Twelve public sector labour unions have declared an indefinite strike action. This is to protest government’s handling of their tier-2 pension contributions. The unions include the Ghana Medical Association, the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, CLOGSAG and the Ghana National Association of Teachers, GNAT. The unions are demanding that their pension contributions spanning 2010 ...
Government says it is in the process of procuring drones worth $3 million to augment the fight against illegal mining also known as galamsey in the country. Speaking to Citi News, the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu said this is part of a grand strategy to effectively clamp down on illegal miners. ...
The National Council of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has set up an 11-member committee to review all proposals for the party’s constitutional amendments. The Committee, which is chaired by the First Vice Chairman, F.F. Antoh, also has two Deputy Attorney Generals as members, as well as Deputy Local Government Minister, OB Amoah. Addressing ...
Former Liberty Professionals forward, Latif Blessing, says he has a lot more to achieve in the MLS with his club, Sporting Kansas City. The player went to the United States in January and has scored three times in 19 matches for Sporting Kansas City. He says that scoring comes naturally to him but he has ...
The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), Otiko Afisa Djaba, has disclosed that government has released an amount of GH¢10,000,000 towards the settlement of outstanding debts of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP). However, the National Secretariat of the GSFP is working on the reconciliation of the transactions executed within the last two ...
Ghana fell two places to 52nd in the latest FIFA rankings released today by the world governing body for the month of September. Between the last rankings in August and now, the main Black Stars team has drawn once and won once both in matches with Congo Brazzaville while the Black Stars B team lost ...
The author of an article that caused former Attorney General, Martin Amidu to descend on a former deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, claiming the latter was the writer of the article has owned up. Andrews Amadi Krow, who claims to have originally written the article, said he was not contracted or paid by Mr. ...
The author of an article that caused former Attorney General, Martin Amidu to descend on a former Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa claiming the latter was the writer of the article has owned up. Andrews Amadi Krow who originally wrote the article said he was not contracted or paid by Mr. Ablakwa to write the ...
Sources within the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) have confirmed, exclusively to Citi FM, that the company’s board has approved the awarding of a long term Liquefied Natural Gas (“LNG”) supply contract to Gazprom, the world’s largest producer of gas. The long term supply contract is expected to significantly increase the country’s energy security, providing ...
Managers of Expresso have issued a statement restricting any interference in the operations of the company by some thirteen defendants in a court case that placed an interlocutory injunction on such persons. A letter addressed to the General Manager of Kasapa Telecom Limited, Mr. Frederick Quainoo said the defendants, including Mr. Prince Kofi Kludjeson and ...
A former member of FIFA’s Governance Committee has said there were ‘serious allegations’ concerning the election of Egypt’s Hany Abo Rida to the FIFA Council in May. Abo Rida beat Cameroon’s Zelkifli Ngoufonja by 50 votes to 4 in a poll organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). “(Ngoufonja) alleged that (Abo Rida) threw ...
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in the Ashanti Region has suspended new emergency admissions following an acute shortage of doctors at the facility. This was captured in an internal memo issued by the directorate of surgery to the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital and sighted by citifmonline.com. The memo stated that management of the ...
The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) will from October 2017 severely punish all airlines that fail to protect consumer rights and interests of marginalized groups in their operations. It follows the completion of the Directives on Passenger Rights and Consumer Protection which is now applicable to domestic airlines. The move is also in compliance with the ...
Zenith Bank has indicated its readiness to absorb another bank to grow its base and improve its portfolio. It follows the dramatic increase in the minimum paid up capital for commercial banks. The Managing Director of Zenith Bank, Henry Oroh who admits that mergers and acquisitions may not be inevitable however says any such decision ...
Ghanaian producer Gafaci has accused rapper, Sarkodie for remaking his beat for a song on his new album, without giving him credit. The producer on Sunday, took to twitter to register his displeasure at the rapper for not giving him credit for the ‘All I Want Is You’ song on the ‘Highest’ album. “Track 15 ...
The Ghana Education Service (GES) Council has summoned some headmasters of senior high schools (SHS) to Accra to respond to allegations that they are requesting parents and guardians to pay fees already absorbed by the government under its free SHS policy. The council on Wednesday held an emergency meeting to deliberate on the reports and ...
A man’s plan to avoid handing over his pay cheque to his wife by filing a false police report backfired, after police saw through his ruse with the help of traffic camera footage. The man, surnamed Cai, lives in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. He was detained for 10 days and fined 500 yuan (S$103) ...
The US Department of Homeland Security has told government departments and agencies to remove all security software from the Moscow-based company Kaspersky Lab from their IT systems. It said it was concerned about ties between company officials and the Russian intelligence services. The move comes ahead of a vote in the US Senate this week ...
Paris and Los Angeles have been named as hosts of the 2024 and 2028 summer Games respectively by the International Olympic Committee. Both cities had wanted to host the 2024 event, before LA agreed to wait an extra four years after the IOC made guarantees on funding. The Paris Games, which had fallen short with ...
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