Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram has seized the key north-eastern town of Bama after fierce fighting with government forces, residents say. Thousands of civilians have fled the town, along with soldiers, they added. The military has not yet officially commented on the claim that it has lost control of Bama, the second biggest town ...

AngloGold Ashanti (AGA), under its Iduapriem Community Trust Fund, has commissioned new projects for the people of New Techiman in Tarkwa in the Western Region. The projects, an Early Childhood Development Centre and Aqua-privy toilet Facility, were commissioned by the Chairman of the Iduapriem Trust Fund Board, Professor Nathan Amebley. Professor Amebley while commissioning the ...

Mr Samuel Afari-Dartey, Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, has hinted that, Ghana would soon have to import potable water if the nation continues to lose its forests cover. He expressed regret that the rate at which the nation’s forest reserves and off reserves were being destroyed was very alarming and that it was destroying ...

A policy think thank IMANI Ghana, has jumped to the defense of  Mr. Eric Odoi Anim, a former Director of Passport, calling on government to reinstate him immediately. Mr. Eric Odoi Anim  was arrested by Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) after being implicated in the alleged fraudulent acquisition of passport by the former Member of Parliament (MP) ...

The Minority in Parliament has kicked against government’s decision to hedge fuel prices in the country. Government decided to introduce a quarterly hedging as a way of avoiding the huge debts accumulating from subsidizing petroleum products. Per the hedging arrangement, the price of crude oil will be pegged at a particular figure over a period of ...

Fidelity bank has fully acquired ProCredit savings and loans company. The deal which is yet to be approved by the bank of Ghana and shareholders of the bank will see Fidelity bank purchasing all shares held by ProCredit’s two shareholders PCH and DOEN Foundation of Netherlands. Citi Business News has gathered the process for approval ...

The Ghana Health Service has banned the sale of street food  across the country The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Appiah said the directive is to help it tackle and stop the spread of cholera in the country. The disease has claimed over 90 lives with over 10,000 cases recorded across the ...

The Ghana Health Service has banned the sale of food on the streets  across the country. The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Appiah said the directive is to help it tackle and stop the spread of cholera in the country. The disease has claimed over 80 lives with more than 10,000 cases ...

An Islamic State video has appeared which purports to show the beheading of Steven Sotloff, a US journalist being held hostage by the militants. Mr Sotloff, 31, disappeared in Syria in 2013. He appeared at the end of a video last month which showed fellow US journalist James Foley being killed. A militant in the ...

There are about 870 suspected cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the Adaklu District, Mr Samuel Atidzah, Executive Director of GOSANET, a health focused non-governmental organization, has said. He said the cases were mostly found in young adults in their “productive and economic years.” Mr Atidzah was addressing a day’s performance review workshop for 15 TB ...

President Mahama has said Ghana’s development has not stalled despite the economic challenges the country is experiencing. Speaking after inspecting a road in Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region, President Mahama said “we are constructing roads , we are extending electricity, we are provding people with clean drinking water, we are building bridges, we are extending ...

Residents who patronize the Tema General Hospital are worried over the location of an Ebola Isolation center in the hospital. The facility which is yet to be completed is near the Tema General Hospital’s morgue.  Speaking to Citi News, some of the patients complained about the closeness of the facility to the mortuary saying that ...

Citi Business News can confirm that there is shortage of petrol and diesel in some parts of Accra. This follows visits to some pump stations in Adabraka and other parts of the central business district of Accra which revealed some stations do not have either petrol or diesel. According to the manageress of So Energy ...

After weeks of excitement, the finalists of the annual Citi FM Write-Away Contest will be unveiled and honored at a grand event on Saturday September 5 at the plush Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, Accra. Thousands of school children aged between ten (10) and fourteen (14) years submitted entries for the year’s contest. The entries were ...

Phone users per a new directive from the Communications Ministry will soon not be allowed to own more than 10 sim cards. Citi Business News has gathered the latest move is part of efforts by government to curb sim box fraud. It is unclear when the new directive will take effect but Citi Business News ...

Airtel Ghana has officially launched its “Make Your Change” campaign, which challenges individuals, groups and society as a whole to be pragmatic about the change they want to see in their lives. The campaign is premised on the fact that, actions and emotions are contagious, and each one of us has the potential to transform ...

The Namongnani Farmer groups in the Saboba District have expressed satisfaction at the various farming technologies introduced to them by the Feed the Future USAID Agriculture Technology Transfer Project (FTF-USAID-ATT). They said through the demonstration of the FTF-USAID-ATT project, most members of the group were taken through the right process of fertilizer application, improved maize ...

Some retailers of bottled water have threatened to resist any moves by government to introduce new taxes on bottled water. Government has announced it may introduce taxes on bottled water as part of moves to increase revenue as well as widen the country’s tax net. Producers of both bottled water and sachet water in the ...

Vice-president Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has advised the public, as a matter of urgency, to reduce human-to-human contacts, especially with travellers from countries affected by the Ebola disease. Such cautious approach to human interaction, he said, could help prevent an Ebola outbreak in the country. Acknowledging that Ghanaians were generally hospitable, Mr Amissah-Arthur said there was the ...

Google has started showing old versions of its search page to people using out-of-date versions of some web browsers. At the weekend, many people reported in a Google forum they were seeing 2013 versions of the Google and image search homepages when using older browsers. The problem was most pronounced among those using variants of Safari 5.1 ...