Government has allocated some 1.5million Cedis to the human trafficking secretariat under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to support the fight against human trafficking and to protect victims of exploitation. The fund which was made known by the sector minister is to help the ministry ensure protection and empower the vulnerable by ...
Government has allocated some 1.5million Cedis to the human trafficking secretariat under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to support the fight against human trafficking and to protect victims of exploitation. The fund which was made known by the sector minister is to help the ministry ensure protection and empower the vulnerable by ...
Properties worth thousands of Ghana cedis have been destroyed by fire at the East Legon branch of City Lights in Accra. The fire which started around 4:30pm is said to have begun on the second floor of the building. When Citi News arrived at the scene, personnel from the fire service were still trying to ...
The Federal Republic of Switzerland has earmarked an amount of $80 million to support the enhanced competitiveness of Ghanaian enterprises in the global market space, as well as help in government’s efforts at diversifying the Ghanaian economy. Ghana has been classified by Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) as a priority country for economic ...
Parliament has reconstituted its committees. This follows the appointment of some Committee chairmen into ministerial roles in the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government. The Constitution enjoins the President to appoint not less than half of his ministers from Parliament. President Akufo-Addo has been criticized for appointing 110 ministers and deputy ministers which some claimed would ...
Drama unfolded on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, when two Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Majority side in open defiance, challenged the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu on the formation of committees. Third term MP for Atwima Kwanwoma in the Ashanti Region, Dr. Kojo Appiah Kubi had expressed his desire to be ...
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. The judge ruled he could remain free pending an appeal. Lula has rejected claims that he received an apartment as a bribe in a corruption scandal linked to state oil company ...
A 64-year-old woman and her male accomplice are in the grips of the Tafo Pankrono Police in the Ashanti Region for possessing substances suspected to be Indian hemp. Madam Afia Pokuah and Issah Yaw were arrested with the substance and milk toffees which are also believed to contain Indian hemp. The Ashanti Regional Police Public ...
Move over, “Gangnam Style.” Wiz Khalifa’s video “See You Again” featuring singer Charlie Puth hit nearly 2.9 billion views on YouTube on Tuesday morning, taking the top spot for most viewed video from Psy, the Korean pop star behind the previous record holder “Gangnam Style.” “Gangnam Style” held the most viewed video record on YouTube ...
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), has given government a two-week ultimatum to constitute Councils of the various universities in the country or face their wrath. Even though some councils were constituted few months before the change in government, they have all been dissolved. The National President of UTAG, Harry Agbanu, said the situation ...
Former Deputy Interior Minister, James Agalga, has defended his colleague, Inusah Fuseini, who claimed that he installed an audio visual recording device in his office, when he served as the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources. “He had every right to put in place additional measures to enhance his own personal safety and security, there ...
A campaign team member of Dr. Francis Bawana Dakura, Member of Parliament for the Jirapa Constituency, has been identified among four suspected armed robbers killed in two separate incidents in the Upper West region. Desmond Danye, popularly known as Nabu, who was actively in involved in the campaign activities of the NDC MP, was shot ...
Staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have called off their strike following an intervention by the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu. They had earlier resolved not to return to work until government addressed the total take over of the frontage of the hospital by private developers. Speaking to the press , the Minister of ...
Ghana’s refreshing lifestyle dial and tourism inclined radio station, Citi FM, will in the next eleven days hang out with some of its discerning listeners in Mauritius and Johannesburg on a tour of the two countries. Dubbed #BigJulyGetAway, the trip is a leisure travel experience to Port Louis and Johannesburg in Mauritius, and South Africa respectively, and ...
Multiple Award-winning dancehall act and CEO of Burniton Music Group, Stonebwoy, who recently inked a milky record deal with Zylofon Media was in Elmina, Central Region on Monday, 10th July, 2017. As part of a series of activities which included a commercial shoot for Menzgold as brand ambassador, the 2015 BET Best International Act: Africa, ...
The President of Switzerland, Doris Leuthard, will give a speech tonight, Wednesday, July 12, ahead of an event organised by policy think-tank IMANI Africa. The speech, which will be delivered from the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City in Accra, will be live on radio from 6:30pm and online at http://tunein.com/citi973. Doris Leuthard’s address will precede a panel discussion on ...
The ride-sharing service, Uber, has released updated community guidelines for seven countries in Africa, including Ghana. The guidelines contain information on proper decorum for drivers and riders. Uber also included an explanation for why riders can lose access to Uber, its first time releasing the policy publicly. Beyond users understanding that poor behavior can lead ...
Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery, has tasked the new 13-member Council of the Ghana Immigration Service to ensure the implementation of the new Immigration Service Act 2016, Act 908, and the Immigration Service Regulations of 2016, LI 2245, which were recently passed. In 2015, Parliament gave approval for the passage of the Immigration Service Act, ...
The People’s National Convention (PNC), says it will hold a meeting next week to determine the fate of the party’s former flagbearer, Dr. Edward Mahama, for accepting a position in the NPP government. The meeting is to give him an opportunity to explain why he accepted the ambassadorial appointment since he has been a critic ...
The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko , has described as disingenuous threats by a group calling itself the Coalition of Stakeholders on the Concession of ECG Agreement (COSECA), to head to court over government’s decision to partly privatize the power company. According to him, the ECG workers’ approach to expressing their dissatisfaction over some clauses in the deal is ...
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