It seems former President John Mahama is not enthused over the turn of events in Zimbabwe after the president of that country, Robert Mugabe resigned from the position, ending his 37-year-long leadership. Mugabe resigned on Tuesday after an impeachment process was triggered in the country’s Parliament to have him removed from office. In a Facebook ...
Ghanaian chemical engineer and innovator, Dr. Thomas Mensah, has said his innovations are being used by technology giants including Facebook, Google, Paypal among others. Dr. Mensah, while working for American company, Corning Glass Works, was able to help improve and commercialize a fiber optic technology the company had been working on for 15 years without ...
The Ghana National Food Buffer Stock Company has abrogated over 50 contracts with various suppliers contracted to provide food to various Senior High Schools across the country under the Free SHS policy. This is due to non-performance of the suppliers, the Chief Operations Officer of the Company, Arnold Kojo Ackah has told Citi News. “One of ...
The hierarchy of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), of the Ghana Police Service, has paid a courtesy call on Citi FM as part of a familiarization tour. Led by the newly appointed acting head of the CID, ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, the personnel from the CID interacted with the Citi News team and the station’s ...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has emphasized the need for Ghanaians to uphold the country’s democratic credentials, but called for a more holistic approach in order to push the nation towards prosperity. According to the President, although peaceful changes in government and the people’s representatives were a sign of the country’s strong democratic prospects, it ...
The Commission of Enquiry set up by President Akufo-Addo to examine petitions on the possible creation of new regions, has started its work. They are to engage petitioners from the Western, Volta, Brong Ahafo and Northern Regions. A delegation of Chiefs, MPs and staff of the Western North secretariat of the Western Region, commenced discussions ...
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has resigned, parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda says. The surprise announcement came as lawmakers debated an impeachment motion against the 93-year-old leader in a joint sitting of parliament. Mr Mugabe had previously refused to resign despite last week’s military takeover, and days of protests against his rule. He has been in power ...
Ghanaian chemical engineer and innovator, Dr. Thomas Mensah was, on Tuesday, interviewed by Bernard Koku Avle on the Citi Breakfast Show. In the interview, Dr. Mensah touched on his educational background and his exploits in the technology space so far. Dr. Mensah, who had his secondary and tertiary education in Ghana has 14 patents, 7 ...
Robbers in Kenya took a rather unconventional mode of entering a bank and making away with cash to the tune of 50 million Kenyan shillings (equivalent to $482,000). The police confirmed the incident which happened on Monday at the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) in Thika – an industrial town in Kiambu County, located north east ...
Citi Business News’ checks have revealed that the Annual Percentage Rates and Average Interest Rates recorded in October have dropped marginally as compared to that of September 2017. Between September and October this year, all but one of the nine categories of the Bank of Ghana’s Annual Percentage and Average Interest rate report, witnessed a marginal decline ...
The University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho, has made giant strides in the treatment of Glaucoma, an eye condition that causes irreversible blindness across the world, by introducing a painless and complication-free procedure called the Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS). Since 2014, many Ghanaians got MIGS and escaped from the lifelong everyday eye ...
The next step in Ghana’s progress as a nation lies in the development of the infrastructure for high-speed or bullet trains, a renowned pioneer of fiber optic and nano-technology, Dr. Thomas Mensah has said. Dr. Mensah, a chemical engineer, may not be widely known in his own homeland of Ghana but he is hailed for elevating fiber ...
An Accra High court has dismissed a suit by some 225 retired military officers who sued the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) over what they describe as underpayment of their gratuities. According to the court, the ex-servicemen were unable to convince it beyond reasonable doubt why they were entitled to gratuities beyond what they ...
The Minority spokesperson on Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson has called for the withdrawal of the 2018 budget which was read before the house by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta last Wednesday. According to him, the government had reviewed some key economic targets without recourse to the House. Mr. Ato Forson made the call in ...
Google is to “derank” stories from Kremlin-owned publications Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik in response to allegations about election meddling by President Putin’s government. Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt said the search giant needed to deal with the spread of misinformation. RT has been described by US intelligence agencies as “Russia’s state-run propaganda machine”. The publications ...
An Egyptian singer has reportedly been detained for a week after she appeared in a music video in her underwear while suggestively eating a banana. Shaimaa Ahmed, a 25-year-old known professionally as Shyma, was arrested by Egyptian police on Saturday on suspicion of “inciting debauchery”. It came after the racy video for her song, I ...
Everton striker Oumar Niasse has become the first Premier League player to be charged by the Football Association for “successful deception of a match official”. The Senegal international won a controversial penalty, after minimal contact from Scott Dann, in Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace, with Leighton Baines scoring the penalty. Niasse went on to score the ...
The fate of over 130 radio stations that were found to have breached Section 13 of the Electronics Communications Act (2009), Act 775 is yet to be determined by the National Communications Authority (NCA). Citi News’ checks show that most of the defaulting stations are operational after a 30-day ultimatum given by the Communications Ministry ...
Scores of anxious applicants have been left stranded at some branches of the GCB Bank Limited at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, following a system failure in the sale of electronic vouchers for the Ghana Police Service recruitment exercise. This is not the first time applicants have been left stranded at GCB branches in their ...
Acting New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman, Freddie Blay, has said he’s deeply shocked by the death of ace broadcaster, Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong, popularly known as KABA, considering that he had booked him for an interview today [Tuesday] November 21. The Host of Asempa FM’s late afternoon political show, Eko Sii Sen, died on Saturday, ...
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