The new Greater Accra Regional Commander of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP George Alex Mensah, has called on the media assist the police to effectively deal with crime in the country. He said although the Service is determined to ensure a crime-free region, it requires support from institutions such as media organizations to help it achieve the ...

The Board Chairman of the Metro Mass Transit Limited, Ahmed Arthur, has challenged claims by some workers of the company that the management was working in its selfish interests despite the company’s dwindling fortunes. According to him, the new management has turned around the fortunes of the company and increased its profit margins, and is ...

The Koforidua Circuit Court B today [Wednesday], sentenced a 25-year-old, Prince Baah, to eight years imprisonment for posing as a police officer and deceiving innocent citizens. Prince Baah, who was arrested on Tuesday, pleaded guilty to counts of impersonation, stealing and deceit of public officer, and was sentenced on his own plea by the court presided over ...

The government has begun evacuating half a million tonnes of refuse at the Mallam Market dumpsite in Accra. This follows the closure of six dump sites located within the Accra Region, including those at Mallam Market. During a tour of two of the sites, a Deputy Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Michael Dzato, said ...

Weeks after prices of petroleum products in Ghana hit an all-year-high, government has been explaining the reasons for the hikes. According to the Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Hassan Tampuli, the price surge could largely be attributed to the recent hurricanes that ravaged the United States of America. “For the past many ...

Authorities of the Prempeh College in Kumasi have resolved to promote the over 40 students who were demoted due to poor academic performance. Authorities say the students who were due to enter second year, have been promoted on probation basis to allow them better their performance. They have maintained that none of the affected students ...

The fall armyworms menace and Fulani Herdsmen activities dominated a two-day roundtable conference on the 2017 government’s input subsidy program and the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana’s (PFAG) annual report presentation held in Tamale. The event was sponsored by the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). The participants implored government to double its efforts ...

Former Black Stars goalkeeper Abukari Damba believes Kwesi Appiah deserves commendation for recognizing and handing a call-up to local duo Vincent Atingah and Isaac Twum. The pair excelled in the just ended Wafu 2017 tournament and have been named among the initial 26 man squad for Ghana’s world cup qualifier against the Cranes of Uganda. ...

Over 50 parents on Wednesday morning petitioned the Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfour, at the Regional Coordinating Council over what they term as the refusal of school authorities to provide their wards with boarding accommodation. This action by the parents comes barely two days after Citi News reported that some parents are still stranded at ...

The Akufo-Addo government is seriously considering extending the length of secondary education to four years again after the previous New Patriotic Party government did same in 2007, but it was reversed by an NDC administration. The Minister of Planning, Professor Gyan Baffour on Wednesday revealed that government is monitoring the three-year SHS system to inform a possible review to back ...

Mr. Isaac Oware-Aboagye, the Public-Private Partnership Coordinator at the Ministry of Finance, has said a study conducted in 2016, indicated that Government needs 7.3 billion dollars to improve the country’s infrastructure deficit. For this reason, he said Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangements had become necessary so that government would leverage on the private sector to support ...

The Western regional branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana, on Tuesday joined the rest of their colleagues in other parts of the world to celebrate the 2017 World Pharmacist Day in Takoradi. As part of the celebrations, messages of effective and responsible medicinal use and the role of pharmacists in everyday life, were shared ...

Residents of Nmai Dzorn in the Adentan Municipality, are complaining bitterly about the pungent stench emanating from broken down waste collection trucks of Zoomlion Ghana Limited parked in front of its headquarters. According to them, drivers of these trucks leave them loaded with refuse over a weekend before it is towed away. They fear the ...

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Alex Mould, has backed calls for a review of some taxes charged on fuel prices. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast show on Wednesday, Mr. Mould explained that some of the taxes have outlived their usefulness hence must be reviewed downwards or totally scrapped. Currently, ...

Hundreds of Togolese particularly women and children, are seeking refuge at the Chereponi district in the Northern Region. This follows the incessant political stalemate in neighboring Togo, where opposition protesters are demanding President Faure Gnassingbe’s removal from office. The Chereponi District Chief Executive, Abdul Razak Tahiru, today [Wednesday], confirmed to Citi News that almost 300 ...

The Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko, has stated that workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) must prepare to leave their jobs if they receive their redundancy pay. The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) on Tuesday picketed at the premises of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), demanding for severance pay for ECG staff before ...

A group of newly recruited teachers is threatening to embark on an indefinite strike over unpaid salaries. They say they have not been paid for the past 6 months. Abubakar Suale, the leader of the group, which calls itself the National Association of Newly Recruited Teachers, said, “We were posted last year, we have worked ...

Customers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), were stranded on Wednesday at various offices of the company, following a two-hour sit down strike. The strike action comes after a demand for payment of redundancy pay by the Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU), for all workers of ECG before the privatization. The inscription “CLOSED” was boldly ...

Scores of passengers, who trooped to the Kumasi depot of the Metro Mass Transit to travel to various destinations, were left stranded following a decision by workers to halt operations. Workers are protesting what they described as poor working conditions and management’s inability to fix challenges the company has been grappling with. The passengers resorted ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC) have been so far unable to trace most of the companies involved in the 2016 export of $2.3 billion worth of gold that did not say result in the repatriation of foreign currency. The PMMC is mandated to oversee the export of gold from ...