Social media giants–Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back online after a widespread outage on Monday, October 4, 2021. The social media apps were offline for about six hours. They used Twitter to update their subscribers on the development. A lot of people took to Twitter to make jokes about the situation, as the impact of […] The post Facebook,
Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth is nosediving amid revelations from a whistleblower and Monday’s widespread Facebook outages. Zuckerberg’s net worth dipped by $7 billion in a matter of hours as a stock selloff prompted Facebook to fall by roughly 5%. Zuckerberg’s wealth has now dropped to $120.9 billion, making him the fifth-richest person in the world […] The post Zuckerberg
The Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has said government is working to capture Neoplan Ghana Limited under the One District One Factory initiative, in order to revive it. The company in 2020 hinted it may be forced to shut down its operations if the government does not support it. Government subsequently engaged […] The post Government
Lands Minister Samuel A. Jinapor is embarking on a 6-day working tour of 5 regions in the north starting from today, Monday, October 4, 2021, to Saturday, 9th October 2021. The Minister is scheduled to visit the Palaces of the Yaa Naa, the Nayiri, the Waa Naa, and the Yagbun Wurua in their respective regions. […] The post Lands Minister tours five regions of the north appeared
Police at Konongo in the Ashanti Region have arrested the two drivers whose vehicles were involved in an accident on the Accra-Kumasi highway that claimed the lives of 13 persons and caused injuries to several others. The police say some injured victims have been treated and discharged, while one has been referred to the Komfo […] The post One transferred
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm. Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working. Visitors to […] The post WhatsApp,Instagram and Facebook
A total of fourteen children have been rescued by a team from Engage Now Africa (ENA) and End Modern Slavery (EMS) together with the Ghana Police Service, Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), and the Department of Social in the Eastern and Greater Accra Regions from child trafficking and reunited with their families. According […] The post Child
Josephine Panyin Mensah, the woman accused of staging her pregnancy and kidnapping in Takoradi, has finally left police custody a week after being granted bail. She had been granted GH¢ 50,000 bail on September 27 but remained in custody because of delays in verifying property documents to be used to cover the bail. Josephine Panyin […] The post ‘Fake
Gideon Boako, spokesperson to Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, says road projects under the Sinohydro agreement are expected to be completed within three years. “Under the agreement we signed with Sinohydro, we have been given a maximum of three years for the projects to be completed,” Mr. Boako explained on the Citi Breakfast Show. This […] The post Projects
The family of the late Ibrahim Mohammed popularly known as Kaaka has described as careless, insinuations made by the committee tasked to investigate the disturbances in Ejura, with regard to the death of the social activist. The three-member committee in their report linked the death of the social activist, which sparked the unrest in the […] The post Ejura
The Chairman of the Volta Caucus in Parliament, Emmanuel Bedzrah, has cited the abandoned Keta Port Project, the non-operationalization of the Ho Airport, unemployment, and the poor nature of the Asuogyaman to Ho trunk road as the major developmental concerns for the Volta Region. Speaking at the first Volta Stakeholders conference, the Ho West MP […] The post Volta
OpenLabs Ghana, formerly known as NIIT, has held a graduation ceremony for 70 IT students who completed diploma and certificate programmes in Python Programming Web Design, CCNA, Graphic Design, Software Engineering, and Network Engineering among others at the institution’s Tema and Accra centres. Speaking to citinewsroom.com during the special ceremony at the University of Ghana, […] The post OpenLabs
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has inspected work on the construction of the J.A Kufuor Senior High Technical School, the Creative Arts Senior High School, and the Bosomtwe Girls’ Senior High School, all in the Ashanti Region. On Saturday, 2nd October 2021, President Akufo-Addo visited the J.A Kufuor Senior High Technical […] The post Creative
President Akufo-Addo, in a rather unusual manner has made fun of his one-time fierce contender for the flagbearership position of the New Patriotic Party, Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen. The President, who was introducing a team that escorted him to visit the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II as part of his 4-Day tour of the Ashanti Region, […] The post Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has appealed to assembly members of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to rescind their threat to reject the MCE nominee for Kumasi, Samuel Pyne. Speaking on Kumasi-based Pure FM, the President said it wouldn’t be fair to make Mr. Pyne “a victim of the past.” The KMA Presiding member, Stephen Ofori, in earlier […] The post ‘It’s
The Association of French Students of the University of Education, Winneba in partnership with the French Embassy has organized a career seminar aimed at enlightening French students on career paths after graduating from school. Alumni of the Department of French Education were also brought on board to share their experiences on how they managed to […] The post Association
Across West Africa, violent conflicts between farmers and herders have been regular occurrences for decades. Some analyses of these conflicts see the driver as competition over scarce resources like water and grazing land. Others point to economic, political and social interactions. They all tend to agree that climate change has reinforced farmer-herder relations in various […] The post Ranches
FanMilk PLC, Ghana’s leading manufacturer of dairy-based and juice-based products, has embarked on a ‘Strong at School’ drive to promote the consumption of nutrient-rich foods while at school. With the new Strong at School programme, FanMilk has provided 150,000 school children across Ghana with the new zinc fortified NutriDay yoghurt, to support their immune systems. […] The post FanMilk
The Ghana National Gas Company, GNGC, will from today, Monday, 4th October 2021, commence a two-week routine planned maintenance shutdown at the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant. The shutdown, which will end on 18th October 2021, is to allow engineers to carry out maintenance of the plant to ensure its efficient operation. In a statement from […] The post Atuabo Gas
Ghanaian jazz artiste, Steve Bedi has called on all instrumentalists in Ghana to come together to seek their welfare. Speaking on the challenges faced by instrumentalists in Ghana on ‘The Chat’ on Citi TV, he told AJ Sarpong that it’s about time Ghanaian instrumentalists came together to demand what is due them in terms of […] The post Instrumentalists
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