Lukoil Russia’s second-largest oil producer, has made a discovery at Ghana’s offshore Cape Three points project, according to a person with direct knowledge of the development. The company has 90 days to evaluate the find and decide what the next step is, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t ...

A Deputy Minister in charge of Tertiary Institutions, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has assured polytechnic teachers that government will soon pay their August salaries that were frozen as a result of their earlier strike. The Polytechnic Teachers Association (POTAG) declared a strike on May 15 to protest government’s decision to scrap the Book and  Research Allowance. The ...

A carjacked vehicle belonging to the Kenyan president’s security convoy has been found in Uganda. The BMW car was taken at gunpoint last Wednesday night in the capital Nairobi. The director of Interpol in Uganda, Assan Kasingye, told the BBC that the vehicle would now be driven back to Nairobi. The latest Kenyan police figures ...

As social media and technology use grows and becomes inevitable in the lives of millions of Ghanaians and billions of users around the world, 97.3 Citi FM has designed a show to highlight and discuss the trending issues on social media and the tech world, the first by any radio station in Ghana. Citi Trendz, the ...

Flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo will on Monday resume campaigning ahead of the party’s October 18 national delegates’ congress. After the overwhelming 81% votes he received in Sunday’s super delegates congress, Nana Addo and his campaign team say they are poised to get the final endorsement from the 140,000 delegates. The ...

The Municipal Chief Executive for Tema, Isaac Ashai Odamtten is calling on government to upgrade the Tema General hospital to the status of a regional hospital. This, according to him, will enable the hospital deliver efficiently on its core mandate of providing quality health care to patients. As the main referral health centre for most ...

Ghana has been ranked 111th in this year’s Global Competitiveness Index published by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Ghana ranked 103rd last year. According to the World Economic Forum, Ghana jump to 111th this year, largely as a result of slight improvements in its macroeconomic indicators, a reversal of last year’s trend but adds fiscal ...

Chiefs and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the Upper West Region have called on government to urgently place a moratorium on the passage of the Plant Breeders Bill (PBB). The also want government to empower research institutions in the country to join their counterparts in Europe, India and china to come out with a concrete ...

Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has returned home after fleeing the mountain kingdom to neighbouring South Africa on Saturday. At the time he said the military had staged a coup – a charge it denied. Regional leaders rejected his call for troops to be deployed to restore order. The unrest is thought to be linked ...

The Food and Drugs Authority says a change in Ghanaian attitudes towards personal hygiene and the environment will halt the spread of cholera. According to the Head of the Animal Products and Biosafety Department of the Kofi Essel, people continue to live in poor sanitary conditions in spite of numerous educational campaigns on sanitation and personal ...

The United States plans to fight Islamic State until it is no longer a force in the Middle East and will seek justice for the killing of American journalist Steven Sotloff, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday. He added destroying the militant group will take time because of the power vacuum in Syria, the abundance ...

The authorities of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has announced that the 2014/2015 academic year will begin next week. The strike by university lecturers forced all public universities across the country to indefinitely suspend re-opening date. UCC indefinitely postponed its re-opening date due to what it describes as “circumstance beyond control” UCC was initially scheduled ...

An Economic analyst is making a strong case for the Ghanaian team for the IMF negotiation to request for a programme that is geared towards developing the country’s cocoa industry. The team from IMF is expected in the country by end of this week to begin negotiationsfor a bailout programme for Ghana. Economic  analyst Dr ...

Citi Business News has learnt that the biggest vegetable cargo airline in Ghana, CargoLuxis is threatening to pull out of the country if the current hold on exportation of vegetables to the European Union continues. The threat follows significant decline in volumes of export following the suspension of vegetable exports by Ghanaian vegetable producers to ...

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has called off its five-week strike. This was announced after leadership of the Association met their members to convey the outcome of the association’s deliberations with government on Tuesday. UTAG withdrew their services to demand the payment of the research and book allowance. But a statement signed by ...

When it comes to trying new things in the bedroom, sometimes it’s best to take it out of the bedroom I came across this sexual bucket list the other day — 50 Things To Try Sexually Before You Die — and I must admit, I was intrigued. Mostly, because I’m no novice when it comes to trying new ...

The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Isaac Ashai Odamtten has rubbished allegations that he wasted a whopping GHC40, 000 on a birthday party for staff of the Assembly. The Finder Newspaper on Monday reported that the MCE spent that amount for 180 staff members born in June, July and August instead of tackling cholera ...

Government has confirmed Dr. Prosper Akambong as the substantive Chief Executive Officer of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH). As a major referral health facility serving the three regions of the north, the TTH has been without a substantive CEO for almost a year. This created room for several interest groups within and outside to mount ...

As its contribution to help curtail the spread of cholera in the country, the Tema office of Zoomlion Ghana Limited last saturday undertook a clean-up exercise along the 19-kilometre Accra-Tema Motorway. The exercise began at about 7am from the Tema Motorway roundabout through to Lapaz and ended at Mallam Junction in Accra. Sanitation officers from the ...

If you’re looking for a man who’s tall, dark, and handsome, you might want to shift your gaze down a foot. It turns out, short guys may make better partners—and if you marry one, your relationship is more likely to last, according to New York University research. For the study, two NYU sociologists examined data ...