The Bank of Ghana’s decision to name and caution the public from doing business with all institutions operating illegally as microfinance companies should culminate in sanitizing the sector. At least this is the optimism by the Ghana Association of Microfinance Companies (GAMC). The Association is also confident the move will restore confidence in the industry. Reports ...

DCOP Bright Oduro, has been relieved of the position of Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Police Service. ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has thus been directed by the Inspector General of Police, David Asante Apeatu, to act as the Director General of the CID. This directive is to take immediate effect, ...

Students of the Kwadaso Agric College on Tuesday deserted their classrooms in protest of the failure by government to restore their allowances. The Ministry of Agriculture had announced earlier in October, that it had tabled the requests from the students for the restoration of their allowances before Cabinet. That announcement was made following agitations from students ...

Three-year-old Prince Baka and four-year-old Mariam Damali, met their untimely death after they were trapped in the collapsed wall of a church building, which was providing them shelter during a downpour. The pupils, about 40, were enrolled into the new community school established by the Church, Jesus Kingdom Ministry, in the Alorgui suburb of Dzodze; just ...

Some 245 trained but unemployed doctors, have questioned the efforts of the Health and Finance Ministries in absorbing them into the public service. The doctors, who graduated in 2014, say all efforts to secure financial clearance for their absorption have proved futile, whiles many hospitals lack doctors, putting the lives of patients at risk. In ...

One of Ghana’s busiest shopping centers, Accra Mall, will host the country’s first Student Shopping Night on Saturday, 28 October 2017. The night of shopping and entertainment will include free giveaways, live DJs, games and activations. This event is open to all students in all tertiary institutions, who are above 18 years. The students are ...

The Ashanti Regional Security Council has directed management of the State Transport Corporation (STC), to suspend operations at the Asafo bus terminal in Kumasi, until the conflict with operators of the VIP buses is resolved. According to a Citi News source, the meeting between leadership of the VIP, the GPRTU and the STC ended inconclusively. The ...

Six Cohort One businesses from the Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC), have been awarded grants totaling $ 124,900. The six business owners were awarded the Proof of Concept (PoC) grants, after “a competitive pitching process”, in which various companies present “profitable and locally-appropriate solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in Ghana.” The companies are Alchemy Alternative ...

A group calling itself the Coalition for Social Justice, has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to investigate the Managing Director of BOST Alfred Obeng, over the sale of 5 million litres of contaminated fuel. According to the Coalition, Mr. Obeng acted unlawfully when he ordered the sale of the fuel to ...

Citi Business News has gathered that some workers of Airtel and Tigo, are voluntarily leaving the merged entity after the regulator; the National Communications Authority(NCA), approved the merger. On October 13, 2017, the Managing Director of Tigo, Roshi Motman, was named as the new CEO of  the merged  entity, following the resignation of the MD of ...

The Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates, has dismissed as unsubstantiated and frivolous, allegations of fraud made against a Canadian businessman by his Ghanaian partner. The court said there was overwhelming evidence proving that Alistair Jude Mathias, was totally innocent of the charges brought against him by the country’s public prosecutors, and in ...

Ghana and Ivory Coast have established a joint Committee to oversee the implementation of the recent judgment by the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), over the two countries’ maritime border dispute. Following a declaration by Ghanaian President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, that the dispute and its eventual resolution had strengthened the relationship between the two ...

Despite reports highlighting poor quality of meals being served Senior High School students under the free SHS programme, the School Feeding Programme is insisting its Nutrition Department collaborates with caterers under the programme to prepare nutritious meals for pupils. Concerns have been raised about the quality of meals being served over one million and seven ...

Government has urged the former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Professor Emmanuel Martey, to provide evidence of persons within Akufo-Addo administration who are corrupt. Professor Martey at a lecture in the Ashanti Region last week stated that, some officials of the Akufo-Addo government, are already exhibiting signs of corruption and cautioned against such acts. ...

Leicester City have sacked manager Craig Shakespeare just four months after he signed a three-year deal to take the job on a permanent basis. The Foxes are third from bottom in the Premier League and have not won any of their past six league matches. Shakespeare, 53, succeeded title winner Claudio Ranieri in February, initially ...

Alphabet’s Google Inc said on Tuesday it would roll out an “advanced protection program” to provide stronger email security for some users such as government officials, political activists and journalists who are at a higher risk of being targeted by sophisticated hackers. Google users will have the ability to opt in to security settings aimed ...

Two suspected U.S. drone strikes on Tuesday killed 11 people on the mountainous Pakistan-Afghanistan border, following a strike a day earlier that killed 20, government and militant sources said. The attacks came days after a Canadian-American couple held hostage by the Taliban were freed from the area in Pakistan’s northwest, striking a rare positive note ...

The Kwabenya Community Day Senior High School has been without electricity since 2016, when it was commissioned by the previous John Mahama government. This is as a result of a GH¢ 41,000 debt reportedly left behind by the contractors who put up the school. The Headmistress of the School, Elizabeth Sam, who revealed this when ...

Ninety-nine (99) illegal miners including 61 Chinese, have been arrested by government’s anti-galamsey task-force, Operation Vanguard. The latest arrest brings to 461 the number of illegal miners arrested so far. The arrests were made in Western, Ashanti and Eastern Regions, the operational areas of the task-force. The joint military and police task-force was set up in ...

Head coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Steve Polack, has said the club has yet to re-open contract renewal talks with him as he enters the final days of his 6-month contract. The English man replaced Croatian trainer Zdravko Logarusic in May, and has steered the club to president’s cup glory, a 4th place finish in ...