Oscar award-winning actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, has added his voice to calls for the protection of the Atewa Forest as Ghana prepares to commence the first phase of the Sinohydro deal. The deal will see Ghana’s bauxite reserves in the Atewa Forest mined and traded in a ‘barter’ deal for $2 billion from China, meant to […] The post Prioritise protection
Cleanliness, it is said is next to Godliness among many tongues and faiths, though I struggle to see how that view is practised in my home country Ghana; a nation with more than 70% of her population professing to worship a clean Omnipotent God, yet we do otherwise as if the Omnipotent God we serve […] The post How the Japanese ‘Tatami Mat’ culture
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), Kwesi Jonah has said the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) latest campaign against the proposed amendment of Article 55 (3) of the 1992 Constitution which will make local government elections partisan could negatively affect the referendum. The NDC had argued that there will be party-motivated projects […] The post NDC’s
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly, AMA, has launched its road safety campaign ahead of the festive season. The campaign dubbed the ‘AMA Road Safety Mass Media Campaign’ is to ensure an accident-free Christmas. As part of the campaign, the Assembly would embark on a mass media campaign and an enforcement drive on speeding in the coming […] The post AMA launches road
The collapsed spillway and retaining walls of the Tono Irrigation Dam in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region is expected to be fixed before the next farming season, this is according to the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto. Torrential rains in the region in the month of October exceeded […] The post U/E:
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) wants Ghanaians to vote against the proposal to amend the constitution to allow political parties to participate in the District level elections. According to the NDC, when District Assembly elections are made partisan, there will be party-motivated projects and programmes such as ‘NDC Communal Labour Day’ and ‘NPP Communal Labour […] The post Vote
In this edition of health segment on Breakfast Daily, Dziffa Ametam hosts Akosua Konadu Yiadom to discuss the importance of nutrition in the development of bones. The post Your nutrition and healthy bones appeared first on Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana, Current Affairs, Business News , Headlines, Ghana Sports, Entertainment, Politics,
The High Court has dismissed a bail application by the seven accused persons facing trial for their alleged plot to topple the government. According to the Judge, Justice George Buadi, none of the accused persons had been detained beyond two months and their arrest and detention are not arbitrary or unlawful. The post Alleged destabilization plot: High Court denies
Health practitioners have advised the public to periodically check their health status. Preventive healthcare such as patient checkups and screenings helps to prevent untimely death. The post Ghanaians urged to check health status periodically appeared first on Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana, Current Affairs, Business
The Ghana Securities Industry Association says the decision by Securities and Exchange Commission to revoke the licenses of the 53 fund management companies, is a necessary evil. The President of the Association, Emmanuel Alex Asiedu, believes that the country’s capital market industry despite its strong growth over the past decade, had in recent times shown […] The post SEC’s
The Interior Minister Ambrose Dery says government’s plans to motivate police officers who accept postings to rural parts of the country. Speaking at a press encounter at Nandom in the Upper West Region, Mr. Dery, who is also the Member of Parliament for the area said a decision was reached at the last police council […] The post Police officers in deprived
The Member of Parliament for Banda in the Bono Region, Ahmed Ibrahim is calling on government to make Missions manage schools owned by them. According to Ahmed Ibrahim, giving back schools to Missions would inculcate discipline in the students. He made the appeal after donating some quantity of blocks to some churches in the Banda […] The post Give mission schools back to churches
A Deputy Minister for Education in-charge of General Education, Yaw Osei Adutwum has told Parliament that 27 E-block projects have been completed by the Akufo Addo administration. According to him, only 29 out of the 124 that were almost ready were completed under the Mahama government. Dr. Adutwum has been answering questions in Parliament from […] The post 27 E-block projects
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has expressed concern over the effect the collapse of banks and other local financial institutions is having on individuals, businesses and especially thousands of employees who lost their jobs in the process. Speaking during an interaction with the leadership of the Coalition of Affected […] The post Mahama
Tinder is making changes to improve the treatment of transgender people on its app. Many have wrongly had their profiles removed from the app because Tinder imposes an automatic ban if a profile receives lots of complaints. Tinder said many bans had resulted from “unfair” complaints made about trans people “simply for being who they […] The post Tinder seeks to tackle
Websites that load slowly because they are poorly coded could soon be flagged by Google’s Chrome browser. Google said it was working on several “speed badging” systems that let visitors know why a page is taking time to show up. The variations include simple text warnings and more subtle signs that indicate a site is […] The post Slow websites to be labelled
Close to 60 percent of Ghanaians say they are not aware there will be a referendum on the election of Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives on December 17, according to a new Afrobarometer survey indicates. The referendum is to decide on the proposed amendment to allow political parties to participate in the District level […] The post More
The Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) has declared an indefinite nationwide strike effective Wednesday, November 12, 2019. The group says the action is a result of the government’s failure to review the salaries of its members. The Association contends that the Judicial Council has also failed to release the report on their negotiations […] The post JUSAG declares indefinite
Queues have formed outside banks in Zimbabwe as people hope to get hold of the country’s first Zimbabwe dollar notes to be issued since 2009. The currency was scrapped a decade ago because of hyperinflation when prices were almost doubling every day. Zimbabwe’s central bank hopes the new notes will ease a severe cash shortage […] The post Zimbabwe dollar notes
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it will on this Saturday [November 16, 2019] embark on a nationwide weeding and clean-up exercise to honour its flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama. This comes barely a week after John Mahama cleared some weeds in the capital – an action the party says is worthy of emulation and […] The post NDC to observe nationwide
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