To a Ghanaian King, handing someone a holdall stuffed with more than £350,000 to deposit in a bank might seem nothing out of the ordinary. Sac Indeed, when Osei Tutu II, traditional ruler of the Kingdom of Ashanti, summoned Mark Arthur to his multimillion-pound residence in Henley-on-Thames and handed him a bag containing almost £200,000 ...

Citi Business News can confirm the board of ADB has been reconstituted. A statement from the Bank to the Ghana Stock Exchange said the reconstitution takes effect from the first of August this year. According to the statement the nine member board is chaired by Mr. Alex Bernasko. The Vice Chairman of the board is Patrick ...

Sunda International Ghana Ltd, a Chinese company operating in Ghana, has donated cash and relief items totalling forty thousand Ghana cedis (GHc40,000) to victims of Saturday night’s atomic junction gas explosion at the 37 military Hospital in Accra. The Sunda international donation comes in immediate response to appeals made to corporate Ghana by Vice president ...

A Road and Building Consultant, Ing. Mahama Abdulai, has implored the Department of Urban Roads to as a matter of urgency, carry out a structural audit on the Atomic Junction overhead bridge, as well as buildings within the immediate precincts of the gas explosion site. “When we have such disasters within a neighborhood, it calls ...

Five persons have been confirmed dead following a  head-on collision between two vehicles at Kyekyere, a village close to Suhum in the Eastern Region. About 15 others who sustained varying degrees of injury are currently on admission at various hospitals. The accident, involved a vehicle traveling from Accra to Koforid, and a Kumasi-Accra bound vehicle. ...

The Minority in Parliament has asked government to ensure that the Ghanaians who have reportedly joined the dreadful terrorist group, Islamic State in Libya, do not return to the country, without a strict security clearance. “Government must put measures in place to ensure that none of these alleged Ghanaian Islamic State fighters are allowed to ...

The Libyan government has announced that it has identified at least 50 frontline fighters of ISIS to be Ghanaians. This was contained in a report from an enquiry into crimes committed in cities across Libya by the so-called Islamic State released by the Head of Investigations at the Office of the Attorney General, Al-Seddiq al-Sour. ...

The Comptroller General of the Ghana Immigration Service, Kwame Takyi, today [Tuesday], failed to appear before the Accra High Court in a contempt suit brought against him by an Indian businessman, Ashok Sivaram. The Immigration Service boss was cited for contempt after he failed to comply with an order asking him to restore the work ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that for the 2017/2018 academic year, effective September, 2017, fifty-eight thousand health trainees, comprising nurses and midwives, will be paid their allowance of four hundred Ghana cedis (GH¢400.00) per person, for each of the ten months of the academic year. The President was speaking at the Sunyani ...

The government has committed GHC232 million for the payment of nursing trainees’ allowances for the 2017/2018 academic year. This was announced by President Akufo-Addo at a grand event to celebrate the restoration of the allowance in the Brong Ahafo region. “For the 2017/2018 academic year, effective September 2017, 58,000 health trainees comprising nurses and midwives, ...

Citi Business News has gathered that the delay in issuing the Energy Sector bond is due to an inconclusive meeting with the International Monetary Fund on the categorization of the bond. An earlier statement from the Finance Ministry indicated that, government will issue the 2.5 billion dollar energy sector bond in September this year. At the ...

In what appears to be a rather unusual way of doing things, some trainee nurses in the Brong-Ahafo Region, were on Tuesday paraded at a public event by the Minister of Health,  Kwaku Agyemang Manu, and asked to thank President Akufo-Addo for restoring the suspended allowances for trainees. The Health Minister, who supervised the much-criticized ceremony ...

The Youth Employment Agency (YEA), has ordered a comprehensive audit of all beneficiaries on its modules in line with a restructuring process. The Agency will also undertake the verification of the number of beneficiaries under the sanitation module, according to a memo sighted by Citi News, in following a management meeting in September 2017. As part of this, Zoomlion ...

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of the October 26, 2017 election re-run. Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver a more credible election. The Supreme Court annulled the result of the original 8 August poll after finding irregularities and declaring ...

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of the October 26, 2017 election re-run, seeking “credible election.” More soon…. – By: BBC

An Accra District Court has ordered pathologist Lawrence Adusei and head of the Pathology Department of the 37 Military Hospital, to appear before it to explain their failure to release the postmortem report of the murdered military officer, Major Maxwell Mahama. The order followed an application by state prosecutors asking for the release of the ...

Former President John Mahama has said the election ongoing in Liberia has generally been peaceful. John Mahama, who is leading an ECOWAS Observer Mission to monitor the election in that country, told the media that although there were few hitches and late start of voting in some polling centers, the process has been “so far ...

A scathing critique made by former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings about comedian DKB’s act seems to have really affected the comedian. Derrick Kobina Bonney, known in showbiz as DKB has revealed that the comment almost killed his comedy career. In April 2017, it was reported by Graphic Showbiz that the former first lady ...

The Director of the Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre (RPS&BC), at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, has opined that Ghanaians need more education on handling burns victims. In his view, “there is a lot of ignorance, especially among the general public on how to manage fire incidents and administer first aid ...

Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has given a bonus of $US85,000 to each of the players who clinched a place at the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia. A 2-1 win over Congo Brazzaville saw them qualify for the global showpiece for the first time since 1990. The president announced the reward on Monday as he ...