The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has faulted the Ministry of Health for the sale of 25 state vehicles, and over 140 motor cycles in 2014 in a manner that breaches the Financial Administration Regulations. Earlier, the Director General of the Service, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare raised concerns over some of the conclusions in the 2015 ...
There is uneasy calm in the South Dayi District of the Volta Region following the nomination of Ella Boateng as District Chief Executive for the area. The party members who are rejecting the President’s nominee say they suspect due process was not followed in her appointment since she is not loyal to the party. According ...
Officials of the Ghana Health Service on Thursday argued in favor of giving their staff the first option in the auctioning of their state vehicles. During the sitting of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament on Thursday, the officials initially disputed the findings of the Auditor General with regards to the auctioning of nine state ...
The 2016 New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bolgatanga Parliamentary aspirant, Rex Asanga who was hoping to be nominated for the position of Municipal Chief Executive for Bolgatanga has called on party members to support the president’s nominee, Joseph Amiyure to succeed. Mr. Rex Asanga in a press statement issued and copied citifmonline.com on Thursday, said he was ...
The Ashanti Regional Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Yaw Brogya Genfi, has petitioned the Commission of Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate the $ 2.25 billion bond issued by government. This petition follows concerns by the Minority over what they term as “conflict of interest” in the deal, which the Government has vehemently denied. ...
Chinese drone maker DJI is offering up to one million yuan (£112,000) for information about drones that disrupted scores of flights at a Chinese airport. On four days this month – 14, 17, 18 and 21 – drones were blamed for stranding thousands of passengers at Chengdu Shuangliu International. Chinese reports said they caused 60 ...
Beyoncé is offering four US college scholarships to mark the one year anniversary of ‘Lemonade’. The ‘Run The World (Girls)’ hitmaker has launched Formation Scholars, which will award scholarships to female students to “encourage and support [those] who are unafraid to think outside the box”. A statement posted on her website reads: “To add to ...
The Bank of Ghana has clarified that the US$41.05 million proceeds of bauxite had already been accounted for in the Auditor General’s 2015 Statements of Foreign Exchange Receipts and Payments report. Documents cited by Citi Business News indicate that financial proceeds of the mineral were accounted for but in a separate column as the means ...
A bug in Microsoft Word was exploited by hackers for months before it was eventually fixed, according to security researchers. The flaw allowed attackers to take control of a computer via malicious document files. The zero-day, or previously undetected, vulnerability was patched earlier this month. However, it has since emerged that Microsoft was told about ...
Liverpool have unveiled their new kit for next season when they will celebrate their 125th anniversary. Four Liverpool supporters, each with their own unique story, were surprised by a visit from one of their heroes and were the first to receive the new home kit. The kit pays homage to the Reds’ 125th anniversary, revealing ...
One of Ghana’s athletes hoping to make it to the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London, Emmanuel Dasor, says that the government should make funds available for him and his colleagues so they can prepare well for the Championships and other international events. Dasor is in the United States on scholarship at the Western Kentucky ...
The newly appointed Managing Director of the State Transport Company, (STC), Nana Akomea, has revealed that he personally convinced President Akufo-Addo to give him the position in January this year, after the party won the December polls. According to him, he did so with the idea of helping to make the transport company profitable. Responding ...
The Ministry of Roads and Highways says another underground tunnel which connects East Legon to Spintex in Accra, will be constructed and completed in six months. This is expected to ease the torturous journey motorists on that route endure. Addressing the press on Wednesday after touring some roads in Accra, Minster for Roads and Highways, ...
Owners of the land hosting the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ho in the Volta Region, have issued a ten-day ultimatum to the government to pay them their compensation or face their wrath. The landowners claim that, the current administration has failed to pay them even though the previous National Democratic Congress ...
A daughter of the former Member of Parliament for the Asunafo South Constituency who has been banned from entering the UK over alleged visa fraud, has said she should be blamed for her father’s woes. According to her, she deliberately cut contact ties with her father after she told him she was leaving the house ...
The American Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Robert Jackson, has revealed that his country intends to invest considerable resources in the agriculture and health sectors in Ghana. He made the declaration during a working visit to the Brong Ahafo Region on Tuesday. The US Ambassador was hosted by the Regional Minister, Mr. Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh. “About 38 ...
The Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, has called for permanent ceasefire of the hostilities that has characterized the nomination of some Municipal and District Chief Executives for some 25 district assemblies in the region. Some angry youth of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) following the release of some MMDCEs, went on rampage and destroyed ...
Sub- Saharan countries facing threats of famine in the near future could heave a sigh of relief as the World Bank commits 1.6 billion dollars to avert the crisis. This comes on the back of a record 57 billion dollars from the World Bank to support key developmental projects in Sub-Saharan Africa over the next ...
“Cheat” Maria Sharapova should not have been allowed to play again, says 2014 Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard. Russian Sharapova beat Roberta Vinci on Wednesday at the Stuttgart Open on her return from a 15-month doping ban. In October, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Sharapova was not an “intentional doper”. However, Canadian Bouchard said: ...
The former Member of Parliament for Asunafo South Constituency, George Boakye, has said that his 37-year-old daughter tricked him into taking her to London under the pretext of going to see her uncle, but disappeared on their arrival in the UK. According to him, although he knew he was being irresponsible by not reporting his ...
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