The opposition Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has charged the Akufo-Addo government to sit up and deliver the jobs they promised the youth of Ghana. “We experienced a government that was under performing and it was based on those difficulties that Ghanaians felt that there was the need to change the baton. The baton is in ...

24 hours ago the cryptocurrency was trading below $3,700. About an hour ago it surged passed $4,000 and has no signs of stopping. It’s now trading around $4,135.00. For reference, a week ago Bitcoin hit an all-time high as it passed $3,000 for the first time. Check out the chart below to see what the price ...

The National Accreditation Board (NAB) has not accredited the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to operate its National Institute of Social Democracy. The school which was launched by the party last week seeks to imbibe in young people the ideals of social democracy. “In April 2017, the party’s school working committee, based on its previous ...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said he feels ready to return home after medical treatment in the UK, and is awaiting his doctor’s permission. The African leader has recently faced questions at home over whether he is well enough to run the country. Since the start of 2017 he has spent more time in the ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has given GCB Bank Ltd the green light to acquire two local banks UT and Capital bank. A statement from the central bank copied to Citi Business New said ‘The Bank of Ghana has approved a Purchase and Assumption transaction with GCB Bank Ltd that transfers all deposits and selected ...

“Orange Friday,” the second biggest street carnival in West Africa, has been launched in Cape Coast to showcase Ghana and Africa’s cultural masterpieces. It formed part of the numerous activities that precede the celebration of the Oguaa “Fetu Afahye” to educate the people on the need to eat orange fruit for its nutritional value and ...

The Metropolitan Chief Executive of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly, Felix Mensah-La has said TMA will soon deploy personnel to arrest residents who break sanitation laws within the Metropolis. This he said will help curb the indiscriminate littering within Tema. According to him, Tema being an industrial city and one of the best planned community in ...

The anti-illegal mining task-force, has rejected claims its men had a hand in the death of some four persons whose remains were retrieved an abandoned mining pit at Kwabeng in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region. Reports suggest that the four who were transporting an excavator to a mining site fled and abandoned their ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has dispelled rumours that its founder Papa Kwesi Nduom will not contest the 2020 presidential elections. In a rejoinder sighted by Citi News, the party described the rumours as completely “false.” The rejoinder said the rumours has it that Dr. Ndoum made such a comment in an interview on his ...

The Vice-President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has reiterated that the government’s plan to begin implementation of its Free Senior High School (SHS) Policy in September, this year. He said government believed that the policy could help increase enrolment in the tertiary education sector to comparable levels in other African countries. Vice President Dr Bawumia said ...

Latest figures have shown that revenue from Ghana’s oil production increased by 67 percent for the first half of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016. The semi-annual report on the Petroleum Holding Fund and Ghana’s Petroleum Funds shows that Ghana realized 191.32 million dollars in revenue in the first half of this year ...

Music streaming service Soundcloud will live on after securing a reported $170m (£135m) in investment. The platform, popular with emerging artists, faced closure if the new funding was not approved by Friday. “Soundcloud is here to stay,” wrote Alexander Ljung, the company’s chairman, who as part of the deal is stepping down as the firm’s ...

Seventeen people have been killed and eight wounded in a “terrorist attack” in the centre of the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, the government says. Witnesses were quoted as saying that three gunmen opened fire on customers seated outside a restaurant. Security forces killed three attackers, but some people are still trapped in the building, ...