The various observer missions monitoring the elections in Kenya have called for peace in that country. Preliminary presidential election results project a convincing win for incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta but the opposition leader Raila Odinga has cried foul, claiming “fraud” in the election process, which began on Tuesday. There are now heightened tensions in the ...

Kenya’s electoral commission has denied opposition claims its IT system had been hacked in order to manipulate Tuesday’s election results. Chief electoral officer Ezra Chiloba told reporters the systems were not compromised at any point. He spoke out after presidential candidate Raila Odinga rejected provisional results indicating a strong lead for President Uhuru Kenyatta. The ...

Pressure is mounting on the newly sworn in members of the board of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to push interest rates down. The development follows demands from the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia for them to reduce the current high interest rates in the country. Ghana has one of the highest interest rates in ...

Pressure is mounting on the newly sworn in members of the board of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to push interest rates down. The development follows demands from the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia for them to reduce the current high interest rates in the country. Ghana has one of the highest interest rates in ...

Ghana’s inflation for July 2017 dropped to 11.9 percent. This represents a 0.2 percent reduction from the 12.1 percent recorded in June this year. The consumer price inflation represents the change over time in the general prices of goods and services that consumers purchase. The Acting Government Statistician Mr. Baah Wadieh explained that the reduction ...

With two days to the start of the Premier League live on Citi 97.3 FM, a new sponsor has joined the boat. Dreamoval (Slydepay) is joining Premium Bank to partners the station’s coverage of the league which starts on August 11 with Arsenal and Leicester City being the first fixture. Dreamoval’s Slydepay is an online ...

A Deputy Health Minister, Aboagye Gyedu, has warned public and private nursing training schools against flouting the directive to reduce their intake. “Let me take this opportunity to send a note of caution to every principal, that the ministry is not going to tolerate anybody who flouts this particular direction,” the Minister stated in an address to residents ...

Protesters and police in Kenya have clashed after the leader of the opposition claimed he was cheated of victory by a hacking attack that he said manipulated the results in the country’s presidential election. Raila Odinga, the leader of the National Super Alliance, said election commission computer systems and databases were tampered with overnight to “create errors” ...

The government’s directive to give quotas to nursing trainee schools is to help improve the quality of nurses in the country, according to the Ministry of Health. The Ministry believes this will also allow training institutions to produce nurses to meet the demands of the health sector, thus reducing unemployment. This new directive means public and private ...

Former Houston Rockets power forward Pops Mensah-Bonsu is set to team up with NBA Champion David West in a training camp for kids in Ghana according to reports from BasketabllGhana.com. West and some other NBA players including Rashual Butler and T.J Warren will join some locally based coaches to carry out the clinic at the ...

Zimbabwe is to build a $1 billion (£770m) university dedicated to the man accused of leading his country to the brink of economic collapse, Robert Mugabe. Jonathan Moyo, minister of tertiary education, told reporters it was a fitting tribute to the 93-year-old president’s “commitment to education and his exemplary leadership”. It is unclear where the ...

The Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has inaugurated the new board of the Bank of Ghana (BoG). The 13 member board has the Governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr Ernest Addison as its Chairman. The Governor’s two deputies Dr Maxwell Opoku Afari and Dr Johnson P Asiama are also members of the board. Other ...

Two Indian merchants have been arrested for allegedly smuggling unwholesome food items into the country and selling them to the public. The two, Sumit Aswani and Yogendra Swani, the Warehouse Manager and the Secretary, respectively, of the suspected importing company, are currently assisting the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) in investigations. Some of the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufu-Addo has promised to recognize all persons who contributed towards Ghana’s struggle for independence from her colonial masters. According to him, one of such persons is Dr. George Alfred Grant, popularly referred to as Paa Grant, who hailed from Axim in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region. Dr. Paa ...

North Korea has said it is considering carrying out missile strikes on the US Pacific territory of Guam. The North’s official news agency said on Tuesday the plan involved firing medium-to-long-range rockets at Guam, where US strategic bombers are based. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, flying into Guam, said there was no imminent threat ...

Over one hundred workers of TV3 Company limited have been laid off in a retrenchment exercise. Reports indicate that about 40 management staff and 60 junior staff were affected in the exercise. A letter seen by Citi News stated that the decision was made due to the on-going organizational and workforce restructuring of the Media ...

The Energy Ministry has withdrawn the draft national LPG policy following massive opposition from some stakeholders. The Tanker Drivers Association expressed outrage over some components of the draft policy saying it will put its members out of business and create a monopoly for oil company Puma Energy. The drivers also planned to demonstrate against the government ...

The Importers and Exporters Association fear government’s September 1, 2017, deadline for the full-scale implementation of the paperless regime at ports may be too much of them. The Association has now suggested a piloting of the process at the Takoradi Port before full implementation begins in 2018. The Executive Secretary of Association, Sampson Asaaki Awingobit, ...

Pastor and Gospel Recording artist, Denzel Agyeman Prempeh will headline the “Touching God’s Heart” gospel concert slated for August 13 at the National Theatre in Accra. The 2017 event, themed “A Deeper Touch, Give Us Relationship”, is in support of families with Cerebral Palsy. The concert is also being held in celebration of Ghana’s 60th anniversary. ...