HIREkeke.com, a free online rental marketplace for products and services has been launched in Ghana. It’s a platform for people to post free classified ads or have access to products and services for hire, rent or lease all over Ghana. HIREkeke.com has eight main categories with over 60 detailed subcategories. It offers the most comprehensive ...

Japan’s demographic challenges are well-known: It’s home to the world’s oldest population and has a shrinking birthrate and an astonishing number of single people. And it seems that, despite government efforts to incentivise marriage and child-rearing, things aren’t quite trending in the right direction. According to the Japan Times, a new survey of Japanese people ...

Information gathered by Citi Business News indicates that government has commenced meetings with local investors to raise its first dollar denominated bond locally. The Finance Minister, Seth Terkper met the investors in Accra last Friday to convince them invest in government’s upcoming $100 million bond this month. The bond, if successful will be used to ...

Financial Analyst, Sydney Casley Hayford, has watered down suggestions that filing fees being charged by the Electoral Commission is expensive. The Commission has been criticized by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Convention People’s Party (CPP) and the People’s National Convention (PNC), for pegging filing fees for the December 7 polls at GHc50,000 and GHc10,000 for ...

At least 20 people have been killed in fighting between rival rebel groups in the Central African Republic, the UN mission in the country says. UN peacekeepers said they had intervened to stop further violence in the northern town of Kaga Bandoro, near where the killings happened. A spokesman for the presidency put the death ...

President John Mahama on Saturday presented the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) 2016 manifesto in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region. The manifesto, according to Mahama, hinges on four thematic areas, which includes putting people first, strong and resilient economy, responding to social infrastructure and improving transparent and accountable governance. President Mahama had said he will aggressively implement ...

A Somali general and at least six of his bodyguards have been killed by a suicide car bomber, police say. The attacker rammed a car carrying explosives into General Mohamed Jimale Goobale’s convoy near the defence ministry headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital. Al-Shabab claimed the attack and accused the general of plotting against them. He ...

A former minister of Lands and Natural Resources and now Minister of Roads and Highways Alahaji Inusah Fuseini has called for the licensing of galamsey operators in the country. According to Alahaji Inusah Fuseini the move will ensure proper regulation of the activities of the miners. Speaking to Citi Business News Alahaji Inusah Fuseini said ...

President John Mahama says the National Democratic Congress’ manifesto does not contain mere promises meant to entice Ghanaians to vote for the party. According to him, the manifesto captures the unique plans of the NDC to move Ghana forward if given the mandate to serve for a second term. “Our [manifesto] is not a catalog ...

Twenty one (21) listeners of Citi FM  will have the memorable opportunity of participating in the station’s exciting trip to South Africa. Dubbed the Robben Island Experience, participants will tour Cape Town’s Robben Island; where South African freedom fighter, and first black president, Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27-year jail term. They will also ...

At least 29 people have been injured in an explosion in a crowded district of New York City. The cause of the blast late on Saturday in Chelsea remains unclear. Mayor Bill de Blasio described it as “intentional” but said that there were no known links to terror. The force of the blast blew out ...

The Ho Technical University (HTU), has matriculated its first batch of 13 graduate students of the Master of Technology programmes. The programmes are being run in collaboration with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Professor Emmanuel Sakyi, Vice Chancellor, Ho Technical University, in a speech read on his behalf, said the highly ...

The 2016 Presidential nominee of the Progressive Peoples’ Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, wants Ghanaians to reject President Mahama in the December polls due to what he says is his bad record in government. According to him, President Mahama has failed to deliver on the promises that won him the 2012 elections. Speaking at ...

President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday assured the chiefs and people of the Volta Region that he would never take the Region for granted. “Indeed, I shall never take any Region for granted. I pledge to ensure that the Volta Region gets its deserved fair share of the development cake,” he said. President Mahama gave ...

Policy think tank, IMANI, has denied speculations its IMANIfesto programme is being sponsored by a political party. The Executive Director of IMANI, Franklin Cudjoe, in a Facebook post indicated that the speculations were false. He posted, “our manifesto work has not been paid for by any political party in Ghana. We started this manifesto work ...

Watford overcame Manchester United at Vicarage Road to continue Jose Mourinho’s nightmare week, with the 3-1 win sending the Red Devils to three defeats in a row. Etienne Capoue put the hosts in front in the first half, before Marcus Rashford capitalised on a loose ball to equalise. However, Juan Camilo Zuniga – on as ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given indication some multinational companies have initiated processes to list on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), from next year. It comes on the back of the passage of the Securities Industry Bill (SIB) by Parliament in July this year. Though the SEC is awaiting the Presidential assent for the ...

It was a beautiful night of praise and worship at the Accra International Conference Center (AICC) yesterday [Saturday] at Sing Out 2016. The ensemble of acts headlined by world-renowned gospel musician Marvin Sapp,  thrilled the audience with song after song at the AICC. The AICC was packed to the rafters as the much-anticipated event was patronised by hundreds ...

Snapchat may soon be your go-to destination for movie tickets. The photo sharing app may be moving close to a more regular ticket buying experience, according to an executive at movie ticketing company Fandango. Speaking Thursday to The New York Times, Fandango president Paul Yanover — who was promoting a new integration with Facebook Messenger ...

Have you been in a situation where you feel so dejected with dating that you’re ready to give up. “There just aren’t any good guys out there anymore,” you lament. Bad relationships will do this to you. After a while of dating Mr Wrong and Mr Cheater, it’s so easy to quit the dating scene ...