The Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, yesterday inaugurated the Senchi Consensus Implementation Advisory Group (IAG) and called on the members to work assiduously on the road map designed to achieve national economic stability. The IAG has been established in accordance with the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) Act, (Act 479). Its membership comprises senior management staff of ...

The potentially global reach of social media networks is among their defining characteristics. For the first time in history, it is as easy to video-chat and share everyday news with friends on the other side of the planet as with friends in the same city. Yet the actual penetration of social media networks differs markedly ...

Two US men who spent three decades in prison for rape and murder, one of them on death row, have been released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. Mentally disabled half brothers Henry McCollum, 50, and Leon Brown, 46, were convicted in 1984 of raping and killing an 11-year-old girl in North Carolina. Recently analysed ...

About seven persons have been injured in an accident at the Kawukudi junction in Accra. The accident, involving a 207 Benz bus which was carrying passengers and a taxi cab occurred on Wednesday around 5 am. The 207 bus traveling from Gold House on the Airport road to Accra turned on its side when the ...

Do men experience stronger sexual impulses and desires than women do? A new study from the University of Texas at Austin says yes — and that this can explain why men in relationships are more likely to cheat. According to the researchers, men and women exhibit similar levels of impulse-control or self-restraint. But men ultimately fail at ...

Apple has confirmed that some celebrities’ iCloud accounts were broken into, but says it has found no evidence that this was caused by a breach of its security systems. Instead, the firm suggests perpetrators carried out their thefts by deducing victims’ log-in credentials. The statement follows the online publication of intimate pictures of about 20 ...

Some food vendors have threatened to defy the Ghana Health Service (GHS’s) ban on the sale of food on the streets. The vendors and their customers who spoke to Citi News dispelled talks that they are the cause of the cholera outbreak that health workers are battling to deal with. The cholera outbreak has so far ...

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 ...