Illegal fishing activities continue to impact Ghana’s fishing industry. The development is reported to have reached alarming proportions as the country spends millions of cedis to address its impact. But checks at some fishing centres in the country reveal that the fisher folks may not be ending the practice anytime soon. Citi Business News’ Jessica ...
The Ghana National Fire Service is yet to put out a fire that gutted a two bedroom apartment at Lowcost, a suburb of Somanya in the Eastern Region. It is unclear what triggered the fire, which has been burning for close to two hours, but a resident, Bennet Yaovi, told Citi News the fire has ...
CCTV images showing suicide bomber Salman Abedi on the night he attacked the Manchester Arena killing 22 people have been been released by police. Fourteen locations are being searched and 12 men are in custody on suspicion of terror offences. Abedi’s identity was known within two hours of Monday’s attack, police said. On Sunday, police ...
An overnight shooting in the US state of Mississippi has left eight people dead, including a local deputy sheriff, police say. The shootings took place in three separate locations in Lincoln County, south Mississippi. A male suspect, named in local media as Cory Godbolt, was detained on Sunday morning and is in police custody. Authorities ...
South Africa’s embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in South African media. The reports suggest deepening ties between President Zuma and the controversial Gupta business family. But the president’s spokesman has dismissed them as an utter fabrication. Pressure on Mr Zuma has been mounting ...
In line with the promise to make The Cake Fair 2017 another unforgettable sweet experience, Yellow October Events and VoiceAds (organizers of the event) will host two Master Classes for interested participants. The two side attractions will be on cake-making and the effective management of a cake business. The Baking Master Class, which is the ...
One woman has been confirmed dead and another severely injured after a building collapsed on them at Assin Akropong in the Assin North Municipality of the Central Region. The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon when the two were pounding fufu close to one side of the building. An eyewitness who spoke to Citi News explained ...
Vincent Sowah Odotei, a Deputy Minister of Communications has expressed government’s commitment to creating a digital literate community. He said it was, therefore, important to equip the youth with Information Communication Technology (ICT) skills and exposed them further to a digital way of life in order to become active players in the digital world. Mr ...
South Africa’s embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in the local media. The reports suggest deepening ties between President Zuma and the controversial Gupta business family. But the president’s spokesman has dismissed them as an utter fabrication. Pressure on Mr Zuma has been mounting ...
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has provided $9 million to improve the quality of Maternal, Neonatal and Child healthcare in all the districts of the Upper East Region. The five years project is aimed at reducing maternal and child mortality and morbidity by improving primary health care delivery in the region through strengthening the ...
The Ghana National Fire Service has urging the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to intensify its decongestion efforts at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange. A decongested interchange would increase the effectiveness of firefighting efforts in the event of an emergency, the service has noted. The Deputy Public Relations officer of the Fire Service, Prince Billy Anaglatey, was ...
Some Economists have ruled out any significant impact on Ghana’s economy following the declining global oil prices. The decision by Oil Producing and Export Countries (OPEC) including Russia to cut down production due to increased supplies has resulted in a drop in prices. Contrary to the expectations of many investors in the oil and gas ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has said his clenched handshake with Donald Trump was “not innocent” and was a “moment of truth”. The awkward encounter saw each grip the other’s hand so firmly that their knuckles turned white . Mr Macron told French media he had wanted to “show he would not make small concessions, not ...
Ghanaians students on government scholarship in China are once again drawing attention to the apparent neglect from the government with respect to the payment of their stipends. A statement from the students, numbering about 25, laments that they have been left stranded “as the payment of our scholarship allowances continue to be a major problem.” ...
More than a third of British Airways flights from Heathrow have been cancelled as disruption to passengers enters a second day. The airline was hit by a worldwide computer system power failure on Saturday, causing cancellations and delays for thousands of passengers. Sunday departures from Gatwick are delayed, but none have been cancelled. The airline ...
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) coalition of polling station executives in the Northern Region has petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo over their unemployment situation. According to the coalition, the Tamale Central, Tamale North, Tamale South and Sagnarigu constituency executives have so far been sidelined in the Akufo-Addo government. The coalition posited that some constituency executives who ...
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) coalition of polling station executives in the northern region has petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo over unemployment. According to the coalition, the Tamale Central, Tamale North, Tamale South and Sagnarigu constituency executives have so far been sidelined in the Akufo-Addo government. The coalition posited that some constituency executives who applied for ...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG)’s medium term inflation target could be attained should government tackle challenges facing the supply of critical services in the country. This is the position of Economist, Adu Owusu Sarkodie. “If the supply side of inflation is addressed together with the demand side which mainly borders on money supply, then I ...
President Akufo-Addo has indicated that an amount of 46 million cedis has been allocated to the Sports Ministry for the development of sports in the country. The President who flew from Liberia to Accra for the SWAG awards on Saturday night said the amount is a hundred percent increment from the 2016 budget. President Akufo-Addo ...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has indicated that an amount of 46 million cedis has been allocated to the Sports Ministry for the development of sports in the country. The President, who flew from Liberia to Accra for the SWAG awards on Saturday night, said the amount is a hundred percent increment from the 2016 budget. President ...
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