The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has been tasked to investigate circumstances under which some 400 tricycles were allegedly stolen from the Northern Development Authority’s (NDA) yard. The CID in a statement signed by its Regional Crime Officer, K Otuo Acheampong requested that some persons be released to assist in the investigations of the missing tricycles. […] The post CID
Survivors of a helicopter crash that occurred at Ghana’s offshore Petroleum field some six years ago are demanding compensation. Two of the survivors who were contracted by Tonimo Engineering which at the time was providing drilling services for Lukoil said attempts to get compensation after the incident had failed. A survivor who spoke to Citi […] The post Survivors
The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has declared an indefinite strike effective January 6, 2020, in protest of the non-payment of allowances due to its members following the conversion of polytechnics to technical universities. According to the association, the government has failed to comply with the ruling by the National Labour Commission (NLC) […] The post TUTAG
The National Ambulance Service says the postponement of the commissioning of ambulances for distribution nationwide was to make sure there was no gap between the commissioning and deployment of the said ambulances. The CEO of the service, Professor Ahmed Zakaria, on the Citi Breakfast Show, said the final batch of 48 ambulances will arrive in […] The post Ambulance
The National Ambulance Service says the postponement of the commissioning of ambulances for distribution nationwide was to make sure there was no gap between the commissioning and utilisation of the said ambulances which were set to be commissioned on January 6. The CEO of the service, Professor Ahmed Zakaria, on the Citi Breakfast Show, said […] The post Ambulance
A decade means ten years. A lot happens in 10 years and yet in some cases, it seems nothing at all happens. So how different has Ghana been since 2010? How different has your business or career been since 2010? How different have you been since 2010? In 2010, Ghana had real GDP growth of […] The post Ghana the decade before and 2020 [Article] appeared first on
The Bank of Ghana’s decision to introduce higher denomination cedi notes will be investigated by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) if it returns to power. This is the assurances given by the Minority in Parliament. According to the caucus, the Bank of Ghana has not been able to give tangible reasons for the introduction of […] The post Next NDC gov’t
A robot cat designed to ferry plates of food to restaurant customers has been unveiled at the CES tech expo in Las Vegas. BellaBot, built by the Chinese firm PuduTech, is one of a number of wacky robotic inventions being shown off at the event this year. There is also UBTech’s Walker, which can pull […] The post CES 2020: Restaurant cat robot meows at dining customers
Demand for mechanized farming operations among smallholder farmers in the Northern Region has been on the increase since the early 2000s. Research conducted in 2018 by the International Growth Centre in collaboration with the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, indicates that more than 90% of farmers in Northern Ghana now […] The post Inadequate
A fortune teller who correctly predicted Brexit and England winning the Cricket World Cup using asparagus has revealed her top tips for 2020. Jemima Packington, 64, the world’s first and only Asparamancer, claims she can peer into the future by tossing the veg in the air and interpreting how the spears land. She predicts that […] The post Psychic
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria as has been “robbed of a great scientist” after the death of the head of Nigeria’s Atomic Energy Commission in a gas explosion, his spokesman said. Garba Shehu, the spokesman to the president, passed on the tribute to Simon Mallam in a series of tweets. Mr Mallam was […] The post Nigeria ‘robbed
A Kenyan preacher stabbed his estranged wife and killed himself at the pulpit on Sunday in a church they co-founded in the coastal city of Mombasa. Congregants at the church told journalists that Elisha Misiko was seated on the front pew when he walked over to his wife Ann Mghoi – who was at the […] The post Kenyan preacher stabs wife and kills himself at pulpit
Nigeria police have been placed on “red alert” after the US killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike in Iraq on Friday on the orders of President Donald Trump. He spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East and was regarded as a terrorist by the US. The […] The post Nigeria on ‘red alert’ over
The Minority in Parliament has discredited the Bank of Ghana’s recent justification for the introduction of the new cedi denominations. This comes on the back of a response the central bank gave to former President John Mahama who questioned the rationale for the new banknotes. John Mahama had said the BoG did not go through […] The post Minority rubbishes
The growth rate in commercial banks’ deposits has slowed down amidst the reforms undertaken by the central bank to strengthen the sector. The Bank of Ghana in its latest banking sector report stated that deposits, as the main source of funding for the banking industry, grew by 17.1 percent in October 2019, marginally lower than […] The post Banks deposits growth slows amidst
Malibu Dance Champion Adjetey Sowah walks us through his childhood, becoming a professional dancer and winner the coveted dance championship in 1984 on Footprints on Citi TV. The post Footprints on Citi TV with Dance Champion Adjetey Sowah appeared first on Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana, Current Affairs, Business
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has so far registered 5.9 million (5,907,536) people as at the end of 2019 in the ongoing nationwide mass registration exercise. Of this number, the authority has printed 5.1 million (5,167,994) cards. Data from the NIA reveals that 3.3 million (3,323,839) of the printed cards have been issued to registrants […] The post 5.9m Ghanaians
It’s not every day that the CEO of a large Silicon Valley tech company decides to relocate to a different part of the world in order to learn more about it — particularly a frequently maligned and often overlooked by big-business part. But Jack Dorsey, the American tech entrepreneur who co-founded and leads not one, […] The post Into Africa:
“What became of the black people of Sumer?” the traveller asked the old man “for ancient records show that the people of Sumer were Black. What happened to them?” “Ah,” the old man sighed. “They lost their history, so they died…” – A SUMER LEGEND I’m not in any way trying to downplay the genius […] The post “Year of Return”: Let’s
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) on November 29th, 2019, released a document justifying the need for the introduction of “higher-value denomination” currency (HVD) notes. The question of whether HVD notes are warranted at any point in time is not a merely conceptual one. It is, in fact, a highly empirical enquiry to be approached from a careful […] The post Bright
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