Two German tourists have been killed in stabbings at a hotel beach in the popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada, Egyptian officials say. At least four other people were injured and a man has been arrested. The suspect is being questioned by police to determine his motives, the interior ministry said. The knifeman initially killed ...
The average interest offered by banks on customer deposits dropped by 2.67 percent between May and June 2017. According to the latest Annual Percentage Rates (APR) and Average Interest (AI) report by the Bank of Ghana, the figure declined from 11.2 to 10.9 percent within the one month period. Although its rate has dropped marginally, Omnibank ...
The Chief Executive Officer of Stratcom Africa, Esther Cobbah has urged businesses to use social media to reach and expand their operations for maximum benefit. According to her, multinational companies in Ghana have duly recognized the impact of social media and are taking advantage of it while most Ghanaian companies ignore the platform. Speaking to ...
It seems anti-corruption campaigner and member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely-Hayford, is not out of the woods yet despite his apology to outraged members of Ghana’s legislature, who are bent on grilling him for supposedly insulting them. Casely-Hayford has been cited for a possible contempt of Parliament after he said at a programme ...
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has said the Police Service lacks the requisite safety equipment to protect its officers. According to him, the current logistical challenges makes it difficult for the Police to fight crime effectively and as well protect its men. About five policemen have been shot in line of duty over the ...
The Kwabenya Ashongma Estate Road is a critical route that connects the Nsawam Pokuase enclave to Adenta Ritz junction and even to Ashaiman. But the deplorable nature of the road has forced vehicles that dare to use it to make usual visits to mechanic shops. Motorists who decide to avoid it are not any better because ...
The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has disclosed that it will by the middle of August 2017 remove all check points that have impeded trade activities in the country. The plan is ahead of a September deadline to get all barriers and checkpoints removed to facilitate the movement of goods, persons and ...
The 2017 edition of the West Africa Procurement, Supply Chain, Transport & Logistics Convention is scheduled to take place in Accra in two weeks’ time. The two-day event, organized by South African giants TS Capital (PTY) LTD, with support from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, will be held at The Ghana Academy of ...
Vice President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has assured that government will launch the national digital address system in a few months’ time. This he says will be merged with a post code to ensure the unique identification of various addresses. “In the next couple of months, we want to launch the National digital address system for ...
President Akufo Addo has given approval for the Act establishing the three development authorities to be laid before Parliament on Wednesday. The Coastal, Middle and Northern Belt Development Authorities will be key, in the administration of the one million dollars for every constituency each year. Also, the Bill establishing the Zongo Development Fund will be ...
Ogilvy and MatherWorldwide, has announced that the role of its Ghana MD, Akua Owusu-Nartey, has evolved to the position of Regional Managing Director of Ogilvy Africa Group, reporting to Mathieu Plassard, CEO, Ogilvy Africa. The new role, which took effect from 1st of July, is in recognition of Akua’s sterling performance in the organic growth ...
Ogilvy and MatherWorldwide, has announced that the role of its Ghana MD, Akua Owusu-Nartey, has evolved to the position of Regional Managing Director of Ogilvy Africa Group, reporting to Mathieu Plassard, CEO, Ogilvy Africa. The new role, which took effect from 1st of July, is in recognition of Akua’s sterling performance in the organic growth ...
Scores of LLB graduates have turned up at the University of Ghana campus to write this year’s law school entrance exams despite last minute attempts to halt the exercise. The exam is currently underway at the University of Ghana Legon. Following a dismissal of an earlier suit seeking an injunction on the exams, some students ...
The High Court in Winneba has ordered the Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Professor Mawutor Avokeh to step aside until a case brought against him is determined. The court order also affects the school’s Finance Officer. The orders were part of the reliefs granted for the interlocutory injunction sought by the plaintiff, ...
About 800 Ghanaian migrants living in Saudi Arabia illegally have turned themselves in at Ghana’s mission there to be deported. This follows a three-month amnesty granted illegal residents by the Saudi government to leave or be sanctioned. Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway explained in a Citi News interview that the Ghana government is subsidizing the cost ...
Iddrisu Musah Superior, the Metropolitan Chief Executive Officer(MCE) of Tamale, Northern Regional capital, has arrived in Washington D. C, the United States on an investment tour. His decision to tour the United States to seek investment was preceded by a similar one he undertook in Ghana where he had major responses from corporate Ghana and ...
Registration of service personnel for the 2017/2018 service year has been postponed from Monday 17th July 2017 to Monday, July 24th July, 2017. A statement from the secretariat on Thursday said the postponement was to afford the stakeholders ample time to prepare for the process. “All prospective national service personnel and the general public are to ...
Former Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia has said the Mahama government had a strategy to clear the GHc100 million debt in the health sector that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is struggling with. According to him, the proposal had a clear roadmap to paying the debt or reducing it to the barest minimum. “…We were aware ...
History is littered with countless examples of sovereign states engaging professionals from different nations to man sensitive national positions. The rise of Joseph to the position of Prime Minister in pharaoh’s Egypt is a classic example. Mark Carney, the Governor of the bank of England and the chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee of England ...
A “Worship Summit” will be held today Friday 14th July, 2017 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons to mark the first anniversary of the passing of gospel legend Danny Nettey. The summit is themed on Philippians 1:21: “More than a song – A life of Worship” – “For me to live is Christ to die ...
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