The Citi Breakfast Show on Thursday May 11, 2017 focused its attention on the Ghana Police Service . The team sought to find out whether the Police Service is still professional and effective in the discharge of its duties.

GBfoods, a leading multinational food Group headquartered in Barcelona, and Helios Investment Partners, a premier Africa-focused private investment firm, have created a joint-venture to acquire certain assets and leading brands in Africa. With this transaction, Africa becomes the key market for GBfoods, where Jumbo has been present for more than 40 years. The company will ...

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is not asleep when he closes his eyes for long periods during meetings but is resting his eyes, his spokesman says. “The president cannot suffer bright lights,” George Charamba was quoted as saying by the state-run Herald newspaper. The president is currently receiving specialised medical treatment for his eyes in Singapore. ...

Abubakar Ahmed, known in Ghanaian showbiz circles as Blakk Rasta, has disclosed to Citi Showbiz that he will soon be paying more attention to writing. Blakk Rasta told Citi Showbiz that as apart being a musician and broadcaster, he also writes plays and books. “I have written a book. I am going to be writing more. ...

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, has given traders who have taken over the Kumasi Central Market footbridge one month to vacate the place or be forced out. The GHc2.2 million 70-meter bridge was built for the safety of pedestrians and to ease congestion at the Central Business District but the purpose has largely been ...

The Ghana Police Service has said it has increased the number of patrol teams in some parts of Accra where armed robbery is rampant. According to the service, it is gradually working to address the menace of robbery in the country, especially in areas that have been identified as prone to the menace. The Director ...

The Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC) says it will soon publish details of its review of criteria and requirements for foreigners who wish to invest in the country. Currently foreign investors who wish to invest in Ghana are required to provide a capital limit of $200,000 for joint ventures with Ghanaian companies, while foreign companies ...

Three Students Unions; the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), the University Students Association of Ghana (USAG), and the Ghana Union of Professional Students (GUPS), have in three separate open letters to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, appealed to him to reconsider his decision to close down the Ghana School of ...

An Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday sentenced Mark Brown, a Real Estate Developer, to 36 months imprisonment in hard labour for defrauding by false pretence. Mark, issued a United Bank for Africa (UBA) cheque with serial number 059244 and with a face value of GHc 121,250.00 on an account in the name of Gemini Consult ...

The Millennium Development Authority, MiDA, has inaugurated a Stakeholders Committee tasked to ensure continuous stakeholder engagement during the implementation of the Compact II Programme. The Committee will in particular review at the request of the Board specific reports, proposals, agreements, and documents related to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Private Sector Participation (PSP) Activity. ...

Websites that harbour “disruptive, shocking or malicious” adverts will appear less frequently on user’s news feeds, Facebook has said. The social network is tweaking the algorithm that picks posts for feeds to do a better job of spotting “low quality” web pages. Instead, the algorithm will seek out more informative posts. It said the change ...

Five gay rights activists have been detained in Moscow as they tried to deliver a petition to the office of Russia’s prosecutor general. Police said they were held because their action was unauthorised. The activists said more than two million people had signed the petition to investigate alleged torture and detentions of gay people in ...

Critics of world football’s governing body are spreading “fake news” and taking part in “FIFA bashing”, says president Gianni Infantino. FIFA’s decision this week not to reappoint ethics chiefs Hans-Joachim Eckert and Cornel Borbely means an end to the reform process, the pair said. Infantino’s predecessor Sepp Blatter is serving a six-year ban from football ...

Christopher Opoku, the celebrated Ghanaian journalist, best known for his role in the sports fraternity, has sadly died at a London hospital. The heartbreaking news was confirmed to Citi News by his father, K. O. Opoku, who revealed that Chris’ health had deteriorated over the past four weeks. “Christopher has not been well for some ...

Naomi Hanson, a 16-year-old final year JHS student of Golden Age school Complex, has been killed in a car accident in Tarkwa. A Suzuki 4×4 vehicle allegedly rammed into the deceased and one Patricia Entsie, 17, while they stood at a junction around the Class Link Hotel in Tarkwa. The two friends, who were preparing ...

Two District Assemblies, Sene East and Tano South in the Brong Ahafo Region have failed to endorse the President’s nominees for District Chief Executive (DCEs) for their respective assemblies. The assemblies will, therefore, have to reconvene in 10 days time for another attempt to either confirm the  nominees after they failed to secure the required ...

A Ho circuit court has fined Dodzi Gidisu, driver of a pick-up truck, GHC 840 or in default serve a nine-month jail term with hard labour for causing the death of one Moses Akpabli, a motor rider. The court presided over by Madam Priscilla Dikro, ordered Gidisu to pay a compensation of GHC 1500 to ...

The discussion for an extension of maternity leave for nursing mothers is fast growing among Ghanaian workers as it appears to be gaining more momentum. Most companies in Ghana grant nursing mothers a three months’ leave while they receive salaries during the period. However, there has been increasing agitations for this to change to six ...

Supreme Court Judge, Justice Anin Yeboah has been elected chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee. Justice Yeboah was confirmed on Thursday at the FIFA Congress in Bahrain after polling 98 percent of the votes. In May last year, he was elected member of the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee. Justine Anin Yeboah has ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said the government has begun implementing policies and programmes intended to make Ghana the most business-friendly country in Africa. These include ensuring fiscal discipline, cutting the budget deficits, managing the national debt and undertaking measures to fight corruption, he said. Vice President Bawumia said this when a delegation from ...