President John Mahama’s last State of the Nation Address in Parliament may not come off as scheduled. Although the President is expected in the House on Thursday, checks by Citi News suggest that the address has been postponed. Parliament’s Business Statement which also captures details of activities of Members of Parliament within the week is … Read more
President John Mahama’s last State of the Nation Address in Parliament may not come off as scheduled. Although the President is expected in the House on Thursday, checks by Citi News suggest that the address has been postponed. Parliament’s Business Statement which also captures details of activities of Members of Parliament within the week is … Read more
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Edward Doe Adjaho has asked the out-going MPs to vacate their offices in the job 600 before January 6, 2017 to facilitate the transitional arrangement to usher in the MP-elect for the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic. He said he as the Speaker has already packed all things … Read more
Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) under the Eagle Farmer Project has provided a mechanized solar powered borehole and a furrow irrigation facility for the people of Nabio in the Kassena-Nankana District of the Upper East Region. The project is aimed at providing portable drinking water and irrigation facilities to enable farmers’, from whom they source their … Read more
The vehicular traffic congestion problem that plagues the road network in Accra and many other major cities will only be alleviated when the number of people using private cars are reduced. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, a transport consultant, Kojo Antwi, explained that all though a small percentage of people using private vehicles occupy … Read more
I am one of those Ghanaians who are not proud of the standard of journalism in this country. Ghana is one of the freest countries on earth for the practice of journalism, but inadequate investment and seeming lack of understanding of impactful journalism by media owners have resulted in a rather noisy and purposeless media … Read more
The only New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary candidate to win a seat in the Volta Region, Michael Gyato, has attributed the remarkable victory of the party in the general elections to the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) poor performance in the region. The NPP normally heads into the elections with low expectations of the Volta Region … Read more
The only New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary candidate to win a seat in the Volta Region, Michael Gyato, has attributed the remarkable victory of the party in the general elections to the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) poor performance in the region. The NPP normally heads into the elections with low expectations of the Volta Region … Read more
It is difficult to match the state of being dead with a towering personality like, Wole Sodipe, one of the founding vice presidents of Platinum Bank, the man we affectionately call The Oracle. At about 3.05am on November 25, I was working in my study when I received an email from Emmanuel Amatokwu on the … Read more
To say literature and punditry on the quaky defeat of the John Mahama-led NDC is stale is to say my pastor should stop preaching the word of God. “But faith comes by hearing and hearing, by the word of God”, seen? John Mahama of the “Nyame na esi hene”, fame was humiliated by Ghanaians. Prior … Read more
As a matter of fact, no serious political party will brush aside reported cases of vote rigging in our contemporary elections, considering the electoral fraudsters complicated and demonstrable infernal instruments for vote rigging. The fact though, remains that electoral fraudsters will go to the length and breadth to ensure victory for their preferred candidate, especially, … Read more
Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has started reaping some of the benefits that come with listing on the Ghana Stock Exchange. It shares price witnessed some significant gains post listing on the local bourse. This follows the listing over a little over 122 million ADB shares last Tuesday on the Ghana Stock Exchange. ADB which actually … Read more
Benin is planning to spend $15 billion to spur development in the west African nation during the 2016-2021 period, Ecofin agency reports. The program which is called “Le Bénin révélé” (or Benin revealed), is structured around 45 major projects concerning sectors that are vital to the people of Benin. It ranges from agriculture and tourism, … Read more
Ghana’s Parliament is expected to reconvene on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 for a weeklong meeting that will end the life of the sixth Parliament of the 4th Republic. Key on the agenda of the outgoing Members of Parliament (MPs) will be the retirement packages for the nation’s soon to be former president, John Dramani Mahama. … Read more
Ghana’s Parliament is expected to reconvene on Tuesday, Deceber 20, 2016 for a weeklong meeting that will end the life of the sixth Parliament of the 4th Republic. Key on the agenda of the outgoing Members of Parliament (MPs) will be the retirement packages for the nation’s soon to be former president, John Dramani Mahama. … Read more
Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) dropped marginally by 30 Basis Point to 15.5 per cent in November due to lower charges for utility and services, Nordea Capital stock market analysis made available to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Monday stated. According to the Nordea Capital market analysis, the marginal drop in the CPI is … Read more
A French court has found International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde guilty of negligence but did not hand down any punishment. As French finance minister in 2008, she approved an award of €404m ($429m; £340m) to businessman Bernard Tapie for the disputed sale of a firm. Ms Lagarde, who always denied wrongdoing, was not present … Read more
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has attributed the significant performance of the bank’s share price to investor confidence in the banking stock. As at close of trading on Monday, December 19th 2016, the share price of ADB had gained about 38 pesewas and trading at 3 cedis 33 pesewas. Also, a total of 10,000 ADB … Read more
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has attributed the significant performance of the bank’s share price to investor confidence in the banking stock. As at close of trading on Monday, December 19 2016, the share price of ADB had gained about 38 pesewas and trading at 3 cedis 33 pesewas. Also, a total of 10,000 ADB … Read more
play videoMs Lagarde said earlier that the trial had put her and her family through a As French finance minister in 2008, she approved an award of €404m ($429m; £340m) to businessman Bernard Tapie for the disputed sale of a firm. Ms Lagarde was not present in the court in Paris for the verdict, having … Read more