Citi News sources indicate that Former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor will later today [Friday] appear before the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament in relation to the controversial AMERI power deal. On Wednesday, Adansi Asokwa MP, KT Hammond appeared before the committee with a submission that sought to substantiate his motion for recision of ...

Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush have voiced concern about the current political climate in the US, in comments seen as a veiled rebuke of Donald Trump’s leadership. Mr Obama urged Americans to reject the politics of “division” and “fear”, while Mr Bush criticised “bullying and prejudice” in public life. They were speaking ...

Individuals and businesses can now patronize any service from the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) via online. The development follows the launch of the E-Certificate on Thursday, October 19, 2017. The situation at the RGD hitherto was often chaotic as business owners who patronized various services from the department could not find their way around, getting ...

Ghana has benefitted little from Free Trade Agreements (FTA) it has signed over the last decade. The development has also contributed to widening the country’s trade deficit recorded over the period. According to a latest research conducted by IMANI Africa, Ghana has made little use of agreements with other ECOWAS countries and the US. It ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George, has accused the National Communications Authority (NCA), of contravening certain constitutional provisions with the sanctions imposed on 131 radio stations. According to the legislator, the NCA had reviewed the default sanctions for radio stations which fall foul of the regulations, without seeking Parliamentary approval, ...

The Ghana School Feeding Programme has released GHc 21 million to cater for part of the debt it owes caterers under the school feeding programme. The money, which was released last week, will cover the first seven days for the first term of the 2016/2017 academic year. Speaking to Citi News, the Public Relations Officer ...

A member of the legal team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba, has expressed shock at the sentence slapped on 13 members of pro-New Patriotic Party vigilante group, Delta Force by the Asokwa District Court in Kumasi. According to him, the GH¢1,800 fine slapped on each of the suspects was not deterrent enough, and would ...

Local cement manufacturers are predicting an imminent collapse of the industry should authorities fail to regulate the unfair competition from imported cement. They explain that the lack of punitive mechanisms have led to the dumping of substandard products on the Ghanaian market. A situation, the cement manufacturers contend has rendered them uncompetitive. They also fear ...

The Effiduase District Magistrate Court in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region, has remanded a 32-year old Circuit supervisor of the Effiduase District Education Office for defrauding by false pretenses. According to Police, they received a complaint from one Serwaa Bonsu, a resident of Kwadaso, who said Julius Evans Coffie in June 2015, ...

Head of Educational Foundation Studies of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Dr. Mohammed Issah, has condemned the seizure and burning of over 100 mobile phones owned by students of the Karaga Senior High School in the Northern Region. He argued that the use of mobile phones by students of second cycle institutions should rather ...

Business activities came to a halt as scores of residents in the Kumasi Metropolis lined up on the streets to wave at the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, when he touched down at the Kumasi Airport on Thursday. The Asantehene was taken through some principal streets of the metropolis before finally taken to the Manhyia ...