General

I’m the most powerful man of God in Ghana – Opambour

Admin Editor June 25, 2019 42 0

Founder and Leader of Ebenezer Miracle Worship Center, Reverend Opambour Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom popularly called Prophet One has subtly replied colleague Daniel Obinim of the International Godsway Church about being most powerful man of God in Ghana. He revealed that he is the only person God Read More

Regional

Chief arrested for ordering burning of driver’s mate

Admin Editor June 25, 2019 18 0

The Chief of Pakoso in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region, Nana Boakye Amponsah II has been arrested by the Police after he caused the beating to death of a driver’s mate. According to reports, the deceased named Shaban, 20 years, who at the time of his lyching was suffering from hay fever and […]Read More

General Politics

I’ll never quit politics – Kennedy Agyapong

Admin Editor June 25, 2019 40 0

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has made a sudden u-turn about his decision to quit politics and focus on his business. According to him, his decision was to quit as an MP and not politics, in general, accusing the Ghanaian media of taking out of context when he made those statements […]Read More

Entertainment General

Brother Sammy to get 15 years in jail if found guilty – FDA

Admin Editor June 25, 2019 20 0

The Food and Drugs Authority has revealed that Gospel musician Brother Sammy will possibly be sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison for flouting the Public Health Act 851. Public Relation Officer of the Authority, James Lartey who revealed this in an interview with SVTV noted that the musician was promoting a product […]Read More

Business

Foreign MoMo operators must have 30% local participation to secure license – BoG

Admin Editor June 25, 2019 15 0

The Bank of Ghana says under the new Payment and Settlement law, any foreign mobile money operator seeking a license to operate in the country must have a 30 per cent local equity. Speaking at Ghana’s most respected CEOs breakfast series, the Head of Digital Payment and Settlement systems at the BoG, Dr Settor Amedeku […]Read More

Business

Hold tariff hikes for 3 months – Chamber of Commerce appeals

Admin Editor June 25, 2019 27 0

The Ghana Chamber of Commerce has appealed to the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) to suspend the immediate implementation of the upward review of tariff hikes in the country. The PURC has announced billing consumers with the new 11.17% tariffs will begin on July 1, 2019. Speaking to Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Tuesday, […]Read More

Business

Banks to start operating MoMo points directly from July – BoG

Admin Editor June 25, 2019 30 0

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is predicting stiffer competition as banks prepare to directly operate mobile money(MoMo) vending points through the Electronic Payment and Financial Services law from July 2019. By this, banks in the country will be allowed to brand specific points to render mobile money services. Speaking to Citi Business News on the […]Read More

Business

VRA responsible for 98% of Ghana Gas’ debt stock – PIAC report

Admin Editor June 25, 2019 19 0

It has emerged that the Volta River Authority, VRA, alone is liable for almost ninety-nine (98.99) percent of the amounts owed the Ghana Gas Company by its suppliers. According to the 2018 annual report of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee, PIAC, the VRA owes Ghana Gas over two hundred million cedis as at the […]Read More

Business

PIAC accuses government of diverting oil money

Admin Editor June 25, 2019 19 0

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) last Friday, disclosed that monies earmarked for developmental projects from Ghana’s oil funds, are being diverted to pay salaries. “Oil monies have been allocated for projects, we get to the grounds and the projects are not there,” PIAC’s Vice Chairman, Kwame Jantuah, bemoaned on Morning Starr. “We are […]Read More

Business

BoG to announce new minimum capital requirement for Mobile Money

Admin Editor June 25, 2019 31 0

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) will soon announce a new capital requirement for all institutions engaged in mobile money operation. BoG said existing firms that are already offering the service will be given some time to meet the new requirement while new entrance will be expected to meet the requirement before receiving their licence. Speaking […]Read More

General

I have been sleeping with my father for 4 years – Lady confesses

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 56 0

Wonders shall never end indeed. A 24-year-old-Ghanaian lady has confessed to sleeping with her father, and she is not apologetic about the incestuous act. The young woman made the mind-blowing revelation in an interview with Takoradi-based Fox Fm. She told host, Samuel Mensah, aka Blaq Sam that, although she has a boyfriend, she chose to […]Read More

General

Zoe Pastor threatened us – Angry customers

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 24 0

Some aggrieved customers of EL Real Estates and Tikowre Capital say they were forced to make noise about their locked up cash because the owner of the two schemes, pastor Kelvin Kobiri, who is the founder of the Zoe Outreach Embassy, threatened not to release their cash if they continue making noise about it. “The […]Read More

General Politics

Bugri Naabu quits politics

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 32 0

Former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Daniel Bugri Naabu is officially quitting politics as he is set to be enskinned as a chief in his hometown on Saturday, June 29, 2019. Bugri Naabu who is a member of NPP’s Council of Elders is also expected to abdicate his position after […]Read More

Entertainment

I am not a member of an occult group – Nhyiraba Kojo

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 58 0

Musician and businessman Nhyiraba Kojo has brushed aside rumours making rounds that he is a member of an occult group. He labelled the speculations as unfounded, frivolous and desperate attempt by his detractors to demonize his hard won reputation. Critics of Nhyiraba Kojo have persistently linked his success in business to his alleged involvement in […]Read More

General

Hohoe Assembly members demand removal of MCE

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 26 0

Some members of the Hohoe Municipal Assembly are calling for the removal of the Chief Executive, Andrews Teddy Ofori, for what they say is his abysmal performance since his appointment. The assembly members allege that the MCE has been using the Assembly’s Pick-up vehicle in his farm when various departments and officials need a vehicle […]Read More

Regional

Court fines stray cattle owners, squatters

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 20 0

A sanitation court in Accra has fined two cattle owners GH960 each, equivalent to 80 penalty units, for allowing their herd to stray and causing traffic and posing danger to motorists in the metropolis. The two, Issah Oblikwei, 58; and Rafik Tagoe, 40; were also ordered by the court presided over by Her Worship Juliana […]Read More

General

Four DCEs in critical condition after car crash

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 29 0

Four Municipal and District Chief Executives (MDCEs) in the Northern Region were involved in a car crash on the Tamale – Accra highway in the early hours of Monday, 24 June 2019. They were travelling in a convoy to Wa, the capital of the Upper West Region, to join President Nana Akufo-Addo to launch the […]Read More

Business

‘NDC responsible for energy sector debt’

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 25 0

The Director of Business Operations at Dalex Finance, Joe Jackson has asked the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to take full responsibility for the financial challenges facing the energy sector. Mr. Jackson on The Big Issue on Citi TV/FM said the NDC government’s decision to sign power contracts that led to huge sums of money being […]Read More

Business

NIC hikes minimum capital

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 23 0

Once again, a regulator of the financial sector has acted. This time it is not the Bank of Ghana (BoG) but the National Insurance Commission (NIC)—the watchdog of insurance companies in the country. Like its sister regulator—BoG—it has increased the minimum capital of the industry, a move that is sure to hurt local insurance companies. […]Read More

Business

Consolidated Bank parts ways with over 2,000 workers

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 32 0

The Consolidated Bank Ghana has said that it has had to lay off more than 2,000 workers of the collapsed Beige Bank, Royal Bank, Sovereign Bank, Construction Bank and Unibank Ghana Limited. The affected workers included both permanent and temporary staff. The workers reportedly lost their jobs after a reemployment exercise carried out by the […]Read More

Opinion

Is Africa ready for the continental free trade area?

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 19 0

“The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel About fifty years ago, under the visionary leadership of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the Organization of African Unity, hitherto African Union (AU), earmarked an African Common Market program. According to Dr Kwame Nkrumah, it […]Read More

Opinion

Prof. Afful-Broni’s letter ruined my weekend

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 18 0

The letter Prof Afful-Broni, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Education (UEW) wrote to “dismiss” Prof Augustine Nwagbara – referred to by many on social media as that “Nigerian professor inciting Nigerians against Ghanaians”- is exactly why Prof Nwagbara said that ghana university education is poor. Reverend Father Prof. Anthony Afful-Broni’s letter ruined my […]Read More

Opinion

Is Mahama saying NDC is honest and NPP is not?

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 25 0

Some of us skimmed through Ex-President Mahama’s speech during the NDC’s 27th-anniversary lecture with unbelievable horror and extreme incredulity (see: ‘We are not the same as the NPP; we stand by the truth – Mahama; yen.com.gh/ghanaweb.com, 23/06/2019). The former president is reported to have poured his heart out: “We are not the same as the […]Read More

Business

BoG cleansing, CUA safe

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 21 0

Mr. Gilbert Bene-Pewudie, Volta Regional Manager of the Ghana Cooperative Credit Union Association (CUA) Limited has said the Association remained solid and would not fall victim to the Bank of Ghana’s financial sector cleansing. He, therefore, asked members of the Association to stop the panic withdrawals and help the Association to grow stronger. Mr Bene-Pewudie Read More

Business

Telcos record more than 2,000 fibre cuts in first half of 2019

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 24 0

The Mobile Industry experienced over 2,000 incidents of fibre cuts, and 600 incidents of theft at base stations affecting over 18 million subscribers within the first half of this year alone, data released from the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has shown. The mobile industry group observed that the prevalence of fibre cuts, cable/fuel/battery thefts, and […]Read More

Business

New home-based carrier to start operations this year

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 25 0

Barring any last minute change, Ghana’s new home based carrier should commence operations this year [2019]. Information available to Citi Business News also indicates that the government and the management of Ethiopian Airlines have progressed in finalizing the agreement. The Area Manager of Ethiopian Airlines in Ghana, Genet Michael confirmed the progress of work in […]Read More

Business

Gold gains to near highest since 2013

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 21 0

Gold’s bullish momentum has rolled into a new week. Prices extended their advance above $1,400 an ounce, near the highest level since September 2013, after the Federal Reserve and other central banks turned more dovish on monetary policy. This, combined with planned U.S. sanctions against Iran, as well as the coming meeting between the U.S. […]Read More

Business

Ghana is not a third world country – Yofi Grant

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 16 0

The CEO of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Yofi Grant has touted Ghana as ” a new world” that is open to business opportunities. In his keynote address at the GIPC organized Ghana-China Investment Forum, during the 3rd edition of the China Trade Week (CTW) Ghana 2019, Grant said the country can neither be labeled […]Read More

General Politics

NPP choked by its false promises – Mahama

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 19 0

Former President John Mahama says the reality is catching up with the ruling NPP and unable to deliver its promises because they lied their way into power. “We are not the same as the NPP”, Mr Mahama observed, explaining: “We have always stood by the truth”. Speaking at the NDC’s 27th-anniversary lecture, Mr Mahama said:“We […]Read More

Regional

Accident claims three lives at Ayermesu

Admin Editor June 24, 2019 17 0

Barely five days after a horrid accident claimed seven lives at Asitey, a surburb of Odumase-Krobo in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region, another accident in the area has killed three persons. The deceased died on the spot when a Kia Truck, on which they were travelling, crashed into a tree at […]Read More