A Magistrate Court in Ho today [Thursday] March 9, 2017, declined jurisdiction in the case involving some persons campaigning for the secession of a part of the Volta Region. The Magistrate said it could not hear the case against the group of persons advocating for the secession because it is outside its jurisdiction. The Homeland Study ...
The Executive Director of Juvenile Reform Foundation (JRF)-Ghana, Geoffrey Chaucer Ofori, is advising families to desist from neglecting young offenders when they are released from correctional centres. He observed that majority of parents are reluctant investing monies in the education and technical skills of these young offenders. According to him, parents believe that there is ...
The low numbers of females in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics continues to be a challenge and exposing young women to successful role models in the field could be way of encouraging more women to take up STEM courses in school. In view of this, three of Newmont Ghana’s female engineers have dedicated themselves to ...
The Registrar General’s Department is urging restraint among DKM customers who did not find their names on the list that was released yesterday (8th March, 2017). The Department, which is the official liquidator of DKM Microfinance earlier announced that a final list of validated DKM customers yet to receive their cash has been released. However ...
The team traveling on the Citi FM Heritage Caravan yesterday took a daring tour of the Mole National Park, as part of one of the activities for day 4 of the caravan. The Mole National Park which is Ghana’s largest wildlife refuge was established in 1958 and covers close to five thousand kilometers square. The ...
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is calling on government to be swift in dealing more strictly with all infringement of rights of women. The party said it was unhappy about how government was handling recent mistreatment meted out to women especially in the case of sexual and physical assault of an alleged female thief in Kumasi. ...
Local Textile workers have put on hold, their planned protest over pirated goods which was slated for today. According to the textile workers, the move has been prompted by the Ministry’s readiness to engage them in addressing their concerns. But the Chairman of the Concerned Workers of the Textile Industry, Ebenezer Asumadu on Wednesday told Citi ...
The Minister for Gender, Children and Social protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba, wants more public support to end child marriage in Ghana. She said all stakeholders must get involved to root the phenomenon out of the country. Speaking to Citi News at a steering committee meeting on ending child marriage with UNICEF and UNFPA, Otiko Djaba said ...
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has called on various stakeholders in the country to commit to creating an all-inclusive environment for all, especially girls and women to thrive in the field of work. The Commission in a statement to mark this year’s international women’s day, said Ghanaian women continue to face ...
Ghana risks a boycott of its gold by major refineries across the globe if it fails to tackle illegal mining activities in the short term. This is the caution from industry players. According to them, the country also risks huge revenue losses from small scale mining which accounts for about thirty percent of the total ...
Organisers of the annual Miss Ghana pageant, on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, paid a courtesy call on the President Akufo-Addo, to congratulate him on his victory in the December 2016 election, and on the 60th independence anniversary celebration of Ghana. The visit was to afford organisers of the pageant the opportunity to inform the President ...
The Director General of the West African Health Organisation (WAHO), Dr Xavier Crespin, has appealed to President Akufo-Addo to support the local production of pharmaceuticals in the West African region. Dr. Xavier Crespin explained that the help of Ghana “in reinforcing local capacity to produce our own medicine” is of the utmost importance, as, “from ...
A leading trade group representing hospitals has expressed fears about the Republican health-care bill, saying poor Americans could lose insurance. The American Hospital Association (AHA) said current provisions for “our most vulnerable” would be thrown into doubt. President Donald Trump met lawmakers on Wednesday to rally them behind the bill, after a stormy 24 hours. ...
Guatemala has declared three days of national mourning after a fire killed at least 21 teenage girls at a children’s care home. Wednesday’s blaze at the government-run Virgen de Asuncion shelter in San Jose Pinula, near Guatemala City, has focused attention on how it was run. Police say some residents set fire to mattresses after ...
Samsung’s de facto head Lee Jae-Yong has gone on trial in South Korea on charges of bribery. The case is linked to a massive scandal that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye. Samsung is accused of giving donations to non-profit foundations operated by Choi Soon-sil, a friend of Ms Park, in exchange for ...
Uber says it will ban a secret software tool from being used to evade undercover regulators. The software, called Greyball, seeks to identify officials around the world trying to catch Uber drivers operating illegally. It then denies them service. The ride-hailing firm has been using the tool to secure early access to cities where its ...
Daughter of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, and a former Chairperson of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Samia Yaba Nkrumah, has stated that her father’s role as Ghana’s first President and his pan-African vision warrants his special standing in Ghana’s history towards independence. She said unlike others who also played their part even before his father came into the ...
The Member of Parliament for Pru East, Kwabena Donkor, wants the Akufo-Addo administration to renegotiate the gas price component of Ghana’s 20-year deal with Italian oil company, ENI, for the development of the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) integrated oil and gas project. The negotiated gas price was $9.8/MMBtu (one million British Thermal Units) for ...
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