Lead managers of the energy bond have described as positive, investor confidence expressed at the road shows conducted ahead of the bond issuance. Government on Monday, October 23, 2017 concluded the two road shows for the energy bond to clear the 2.5billion dollar energy sector debt. The representatives of Fidelity Bank and Standard Chartered Bank; ...

Cristiano Ronaldo was named the world’s best player at the 2017 Best Fifa Football Awards in London. The Real Madrid and Portugal forward beat Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Paris St-Germain’s Neymar to the honour. Ronaldo, 32, helped Real to a Champions League-La Liga double in 2016-17. Lieke Martens of Barcelona and the Netherlands won best ...

The leading presidential candidate in Liberia and footballing legend George Weah, on Sunday was at the Sunday Church service of the The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, Nigeria. The famous Liberian Senator was said to have come to the Church service to “seek God’s face” for his country. During the sermon by ...

The Northern Regional Secretariat of the Ghana School Feeding Programme, is yet to be opened, after it was locked up almost a week ago, by a pro-NPP group, calling itself the Burma Camp Youth, in protest against the recruitment of caterers. Shockingly, the police and the Regional Security Council have done very little to restore sanity ...

The Chief Resilience Officer, Desmond Appiah, on Friday led stakeholders from 100RC, Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Resilience Team and DALBERG to tour Zoomlion’s Waste Transfer Station at Achimota. The purpose of the visit according to Mr. Appiah, is to learn about their operations in Accra, and appreciate the interdependent concerns with the shocks (sudden, catastrophic ...

Western diplomats have warned of “growing insecurity” in Kenya ahead of Thursday’s presidential election re-run, boycotted by the main opposition. Inflammatory rhetoric and attacks on the election commission made it more difficult to hold a legitimate poll, the 20 envoys said. Kenyan prosecutors said opposition leader Raila Odinga’s sister would be charged with inciting violence. Mr Odinga ...

The Islamic University College, Ghana, is set to organize a public lecture on ethics. This forms part of the University’s goal to disseminate knowledge in pursuit of academic excellence and moral uprightness for national development. The lecture, scheduled for Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at the University’s auditorium, will be on the theme: “Whom and What ...

The company that designed Ghana’s digital addressing system has refuted claims that the app, Ghana Post GPS, was copied, explaining that it was built on a global addressing system that was designed by them. Some Ghanaians have been speaking against the Ghana Post GPS, which was built by Vokacom, alleging that it was copied from ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Dr. Edward Kwapong as the acting Chief Executive of Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC). He takes over from George Smith Graham who resigned from the position in May 2017. Until his appointment, Dr.  Kwapong was the Chief Executive of HR Perspective Ltd, an HR Consultancy firm. He was also ...

More support is building up for the suspended General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyepong, as some party activists have joined the appeal for his immediate reinstatement. Beyond the appeal for his reinstatement, the group expressed concerns that there was a veiled attempt to expel Kwabena Agyapong from the party Addressing the press, convener ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his government intends to establish a National Cyber Security Centre, to liaise with relevant state agencies and the private sector to oversee cyber security operations at the national level. According to the President, the national identification system, the digital addressing system, e-payments, digital financial services as well as ...

The Minority in Parliament has downplayed the need for the construction of warehouses in aid of government’s one district, one factory policy. President Akufo Addo last Thursday launched the policy at Ejura in the Ashanti Region, with a sod-cutting for the construction of a ten thousand metric ton capacity warehouse. But reacting to the policy, ...

Traffic on the Tema-bound stretch of the Accra-Tema motorway, will be diverted through the median from tomorrow [Tuesday]. This follows the successful completion of the Accra bound stretch of the eight-meter tunnel at Flower Pot, Spintex. The Safety Manager of Sonitra, who are the contractors on the project, Owusu Prempeh, told Citi News‘ Caleb Kudah ...

Desperate to know if he likes you or not? In this article, Beauty and Tips uncovers the 15 signs a guy likes you. Guys are from Mars, which makes it super hard for us to understand how they feel about us. They give us signs and signals, but they’re clearly for aliens only. What are ...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has impounded a container loaded with about 2,800 cartons of chicken at a private warehouse over suspicions that it is unwholesome. It said the container-load was cleared from the port, despite the FDA withholding its clearance. The Head of Public Affairs of the FDA, James Lartey, disclosed that the ...

Over one thousand employees of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), are yet to receive salaries owed them for the last three years. Some of these employees, who agreed to speak to Citi News on grounds of anonymity, said efforts to get management to release their monies have been met with threats of suspension and dismissal. ...

The widow of a dead US soldier says Donald Trump could not remember her husband’s name when he phoned to offer condolences. Myeshia Johnson, widow of Sgt La David Johnson, told ABC News the president’s “stumbling” had “hurt her the most”. “If my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risks his ...

The Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) division, of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has said it should not be blamed for the alleged importation of unwholesome chicken that has found its way into the country. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Monday, a member of CEPS communication team, Paa Kow Ekumah, said they also ...

Funerals form an integral part of the cultural set-up of the Ghanaian society but not everybody has cultivated the habit of attending them when they come. One may have observed that most times, young people do not attend funerals. They usually see it as the preserve of elderly. This was exactly the situation at the ...

Dirty League October 22, 2017 marked the end of the Ghana Premier League season. Finally, the torture has ended and calm can return. To the discerning mind, Ghana has no business running a professional league based on the standards we have witnessed from the just-ended campaign. A club licensing scheme put together by the GFA ...