Minister for Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga, has said he understands football ruling body, FIFA, and its decision to write to the Ghana Football Association over the Presidential Commission of Inquiry but he insists that there is nothing to worry about. He explained that FIFA’s wish to know what was happening in Ghana was very ...
The Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper on Thursday answered urgent questions in Parliament on why his Ministry has delayed statutory payments to state agencies. In his answers to the House, the Minister defended his Ministry’s decision to hold off tax resources from the various statutory funds explaining that paying off the arrears could trigger more ...
Finance Minister, Seth Terkper,  answered questions on Ghana’s economy on a special edition of the Citi Breakfast Show. The minister answered questions from Citi FM’s Bernard Avle, Radio Gold’s Alhassan Suhuyini and the general public aired on both 97.3 Citi FM and Radio Gold. The special breakfast session with the minister was heavily patronized on ...
Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has answered questions on Ghana’s economy on a special edition of the Citi Breakfast Show. The minister answered questions from Citi FM’s Bernard Avle, Radio Gold’s Alhassan Suhuyini and the general public aired on both 97.3 Citi FM and Radio Gold. The special breakfast session with the minister was heavily patronized ...
Current President of the Zambian Football Association Kalusha Bwalya says Ghana should pick valuable lessons from their disastrous World Cup campaign which resulted in the teams early exit from their group. According to him players called into the national team must show reference for authority and the regulations that govern the squad. “To play in ...
Ghana’s cycling team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games is getting itself ready for the event . Spokesperson for the Ghana Cycling Federation Dennis Moore has told Citi Sports that things are progressing well as they continue with preparations ahead of the games which begin later this month.  He disclosed that the cyclists have already spent ...
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan wants the government to borrow $1bn (£580m) to strengthen the military’s capability to fight militant Islamists. Mr Jonathan wrote to parliament, asking for the expenditure to be approved. Nigeria has a military budget of about $6bn a year but large sums are lost to corruption, critics say. Mr Jonathan has ...
The Deputy Majority Leader of Parliament, Alfred Agbesi, has said that the decision to rise early has nothing to do with the financial status of the legislature. Parliament will rise on Friday to make way for expansion and repair works in the House in order to conveniently accommodate all the 275 members, and according to ...
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has confirmed that the Association was requested by FIFA to confirm that a Commission had been set up by the government to investigate the issues surrounding the participation of the Black Stars in the 2014 World Cup. The spokesperson of the GFA, Ibrahim Sanni Daara told Citi News that the ...
Following the introduction of the automatic adjustment formula for the pricing of petroleum products, the average commuter has had to pay much more on transportation cost at least every two months. A review of the prices is done every two weeks. In 2014 alone, the regulator National Petroleum Authority has maintained the price of petrol ...
A Malaysian airliner reportedly with 295 people on board has crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia Airlines said it had lost contact with Flight MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukraine, it said in a tweet. An aviation source in Moscow told ...
A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency. The aircraft, which other sources said was a Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, came down near the city of Donetsk, stronghold ...
Louis van Gaal admits he faces a “difficult challenge” but insists he will do his utmost to restore glory to Manchester United. As the club’s new manager faced the media for the first time at Old Trafford, Van Gaal said he has realised within two days the magnitude of the club and the size of ...
Louis van Gaal admits he faces a “difficult challenge” but insists he will do his utmost to restore glory to Manchester United. As the club’s new manager faced the media for the first time at Old Trafford, Van Gaal said he has realised within two days the magnitude of the club and the size of ...
Organised Labour is expected to demonstrate on Wednesday to register their displeasure over their Second Tier Occupational Pension Scheme. Government in a letter dated June 20  informed Organised Labour of a board set up to manage the pension scheme. But Organised Labour is insisting the sub unions under them manage their own pension scheme with the required ...
Finance minister Seth Tekper has confirmed Cocobod will seek additional funding for this year’s syndicated loan. Cocobod had earlier announced it will seek 1.8 billion dollars this year for its syndicated loan. However finance minister Seth Tekper has announced this figure will be increased to 2 billion dollars. Last year Cocobod signed a $1.2 billion ...
Israel will not be allowed to host Champions League or Europa League games because of the conflict in the country. Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Be’er Sheva will have to propose alternative home venues “until further notice” to Uefa, European football’s governing body. Uefa has also ruled that Russian and Ukrainian teams ...
Finance minister Seth Tekper has admitted that certain decisions taken by government are to be blamed for the country’s current economic challenges. According to Seth Tekper poor estimation on the part of government in taking certain decisions among others may have led to country’s current woes. ‘‘What did we do wrong, if you take the ...
The General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Bernard Monah has advised government to find other options to finance projects earmarked under the $3 billion China Development Bank(CDB) loan facility. Speaking to Citi News, Mr. Monah advised government to “look at other sources of raising money to be able to cover the kind of ...
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