The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Ablema Afeku has promised to enforce a Legislative Instrument (LI) to regulate and ensure safety measures at tourist sites to avert disasters. According to her, the tourist sites will mostly be managed by the private sector when the LI is put in place. Her comments follows a ghastly ...

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has directed all mobile network operators to within a month’s time; submit a roadmap to address all concerns of quality of service by customers within Accra and Tema. It follows the numerous customer complaints to the Authority over quality of service challenges. These also range from call drops, poor quality ...

The first lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has expressed her grief and sadness at the loss of about students at the Kintampo waterfalls on Sunday. At least 19 persons, including students, perished and over 20 sustained various degrees of injuries when a storm dragged fallen trees from the top of the waterfalls crushing the people who were swimming ...

A level 100 student of the University for Development studies (UDS) Navrongo campus, Fusenu Mohammed Amin Saha has been confirmed dead after being electrocuted while on a mango tree on Saturday 18th March, 2017 on campus. According to an eyewitness, Mr. Abdallah Sadique, the deceased, a biochemistry student resident at Savanna Hall climbed a mango ...

The Minority in Parliament has called for a thorough investigation into the Kintampo Waterfalls disaster which has left at least 19 persons dead and 22 injured. In a statement extending commiserations to the bereaved and injured persons, the Minority urged government to “diligently carry full-scale investigations into the Kintampo Waterfalls incident and make the findings public.” A ...

Billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller has died at the age of 101. His spokesperson Fraser P Seitel said the banker died peacefully in his sleep at his Pocantico Hills home in New York on Monday morning. Rockefeller, who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade, was the grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D ...

The activities of nomadic herdsmen have led to the closure of about six basic schools in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region. Tensions had erupted after the nomads started encroaching on some school lands to graze their cattle, leading to students and teachers abandoning their schools in fear of possible attacks. The Eastern ...

Award winning Ghanaian rapper and philanthropist, Okyeame Kwame, received a United States Presidential Volunteer Service Award on Sunday. The award was given to him in recognition of his humanitarian efforts in Ghana – the Okyeame Kwame Hepatitis B campaign. The Presidential Service Award is the highest civilian honour that is granted to US citizens ad ...

Ghana has been ranked the 131st happiest country to live in, according to the new report. Dubbed “World Happiness Report 2017’, the report ranked 155 countries in the world based on key indicators including GDP, healthy life expectancy, freedom of choice and corruption perception. According to the report, Norway is the happiest country in the ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he is yet to recover from the death of the former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Obetsebi Lamptey. Nana Addo, who is currently out of the country for the 5th edition of the Africa CEO Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, in an audio posted on his Facebook ...

Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, is in the Brong Ahafo Region at the Kintampo Waterfalls following the tragic accident on Sunday, which claimed 18 lives and left 22 injured. Accompanying the Vice President were the Interior, National Security and Tourism Ministers, as well as the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister. Addressing the press, Dr. Bawumia described the ...

Citi Business News’ checks at fuel stations have revealed that major Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have reduced the prices of their products for the second consecutive time this month; March. The reduction is in line with the recent tax cuts announced by the government in the 2017 budget. The OMCs earlier in the second pricing ...

The Disciplinary Committee of FIFA has banned Ghanaian match official Joseph Odartei Lamptey from taking part in any kind of football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) at national and international level for life. Referee Joseph Lamptey was found guilty of influencing a World Cup qualifier game between South Africa and Senegal in November 2016. ...

Restricted Mode aims to filter out “more mature content” and is switched off by default. But some vloggers, including Tyler Oakley, say they’re “perplexed” by non-explicit material being blocked. The site tweeted: “We regret any confusion this has caused and are looking into your concerns.” YouTube said: “LGBTQ+ videos are available in Restricted Mode, but ...

The release of the Joe Ghartey committee report on the bribery allegations that hit Parliament recently may further delay, as a Member of the House has applied to provide fresh evidence on the matter to the Committee. This comes at a time when the committee was just about to wrap up on its investigations. The ...

Despite the brouhaha surrounding President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo’s ministerial appointments, various interest groups continue to lobby for positions for their preferred personalities. Latest to join the fray is the Tamale South New Patriotic Party (NPP) coalition, which has appealed to President Nana Addo to appoint Yakubu Yussif, the party’s 2016 Parliamentary candidate for ...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is to officially notify the European Union next Wednesday that the UK is leaving. Downing Street said she would write a letter to the European Council, adding that it expected negotiations on the terms of exit and future relations to then begin as quickly as possible. The move comes nine ...

The 2017 edition of Citi FM’s Music of Ghanaian Origin [#MOGO2017], will be a perfect opportunity to make a statement for Ghanaian music, musician Amandzeba Nat Brew has stated. Amandzeba will be performing at the MOGO dinner dance, which will be held at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra. He will be sharing the ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has expressed his deepest condolences to the bereaved families following the accident at the Kintampo Waterfalls in the Brong Ahafo Region which has so far claimed at least 18 lives. The accident occurred after a huge tree run off the top of the waterfall, falling onto the scores of revellers swimming beneath ...