The Minister of Communication, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has paid a familiarization visit to MTN Ghana, the leading telecoms company in the country. The Minister was welcomed by the CEO of MTN Ghana, Mr. Ebenezer Twum Asante, together with the Executive Committee of the company. As part of the visit, the CEO and his team shared ...

Lawyers for the Jihad Chabaan, the Marwako supervisor at the Abelenkpe branch of Marwako fast food charged with assault, have has filed a new application asking the court to order the prosecution to furnish the defence with all documents needed for their case. According to the defence counsel, led by Augustine Asafo Adjei, this would aid ...

Four people, including an armed police officer and a man believed to be the attacker, have died in a terrorist incident near the Houses of Parliament. One of the victims was among several pedestrians hit by a car on Westminster Bridge, before it crashed. An officer protecting Parliament was stabbed by an attacker, who was ...

Government may not be in favour of the current moves underway to enhance interoperability in mobile money transactions across telecommuncations networks, according to indications from the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. A telecommunications company, Sibton Switch Systems, won a controversial bid to oversee this interoperability at a cost of GHc 4.6 billion from the Bank of Ghana, the most expensive ...

Did you know that 663 million people live without safe water supply close to their homes, making them spend countless hours queuing or trekking to distant sources, and coping with the health impacts of using contaminated water? Figures released by the United Nations suggest 1.8 billion people globally use a source of drinking water contaminated ...

A group in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), calling itself United NDC, has called on the party’s National Organizer, Kofi Adams, to desist from declaring support for a preferred presidential candidate ahead of the party’s congress for the polls in 2020. Prior to the party’s plans to hold a Congress in 2018 to elect ...

A Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Chief of the University of Michigan, USA, Professor Erica Marsh, has emphasized that infertility is not only a women’s problem but men’s as well. The issue of infertility is a serious challenge in Ghana and Africa in general, as far as marriage between a man and woman is concerned, where ...

The Citi Breakfast Show on Wednesday , March 22, 2017 discussed the state of water bodies in Ghana as we celebrate world water day.

A Non-Governmental Organization, A Rocha Ghana, has launched a four-year project in Damongo to safeguard the Volta Basin within the Mole ecological zone in the Northern Region. The project codenamed, “Shared Resources Joint Solution” launch coincided with the 2017 World Water Day celebration. With the intention to upscale the project, it is to enhance natural ...

A Lithuanian man has been charged with tricking two US technology firms into wiring him $100m (£80.3m) through an email phishing scam. Posing as an Asian-based manufacturer, Evaldas Rimasauskas tricked staff into transferring money into bank accounts under his control, US officials said. The companies were not named but were described as US-based multinationals, with ...

Workers of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) on Wednesday morning abandoned work and converged on the premises of the Commission’s regional offices to demand the immediate removal of their Executive Secretary, Samuel Kojo Sarpong. Workers of the Commission alleged that Mr. Sarpong, with the backing of members of the Board, has misappropriated the Commission’s funds. ...

A woman has died on Westminster Bridge in central London in what police are treating as a terrorist incident. A police officer was also stabbed in the nearby Houses of Parliament by an attacker, who was shot by police. The attacker struck several pedestrians as he drove a car across the bridge, before crashing it ...

The Centre for Local Governance Advocacy has called for a clarification of what it considers to be an anomaly in the allocation of the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) in the 2017 budget. The current allocation of about GHc 1.5 billion falls short of mandatory 5% of total revenue and is below government allocations in ...

Prof. Stephane Gentil, a Plastic Surgeon from France, on Tuesday donated two incubators and a radiant warmer valued at 55,000 dollars to the 37 Military Hospital Maternity Ward to help take care of premature babies. Prof Gentil said the gesture would supplement the logistical needs of the maternity and help increase the chance of survival ...

Former Liverpool captain and coach Ronnie Moran has died at the age of 83. Moran made 379 appearances for Liverpool between 1952 and 1966 and was the club’s longest-serving employee when he retired in 1998. He joined the coaching staff in 1966 and twice filled in as caretaker manager – after Kenny Dalglish’s resignation in ...

The National Communications Authority, NCA, has directed all mobile network operators to disregard notice from Subah Infosolutions requesting data purportedly to be used in anti-Sim Box field operations. A statement from the NCA and copied to Citi Business News said, “Subah Info solutions has requested some mobile network operators, to submit call detail records of ...

The President of Regent University College of Science And Technology, Professor N.N.N Nsowah Nuamah says tertiary students must see research as important medium to enhance their knowledge. According to him, most students lack exposure to modern ideas because the zeal among students to seek for ideas has dwindled. Speaking at the launch of Africa Intellectual ...

Ghana’s energy sector has received some boost as Israeli Technology Company; COMSEC Solutions invests into the nation’s backup power systems. The company, which has already partnered the Ministry of Finance to provide backup energy devices, aims at expanding its operations across the country. Speaking to Citi Business News after a sensitization workshop for some stakeholders ...

The imminent threat of Ghana’s water resources running dry in a few years gets scarier by the day. Water treatment plants are being shut down one after the other almost every time, due to pollution, largely by the activities of illegal gold miners. The Head of Communications at the Ghana Water Company, Steve Mantey on ...