The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) has suspended Member of Parliament for Tema West, Carlos Ahenkorah for six months. The decision made by the Public Relations and Complaints Committee (PRCC) of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly chaired by the presiding member of the Assembly, Richard Fiadomor. Carlos Ahenkorah lost his cool last week when he attacked the Tema Metropolitan ...

The Ashanti Regional branch of the Peace Council has deployed a team to ascertain the actual cause of the tension at the Tamale bus terminal in Kumasi. This was after the council met leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) factions who are both claiming ownership of the terminal ...

The Ashanti Regional branch of the Peace Council has deployed a team to ascertain the actual cause of the tension at the Tamale bus terminal in Kumasi. This was after the council met leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) factions who are both claiming ownership of the terminal at ...

Black Stars skipper, Asamoah Gyan, was full of admiration for his team mates as they romped to a 5-1 win over Congo Brazzaville on Tuesday in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers. Gyan could not play due to a groin injury but he travelled with the team to Brazzaville and watched as Thomas Partey and Richmond ...

Government on  September 4 2017, commenced the implementation of the paperless clearing at Ghana’s ports. This follows a directive by Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, for the port agencies to migrate to a paperless system by September 2017, after he observed that the current system had too much human interaction and was at the mercy of ...

Government’s renewed calls for the implementation of the roadmap to peace in Dagbon should not be another political rhetoric. The latest development if materialized will be a sigh of relief to all sons and daughters of Dagbon whose dignity has been in limbo overtime. All peace loving Dagombas are sick and tired of the age-long ...

The Apple Music festival, which brought stadium-sized acts like One Direction and Lady Gaga to London’s Roundhouse, has been axed after 10 years. The annual event began in 2007 and typically ran for a month, with tickets given away to competition winners. In recent years, the festival had been scaled back to 10 nights, with ...

The Ministry of Education has revealed that more than 10,000 students who wrote their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in previous years but could not enroll for various reasons have been placed in schools this year. According to the Deputy Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the number represents more than 100 percent increase in ...

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), is demanding that the government immediately resolves all anomalies preventing the payments of the August salaries to four thousand of its members. The Controller and Accountant General’s Department suspended the salaries of about seven thousand workers in the public sector because their heads of department failed to validate ...

The Scholarship Secretariat has reassured students of second cycle institutions in the three regions of the north that government’s rolled out “Free SHS” program will not truncate scholarship packages meant for continuing students’ upkeep. The Secretariat’s Registrar, Kingsley Agyemang allayed the fears of continuing students at a day’s stakeholders meeting on quality education in Tamale. ...

Former Attorney General and stalwart of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Martin Amidu has said his party was kicked out of office because they misbehaved while in government According to him, this was evidenced in the humiliating defeat the NDC suffered in the last general elections. Martin Amidu, anti-corruption crusader himself, prior to the ...

COCOBOD has been forced to contract a loan at the Bank of Ghana(BoG) after proceeds from last year’s Syndicated loan were squandered on non-core activities of the board. Checks by Citi Business News have revealed that COCOBOD will have to pay about 22 percent interest rate on a 200 million dollar loan it contracted from the central ...

Ask! How could we have been governed if Ghana had no gold, no oil or bauxite? Could we have been governed at all? Could John Mahama and now Nana Akufo-Addo run Ghana only on taxes from tourism and exportation of maybe human resource? Could we have been “fed” at all? Is it possible at all? ...

Although he believes the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has strayed from its socialist ethos, anti-corruption campaigner Martin Amidu feels the NDC is not beyond redemption. The NDC, of which Mr. Amidu is a foundational member of, is noted as being a vehement critic of the party and its leadership, to the point some attributed his ...

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta has rejected claims he breached due process by approving a loan facility from Agricultural Development Bank to McDan Shipping Company Limited. He argues that the bank’s credit committee was responsible for  the ultimate approval or otherwise. The Minority has accused Ken Ofori Atta for flouting public procurement rules by approving the GHc ...

COCOBOD has been forced to contract a loan at the Bank of Ghana(BoG) after proceeds from last year’s Syndicated loan were squandered on non-core activities of the board. Checks by Citi Business News have revealed that COCOBOD will have to pay about 22 percent interest rate on a 200 million dollar loan it contracted from the central ...

INTRODUCTION When on Tuesday, 18th July 2017 the internet carried the news that the Office of the Special Prosecutor Bill, 2017 and the Zongo Development Fund Bill, 2017 had been laid before Parliament and referred to the appropriate committees of Parliament to be dealt with under a certificate of urgency, I raised issues of the ...

One of Ghana’s most respected legal luminaries, Martin Amidu, has exposed some lapses in the Special Prosecutor Bill 2017, which seeks to set up a separate office to bring corrupt persons to book. Mr. Amidu, an anti-corruption campaigner and a former Attorney-General, in a 25-page paper critiquing aspects of the Bill which deals with the ...

Government should by the end of this month commence the repayment of all debts owed in the energy sector and improve operations in the sector. This will follow the successful issue of the 15 year energy bond to raise 10 billion cedis from its investors. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta who disclosed this to Citi Business News stated ...