Dabokpa Technical Institute in the Northern Region has been temporarily shut down, effective Wednesday, March 15, 2017. The Northern Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service, Alhaji Mohammed Haroun Cambodia authorized its closure following students’ riot. An eyewitness told Citi News that final year students on Tuesday visited the school dining hall and vandalized pans ...

Distributors of Awake Purified Drinking Water have made a donation of GHc100,000 to the National Cardiothoracic Centre as part of the Awake #One4Life initiative to save lives. The gesture caters for the fourth quarter period of 2016 following a commitment to donate GH¢0.01 and GH¢0.02 made on each sale of Awake Water to support heart ...

The National Hajj Board says it will push for an investigation into the GHc 24 million Hajj debt owed by the previous board to the Saudi Arabian government. At a press conference the Chairman of the Hajj Board, Sheikh I C Quaye said part of the debt was owed to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which meant Ghana ...

The candidate he was advising last fall was running on a platform of America First. The client he was working for last fall was paying him more than $500,000 to put Turkey first. Michael T. Flynn, who went from the campaign trail to the White House as President Trump’s first national security adviser, filed papers ...

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako Atta, has assured that his Ministry will blacklist road contractors who deliver shoddy work. Speaking to the media on a working visit to some road projects within Greater Accra Region, the Minister reiterated his government’s commitment to sanction contractors who fail to give value for money for ...

Deputy Attorney General nominee, Joseph Kpemka, has reiterated the government’s pledge to ensure that people implicated in corrupt scandals face the law. According to him, he will as part of his mandate ensure that the law is fairly applied even to government officials, to promote justice. “We are going to pursue with all the might at ...

The founding President of Imani Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has expressed disappointment at the number of ministers appointed by President Akufo-Addo. According to him, the president has appointed too many ministers to serve in government, arguing this will have negative implications on the public purse. President Akufo-Addo on Wednesday made new ministerial appointments, bringing the number appointed ...

The Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Tony Elumelu, has assured President  Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, of his bank’s support for the growth and development of the critical sectors of Ghana’s economy, as government seeks to return the nation back onto the path of progress and prosperity. According to Tonly Elumelu, investor confidence in ...

Ghana can do with just about 30 ministers who will be in charge of running the various ministries and regions. This is the assertion by founding president of Imani Africa, Franklin Cudjoe. According to him, the size of the country’s economy makes it possible for the country to have fewer ministers than it currently has ...

The Snapchatification of everything has resulted in backlash for WhatsApp, prompting it to revive its text Status option while keeping its image-based replacement. The move shows how social apps must quickly react to feedback if they make a false step in modernizing to adapt to visual communication. In mid-February, WhatsApp removed the feature that let ...

Asante Kotoko stayed with Aduana Stars at the top of the Ghana Premier League following a 1-0 win over WAFA in Kumasi on Wednesday. Frank Sarfo Gyamfi’s goal late in the second half gave the Porcupine Warriors the win to move them to 17 points and set them up for a clash with rivals Hearts ...

Russia’s competition watchdog has found that Apple fixed the prices of certain iPhone models sold in the country. The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (Fas) said that Apple’s local subsidiary told 16 retailers to maintain the recommended prices of phones in the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 families. Non-compliance with the pricing guidelines may have led to ...

Emma Watson is taking legal action after dozens of private images of her appeared online. A spokesman for the Beauty and the Beast star confirmed the pictures – which show her trying on various outfits – were stolen. “Photos from a clothes fitting Emma had with a stylist a couple of years ago have been ...

A Federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump’s new travel ban, hours before it was due to begin at midnight on Thursday. US District Judge Derrick Watson cited “questionable evidence” in the government’s argument that the ban was a matter of national security. President Trump described the ruling as “unprecedented judicial overreach”. The ...