Citi FM’s Citi Business Edition has been adjudged the Best Radio Programme that supports and champions issues in the SME sector at the 4th Ghana SME Awards. The Citi Business Edition, which airs every Friday from 7:10 to 7:40 am on the Citi Breakfast Show is hosted by Bernard Avle, who is also the host of ...

The Minority in Parliament has called on New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to apologize to Ghanaians for failing to honour their  campaign promise to reduce fuel prices. According to the deputy Ranking Member on the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament, Adam Mutawakilu, the NPP had been elected on the back of repeated promises to scrap ‘nuisance taxes’ imposed ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has reached out to chiefs and traditional rulers for support to ensure the success of the free SHS policy. “I want you to support and back me fully in the implementation of the policy,” the President said when he met Chiefs from the Ahafo Council of Chiefs at the Flagstaff House. He highlighted ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), says it is cracking down on customers who have illegally connected their structures to the national power grid. The acting Managing Director of ECG, Ing. Boakye Appiah, said that a programme had been initiated by the company which involved routine visits to the premises of customers in order to ensure nothing ...

As the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government contemplates a possible review of the duration of the Senior High School from three years back to four years, the immediate past Education Minister is asking the government to concentrate on quality rather than duration. According to Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, the duration is not the only ...

The current president of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Affail Monney, is confident that he will be given another term as president of the Association in tomorrow’s [Friday] elections. The election was supposed to be held in March, 2017, but was postponed because of some unresolved disputes. At the time, Lloyd Evans, who is also ...

The government has given encroachers on potions of lands that lead to a dump site at Mpoase, in Dansoman Glefe, Friday, to evacuate or face eviction. A Deputy Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Michael Dzato, who made the announcement, said this is to allow contractors move to site to start the emergency evacuation and ...

An estimated 10,000 Ghanaians are suffering from dementia, a neurological disorder that affects the brain leading to the gradual loss of the short-term memory of an individual. The condition also affects the ability of the affected persons to understand what is happening around them, and causes them to be confused as well as frustrated as ...

Kwame Asare Obeng, also known as A-Plus, is alleged to have released the leaked audio tape suggesting there was a cover-up in the probe of President Akufo-Addo’s two Deputy Chiefs of Staff as some form of revenge against the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). The Deputy Director of the CID, ACP Maame Yaay Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, who also ...

The Northern Regional capital, Tamale, for the first time is hosting this year’s National Food and Agric Show (FAGRO). The event’s expansion forms part of the FAGRO management’s decentralization policy. About 60 local and foreign companies are participating in the five-day event on the theme, “Creating jobs in agriculture: Northern Region in focus.” The five-day long event ...

Bayern Munich have sacked Carlo Ancelotti after Wednesday’s 3-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League. The Italian, who led Bayern to the Bundesliga title last season having been appointed to replace Pep Guardiola last summer, was dismissed after a meeting of the club’s board on Thursday. Earlier, Bayern’s chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had called for ...

The Koforidua Technical University (KTU), is faced with a deficit of qualified human resource. The Vice-Chancellor of the KTU, Professor Smile Dzisi, noted that this lack of qualified personnel has hampered attempts to ensure the sustainability of renewable energy systems in Ghana. She lamented that this has placed the country in a disadvantaged position to ...

The Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has inaugurated a newly constituted 11-member Governing Council for the Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL). The Council is the highest decision-making body of the Institute, with the mandate to ensuring that the Institute achieved its aims and objectives. The new Council is under the Chairmanship of Dr. ...

A labour analyst, Kofi Davor, has chided the workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for their recent calls for the payment of severance packages to them. The Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU) picketed at the premises of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), on Wednesday, demanding that redundancy payments be made to ECG staff ahead ...

The Deputy Director of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), ACP Maame Yaay Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has accused Kwame Asare Obeng, also known as A-Plus, of doctoring the circulating audio suggesting there was a cover-up in the probe of President Akufo-Addo’s two Deputy Chiefs of Staff. ACP Maame Yaay Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, in a statement, said she had listened to ...

The Attorney General has filed an application at the High Court to stay execution of the judgment ordering the Ghana Immigration Service, to restore the work and residence visa of Indian Businessman Ashok Kumar Sivaram. According to the Attorney General, it has filed an appeal against the decision quashing the deportation order, and wants the ...

Management of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), has scheduled its 11th Congregation, which was postponed indefinitely due to the absence of a school governing council to Friday 6th October. The 11th congregation, which was earlier slated to take place on September 22nd under the Ministry of Education’s National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), was ...

One of the least discussed branding topic is that of brand personality because, there’s usually a confusion regarding what it really means and its relevance. One of the reasons that account for this in my opinion is that, most brands do not exhibit strong personalities or do not project their personality but are rather fixated ...

Michy Batshuayi scored a 94th-minute winner as Chelsea snatched a dramatic victory against Atletico Madrid to maintain their 100% start in Champions League Group C. Substitute Batshuayi tapped home from close range with the last kick of the game from Marcos Alonso’s cross. The Blues fell behind to a 40th-minute Antoine Griezmann penalty despite having ...

Students of Tabri Gyansah Junior High School at Mpaaso Number 1, in the Ahafo Ano South District of the Ashanti Region, have been left stranded as the school has been razed by fire. In the late hours of Wednesday, the three unit classroom block together with the store house and headmaster’s office, were affected by ...