The Minority in Parliament says Vice President information revealed classified information to the public when warned in 2016 that eight banks in Ghana risked collapse due to the continuous hikes of bad loans on their books and the fragile economy. The then running mate of the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party’s warning is back ...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Sulemana Koney, wants government to focus on the mining industry as a catalyst for development. He said this during an interview with Citi News at the National Policy Summit on Trade and Industry. The government has outlined a ten-point agenda for industrial transformation to fulfil ...
The Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu has asked the public to disregard what he describes as propaganda by some persons to derail the work of the anti-galamsey taskforce Operation Vanguard, by falsely accusing them of killing illegal miners. The minister stressed that no member of the taskforce has been sanctioned to take ...
There has been an increase of HIV infection among pregnant women in the country, which is increasingly becoming a threat to achieving the 2016-2020 national HIV strategic plan. According to officials of the National HIV control programme, there has been an increase in the Antenatal care (ANC) prevalence rate among pregnant women in the country, ...
It may be President Trump’s communication tool of choice – but it’s a tweet by former President Barack Obama that has become the most liked in Twitter’s history. The tweet, the first in a series of three, quoted Nelson Mandela and was accompanied by a picture of Mr Obama smiling with a group of children from ...
Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe has returned home from South Africa after failing to turn herself in to police in Johannesburg to face accusations of assault, officials say. It was not immediately clear why Mrs Mugabe did not report to police after saying she would do. A 20-year-old South African woman has accused Mrs Mugabe ...
Ghana Poetry Festival, an annual event for poets and spoken word artistes will be held in November 2017. The organizers, therefore, invite people to take part in the activities marking the event. By volunteering for the festival, one gets to participate in an educative and exciting event that showcases established and emerging poets and performers ...
Gianluigi Buffon (Italy, Juventus), Lionel Messi (Argentina, Barcelona) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, Real Madrid) are the three nominees for the 2016/17 UEFA Men’s Player of the Year Award. The award will be presented at the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on Thursday 24 August. The shortlist of three players was selected ...
The Minority in Parliament has taken a swipe at the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s new appetite for borrowing describing it as shameful because he criticized the Mahama government for same reasons. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Tuesday, the Deputy Minority Leader, James Avedzi Klutse, said “It is shameful for Bawumia to say in the ...
Twenty Kilometers (20km) of the 110km Bolgatanga-Bawku-Pulmakom road under construction has been completed and opened to the general public. This is according to Chief Resident Engineer of Queiroz Galvao construction limited, Engineer Francis Hammond. Mr. Hammond disclosed this during a working visit by the Upper East Regional Minister Rockson Bukari on the progress of work ...
GCB Bank is not under any obligation to keep employees of UT Bank and Capital Bank who may be rendered jobless after the collapse of both banks, Labour Analyst, Kofi Davor has said. At least about fifty percent of the workers of UT and Capital bank will be laid off, following the acquisition of the ...
National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has cited another company, Glencore, for operating without a license in Ghana’s petroleum downstream industry. The NPA, in a June 2017 letter sighted by Citi News, threatened legal action if Glencore does not cease its operations. Glencore is said to have been importing petroleum products for storage and sale to various customers within ...
An emerging youth movement of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region christened, Integrity Against Corruption (I.A.C) has condemned recent attacks on the party founder, Former President, Jerry John Rawlings for speakin about the state of the party. The former President at the recent Ada Asafotsufiame was said to have criticized the ...
The GH¢51 million judgement debt which was paid to the businessman, Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome, is missing from the accounts of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD), the 2016 Auditor-General’s Report has revealed. According to the report, the MoF and the CAGD failed to capture the amount in their ...
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