Pupils of CK Korfe, an island community at Abotaosi in the Biakoye District in the Volta Region, who fail to go to school due to unreliable means of transport to cross the Volta Lake, would now overcome the challenge following an intervention by a philanthropist who has donated of a 20-seater canoe to ease transport on the ...

The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) has disclosed that its revenue has increased by about 50% within three years of introducing an online portal. The RGD in 2014 introduced the online registration of businesses with the main aim of minimizing face to face business transactions and stop corruption. But the system only picked up this year ...

Three suspects have been arrested and handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), of the Ghana Police Service for their alleged involvement in an armed attack on the entourage of the Mankrado of Gomoa Fetteh Kakraba in the Central Region. The three, whose names have been withheld, shot several times at seven men, including ...

Three suspects have been arrested and handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), of the Ghana Police Service for their alleged involvement in an armed attack on the entourage of the Mankrado of Gomoa Fetteh Kakraba in the Central Region. The three, whose names have been withheld, shot several times at seven men, including ...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Hassan Tampuli, has defended Cabinet’s new directives intended to curb fuel explosions in the country. His comment is in reaction to a caution by former Minister for Environment, Science Technology and Innovation, Mahama Ayariga, who suggested that, Cabinet’s decision to suspend the construction of ongoing ...

President Trump has condemned Iran as a fanatical regime and refused to continue certifying an international nuclear deal. He said he was referring the deal to Congress and would consult allies on how to alter the deal. He accused Iran of sponsoring terrorism and said he would deny the regime “all paths to a nuclear ...

The National Investment Bank (NIB), has launched RIA Money Transfer. This adds to its array of international money transfer services offered by the Bank, and provides its numerous customers unlimited access to remittances from across the globe. RIA, the world’s third largest money transfer company with over 324,000 network locations in 146 countries, brings to ...

Students of the Accra Technical University have expressed their displeasure with the temporary cessation of academic activities following some identified infrastructural inadequacies. Lecturers of the institution laid down their tools a week ago, over what they described as “very deplorable” teaching and learning conditions. The strike is meant to mount pressure on the school authorities ...

Chelsea say midfielder N’Golo Kante will be missing for another three weeks after picking up a hamstring injury on international duty. The 26-year-old limped out of France’s 1-0 win against Bulgaria last weekend and will be out of action until next month. Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says the midfielder will need a scan. Fellow midfielder ...

A 20-year-old aluminum fabrication apprentice, Isaac Togah, was electrocuted while working on an uncompleted storey building at Bawdie in the Wassa Amenfi East district. The deceased, who sustained burns on his body was pronounced dead on arrival at the El-Shiva Hospital in Bawdie. Chief Inspector Foster Berko, Bogoso Station Officer, who disclosed this in an ...

Dubai Police, already home to Lamborghini patrol cars, self-driving robots and android officers, has decided to take to the skies in what can only be described as a flying motorbike. ble”>The vehicle, called the Scorpion and designed by Russian tech company Hoversurf, relies on four propellers to stay airborne, with the rider crouched precariously close to the exposed blades. Capable ...

Government has maintained the producer price of cocoa beans for the 2017/2018 crop season at 7600 cedis per metric tonne despite a sharp drop in the price of the commodity on the world market. This translates into 475 cedis per bag of 64 kilograms, which starts today, October 13, 2017. Speaking at a press conference, ...

Policy analyst, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, has criticized a plan by the Ghana National Fire Service to deploy personnel to fuel stations to supervise the delivery of fuel. In his view, this only amounts to “wasting a fire man’s time.” Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Wereko-Brobby said,” I don’t really see that we need to go ...

Policy analyst, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobbey, has criticized a plan by the Ghana National Fire Service to deploy personnel to fuel stations to supervise the delivery of fuel. In his view, this only amounts to “wasting a fire man’s time.” Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Wereko-Brobbey said,” I don’t really see that we need to go ...

Two workers of the Ghana Health Service in the Volta Region have been picked up by the Police in Ho for forgery. Bright Paul Yebbi, 32, a former National Service personnel, and Panidas Fordjour, 33, who were working in the Human Resource Department of the Service, allegedly forged the signature of Dr. Joseph Teye Nuertey, ...

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA), was already taking serious action against some fuel filling stations, before the new directives from President Nana Akufo-Addo, as it had already shut down 21 Liquefied Petroleum Gas filling stations across the country for failing safety standards. The NPA was spurred into action following the Atomic Junction gas explosion, and speaking ...

A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has threatened to start a campaign against state officials including Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, to force them to reduce the number of cars in their convoys. According to Professor Adei, although he is impressed with the initial performance of ...

MD of Tigo Roshi Motman has been named as the new CEO of merged telecommunication entities Airtel and Tigo. The announcement follows the resignation of the MD of Airtel Lucy Quist early this week. Citi Business News earlier reported that Madam Roshi Motman would be named as the MD of the new entity to be ...

Some owners of private Senior High Schools in the Upper East Region, say they will soon lay off some of their teaching and non-teaching staff, following a successful implementation of the Free Senior High School policy, which has drastically reduced  the intake in their schools. According to authorities of some of these private SHSs in the ...

The staff of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), earlier today [Friday], held a prayer session at the head office to thank God for the dismissal of the commission’s Executive Secretary, Samuel Sarpong. According to them, the dismissal of Mr. Sarpong was an answer to their long offered prayers. A letter from the Office of ...