UFC superstar, Conor McGregor says he could have fought Floyd Mayweather to the 12th Round of last night’s bout if the referee had not ended the fight. According to him, the referee stopped the fight “a little early” and he was only “a little fatigued” in the 10th Round when he [the refree] called it ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture says it has recorded “heavy success” in its fight against the invasion of fall armyworm in the country. Some officials of the ministry who visited farms hitherto attacked by the pests have said there is ample evidence of recoveries by farms. “In most parts of the Upper East Region ...

The Eastern Regional Police Command has arrested 11 suspects including two teenagers aged 14 and 17 for various narcotic related offences. The Police say they retrieved 176 wraps of compressed dried leaves suspected to be cannabis. The Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police, Inspector Gideon Boateng told Citi News the suspects are ...

The Eastern Regional Police Command has arrested 11 suspects including two teenagers aged 14 and 17 for various narcotic related offences. The Police say they retrieved 176 wraps of compressed dried leaves suspected to be cannabis. The Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police, Inspector Gideon Boateng told Citi News the suspects are ...

Angola’s ruling MPLA party has won the country’s parliamentary election, provisional results suggest. The party received 61% of votes cast during Wednesday’s ballot, the Angolan electoral commission said on Friday. The opposition Unita party, which received 27%, disputes the commission’s count. João Lourenço will take up the presidency, after an election marking the end of nearly ...

One of Ghana’s finest vocalists, eShun known in real life as Ethel Esi Eshun, has put up a stunning performance at the Odombea Festival at Saltpond in the Central Region of Ghana. The show which was held on Friday, 25th August, 2017 at Millers Square in Saltpond, had the sultry singer prove her mettle as ...

The collapse of two indigenous banks; UT and Capital Banks have left in their wake discussions within the industry as to what possible conditions may have triggered the situation. The Bank of Ghana among others cited the provisions of the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions (SDIs) Act, 2016 as basis for allowing GCB Bank to ...

The collapse of two indigenous banks; UT and Capital Banks have left in their wake discussions within the industry as to what possible conditions may have triggered the situation. The Bank of Ghana among others cited the provisions of the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions (SDIs) Act, 2016 as basis for allowing GCB Bank to ...

Embattled mining firm, Exton Cubic Group, has accused the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) of not giving it a fair hearing over the bauxite prospecting deal in the Tano-Offin Forest Reserve in the Ashanti Region. EPA had accused the company of entering the forest illegally and has asked Exton to halt operations and take steps to ...

The Ghana Water Company Limited is subsidizing new water service connections for 26 Low-Income Urban Communities (LIUCs). The gesture is part of a project being implemented under the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA-SWP) to increase access to improved water supply and sanitation. Funded by the World Bank, it is aimed at ...

Hajia Lardi Ayamba, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pusiga, on Friday donated items to CHPS compounds in some communities in the Pusiga District, to help boost health delivery in the area. The items include 10 hospital beds and mattresses, blankets and 20 chairs. Hajia Ayamba said the donation was in fulfillment of a promise she made ...

Sweden has topped a poll as the best ? or “goodest” ? country when it comes to serving the interests of its people while avoiding damaging impacts to other nations and the environment. The country has outranked 162 others to take pole position in the Good Country Index, a league table based on 35 separate indicators from sources including the United Nations and the World ...

India appears to be in the grip of a swine flu outbreak with 1,094 recorded deaths over the past eight months, said an official report on Wednesday. The last three weeks have seen the highest number of fatalities, at 342. A total of 22,186 cases have been reported across the country. The number of deaths ...

Google is issuing refunds to its advertisers after detecting “larger than usual” fraudulent ad clicks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. On being contacted by TOI to confirm the extent of the problem in Indian market, a Google spokesperson declined to give details. However, he said the company was working “to remove monetary incentives” ...

A sum of GHc50 million has been released by the Ministry of Finance for the construction of 15 new mini waste transfer stations across the country. This was revealed by the Minister of Sanitation, Joseph Adda when he addressed the media in Accra. “The Ministry of Finance has also released the sum of GHc50 million ...

The National Democratic Congress Minority in Parliament will challenge the School Feeding Programme’s 30 percent allocation of the schools in each district as protocol for the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, “I want to serve notice that the Minority will challenge it because we think that it should not be allowed to go and ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has warned that severe flooding is his main worry as the rains from Tropical Storm Harvey continue to lash the state. Mr Abbott said the cities of Houston and Corpus Christi had already received as much as 20in (50cm) of rain. He said another 40in of rain could be due before ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has admonished members of the New Patriotic Party to avoid criticizing the party in public. He said such development have the tendency of “destabilizing” the party. Speaking at the party’s 25th Annual Delegates’ Conference in Cape Coast, Kufuor said persons who feel aggrieved or have problems with developments within the ...

The African Center for Energy policy (ACEP) is hopeful the arrival of the 450 megawatts Karpowership will help improve power supply in the country. The new power generating vessel replaces an earlier once with a lower capacity of 225 megawatts at Tema. Citi Business News understands that the ship has arrived in Ghana’s territorial waters to ...

The African Center for Energy policy (ACEP) is hopeful the arrival of the 450 megawatts Karpowership will help improve power supply in the country. The new power generating vessel replaces an earlier once with a lower capacity of 225 megawatts at Tema. Citi Business News understands that the ship has arrived in Ghana’s territorial waters to ...