Citi 97.3 FM has announced an exciting line-up of acts for this year’s Music of Ghana Origin (MOGO) celebration. The annual event that seeks to promote Ghana’s indigenous music forms, especially Highlife, would have some of the most revered names in the industry on March 25, 2017 to celebrate sixty years of authentic Ghanaian music. ...

The Sports Minister, Isaac Asiamah, was left red-faced at the late start of the Ghana Olympic Committee’s Elective Congress on Tuesday at the Alisa Hotel. The Minister arrived at the venue for the event at the advertised time of 9:00am, but after waiting for about 30 minutes, he decided to leave. He was slated to ...

As a rule, I do not comment on the work of other journalists. I try not to criticize their views on life or national debates either. It’s a small community, and, we often are on one side, trying to hold the powerful accountable and keep citizens informed. We do so much with so little under ...

SUNDA Ghana Investments (SUNDA), a Chinese company, has responded to the plea of victims of last Sunday’s fire at Busia Junction in Accra. Mr. Isaac Hu, the Managing Director of SUNDA, importers and distributors of household items for the past thirteen years in Ghana, said the company could not sit by and watch the suffering ...

Basic education in the Banda Ahenkro District of the Brong Ahafo Region, has been brought to a halt amidst threats on the lives non-indigenes in the community, which includes teachers in 40 basic schools in the area. The threats emanated from an unidentified group in the area which is fiercely opposed to all government workers who ...

Basic education in the Banda Ahenkro district of the Brong Ahafo Region has been brought to a halt amidst threats on the lives  non-indigenes in the community, which includes teachers in the 40 basic schools in the area. The threats emanated from an unidentified group in the area which is fiercely opposed to all government workers ...

Government will have to cut down its expenditure significantly if the Ghanaian banking sector is to see a reduction in the high-interest rates, the Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance, Ken Thompson, has noted. “If we really want to get the interest rates down, then the government must start with expenditure,” Mr. Thompson said on the ...

With the growing competition in Ghana’s telecom industry, telecom analyst, Fouad Chalabi has urged Expresso to concentrate on a section of the market or face extinction by market forces. According to him, the company can direct its investment into providing data while it looks for investors to upgrade its technology from CDMA to GSM. In ...

The newly appointed Metropolitan Chief Executive for Tamale, Mohammed Iddrisu Musah, popularly known as Musah Superior, has outlined three priority areas for the people of Tamale as he prepares to take on the mantle of leadership in the area. Musah Superior was appointed last week together with three others in the President’s first list of Chief ...

Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Gloria Akuffo, has called for an amendment to the provisions of the Presidential Transition Act, 2012 (Act 845) to make it more definitive. Speaking during an Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) 2017 Presidential Transition forum, Madam Akuffo noted that the controversy over the residences and vehicles for outgoing government officials, ...

Government has been ostensibly hamstrung by some last-minute contracts signed by the Mahama administration, the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Marfo has revealed. The Mahama administration came under intense criticism for what was described as midnight decisions to contract and recruit for and on behalf of the country within the last two weeks of its lifespan. Speaking ...

Social media giants should “do a better job” to protect users from online hate speech, British MPs have said. Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google were asked by the Home Affairs select committee why they did not police their content more effectively, given the billions they made. They were told they had a “terrible reputation” ...

Egypt’s general prosecution has referred Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou to the country’s Economic Court on charges of violating local anti-monopoly rules. Caf Secretary General Hicham El Amrani has also been charged. A lawyer representing both parties attended a hearing on Monday. With Caf based in Cairo, Egyptian authorities maintain it is governed ...

US President Donald Trump paid $38m (£31m) in tax on more than $150m (£123m) income in 2005, a leaked partial tax return shows. Two pages of the tax return were revealed by US TV network MSNBC but they gave no details on income sources or of charitable giving. The White House said publishing the tax ...

President Akufo-Addo has reaffirmed his commitment to building a non-denominational national cathedral in the country. According to him, the project is dear to his heart, and he is certain it will inure to the benefit of all Ghanaians when completed. Addressing members of the Christian Council of Ghana who paid a courtesy call on him ...

A former Minister of Education, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, has said that efforts must be concentrated on improving the current educational system rather considering proposals to reintroduce the former ‘O’ and ‘A’ level system. According to her, the previous education system also had challenges for which reason it was changed. She called for caution ...

Residents and traders at Old Fadama in Accra, have given the government a one-week ultimatum to evict some group of people purporting to be members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) causing troubles in the community. The group, predominantly of Dagomba descent, has been accused of seizing properties and threatening lives since the NPP’s 2016 election ...

The 37 Military Hospital, as part of its 75th-anniversary celebrations, has organised a two-day blood donation exercise. The aim of the project is to restock the blood bank and provide support for persons who require blood during this period. The exercise under the caption, “1 pint can save 3 lives” is to encourage many blood ...

The Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has been selling the Nana Akufo-Addo government’s ‘One District One Factory’ programme to businesses in Mauritius. The ‘One District One Factory’ programme is a public-private partnership for ensuring nationwide spread of industrialization in all 216 districts in Ghana. The private sector will provide the investment, although government could ...