A former Head of Communications for the Ministry of Petroleum, Edward Bawa, has rejected accusations that the erstwhile government paid $150 million extra in the AMERI power plant deal. According to him, the payment was a sound investment decision by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government in a bid to end the recurrent energy crisis ...

Some banks have given indication of cutting their interest rates to reflect the reduction in the policy rate by the Bank of Ghana. They explain that the move forms part of plans to reduce the plight of businesses and eventually correct the bad loans in their books. The Bank of Ghana (BoG), in its 75th ...

An Israeli firm, Mitrelli Group of companies, has expressed interest in completing the abandoned Maternity and Children’s block project at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. The Israeli Company led by its technical director, Gur Katz, toured the uncompleted building with the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah and the Chief Executive of KATH, Dr. Joseph Akpaloo, ...

The construction of the 116km Bolgatanga-Bawku-Pulmakom road, has commenced in the Upper East Region with about 6km of the road undergoing asphalting. The cost of the project is estimated to be over GHs600 million, stretching through six constituencies. When completed, the road will address the difficulties drivers go through when plying the Bolga-Bawku road. It ...

There have been 1001 calls on successive governments taking steps to address the issue of dividing and conquering the dangers of concentrating power in one arm of the government. These calls have come from opposition parties to ruling governments through to civil societies and in recent times the enlightened citizens. In the early years of ...

The Public Relations Officer of Kwame Nkrumah university of Science and Technology (KNUST), has debunked reports that the school has dismissed some students for their role in a clash at the University of Cape Coast two weeks ago. Three students were left in critical condition in the bloody attack that resulted in several properties at the Oguaa Hall ...

The Citi Breakfast Show on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 focused on the galamsey menace.

The Head of the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Ghana, Dr. Lloyd Amoah, is impressing on the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu, not to succumb to the subtle diplomatic pressure from China, in the fight against illegal mining. The Chinese Ambassador and the Mayor of the Guangxi Zhuang Province, ...

President Akufo-Addo has appointed DOP Patrick Darko Missah as the Acting Director-General of the Ghana Prisons Service. Mr. Darko Missah, before his appointment, was the deputy director general of the Prisons service in charge of Finance and Administration. His appointment takes immediate effect. A release from the Ministry of the Interior on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has been summoned to the Flagstaff House to explain circumstances under which a pro-NPP vigilante group, “Delta Force” hounded the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator out of his office. Citi News’ sources at the Flagstaff House say the ...

Ghanaian peacekeeping troops (GHANBATT) serving under the UN Mission in South Sudan, are providing desperately needed medical services to the local population in Leer County in Southern Unity state. Health facilities in the region have been subjected to looting during the on-going conflict.  In addition, several local health partners were evacuated, leaving the county without ...

Former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is expected to meet President Akufo Addo this afternoon to discuss global issues. The former UK Premier is in Ghana on the invitation of the Institute of Economic Affairs, IEA, where he will deliver a lecture on democracy. He will have lunch with the President and speak to the ...

Ride-hailing group Uber Technologies [UBER.UL] will withdraw services in Denmark next month due to a taxi law that sets out new requirements for drivers such as mandatory fare meters, the company said on Tuesday. Uber has faced headwinds since its app went online in Denmark in 2014 as local taxi driver unions, companies and politicians ...

Dear Otiko! It was shocking to read portions of the speech you gave to the impressionable girls at the Krobo Girls Secondary School over the weekend. You took my breathe away when I saw you on TV saying girls are responsible for their rape if they wear short clothes with a big smile: “In conclusion, ...

Dear Otiko! It was shocking to read portions of the speech you gave to the impressionable girls at the Krobo Girls Secondary School over the weekend. You took my breathe away when I saw you on TV saying girls are responsible for their rape if they wear short clothes with a big smile: “In conclusion, ...

Volunteers for International Medical Aid (VIMA), a California-based International humanitarian organization, has donated sets of medical suppliers to the Amedzofe Clinic in the Ho West District of the Volta Region. The donation forms part of the organization’s mission of assisting to improve the quality of healthcare services in rural Ghana. The Amedzofe town is noted ...

The Greater Accra branch of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) last Friday presented some relief items to Odorgonno Senior High School after fire gutted one of the boys dormitories destroying several belongings of the students. The items include mattresses, plastic plates and cups, buckets, blankets and mosquito nets. Speaking to Citi News, the Greater ...

Telecommunication giant, Vodafone Ghana and HFC bank have separately donated cash sums to Citi FM’s Easter Orphan Project. Whereas Vodafone supported the project with GHc1, 500, HFC bank gave GHc1, 000. Citi FM has on a daily basis been receiving donations in the form of cash amounts, confectionaries, biscuits, drinks, canned products and other assorted ...

Telecommunication giant, Vodafone Ghana and HFC bank have separately donated cash sums to Citi FM’s Easter Orphan Project. Whereas Vodafone supported the project with GHc1, 500, HFC bank gave GHc1, 000. Citi FM has on a daily basis been receiving donations in the form of cash amounts, confectionaries, biscuits, drinks, canned products and other assorted ...