense of perjury, hence should also not be on the ballot for the December 7 general elections. According to the PPP, Nana Addo perpetuated criminality when ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Eastern Region has appealed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to probe the Suhum Municipal Command following its handling some violent attacks in the Suhum constituency. According to the NPP, the IGP’s assistance is being sought because of what they deem as the unfair treatment meted out to them by ...

Assistant coach of Ghana’s Black Stars, Maxwell Konadu, has stated that the state of the Ghana Premier League is deeply eroded by the mass exit of players. Konadu, who started the remarkable story of  Ghana’s current Premiere League Champions, Wa All Stars, is regarded as one of the best football brains in Ghana. The former Ghana ...

The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the December 7 general election, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has left Ghana for a 4-day private trip to Germany and the United Kingdom. Nana Akufo-Addo left Accra Thursday night October 13, and he is expected to return to Ghana on October 18, to commence a ...

Customers of DKM Microfinance Company are still dissatisfied with the second list of validated creditors published by the Official Liquidator of the company, the Registrar General’s Department. The Registrar General’s Department this week published names of some 6,035 validated creditors in addition to the 998 names published earlier. Over 70,000 customers of DKM are awaiting ...

The Vice Presidential nominee of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Nana Gabby Nketiah has arrived in the Volta Region to canvass support from electorates for the paty ahead of the general elections. The Director of Communication for CPP, Issifu Kadiri Abdul Rauf told Citi News the party is stepping up its campaign across the country ...

The two-line Dangote Fertilizer Complex, consisting of Amonia and Urea plants, will have a total production capacity of three million tons per annum to feed countries in the West African sub-region. By: Lawrence Segbefia/citibusinessnews.com/Ghana

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s running mate, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia claims President John Dramani Mahama is clueless in economic management for which reason he doesn’t deserve a second term. “The Mahama-led NDC administration has mortgaged Ghana’s economy and so another four years for Mahama will collapse the nation,” he opined. He thus challenged ...

The Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dr. Charles Asembri, has stressed the need for education and economic improvement, to attract businesses unto the Ghana Alternative Market, GAX. According to him, the objectives to help Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) increase their capital and expand, could largely be achieved if such fundamentals ...

Eighty-year-old Sas George is an avid investor and serial shareholder in Ghana. His debut in holding equities in firms was on October 7, 1971. This was 18 years before the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) was established to facilitate the issuance and trading in shares, bonds and other securities in the country. On that fateful day, ...

A policy think tank, Ghana Growth and Development Platform (GGDP), has advocated for the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) across the country. The Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), earlier in its recommendations, proposed that Metropolitan Chief Executives should be popularly contested. However, according to the Interim Chairman of GGDP, Kwamena Esilfie Adjaye, ...

The Government has laid before Parliament a Legislative Instrument (LI) aimed at regulating activities of tobacco use in Ghana. The Instrument, would among others, allow for the full implementation of Chapter Six of the Public Health Act (Act 851), which deals with tobacco use in the country. The Chapter provides for the control of tobacco ...

President John Mahama has urged Ghanaians to disregard what he described as the opposition New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) fear-mongering about the state of the economy. The NPP has on several political platforms declared that Ghana is in a state of crisis under the John Mahama-led administration therefore the need to vote for change. But addressing ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has referred the individuals who committed various electoral offences, as part of the endorsement of presidential nominee forms, to the Ghana Police Service for investigations and possible prosecution. These offenses included cases of multiple registrations, forgery of signatures, and multiple endorsements of presidential nominees. This comes on the back of the ...

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu has warned that administration of public universities in Ghana will grind to a halt if government fails to permit universities to employ more lecturers. He said most universities still grapple with high student-to-teacher ratio which keeps increasing every year. He expressed worry government’s ...